Kaimetsu-Uo

Legend of the Five Rings card from Dawn of the Empire

Card Type

Personality

Force

6

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

12

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Mantis

Keywords

Loyal, Naval, Unique, Descendant, Kami, Mantis Clan, Mantis Clan Founder, Samurai

Card Text

After the first time this game Kaimetsu-Uo enters play from a Province, gain a Province to the left of your leftmost Province.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: 1) Kaimetsu-Uo is in Egg of P'an Ku-ed. The Egg is killed, and then Feign Deather. Does the trait to gain another province come into play in this instance?
  A: Kaimetsu-Uo says, "After the first time this game Kaimetsu-Uo enters play from a Province, gain a Province to the left of your leftmost Province."
  Being brought into play by Feign Death does not qualify as "enters play from a Province." Martin Lund, "Rules for 16 January 2005", 20 Jan 2005
• Q: Can you bow Yoritomo Yukue to pay for Kaimetsu-uo and reduce the gold cost to 0 since him coming into play from your province creates a province? I'm inclined to think no because it's not an action and you don't pay gold for the condition of the effect, but one of our local players wanted me to ask. thanks!
  Yoritomo Yukue:
  Reaction: Any number of times per turn, put only once per payment, when paying Gold for the cost of an action, or for a condition of an effect, that will gain a player a province, bow Yukue: Reduce the amount needed to be paid to 0 until it is paid.
  Kaimetsu-uo:
  After the first time this game Kaimetsu-Uo enters play from a province: Gain a province to the left of your leftmost province.
  A: You're correct.
  Kametsu-uo's cost isn't a direct cost of an action or effect that creates the Province, so he doesn't interact with Yukue. Brook Cunningham, "(Legacy) Yoritomo Yukue and Kaimetsu-uo", 25 Sep 2013