Hida Kisada

Legend of the Five Rings card from Scorpion Clan Coup 3

Card Type

Personality

Force

8

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

4

Gold Cost

13

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Crab

Keywords

Loyal, Unique, Clan Champion, Crab Clan, Inexperienced, Samurai

Card Text

Repeatable Battle, w: End the current Combat Segment.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial)

Erratum

Contemporarily errata'd to include the rough equivalent of "Loyal".

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Should read, "Hida Kisada will only join a Crab player." [Erratum] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 99
• Erratum: Reads, "Hida Kisada 8F/4C 6HR 16G 2PH Crab Clan Champion. Samurai. Unique. Double Chi. Will only join Crab Clan Player. Cards in Kisada's Unit cannot be the target of Shugenja spells or Innate Abilities." [MRP, Obsidian Edition] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 99
• Erratum: Will only join Crab Clan. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 15
• Erratum: Changed: Minimum Honor from 10 to 6. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 15
• Erratum: Changed: gold cost from <14> to <16>. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 15
• Erratum: Changed: Now only immune to targetting by spells and innate abilities. No longer unaffected by untargetted such effects. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 15
• Erratum: Hida Kisada (Inexp): Errata: Will only join Crab Clan. The Imperial Herald, Issue 9, p. 11

Rules Q&A

• Q: The Great bear says:
  This card is considered Hida Kisada for deck construction and checking the Unique restriction
  If the two Kisada cards are distinct, which Kisada is it referring?
  A: Due to a lack of specifics in the trait, technically both. Perhaps that will be changed at some future date, perhaps not... Brook Cunningham, "Uniqueness - The Great Bear / Hotako and Hotako exp 3", 19 Apr 2012
• Q: If Hida Kisada has been hit with a range attack at a battlefield with Koshin Keep's ability is active and it didn't kill him the Mantis player gets to take another shot. Can the Crab player use Hida Kisada reaction to target someone else?
  I'm not sure what the correct answer is because normally it should work but Koshin Keep restricts the Mantis player target and I don't know if that same restriction applys to the Crab player.
  A: Targets must remain legal when you use a retargeting effect; due to the text on Koshin Keep Kisada is the only legal target for subsequent ranged attacks in your scenario. Jon Palmer, "Hida Kisada and Koshin Keep", 9 Jan 2012
• Q: [legacy] does Big Kisada and Little Bear Kisada both count as "Kisada" for unique purposes? (Both are called Hida Kisada with no subtitles)
  A: There is a list of cards in the OBH (and AEG for that matter) Legacy Rules that are considered different cards despite having the same title. The two different Hida Kisadas are on this list. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 30 Mar 2025