Lady Kitsune

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Time of the Void

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

4

Personal Honor

5

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Foxwife, Nonhuman

Card Text

Honor Requirements of Personalities you are bringing into play are lowered by an amount equal to Lady Kitsune's Personal Honor. (Honor Requirements may drop under 0.)
Human Personalities have +1C while in Lady Kitsune's army.
If Lady Kitsune is ever dishonorable: Destroy her.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Can reduce honor requirements to negative numbers (negative requirements are not the same as a "-"). [DW, l5rinfo, 10/17/97] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 38

Rules Q&A

• Q: #1. Lesser of Two Evils (KYD 94) reads:
  Political Limited: Bow and destroy one of your Personalities to play this card. Until the beginning of your next turn, reduce all honor gains and losses by 2, to a minimum of 1. You may not play this card if you have gained honor this turn.
  If I have not yet gained honor on my turn, is it a legal play to:
  1) Play Lesser of Two Evils 2) Bow and destroy my Lady Kitsune as a part of the cost of the action. 3) Respond to the destruction of Lady Kitsune as a part of paying the cost of the action by bowing Kakita Shijin to gain 5 honor. 4) Then the effect of Lesser of Two Evils kicks in, reducing all Honor gains and losses by 2 until the beginning of my next turn.
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 2 June 2003", 3 Jun 2003
• Q: If Toturi gets the bonus, what about Kitsune? What about Lady Kitsune? What about personalities with Kitsune as a trait, such as Soshi Kiyo exp?
  A: "Kitsune" is a family name, so a Personality titled just "Kitsune" is a member. "Lady Kitsune" is not, nor are cards with the "Kitsune" trait. Jeff Alexander, "post for 9 December 2002", 10 Dec 2002
• Q: Are her [Lady Kitsune] effects cumulative? If I have two of them in play, do my Personalities have their honor requirements reduced by 10?
  A: Yup. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for July 3rd", 3 Jul 2001
• Q: e. Your opponent playing Frenzy on Lady Kitsune
  A: No. Your opponent's card effect didn't destroy her, her own card text did. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 27th", 27 Nov 2000
• Q: 5. If you run Shirasu Sensei and play with Lady Kitsune, if Lady Kitsune is dishonored, does she commit seppuku (and die honorably) or is she just destroyed (and dies dishonorably)?
  A: Active player's choice. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 27th", 27 Nov 2000