Isawa Reido

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Imperial Gift 2

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Unique, Fire, Phoenix Clan, Shugenja

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing Personality or Follower, target a Personality or Follower without attachments and with equal or lower Force than your chosen performer, and destroy your chosen performer: Destroy the target.

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I use Reido's battle action, and for the cost, I destroy Personality A with a weapon. Does Personality B, the target of the effect, need to have equal or lower force than
  a) Personality A with the weapon b) Personality A without the weapon
  A: Use current stat values, including bonuses, unless the card looks for a "base" stat. Zen Faulkes, "Isawa Reido & Weapons", 25 Nov 2010
• Q: I have a bowed samurai with an unbowed Hand Of The Jade Dragon attached. Isawa Reido Blows up this samurai to destroy an opposing personality. Can I react with Hand Of The Jade Dragon to negate the samurai's death and still destroy the opposing personality? I ask because Reido's text doesn't state that the person has to have been destroyed for the effect to go off, only that the person was targeted. Relevant text Below...
  Isawa Reido Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Unique Battle: Destroy your target Personality or Follower: Destroy a target Personality or Follower without attachments and with equal or lower Force than your targeted Personality or Follower.
  Hand Of The Jade Dragon Jade • Unique Attaches to Matsu Benika paying 2 less Gold. This Personality has Hero. Reaction: Before an action's resolution: Negate this Personality's destruction from the action's effects.
  A: No, for several reasons.
  Firstly, Hand of the Jade Dragon's ability only negates the destruction of its Personality from an action's effects, whereas Isawa Reido destroys the Personality as a cost. See Mandatory costs: The mandatory cost of an action is found in the constraints block and Definition of effects: An effect is anything, other than a cost, that changes the stats, traits, abilities, restrictions, or capabilities of a card, a player, a game entity (such as Provinces), or the game state.
  Secondly, Hand of the Jade Dragon's ability reacts "Before an action's resolution", which is after costs are paid. See Using abilities: A. Announce the action B. Required targeting C. Pay costs D. Action resolution E. Action ends
  Thirdly, because the Personality is destroyed as a cost of the action - that is, the destruction is listed between the two colons - if the Personality is not destroyed, the action's costs cannot be paid and the action fails. See Interference with mandatory costs. Alex Jones, "Isawa Reido&Hand Of The Jade Dragon", 8 Mar 2010