Let Them Fight Their Dead

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test, Samurai Edition Banzai

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho, Maho

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing unbowed opposed Shugenja and target one of the enemy leader's dead Personalities: Lose 5 Honor. Bring the target into play, in your current army, ignoring costs and restrictions. After this battle ends, destroy him.

Focus Value

3

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Let´s say that I use Let them fight their dead and bring Hida Sozen XP2 to my side of the battlefield.
  Will Sozen Xp2 be destroyed at the end of the battle or does his trait protect him from being destroyed (because he will be destroyed by the effects of an opponents card), and so keeping Sozen Xp2 on my side of the game permanently.
  Let Them Fight Their Dead
  Maho Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed opposed Shugenja: Target a dead Personality the enemy leader owns. Lose 5 Honor. Bring him into play, in your army, waiving costs and ignoring restrictions. After the battle ends, destroy him.
  Hida Sozen Xp2
  Other players' actions cannot destroy Sozen. Heroic Battle: If there are any units in the enemy army: Move Sozen to the current battlefield.
  Thanks in advance
  A: Special wording rules, possessive case: When referring to the relationship between a player and a card or cards, possessive terms refer to a card in play controlled by the player, or a card out of play owned by the player. You control Hida Sozen and it's your action that would destroy him after the battle, so he gets no protection.
  Sozen dies. Alex Jones, "Sozen XP2 & Let them fight their dead", 13 Jan 2009
• Q: Can you use Death After Life or Let Them Fight Their Dead to bring a Loyal Personality to your side of the field?
  A: Rules, Glossary, Restriction: "Honor Requirements are a type of restriction, as are the Loyal, Unique and Singular rules." Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Death After Life and Loyal", 6 Aug 2007
• Q: Regarding this...such situations may be rare, but not unheard of. For clarification, assume player A targets player B's dead Courtier with "Let Them Fight Their Dead":
  Maho Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed opposed Shugenja: Target a dead Personality the enemy leader owns. Lose 5 Honor. Bring him into play, in your army, waiving costs and ignoring restrictions. After the battle ends, destroy him.
  Could player B react with "Share the Blame" (assuming he has another Courtier in play to dishonour)?
  Political Reaction: After another player targets a Courtier with an action, dishonor one of your Courtiers: Dishonor the Courtier the other player targeted. You, then the other player, each lose 3 Honor.
  Since the dead Courtier is still in the discard when "Share the Blame" resolves, I'm assuming he wouldn't be dishonoured, but would Player A still lose 3 honour?
  A: I answered these questions already. Zen Faulkes, "Share The Blame and Out of Play Redux", 9 Jul 2007