Kanshi

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Reaction: Before another player resolves a Political action, target your Samurai or Courtier Personality: He lodges the ultimate protest. The target commits seppuku. The player may choose to negate his action's effects. If he did not choose this, then after his action resolves, dishonor each Personality who performed it, and he loses 5 Honor.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: A Personality or Follower is performing an action if its controller is the player taking the action, and any of these things is true:
  * The action comes from an ability on the Personality or Follower. * The action comes from an ability on an Item or Spell in the Personality’s unit. * The Personality or Follower was targeted by targeting in the ability’s constraints block (between the two colons).
  A: Kitsune Den does not target any Personality in its Constraints Block. All that section contains is "Destroy this card." Martin Lund, "Kanshi v/s Kitsune Den", 31 Jul 2007
• Q: Kanshi reads:
  Is this considered to be a cost for the purposes of effects like Daidoji Murasaki's Recon Open action?
  Thank you.
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Kanshi's cost", 30 Jun 2007
• Q: I play any political action (does not matter which one) with a Samurai or Courtier. My opponent responds by playing Kanshi. I choose NOT to negate the political actions effects. (...) I would lose 5 honor. Can I react to this honorlos by "seppuku'ing" my Samurai/Courtier(?)
  A: The rulebook action for seppuku (Lotus rules, pg. 62) allows it to be performed "before you lose Honor as a direct result of an action or effect that targeted this Personality" -- your Personality was not targeted by Kanshi --
  "or from an action he performed" -- your Personality did not perform Kanshi.
  No. Zen Faulkes, "Kanshi and honorloss", 29 May 2007