Moto Chagatai

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Gold Edition, Broken Blades, An Oni's Fury, Reign of Blood, Web of Lies

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Samurai, Soul of Moto Soro, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Chagatai is not destroyed for having 0 Chi unless his Chi is 0 after all penalties that last until your turn ends wear off.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: With the new wording of Moto Chagatai basic for Diamond, "Chagatai is not destroyed for having 0 Chi, unless Chi is 0 after all penalties that last until your turn ends wear off." he now works, that the only time you check to see if Moto Chagatai dies for Chi-Death, is at the end of the owner's turn, after all penalties wear off, correct?
  A: Almost. If he doesn't have any penalties that wear off at the end of your turn on him (say, only permanent penalties or Written in Blood on your opponent's turn) then his trait does nothing. He'll die as soon as he reaches 0 Chi if he is not suffering from a penalty that ends on your turn. Martin Lund, "Rules for 13 Jul 2004", 15 Jul 2004
• 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