Isawa Kaname

Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

5

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Fire, Phoenix Clan, Shugenja, Yojimbo

Card Text

Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength.
Battle: Any number of times per turn: Ranged 1 Attack.

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: My buddies and I had a massive multi-player, mucho back-stabbing L5R fest last night. A few questions came out of it:
  Isawa Kaname Text Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Yojimbo Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength. Battle: Any number of times per turn: Ranged 1 Attack.
  I'm assuming that Kaname can modify her own ranged attack and make it a ranged attack of 3. Can this be done an unlimited amount of times. Reactions aren't limited to once per turn like abilities, right?
  Thanks for the help.
  A: Your first assumption is correct, that Kaname can boost her own Ranged Attack.
  However, Reactions are abilities and are subject to the same Once Per Turn restriction as any other ability. What Reactions ARE exempt from are the Rules of Location and Presence that govern Battle, Engage, and Interrupt actions. Brook Cunningham, "Isawa Kaname", 13 Oct 2013
• Q: Just a clarification and expansion on viewtopic.php?f=59&t=102742
  With Koshin Keep and Asako Hosigeru, it's pretty much a "Blackened Skies. But with Isawa Kaname as well, does this mean: pop Asako, kill entire enemy army?
  And how would one go step by step on this? For example, would this be how it works in the following:
  Asako targets Personality 1, with follower 1 and 2, personality 2, and personality 3 with follower three. Kaname pops off Follower three, then personality three, then personality 2, then follower 2 then 1, then personality one.
  I assume this is how it works...
  Relevant Text:
  Isawa Kaname Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Yojimbo Text Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength. Battle: Any number of times per turn: Ranged 1 Attack.
  A: It wouldn't kill anyone with followers, an effect that prevents Ranged Attacks, an effect that prevents force reduction, or an event that prevents destruction. But have fun killing everyone else. Jon Palmer, "In reference to Asako Hosigeru & Koshin Keep", 15 Apr 2013
• Q: Couldn't find a way to reply to this in the thread so I thought I'd just PM you, sorry. To expand further on the first answer concerning Isawa Kaname, can a player use the Koshin Keep ability to, in one attack, destroy a target? For example, Isawa Kaname targets Ohaba(6F Personality) with a Ranged 1 Attack. The ranged attack does not kill him, but reduces Ohaba's force by 1. Since the ranged attack didn't destroy Ohaba the player takes an additional action to make another ranged 1 attack to reduce Ohaba's force by another 1. Again, the ranged attack didn't destroy the target so can the additional action trait repeat in that same turn?
  A: You cannot reply to messages by deliberate policy to reduce the amount of noise. If you have a follow-up question, you need to start a new thread: we will deal with merging, if appropriate.
  To answer the actual question, out of Koshin Keep, Isawa Kaname can reduce a Personality or Follower to 1F (not 0F, as another PM pointed out!) and destroy it using just one normal opportunity to take a Battle action plus the required number of additional Battle actions, before the other (or next) player gets his next normal opportunity to take a Battle action. Alex Jones, "Koshin Keep + Once per turn ranged ability", 3 Apr 2012