Moto Chagatai

Legend of the Five Rings card from An Oni's Fury

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

9

Gold Cost

12

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Unique, Clan Champion, Experienced, Samurai, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Reaction: After another player's effect moves a Personality to or from the current battlefield, move your target your Unicorn Clan Personality to the current battlefield, or from the current battlefield to another battlefield.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Moto Chagatai exp: Unicorn Clan Champion * Samurai * Cavalry * Experienced * Unique Reaction: Once per turn, when another player moves a unit into or out of the current battle, move one of your Unicorn Clan Personalities into the current battle from any location or from the current battle to another Province.
  Does the above text mean that if another player sends home one of *my* units, I can then use his ability?
  A: Yes. You can use his Reaction after any other player moves any unit in or out of the current battle. Jeff Alexander, "post for 28 April 2003", 29 Apr 2003
• Q: Moto Chagatai (Exp.): Reaction: Once per turn, when another player moves a unit into or out of the current battle, move one of your Unicorn Clan Personalities into the current battle from any location or from the current battle to another Province.
  1- May use his reaction is he is out of the current battle?
  A: Yes. He does not specify "this battle", like Bayushi Paneki Exp. Jeff Alexander, "post for 31 May 2002", 1 Jun 2002
• Q: In this same situation, except whatever send home action isn't bowing Zhijuan, can she be the target for Moto Chagatai's ability? She's sent home, but then pulled right back in? As long as she is unbowed.
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 16 January 2002", 17 Jan 2002
• Q: Ok the question is about his reaction.
  Reaction: Once per turn, when another player moves a unit into or out of the current battle, move one of your Unicorn Clan Personalities into the current battle from any location or from the current battle to another Province
  Does sending one of the Chagatai's controllers units home with BSL, Tsudao or similar actions trigger this reaction.
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 15 January 2002", 16 Jan 2002
• Q: 7.) Moto Chagatai XP - are there plans to errata him with a "Will only join Unicorn Clan players"?
  A: No. Jeff Alexander, "post for 18 December 2001", 19 Dec 2001
• 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