Hoshi Wayan

Legend of the Five Rings card from Hidden Emperor 6

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

3

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Brotherhood of Shinsei

Keywords

Monk, Tattooed

Card Text

Limited: Give Wayan a Tattoo token.
Repeatable Reaction: After a Personality opposing Wayan gains a Force or Chi bonus, destroy a Tattoo token on Wayan to give him an equal bonus to the same stat.

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• May react to focusing (but his reaction must be used in a battle). [DW] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 102
• The duration of Wayan's bonus is the same as the one he's copying. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 102
• Does not receive a double bonus while The Courage of Osano-Wo is in effect. The token is not providing the bonus. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 102
• Any increase in a stat is a bonus. May react to focussing (though note that Wayan's reaction is only usable during battle). [DW] Wayan's controller will not know how much of a bonus he got until the focus is revealed. The duration of Wayan's bonus is the same as the one he's copying. Does not receive a double bonus while The Courage of Osano-Wo is in effect. The token is not providing the bonus. Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 31

Rules Q&A

• Q: I have a question in a similar line.Can Toritaka Kitao(can't spell diamond legal guy off top off my head.)attach the scimitar and still be honorable since he cancels the action dishonoring him not the attachment?
  A: Yes, Hiruma Ashihei can successfully attach Senpet Scimitar. None of the effects of the Action dishonor him. The trait of the card being attached dishonors him, and that's not part of any Action.
  Same deal with Force Bonuses from Items when you attach them - they don't qualify as "A Force Bonus from an Action." Martin Lund, "Rules for 1 May 2004", 4 Jun 2004
• Q: Just to be sure:
  Attachin an weapon is providing a bonus (even if it is not an action providing a bonus) Thus I can react with hoshi wayan to get a force boost for one turn right?
  A: Wayan Exp2? Right. Jeff Alexander, "post for 13 December 2002", 14 Dec 2002
• Q: Hoshi Wayan Unaligned Monk. Tattooed. Limited: Once per turn, put a tattoo token on Wayan. Reaction: Destroy a tattoo token on Wayan immediately after an opposing Personality in this battle gains a bonus to Force and/or Chi. Wayan gains an identical bonus to that just gained by the opposing Personality. Wayan may only react this way once to each bonus.
  Out of curiosity, Hoshi Wayan can destroy a token to copy any opposing force or chi bonuses as a reaction. Does that mean that each time his opponent focuses in a duel he can take that reaction to get a bonus equal to the opponet's focus?
  A: Yes, provided they are opposing each other in a battle. Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 October 2002", 30 Oct 2002
• Q: Wayan can only use the reaction in a battle, it did not work with Iajiutsu Art. However he still was not overlooked as a dueling monster. I used him all the time for duels in battles.
  So, you could use his reaction during an iajitsu duel to copy your opponets focuses. Right? One token per focus. What if they have double-chi?
  A: Double Chi makes the focus add twice [GE p. 65], creating two separate bonuses. He can copy one per token. Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 October 2002", 30 Oct 2002
• Q: Following up on the Hoshi Wayan discussion:
  Jeff, if Double Chi causes a focus to add twice, is this treated as two separate chi bonuses? If so, are both bonuses created when the focus is played or is one generated when played and the other generated when the focus is revealed?
  A: Yes. When played. (There is no reason I can think of to apply the second bonus at a different time from the first one.) Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 October 2002", 30 Oct 2002
• Q: The question becomes... How do the mechanics to this [Hoshi Wayan and focusing] work?
  1) Wayan reacts as each card is focused, and you don't know what his bonus is until a strike is declared
  A: Ding! Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for December 27th", 27 Dec 2000
• Q: They are all separate because they are immediately added at the time they are focused. Which is why Hoshi Wayan can copy them.
  Is that an official ruling, that they are *immediately* added?
  A: Yup. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for December 27th", 27 Dec 2000