In Aikune's Name

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Harbinger

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

2

Keywords

Unique, Fire

Card Text

As a Focus Effect: If your Personality in this duel is Fire, give this card +1 Focus Value.
Battle: Destroy this Shugenja and target two enemy cards without attachments: Destroy them.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I have 3 lions in play, one of them was targeted by The Direct Approach. My opponent has Mizuhiko basic in play, and declares an attack. As a Naval action, he attaches In Aikune's Name, and uses it, destroying the two samurai that could perform actions. Can I use Chugo Seido to redirect the targetting?
  A: Assuming all the "Lions" in question are samurai with no attachments...
  By targeting two Personalities, In Aikune's Name is targeting the "one" Personality required by Chugo Seido (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Special_wording ... _of_things). So Chugo Seido is fine.
  The Direct Approach is irrelevant here as far as I can tell, since neither In Aikune's Name or Chugo Seido concerns performance. Zen Faulkes, "In Aikunes Name + Chugo Seido", 1 Jun 2010
• Q: First the Card Text:
  Deflection:
  Reaction: When another player's action would target one of your Personalities: Choose another one of your Personalities at the same location. The action targets him instead, if legal.
  In Aikune's Name
  Battle: Destroy this Shugenja: Destroy two target cards without attachments in the enemy army.
  Can Deflection protect against something that targets multiple personalitys (burn the village is another example) or is the pural targeting an invalid trigger for it?
  A: Yes, Deflection may be played in response to In Aikune's Name or other such cards with multiple targeting.
  Deflection is not looking for exactly or only one target in order to trigger.
  Numbers of things: "If the presence of an exact number of things is being checked for, this will be noted by language such as "exactly two" or "only one," or by mentioning two or more specific numbers such as “zero or one.”" Brook Cunningham, "In Aikune's Name vs Deflection", 3 May 2010