Isawa Norikazu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Pearl Edition, Crimson and Jade, Jade Edition

Card Type

Personality

Force

1

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Unique, Phoenix Clan, Seer, Shugenja

Card Text

Repeatable Reaction, w: After an action on a Strategy being played from a player's hand targets you, your cards, or your tokens, or before a Terrain Strategy from a player's hand enters play at Norikazu's battlefield, negate the Strategy's action's effects. When the Dynasty Phase ends this turn, the player puts the Strategy back in his hand.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Cannot counter actions from cards in play or Action cards that aren't played from the hand. [Card text] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 105
• The action must directly affect the battle or target a card. He cannot cancel an untargeted reaction that cancels the last action played. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 105
• Actions that satisfy the Rule of Relevance are actions that "affect the battle." [JA, email, 29 November 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 105
• The action must directly affect the battle or target a card. He cannot cancel an untargetted reaction that cancels the last action played. (Note that most action-cancelling reactions are untargetted.) Some examples of actions which "affect the battle": Terrains [card text]. Anything that affects something (including a terrain) in the battle. Anything that sets up a special condition for just that one battle, such as Mercy, To Avenge Our Ancestors, Sneak Attack, and The Great Silence. Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 34
• Clarified: can cancel actions that target or affect the battle, not just target it. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 16
• Clarified: only needs to be in the battle to cancel a card that affects/targets the battle itself. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 16
• Read "target the battle" as "target or affect the battle in general". He can counter actions such as terrains and Stand Firm. [DW, l5rinfo, 5/19/97] Accumulated Rulings, April 22, 1998, p. 19

Rules Q&A

• Q: This was something that came up in a game, I had Isawa Norikazu AKA Agasha Haminari I played Night Battle: no player without a shugenja or shadowlands personality in this battle can take actions for this battle except an action that destroys this terrain.
  He tries to destroy the terrain using Sup Tacs I bow Norikazu to cancel the sup tacs, was my move legal or did he have to use deversionary tactics. Or can I do that at all?
  A: To someone with no shugenja or Shadowlands Personalities in the battle, Night Battle is identical to Deadly Ground. Diversionary and Superior Tactics are both legal if played to destroy it.
  To someone with a shugenja or a Shadowlands Personality, Night Battle is a piece of cardboard that says "Immediate Terrain". Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 May 2002", 30 May 2002
• Q: Can Isawa Norikazu/Agasha Hamanari cancel Sneak Attack if they are in the battle when it is played?
  A: Sure. Sneak Attack certainly affects a battle. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 19 May 2002", 20 May 2002