Arrival of the Emerald Champion

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Anvil of Despair, Samurai Edition

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Favor, Political

Card Text

Favor Political Absent Battle: If you are the Defender or are attacking a player with a Family Honor of -1 or lower, discard the Imperial Favor to create a 5F/6C/3PH Samurai • Duelist Personality on your side at the current battlefield. Remove him from the game after the battle ends.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• May be used in a battle in which you have no units. [DW, 12/11/96] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 6
• Can be duplicated by Doji Yosai (Experienced). [Reversal, RD, 12/1/97] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 6
• Erratum: Champion is discarded from play at the end of the battle, not destroyed during battle resolution. [Erratum] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 6
• Once created, the Champion acts like any other Personality. It can be shot with ranged attacks, sent home, etc. [ibid.] See also Imperial Favor. Can be duplicated by the Experienced Doji Yosai. [RD, l5rinfo, 12/1/97] [REVERSAL] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 15
• Anvil of Despair: Arrival of the Emerald Champion: This card's destruction at the conclusion of the battle is unpreventable, and happens even if there is no resolution segment. The Imperial Herald, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Issue 5), p. 16
• Erratum: Reads, "Arrival of the Emerald Champion 0G 4FV Political Battle: Even if you control no units at the current battlefield, if you are the Defender or are attacking a player with a Family Honor below zero, discard the Imperial Favor: Create a 5F/6C/3PH Samurai • Duelist Personality on your side there. Remove him from the game after the battle ends." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 121
• Erratum: Reads, "Arrival of the Emerald Champion 0G 4FV Political Battle: If you are the Defender or are attacking a player with a Family Honor below zero, even if you control no units at the current battlefield, discard the Imperial Favor: Create a 5F/6C/3PH Samurai, Duelist Personality in your side there. Remove him from the game after the battle ends." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 122

Rules Q&A

• Q: (I'm playing Crane and), I Play Arrival of the Emerald Champion, I Play Make Your Choice on the Emerald Champion, I kill the Emerald Champion with an action like say TDWWM, I manage to get the Personality into a Province during the battle. When the battle ends what happens to the Emerald Champion?
  A: This one (precedent: Hoshi Tadao): Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 12 April 2003", 12 Apr 2003
• Q: I'm surprised I hadn't catch this before...
  Under Imperial Favor in the Accumulated Archives, it reads:
  Giving up the Favor as a cost of playing a card can be cancelled or negated. If it is, the card returns to where it came from, with no refund of other costs. [extension of specific rulings, DW, 30 September 1996]
  This applies to Arrival of the Emerald Champion right? So if the Champion is negated, it returns to my hand?
  A: Correct. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for early March, 2001", 14 Mar 2001
• Q: I dont know if anything has been said on the matter, but is Arrival of the Emerald Champion considered "moving" a unit into battle? Mainly I ask this for Oni no Ugulu and Oni no Okura(Assuming her chi is 7 or more) to see if they would prevent the playing of AoEC. Anyone out there who knows? I am currently under the assumption that it isnt considered any kind of movement.
  A: It's definitely movement, that being the reason you can use this card when you have no units in the battle (it brings a unit in). If Okura has over 6 Chi, then you cannot play Arrival to bring in an invalid personality. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for January 26th", 27 Jan 2001
• Q: Following this topic.
  It is still unclear if all abilities on cards printed before Coils of Madness which have "discard the Imperial Favor" as a cost (now probably an effect) should be re-drafted with the "Favor" keyword. I searched in the Comprehensive Rules (p51-52), but this information is not explicitly stated.
  Cards like "Insulting Gesture" or "Arrival of the Emerald Champion" are still not updated in OotV, but the database update could take a long time so it is neither a confirmation nor an invalidation.
  However, this question is very important for Illumination deck in Legacy and Big deck formats and nothing can be deckbuilded without this information. Thank you for your clarification.
  A: No, they should not.
  At some point these may be updated to become Favor actions in Oracle, but until that time, nothing has been released saying that they should be treated as such. Jon Palmer, "Unworded "Favor" Keyworded Actions?", 22 Apr 2014
• Q: Is the Emerald Champion created by his Arrival a viable target for effects targeting Unaligned personalities such as Tamago's trait or The Badgers Live?
  A: Well, I want to say first that neither The Badgers Live's nor Tamago's effects upon unaligned Personalities actually "target".
  But, besides that, the Personality created by Arrival of the Emerald Champion does indeed have no Clan alignment, so he is unaligned and would be affected by those two cards. Brook Cunningham, "Arrival of the Emerald Champion vs Tamago", 3 Apr 2010