Moetechi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Ambition's Debt

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

4

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Elemental Terror, Fire, Nonhuman, Oni, Shadowlands

Card Text

After Moetechi enters play, lose 4 Honor.
Will not attach Followers or Items.
Fire Reaction, w: After your Personality enters a duel, lose Honor equal to Moetechi's Chi to give your Personality a Chi bonus equal to Moetechi's Chi until the duel ends.

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Would I then be right in assuming a local shadowlands player is playing Moetechi incorrectly, as "bow Moetechi and lose honor equal to his chi" requires paying a cost of losing honor, something shadowlands can't do?
  A: Moetechi is an old card, printed before the current rules for costs and effects were hammered out. Bowing Moetechi is a cost. Losing honor is an effect. Martin Lund, "Rules for 20 October 2004", 24 Oct 2004
• Q: this came up in a game so I want to make sure I figured it out right.
  playing an Iajutsu Duel on my opponents personality. He has 2 Moetechi in play and they are both unbowed. Can he bow both in response to his personality entering the duel?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 5 April 2002 pt. 1", 5 Apr 2002
• Q: I did look in the rule book and it states.... All players may react to the same trigger in turn until everybody passes consecutively. You may react as many times as you like to any trigger, but remember that you can't take your second Reaction until everyone else has had a chance to take one, and that sometimes a Reaction changes the trigger in such a way that further Reactions aren't legal. Also, each printed instance of a Reaction can be used only once per trigger. Moetechi reads as follows... Unaligned Elemental Terror. Fire Oni. Nonhuman. Shadowlands. Lose 4 Honor. Moetechi cannot attach Followers or Items. Elemental Reaction: When one of your Personalities is entering a duel, bow Moetechi and lose Honor equal to Meotechi's Chi. The Personality gains Chi equal to Moetechi's Chi until the duel ends. If I read the rules right, printed means ANY reaction on any type of card can only be used once. Meaning... only 1 poisoned weapon per duel, only one Arrows from the woods, only one of the Moetechi's could react to the personality being dueled correct????
  A: No. Two reactions on two different cards are two different printed reactions, even if they have identical wording to one another. Think in terms of the actual dried ink. Jeff Alexander, "post for 5 April 2002 pt. 1", 5 Apr 2002