Moto Chagatai

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

Card Type

Personality

Force

6

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

4

Gold Cost

14

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Experienced 2, Loyal, Tactician, Unique, Clan Champion, Samurai, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Before another player's effect moves Chagatai from a battlefield, you may negate the movement.
Battle, : Once per battle, Equip a target Item in your hand to Chagatai, for less Gold equal to his Force.

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Shinjo's Courage Battle: Target a personality you control and either a follower, or a personality without followers, opposing him. Reduce the opposing target's force by the difference in personal honor between the targets' units' Personalities. If the card's force is now 0, destroy it. Gain honor equal to your personality's personal honor.
  Does it matter which unit has the higher honor? ie. If my Moto Chagatai (honor 1) faces his Doji Masaru (force 2, honor 3), can I kill him?
  A: Yes.
  Having the higher honor is only relevant for the honor-gaining effect (in the sense that is is more beneficial if you have a higher PH), not the force reduction and card destruction part. Martin Lund, "Rules for 17 January 2005", 21 Jan 2005
• Q: Moto Chagatai exp2 and another personalty is attacking a province. The opposing player plays overwhelmed, does Chagatai have to be chosen to destroy because you cannot send him home?
  A: He can be sent home ("you may negate"). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 13 December 2003", 13 Dec 2003
• Q: A friend and I were playing L5R today and I used the battle action on Elite Pikemen. The card says: Battle: Bow Elite Pikemen to destroy an opposing Cavalry Follower or Opposing Cavalry Personality without Followers.
  The question is is can this card target a personality without any followers and have a higher force than it does. For example I used the battle action of this card to destroy Force nine, 5 Chi, Moto Chagatai who's is Cavalry and does not have any followers. He would then be destroyed due to that battle action? Or would the pikemen only be able to destroy something equal to their force?
  Sub notes** Elite pikemen have 2 force and 0 Chi.
  A: Yes, Elite Pikemen does not have a force comparison as part of its ability. It can destroy Chagatai if he lacks followers. Jon Palmer, "Elite Pikemen Battle Action Question.", 1 May 2015
• Q: Is the Moto Chagatai Exp. 5's controller allowed to bow a unicorn personality despite the fact that Chagatai's trait has not yet been used?
  A: No.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Traits: "Traits that are triggered when paying a Gold cost, and whose effects produce Gold, do not have to be triggered when any given Gold cost is paid; they are optional. All other effects of triggered traits are not optional – they must happen if the trigger occurs." (Emphasis added.) Zen Faulkes, "Governor's Court and Moto Chagatai exp5", 17 Mar 2009
• Q: If I target Moto Chagatai Exp. 4 with Furious Assault and he decides to move home, will he go or his trait will keep him in battle?
  A: If it's another players action, he stays (and is promptly destroyed by Furious Assault). Traits are not optional. Zen Faulkes, "Furious Assault vs. Moto Chagatai/Shiba Aikune", 24 Mar 2008
• Q: What If I target Shiba Aikune Exp. 3 while he's alone?
  A: Same thing. The trait is not optional, and Furious Assault looks for an effect, not a decision. Zen Faulkes, "Furious Assault vs. Moto Chagatai/Shiba Aikune", 24 Mar 2008
• Q: Can one have Moto Chagatai XP 4 and Moto Chagatai XP 5 in play at the same time?
  A: No. Per the definition of Unique, "A card with the Unique keyword can not enter play if any player controls a Unique card with the same title." See here.
  However, you can overlay Moto Chagatai Exp 5 over Moto Chagatai Exp 4. See Experienced. Doruk Özaydın, "2 Moto Chagatai in play?", 23 Mar 2008
• 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
• Q: Is Moto Chagatai from Khan Defiance legal in Samurai?
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Samurai-Legal_Cards Zen Faulkes, "Khan legality", 6 Jul 2007
• Q: Moto Chagatai X4 is leagal in samurai so in turn does that make all of his lesser versons leagal too?
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Legality of less Experienced versions of cards", 2 Jun 2007