Ancestral Dictate
Legend of the Five Rings card from The War of Spirits
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Card Text
- Reaction,
: After you bring a Personality into play, target another Personality with lower Chi: Permanently give your Personality the ability, "Battle: Any number of times per turn, even if he is not at the current battlefield, bow this Personality: Move home the other Personality that was the target of the action that granted this ability." - Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The War of Spirits
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "You will obey me!" the spirit samurai shouted. "I am daimyo of the Akodo. I am Champion of the Lion!" "No more," Motso said, his voice like ice. - "No more."
- Artist
- Bryon Wackwitz
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rulings
- Erratum: The ability is gained permanently. [Erratum, JA, 7 November 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 5
- Your Personality need not be in the battle containing the target Personality to send him or her home (though you must have units in the battle). [VRD, 8 November 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 5