Gunso Hirobumi
Legend of the Five Rings card from Stronger Than Steel
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Follower
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 0
- Honor Requirement
- 0
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Personal Honor
- -
- Keywords
- Gunso, Ninja
- Card Text
- Will only attach to a Scorpion Clan Personality.
Reaction: After this Personality bows to pay a cost of a non-Political action: Straighten him. - Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Stronger Than Steel
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- A guardian must know the secrets of the shadows to protect his charge from all dangers.
- Artist
- Edwin David
- Card Number
- 131
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Vengeful Shadows:
Text Ninja Battle: Bow one of your target Ninja Personalities: Lose 2 Honor. Give a target Personality opposing your Ninja two -1F/-1C Poison tokens. You may move your Ninja home.
Gunso Hirobumi:
Can only attach to a Scorpion Clan Personality. Reaction: After this Personality bows to pay a cost of a non-Political action: Straighten him.
If Bayushi Ninja is the target of Vengeful Shadows and has Gunso Hirobumi attached, would he straighten immediately after "Bow one of your target Ninja Personalities" and before "Lose two honor"? Or, would Bayushi Ninja straighten after "You may move your Ninja home"? After reading the rules section on timing, http://rules.l5r.com/Timing, it seems the reaction would take place before the action finishes resolving and before the action's effects would take place. I this a correct interpretation of the rules? Thx
A: Yes, you are correct.
It helps to look at the Reaction in bits: "After this Pesonalitiy bows..." is when it happens. "...to pay the cost of a non-Political action" is just a restriction on the type of bowing to which the Follower can react. Brook Cunningham, "Gunso (also Shosuro) Hirobumi & Vengeful Shadows", 25 May 2008