Kami Unleashed

Legend of the Five Rings card from Glory of the Empire, Battle of Kyuden Tonbo

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kami, Tattoo

Card Text

Kami Tattoo Battle: Target your performing unbowed Personality and bow them unless they are Tattooed to make a Ranged Attack with strength equal to their Force.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I attack with Hida Kuon and the enemy player has 2 Personalities with 4 force each and I kill the 1st with Kami Unleashed, bowing Kuon. He passes on his next action. Can I use Final Duty to kill the remain personality with the ranged 6 attack since Kuon is bowed and no longer giving force to the battle.
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_F#Force_total: "(A)n army's Force total is the sum of the Force of all unbowed Personalities and Followers in the army."
  Yes.
  (I'm assuming this is about the Exp. 6 Kuon. Although not relevant to this question, I'll take a second to remind people to mention Experience levels in questions. Thanks.) Zen Faulkes, "Final Duty/Army total force?", 26 Jul 2009
• Q: If I attack with Hida Kuon and the enemy player has 2 Personalities with 4 force each and I kill the 1st with Kami Unleashed, bowing Kuon. He passes on his next action. Can I use Final Duty to kill the remain personality with the ranged 6 attack since Kuon is bowed and no longer giving force to the battle.
  Thanks,
  [Mod edit: Slang removed. -ZF]
  A: Yes.
  If Kuon is the only personality at the Battlefied, and is bowed, your Army's Force is 0. Dan Jacobson, "Final Duty/Army total force?", 26 Jul 2009
• Q: If I use Togashi Sho to perform Kami Unleashed, what is the strength of the Ranged attack if I do not have a Tatoo card in my discard pile?
  Togashi Sho Text Dragon Clan • Fire • Monk • Tattooed Sho has +3F if a Tattoo card is in your discard pile.
  Kami Unleashed Kami • Tattoo Battle: Target your unbowed Personality, and bow him unless he is Tattooed: Ranged Attack with strength equal to your Personality's Force.
  I guess the real question is when Kami Unleashed enters the discard pile. Does it enter as soon as I announce the action (giving Sho the +3 Force and making it a Ranged 7) or not until after the action has been resloved (only making it a Ranged 4, but giving him 7 force imediately after the action is done).
  Thank you!!!
  A: Kami Unleashed would enter the discard pile after all its effects resolved.
  Kami Unleashed would cause a Ranged 4 attack.
  After all reactions to targeting/effects, the Ranged 4 attack would resolve, then Sho would gain the +3F bonus from his trait (by the Kami Unleashed card being in the discard pile). Dan Jacobson, "Togashi Sho + Kami Unleashed", 13 Jul 2009
• Q: I know for certain it didn't in Celestial edition - that's why Final Duty plus Kami Unleashed were so powerful together in SPC
  A: @Brook Cunningham That's not what it was supposed to be. After Reese changed the rules so that the force of a unit counted the Personality and Followers' forces, bowed or unbowed, the force of an army was still supposed to what you would count in Battle Resolution. Alex Jones, "Oracle of the Void #rules", 6 Aug 2022