Kan'ok'ticheck

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Winds of Change

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Ratling

Keywords

Chieftain, Nonhuman, Ratling, Soul of Tchickchuk

Card Text

Negate effects of Plague tokens upon Ratlings.
Other Ratling Personalities and Followers have +1F while in Kan'ok'ticheck's army.
Repeatable Reaction, w: When paying for a Ratling, lower its Gold Cost to 0 until it is paid.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Kan'ok'ticheck:
  Text:
  "Unaligned Ratling Chieftain Creature Soul of Tchickchuk Plague tokens do not affect Ratlings. Each other Ratling Personality and Ratling Follower gains +1F while in Kan'ok'ticheck's army. Reaction: When paying for a Ratling, bow Kan'ok'ticheck to lower the Ratling's Gold cost to 0. You may take this action when paying for a Ratling attaching to Kan'ok'ticheck."
  Kan'ok'ticheck Exp.
  Ratling Clan Champion . Green-Green-White Tribe Chieftain . Creature . Experienced . Unique . Will only join a Ratling player. Ratling Followers gain +1F while attached to Kan'ok'ticheck. After each time one of your Ratling Followers attached to one of your other Personalities is destroyed, you may return it to play unbowed attached to Kan'ok'ticheck
  When I overlay Kan'ok'ticheck with Kan'ok'ticheck Experienced,
  Do the bonuses to Ratling Personalities and Ratling Followers stack? Do they become +2F? Or do they stay as +1F
  What abilities would that personality now have?
  A: When you overlay, you keep everything on the old card starting with an action type keyword (Limited, Open, Battle, and Reaction) and you keep any effects currently active on it. You lose all the old printed stats, keywords, and other traits. An overlayed Kan'ok'ticheck would have only the Reaction from the original. The Follower bonus would only be +1F. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 22 March 2004", 23 Mar 2004
• Q: 4) This question came up in a VERY close battle involving a local Ratling player. Does Wikki'thich-hie A'tck (which has the bold-faced "Ratling" trait) get +1F from Kan'ok'ticheck and/or Ratling Conjuror?
  A: The Conjuror boosts Ratling cards, so "yes" to that one. "No" to Kan'ok'ticheck, though -- he only helps Personalities and Followers. Ancestors are no longer Followers in Gold Edition. Jeff Alexander, "post for 25 February 2003", 26 Feb 2003
• Q: Can you bow Kan'ok'ticheck when bringing him into play to reduce another ratling card to "0"? Basically for 4 gold you can bring out two ratling personalities?
  A: You can't bring two cards into play at the exact same time, but, yes, when you buy Kan'ok'tichek, his Reaction is immediately available and can be used while you're still in your Dynasty Phase to bring another Ratling Personality into play for 0 Gold. Jeff Alexander, "post for 30-31 January 2003", 1 Feb 2003
• Q: Kan'ok'ticheck Unaligned Ratling Chieftain Creature Soul of Tchickchuk Plague tokens do not affect Ratlings. Each other Ratling Personality and Ratling Follower gains +1F while in Kan'ok'ticheck's army. Reaction: When paying for a Ratling, bow Kan'ok'ticheck to lower the Ratling's Gold cost to 0. You may take this action when paying for a Ratling attaching to Kan'ok'ticheck.
  -I'd like to clarify this. Can he bow to reduce the gold cost of all ratling cards or just personalities and the specified follower?
  A: All Ratling cards. Jeff Alexander, "post for 11 October 2002", 12 Oct 2002