Moto Chargers
Legend of the Five Rings card from Soul of the Empire
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Follower
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 0
- Honor Requirement
- 1
- Gold Cost
- 4
- Personal Honor
- -
- Card Text
- After a card effect moves this Personality to a battlefield: Give this card +2F.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Soul of the Empire
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Three times Shinjo blew her strange horn, and three times the echo shook the world. I saw the spectral steeds over the mountains, their strides covering valleys in a single leap. The Moto of the Sands had come, as they had promised, and now the Ki-Rin were whole." - from Shinjo's Call, Part I
- Artist
- Michael Phillippi
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rulings
- Moto Chargers are truly not Cavalry. The Imperial Herald, Issue 17, p. 41
Rules Q&A
- Q: Are the Moto Chargers considered cavalry?
A: No (card text). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 22 August 2003", 22 Aug 2003 - Q: Ok, along those same lines. I have a 6 province strength. I am attacked by a personality with Moto Chargers attached, he's a total of 5 force. For whatever reason, he resolves the other 3 battles and then the one we are both in. I use luring tactics to move in to a resolved battle. He's now 7 force. Since he's 7 force against a 6 province strength in a battle and the province isn't destroyed, upon resolution of the last battle, can I play Ring of the Earth?
A: No. Although Ring of Earth says 'play immediately after an attack against one of your provinces', no one ever attacks provinces, they attack players. The word attack has been ruled to mean 'battle', so in this example, you've already passed by the opportunity to play the Ring of Earth. You would have had to have played it when you resolved the original battle where the Moto Chargers end up. There is a sitaution where something like this could work, but it's more like this:
Moto Chargers assign to province 2. Resolving p3, Chargers move in. Defender moves Chargers back into p2 with Luring Tactics. Attacker SupTacs the Chargers back into p3.
When p2 is chosen to resolve, at the end of that battle, you can play the Ring of Earth, even though the Chargers were only briefly there. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for December 18th", 18 Dec 2000 - Q: 2) Do Moto Chargers gain +2F when moved due to using: a) Luring Tactics? b) Tactical Maneuvers?
A: Yes to both. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 26th", 26 Nov 2000