Hummingbird Tattoo

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Fire & Shadow, The Fall of Otosan Uchi, An Oni's Fury

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Tattoo

Card Text

Limited: Choose your performing unbowed Tattooed Personality who has not performed a copy of this action this game: Permanently give him the trait, "After battle resolution bows this Personality: You may straighten him; if you did, he will not move to battlefields until the turn ends."

Focus Value

2

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: A coupla of questions game up the other night that I though I would get solid answers on:
  1. Hummingbird Tattoo. This card seems to act as a type of Rallying Cry (not exactly the same, but close enuf) can a personality with a Hummingbird tattoo be sent on multiple counter attacks?
  A: If he uses the Hummingbird Tattoo to straighten, he cannot move into battles the rest of the turn. Assigning to a battle is not movement, though, so he could still do that. Jeff Alexander, "post for 11 January 2002", 12 Jan 2002
• Q: 2° If I have a personality with both "Dragon Tattoo" and "Hummingbird Tattoo". Can I straight the personality with the "Hummingbird Tattoo" ability or does the "Dragon Tattoo" text go first?
  A: Cards that prevent straightening take priority over cards that straighten extra times. The Hummingbird Tattoo cannot be used to straighten if the Personality has a Dragon Tattoo and fire tokens. Jeff Alexander, "post for 18 December 2001", 19 Dec 2001
• Q: 1/ I assume that Rallying Cry does not affect units that have been sent home during the course of the battle - correct?
  Yes. It only affects units that were bowed by the resolution of the battle.
  Hrmm...this raises a somewhat interesting timing question in my mind. In the discussion of Rallying cry recently, it was mentioned that due to the timing of it, it technically unbows your units after bowing. I can live with this. Now...my question is... A Hummingbird Tattoo does something very similar-it allows you to straighten the personality who has it after they bow at the end of resolution. My question is-since Rallying cry, which is played later temporally speaking, will prevent Dragon Tattoo'ed people and Mitsu from bowing, will the Hummingbird Tattoo do likewise? My instincts say no, since despite the timing, one card says "prevent from bowing" and the other says "straighten immediately after he or she bows." Is that the case? Or would a Hummingbird Tattoo function like a Rallying Cry in this regard?
  A: Rallying Cry works retroactively to prevent them from bowing, but Hummingbird Tattoo is specifically worded like it is so that Mitsu/Dragon Tattooed people still bow. Hummingbird Tat is not retroactive, and anyone affected by it will still bow (albeit temporarily), and then straighten. Rallying Cry is...specal. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 15th", 15 Nov 2000