Moto Akikazu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Test of Enlightenment

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Enlightened, Unique, Experienced, Shugenja, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Akikazu has a Force bonus equal to the highest number of dead Personalities in any one discard pile.
Elemental Battle/Open: Bow your Ring to target a Personality. His controller must bow a Ring he controls and owns, or discard a Ring he owns, to assign or move the target to battlefields (this turn).

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus)

Erratum

Clarified that the ability's effect only refers to the targeted Personality.

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2006 Kotei Winner - Sean Raycraft

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Moto Akikazu 3F/4C -HR 8G 0PH Unicorn Clan Shugenja. Cavalry. Akikazu has a Force bonus equal to the highest number of dead Personalities in any one discard pile. Akikazu has –2C while in a duel. Limited: Once per turn, target a discarded Personality in another player’s discard pile. He permanently becomes Honorable Dead." [Erratum, JA, web, 31 March 2005] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 115
• Additional cost of assigning or moving only applies to the Personality targeted by his ability. [ZF, web, 24 July 2006] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 115

Rules Q&A

• Q: There's a new rule in town: "When simultaneous effects caused by a single piece of text create multiple game procedures containing more than one step, each step of each procedure takes place simultaneously, in parallel".
  Thanks to this rule, are the following sentences correct please ?
  I am a Unicorn Clan player and my opponent is not. I control no Personality, he attacks and is about to destroy a Province where Moto Akikazu (basic) is face-up, I play Imbue Chi's Reaction, performed by Akikazu. Thus Moto Chagatai (Experienced 4) and Moto Chagatai (Experienced 5) are also revealed face-up in my provinces, next to the performing shugenja's province. I follow the normal sequence of five steps to bring them all into play, each step taking place simultaneously. I check both Chagatai's uniqueness during step B : no player controls a Unique card with the same title at that time. I don't pay their Gold cost during step C (Imbue Chi's text). I don't check their uniqueness again during step D so I simultaneously put them into play. I ride to victory.
  Thanks for your help.
  A: Bringing in two Unique cards with the same name at the same time works just fine. We saw it coming with Isawa's Fire and Imbue Chi when we were debating the issue.
  You know, there is nothing keeping you from using Hall of the Ancestors to copying "Unique" trait off of some dead Lion onto Matsu Aoiko while you have Matsu Aoiko XP (who is already unique) in play either. Martin Lund, "Imbue Chi and uniqueness", 7 Feb 2008