Isawa Ochiai

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Plague War

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

6

Honor Requirement

6

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

4

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Duelist, Experienced 3, Loyal, Unique, Elemental Master, Fire, Phoenix Clan, Shugenja

Card Text

Before the resolution of a duel involving your Fire Personality at Ochiai's location, give each of your focused cards +1 Focus Value.
Fire Battle/Limited: Ochiai challenges another player's target Personality. Ochiai has the first chance to focus in the duel and must use this chance to focus if possible. Bow the loser.

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Ochiai has always the first chance to focus in the duel created by her ability, overriding the Duelist rules. [The Plague War rulesheet] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 141

Rules Q&A

• Q: Following http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=88018
  Do negation effects negate all new bonuses/penalties by default now too? Meaning that the second sentence on Shameful Injury would no longer be necessary under the new negation rules?
  A: No. You'll notice that Shameful Injury's first sentence specifically negates current bonuses. Even carrying on until the end of the turn by default, its negating something "current" will only look at what was current when the effect was applied. Indeed, this is what allows it to suppress the continuous penalties from tokens under the new rules, which it did not before.
  The problem with Low Stance not referencing "current" bonuses and thus being warped by the new rules is being addressed and will likely result in Technical Errata being issued for it to add "current" to its text within the next day or so. Brook Cunningham, "Isawa Ochiai xp3 and Low Stance", 28 Dec 2010
• Q: Ochiai's trait: Before the resolution of a duel involving your Fire Personality at Ochai's location: Give each of your focused cards +1 Focus Value.
  Low Stance: Focus Effect: Before this duel’s resolution, negate all bonuses to each focused card’s Focus Value.
  Since Focus Effects are traits, and both traits have the same trigger, does the timing fall under:
  "B. Anything that is triggered at this point but is not a Reaction happens now. This includes triggered traits, delayed effects, indefinite conditional effects, triggered rulebook effects (such as losing Honor after a dishonourable Personality is destroyed). If more than one of these things conflict, the active player decides the order in which they happen."
  Meaning that the active player could choose to resolve Low Stance before resolving Ochiai?
  A: It won't matter, as negation effects now have a default duration like all other effects of "until the turn ends". Thus, no matter whether Low Stance's Focus Effect is resolved before or after Ochiai's trait, it will negate the bonus she gives. Brook Cunningham, "Isawa Ochiai xp3 and Low Stance", 26 Dec 2010