Moto Notu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Fire & Shadow

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

9

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Tactician, Unique, General, Shadowlands, Shugenja, Undead

Card Text

After Notu enters play, lose 3 Honor.
Tactical Battle, : Equip a target Undead Follower in your hand to Notu, for less Gold equal to Notu's Chi.

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: One of the main reasons I definitely want to stay away from considering these as actions that are sorta printed on the personality is all the problems that come with printed actions and shugenja. Would the Lessons action be considered an innate ability? Can you use Fires of Retribution in response to it? Does it count for Ring of Air? Things really start to get messy at that point, and I think it's just much simpler to make the floating actions (other than Tactician) target their performers.
  Does this imply that a Shugenja/Tactician (of which I believe there is only one naturally occurring in the game, Moto Notu) is performing an innate ability when he uses his Tactician trait?
  A: No! That's exactly what I was trying to stay away from! Tactician is *not* an action printed on the card of the Tactician, it's just a floating action that can only be used to give that personality a force bonus. Doesn't target, isn't printed on the personality.
  Look at it this way. Each Tactician generates a floating action that says 'Battle: Once per battle, discard a card from your hand to give this Tactician a force bonus equal to the focus value of the discard.' Each Tac generates one of those, and you choose which action you're using whenever you activate a specific Tactician's trait. It's still not printed on the card, though, so it doesn't count as an innate ability. Better? Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 27th", 27 Nov 2000