Mikaru
Legend of the Five Rings card from Anvil of Despair
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 2
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 6
- Personal Honor
- 1
- Clan
- Unaligned
- Keywords
- Hunter of Nagas
- Card Text
- Will not join a Naga player or attach Naga Followers.
Mikaru has +2F while opposing a Naga and has +3C while facing a Naga in a duel. - Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Anvil of Despair
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Like the sash?"
- Artist
- Bryon Wackwitz
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Is not a Naga. [Erratum, Fire & Shadow rulebook] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 112
- Erratum: Errata/Changed: does not count as a Naga card. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 17
- Anvil of Despair: Mikaru: This card does not count as a Naga. The Imperial Herald, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Issue 5), p. 16
Rules Q&A
- Q: That's a great question. I don't think so, like how Bog Hag wouldn't count as a Bog, or Mikaru isn't a Naga even though he hunts them 😄 That said, any game I'm in I'd allow it, cause she obviously is a warrior
A: Keywords are inseparable from SE-legality forward, but LE-legal-only and before, they are separable. Mikaru had to have special Rules/errata to make him not a Naga. And I really had to pick my battles as far as making arguments for full Legacy compatibility in a post Ivory environment. So while I would've liked Zenethaar to technically be a Warrior, she isn't, and the only cards that actually care about that keyword were/are exclusively in the Siege:HoD "Adversary" deck (and probably shouldn't be legal outside of that format anyway). Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 1 Sep 2025