Michio

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

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Spider

Keywords

Monk, Spider Clan

Card Text

Tireless Reaction: After a Kiho action resolves, bow or straighten a target Personality who performed it.

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, “Michio 4F/3C –HR 8G 0PH Spider Clan • Monk. Reaction: After a Kiho action resolves, even if Michio is bowed: Bow or straighten a target Personality who performed it.” [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 146

Rules Q&A

• Q: In response to this thread:
  viewtopic.php?f=59&t=70797
  1. I have Michio XP in play. 2. My opponent has only Toku in play and, in his hand, only actions that require unbowed personalities (+Determination). 3. My opponent announces and resolves Determination targetting Toku. 4. I bow Toku with Michio XP. 5. My opponent has no valid actions that he can announce at this point (since Determination happens before an action is announced).
  In the linked thread, Zen's answer from Oct 09, at 8:47 (since there was more than one) was a quotation from the rules archive that mentions "From the point when an action is announced...", however, when Michio XP's reaction is used, the action that Determination would have affected hasn't been announced yet, since Determination happens "Before you announce an action".
  Does my opponent pick an action to discard from his hand that would have been legal if I didn't react with Michio XP, and discard it, even though he technically never announced it?
  ~Andrew
  A: Ah, good point.
  Nothing happens, because nothing can happen. Nothing is attempted. Nothing fails. Nothing is discarded.
  This will usually need a judge to confirm in a tournament situation. Zen Faulkes, "Determination + Michio XP", 17 Oct 2008
• Q: Michio exp: Reaction: After an action resolves: Bow or straighten a target Personality who performed it.
  Determination: Dark Virtue Reaction : Before you announce an action, target one of your Samurai: The action can not have its effects negated or have its targeting changed. After the action destroys any Personality, remove him from the game.
  The situation is: I control a bowed samurai and an unbowed Michio XP, and I have a copy of Determination in my hand. I have no other cards with actions that could be legally announced.
  My evil plan is to announce a Determination and target my bowed samurai (hence he's performing it), then I announce Michio XP's reaction and straighten my target samurai who performed the Determination. Ie What I'm doing is reacting with Determination to Michio XP's reaction. But the trigger for Michio XP's reaction is the Determination itself. In Good Faith I know that after playing the Determination Michio XP will have a legal trigger and only other player's interference (such as True Strength) could prevent that from happening?
  Is this loop of mutual-triggering reactions legal (and therefore my samurai will straighten)? Or is there a way to prevent this paradox? So far I haven't found a rule preventing it but I bow to your wisdom.
  A: Not legal.
  You can't legally take an action right now (you'd need a Limited, Open, or Battle), so you can't play Determination. Zen Faulkes, "Determination + Michio XP", 14 Sep 2008