Keen Blade
Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, The Heaven's Will, Celestial Edition 15th Anniversary
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Item
- Force
- +2
- Chi
- +0
- Gold Cost
- 2
- Keywords
- Weapon
- Card Text
- Battle: Target an Armor: Destroy it.
- Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Celestial Edition
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Carve away the armor, and the man underneath will die just as easily as any other. You simply need to know where to cut, and have the right blade for the task." - Kaiu Taru
- Artist
- Ed Cox
- Card Number
- 354
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
The Heaven's Will
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Some cut through corposes to see the strength of a newly forged blade. I prefer to test my blades on a tougher substances." - Hida Fubatsu
- Artist
- Ed Cox
- Card Number
- 154
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Celestial Edition 15th Anniversary
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Carve away the armor, and the man underneath will die just as easily as any other. You simply need to know where to cut, and have the right blade for the task." - Hida Fubatsu
- Artist
- Ed Cox
- Card Number
- 354
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Reads, "Keen Blade +2F/+0C 2G 2FV Weapon. Battle: Destroy a target Armor." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 142
Rules Q&A
- Q: Matsu Hatsuyo Lion Clan • Samurai • Commander Battle: Bow one or more attachments in Hatsuyo's army: For each different card type (such as Follower, Item, Spell) among the attachments you bowed, you may target one enemy card without attachments. Bow all targets.
and
Ward of the Kami Armor • Kami After this Item attaches: It permanently becomes a Spell as well as an Item.
if, for example, in an all samurai Army, Matsu Hatsuyo has a follower, a Keen Blade, and Ward of the Kami attached; can the battle action be used, bowing the three aforementioned attachments, to bow three target cards (without attachments)? Or just two? Or, Does the Armor of the Kami count as the two different card types that it is? (and thus, with only the armor attached, could you bow just the Armor to bow TWO target enemy cards?
A: Ward of the Kami, while attached counts as both a spell and an item. If Ward of the Kami is in Matsu Hatsuyo's army and you bow it for the cost of her action, you may target and bow two enemy cards without attachments. If you bow the follower and Ward of the Kami, you may target and bow 3 different cards without attachments.
Happy bowing! Dan Jacobson, "Matsu Hatsuyo and Ward of the Kami", 3 Dec 2008