Matsu Yoshino

Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition, Promotional–Samurai

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

12

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

5

Clan

Lion

Keywords

Experienced 2, Loyal, Tactician, Unique, Clan Champion, Hero, Lion Clan, Samurai

Card Text

Your attacking Lion Clan Personalities at Yoshino's location have a Force bonus equal to their Personal Honor.
Tactical Battle: Destroy a target Personality without attachments. You may target and destroy an attachment.

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, “Matsu Yoshino 4F/4C 12HR 10G 5PH Lion Clan • Clan Champion • Samurai • Hero • Tactician • Experienced 2 • Unique • Loyal Your attacking Lion Clan Personalities at Yoshino’s location have a Force bonus equal to their Personal Honor. Tactical Battle: Destroy a target Personality with no attachments. You may then target and destroy an attachment.” [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 146

Rules Q&A

• Q: Additionally, if a continuous effect has a condition on it the effect begins at any point when the condition is met and the relevant cards are in play. Example: "Your Samurai have +1F while they are opposed." In this example, the effect on each Samurai begins when that Samurai becomes opposed.
  Continuous effects from cards upon other cards normally end when one (or both) of the two cards leaves play or when the effect's condition is no longer met. In the example, the effect on each Samurai ends when that Samurai is no longer opposed.
  A: Once Yoshino leaves play or leaves the Battlefield, no one there benefits from his Force Bonus anymore. Martin Lund, "Matsu Yoshino (Experienced 2)", 26 Nov 2007
• Q: I know that the rule book says that Samurai and Courtiers can as a reaction to any action that would cause honor loss, commit seppuku to reduce the honor loss to 1, here's my question:
  What if a dishonored person dies? Can he commit seppuku in response to his own death?
  Say I had dishonored a guy (Matsu Yoshino), and then I dueled him (with Noritoshi)... when Yoshino dies, can he commit seppuku in response to his own death? I assume that he cannot, as the honor loss comes as an effect of a dishonored person dying, and the action that I targeted him with simply created a duel (one in which the dishonored Yoshino died).
  Is this correct? ~KA
  A: You are correct in that you cannot seppuku in response to death, as your personality is already dead by that point. Chris Fuchs, "Can You Seppuku in Response to Death?", 18 Sep 2007