Katana of Fire

Legend of the Five Rings card from Second City

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

4

Keywords

Experienced, Fire

Card Text

Limited: Once per game: Create a +3F/+1C Fire • Weapon Item with the ability, "Battle: Bow this card unless this Personality is Fire, and target an enemy card without attachments: Destroy it" and attach it to one of your Personalities.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Do battle actions from created cards without title (e.g. Katana of Fire xp.) count for the Ring of Water?
  A: No.
  A card without a title does not have a different title to other cards. Alex Jones, "Ring of water + cards without title", 19 May 2013
• Q: Does the action on Katana of Fire xp's created weapon count towards the four required to play Ring of Water, since that card does not have a title?
  Relevant texts:
  Katana of Fire Limited: Once per game: Create a +3F/+1C Fire • Weapon Item with the ability, "Battle: Bow this card unless this Personality is Fire, and target an enemy card without attachments: Destroy it" and attach it to one of your Personalities.
  Ring of Water After you resolve your fourth or later Battle action in one battle from cards with different titles: You may put this card into play from your hand.
  A: No. Abilities on cards without titles do not count towards Ring of Water's entering play conditions as they are not "different" from any other card title. Jon Palmer, "Katana of Fire xp and Ring of Water", 11 Feb 2012
• Q: Does "once per game" mean that I can use that action one time that game no matter the number of copies of the card I have in play or does it mean that I can use that action once per game per card that i have, ie I can use each individual copy of Katana of Fire's action once per game? Thanks.
  Katana of Fire XP Limited: Once per game: Create a +3F/+1C Fire • Weapon Item with the ability, "Battle: Bow this card unless this Personality is Fire, and target an enemy card without attachments: Destroy it" and attach it to one of your Personalities.
  A: Once per game in this case applies to each Katana of Fire, so you could conceivably have 3 copies and use it 3 times. Jon Palmer, "Katana of Fire Xp and Once per Game", 15 Nov 2011
• Q: [EEext][Legacy] Can The Thunder Resounds keep copying Katana of Fire ability and keep creating the weapon every time its your turn?
  A: Almost, but problem. Resounds needs to target a Spell at its battlefield, but Katana's action is Limited.
  But sorry, to answer the crux of your question, any copy of an ability is a new ability, not considered to have already met any use limits that were already met by the original. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 27 Sep 2025