Ikoma Noda

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Lion

Keywords

Courtier, Lion Clan, Omoidasu

Card Text

After an attack is declared, straighten Noda.
Reaction: After engaging in a battle, give each Lion Clan Personality in your current army +1F.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Can you declare an attack and send no units to battlefields?
  A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Ikoma Noda", 20 Dec 2007
• Q: One of the people in my gaming group has an annoying tactic to try to win games, which involves finding any awkward wording he can and manipulate it to his favor, and he tries to argue obviously wrong rulings until we concede to shut him up.
  Such as last night. I declared an attack against him with my Lion army of Ikoma Noda, Akodo Shigetoshi xp, and Akodo Hachigoro. Hachigoro had a bowed Gate Gaurdsman attached. My friend had two Unicorn Shugenja out, neither with a Follower. Naturally, I figure I can pop my bowed Gate Gaurdsman to destroy one of his peeps without Followers, thanks to Shigetoshi. My friend then comes along and says he remembers a rule that says bowed cards can't pay costs at all. I try to explain to him that bowed cards can't pay the cost of bowing, but they can pay any other cost. I relent, because it was annoying, and just didn't assign. I was correct here, right?
  Later on that night, I had the same army out, but this time with a straightened Gate Gaurdsman. However, my friend strikes again when I try to use Hachigoro's Reaction. Now, the trigger for Hachigoro's Reaction reads 'Reaction: If you are attacking, after armies at Hachigoro's battlefield engage:'. My friend tries to tell me Hachigoro's Reaction doesn't go off because he didn't assign any units to the defending army, thus only one army is engaging. He tried to tell me that because only one army was engaging, not two or more 'armies', I can't use Hachigoro's Reaction. Please tell me he's wrong about this.
  A: He's wrong on both. Nothing prevents bowed cards from paying costs that they are able to pay. "When armies engage" is a timing point and does not require the presence of either army to allow reactions to said timing point. Chris Fuchs, "Need some clarification...", 31 Oct 2007
• Q: D. Apply any delayed effects that resolved previously and are timed to the trigger (such as, “After the next time this turn he assigns…”) The active player decides the order in which more than one of these effects apply. If different sources each give multiple delayed effects to the same trigger, the active player decides which source's delayed effects apply first, but multiple delayed effects from the same source all happen before delayed effects from the next source happen.
  Example: If two delayed effects on the same personality say "After he assigns, dishonor him, and his controller loses 2 Honor," the effects apply as follows: dishonor him, lose 2 Honor, dishonor him again, lose 2 Honor.
  E. Apply any triggered traits on cards. The active player decides the order in which more than one of these effects apply.
  A: Ikoma Noda has a Triggered Trait: "After an attack is declared: Straighten Noda."
  Winter Storm has a Delayed Effect: "after each time an attack is declared, each player targets two of his unbowed Personalities with a Gold Cost eqal to or less than his Stronghold's Gold Production plus 2. Bow them."
  Winter Storm's Delayed Effect always gets resolved before Ikoma Noda'a Triggered Trait. Martin Lund, "Ikoma Noda and Winter Storm", 17 Oct 2007
• Q: To use Ikoma Noda's Reaction, do I have to assign Noda to the battle(?)
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Ikoma Noda", 16 Jun 2007