Iuchi Yue

Legend of the Five Rings card from Heaven & Earth

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

4

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Unique, Daimyo, Shugenja, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Air Battle/Open: Target two of your unbowed Personalities and an Item attached to one of them. Transfer it to the other.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Here's the scenario :
  We are in a battle, he has hayaku on defense, I am attacking with two personalities (Moto Latomu and Iuchi Yue, for example) It's his action, and he plays Overwhelmed.
  Does his reaction to being destroyed as the cost for overwhelmed allow him to effectively shoot my Moto Latomu for 4, thus leaving only one personality at the province, which I must choose to destroy because I do not have two or more personalities in my army?
  A: Yes. Hyaku must be destroyed to pay the cost of Overwhelmed during the Pay Costs step of taking the Action. You don't get to choose to send anyone home or destroy anyone until the Resolve Effects step, which comes later. Further, Hyaku's reaction comes before his destruction, so the sequence will be:
  - Announce Overwhelmed
  - Target Hyaku
  - React before paying by destroying Hyaku with Hyaku's Reaction to shoot Latomu
  - Destroy Hyaku to pay the cost of Overwhelmed
  - Resolve Overwhelmed's effects - forcing you to deal with sending home 2 units or destroying your biggest Personality. Martin Lund, "Rules for 3 November 2004", 5 Nov 2004
• Q: This brings up a question I have, though. A combo I saw with this: Iuchi Yue (elemental wind open: move one item from one of your unbowed personalities to another once per turn.), Blade of Slaughter, and two of Ikoma Goro. Play the Blade of Slaughter on one Goro, dishonoring him. Bow and dishonor the other Goro to re-honor the first one, and the blade gets its bonus. Next turn, straighten the second one, then have Yue move the sword to him. He's dishonored at the moment, so the other Goro may bow and dishonor to restore him to honorable status. The thing I'm not sure works here is: would the sword gain the bonus multiple times? I think it would, but I'm not sure. By the wording on the card it might be the case that the Blade can only gain the bonus once per dishonored person it's attached to, or it might be once each time it is attached to a dishonored person, even if it was attached to this person before. Or, it might be that it is only the first time it happens while the sword is attached to someone, in which case my combo would be fruitless and I can ditch it for better cards.
  A: The Blade gains a permanent +2/+2 the very first time the Personality it's on changes from dishonored to honorable following the attachment of the Blade. It is possible for the Blade to gain multiple +2/+2 bonuses if it is moved from Personality to Personality. The "this Personality may not be dishonored" effect ends each time the Blade leaves a Personality, though. [card text] Jeff Alexander, "post for 19 May 2003", 21 May 2003