Kakita Dojo

Legend of the Five Rings card from Heaven & Earth

Card Type

Holding

Gold Cost

2

Gold Production

2

Keywords

Dojo

Card Text

w: Produce 2 Gold.
Repeatable Reaction, w: After a player strikes in a duel, give your Personality in that duel +1C.

Legality

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

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: When my opponent calls a strike in a duel, may I wait until after focus cards have been revealed to ues the Reaction on Kakita Dojo?
  A: No. Declaring a Strike happens, and you must play Reactions to the Strike. Only after that window has passed are the focus values revealed and results calculated. Martin Lund, "Rules for 4 February 2005", 10 Feb 2005
• Q: My question regards the Chi bonus received by Kakita Dojo. As a non native English speaker I have problems with the phrase "give your Personality in that duel +1C" on that card. Does "in that duell" only specify which personality gets the bonus or does it also specify how long the bonus lasts? Does the Chi bonus last until the end of the duell or until the end of the turn?
  A: It is only a restriction on which Personality receives the bonus, not a statement of duration. If it were a duration, it would need to say something like, "for that duel," or "while in the duel."
  I find the fact that this is my first question rather amusingly considering it is my first digest since returning from Montreal where I spent the whole weekend saying, "I'm sorry, I'm a tourist," to everyone who greeted me in French. Martin Lund, "Rules for 4 August 2004", 9 Aug 2004
• Q: it appears as though you must decide whether to bow and gain the bonus from it before focus values are revealed. Is this correct[?]
  A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 9 December 2003, Part 2", 10 Dec 2003
• Q: Kakita Dojo, Shoshuro Technique... Can these cards be used to provide bonuses for duels that are not Chi based?
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 2 September 2003", 3 Sep 2003
• Q: [Can I] give one of my personalities the "Kakita Dojo" Bonus in a "Show me your Stance" or "Rage" duel?
  A: The Reaction is legal, but it will *always* add to Chi (card text), not to the stat used in a non-Chi duel. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 21 August 2003", 21 Aug 2003
• Q: Kakita Chiyeko can use the Kakita Dojo ability to move into a duel when she is bowed can she not?
  A: No. Chiyeko needs to issue or receive the challenge to use her Reaction. [card text] Kyuden Doji is used after the challenge is issued, and swaps someone into the duel who neither challenged nor received a challenge. Jeff Alexander, "post for 21 May 2003", 22 May 2003
• Q: Is the reaction on Kakita Dojo used before or after focus cards are revealed?
  A: The order of events in a duel is strike, reveal Focus cards, compare Chi totals, determine winner/loser. [GE p. 62] Kakita Dojo says, "Bow Kakita Dojo after a strike is called in a duel to give your Personality in that duel +1C." [card text] "After" on a Reaction means "immediately after" [archive, inferred from GE p. 48], so it must be done before Focuses are revealed. Jeff Alexander, "post for 25 April 2003", 26 Apr 2003