Moto Chagatai

Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition

Card Type

Personality

Force

8

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

13

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Experienced 3, Loyal, Tactician, Unique, Baraunghar, Clan Champion, Junghar, Khol, Samurai, The Khan, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Other players' Strategy cards' effects will not move your Unicorn Clan Personalities.
Reaction: Once per game, after Chagatai's army destroys a Province, gain an additional Province to the right of your rightmost Province.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• 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: I use Consumed by Five Fires to try to destroy a unit led by Moto Chagatai with Fortified Cavalry attached; my opponent is left with which of the following:
  a) Chagatai and 4 force follower, created by Fortified Cavalry b) Chagatai c) nothing
  A: Just Chagatai.
  To quote MacBeth2001 when this question was discussed by the Rules Junta: 1. [Consumed by Five Fires'] action is taken; its effects will destroy all cards in the unit simultaneously. 2. Before that occurs, Fortified Cavalry's trait kicks in, negating the Personality's destruction, and creating and attaching the new Follower. 3. Now, the unit destruction occurs, except for the Personality's part of it, which was negated. But this destruction does include the new Follower, as it's now part of the unit. Alex Jones, "Fortified Cavalry vs. Unit Destruction", 18 Jul 2008
• 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: If I targeted Moto Chagatai Exp. 3 with Allegations can my opponent choose the send home effect?
  A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Choosing Action Effects", 25 Sep 2007
• 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