Asako Hosigeru

Legend of the Five Rings card from Hidden Emperor 4

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

3

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Novice, Phoenix Clan, Shugenja, Water

Card Text

Battle: Bow and destroy Hosigeru: Simultaneous Ranged 1 Attacks targeting every enemy Follower and Personality, even those with attached Followers; the strength of these Ranged Attacks will not be increased.

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Because each attack's target is mandated, none of them may be redirected, not even with an effect that allows redirection back to the firer's army. There is never "another" legal target. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 90
• May be combined with his own Followers or using Coordinated Fire. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 90
• Normal ranged attacks will only combine with single attacks of his. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 90
• With Coordinated Fire, may combine with other copies of Hosigeru for stronger attacks against everything. Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 90
• His action is one action which produces multiple simultaneous ranged attacks. [card text]. An effect which cancels an action will cancel all of them. An effect which cancels a ranged attack will only cancel one. His action targets every relevant card even though there is no choice involved. [card text and rulebook] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 16
• Furthermore, because each attack's target is mandated, none of them may be redirected, not even with an effect which allows redirection back to the firer's army. There is never "another" legal target. May be combined with his own Followers or using Coordinated Fire. Normal ranged attacks will only combine with single attacks of his. With Coordinated Fire, may combine with other Hosigerus for stronger attacks against everything. May be used even if there are no opposing cards. [l5rinfo, 7/21/99] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 16

Rules Q&A

• Q: Now, the pop quiz:
  I control 9 spells and Asako Hosigeru with Uona no Shiryo attached, having gotten past HRs on a previous turn due to The Wolf's Proposal. Hosigeru is normally 2F 2C 1PH. With seven spells around, he has 3F 3C 1PH, due to Uona.
  A: Right...although you said earlier that you have nine. I'm going to work with seven since "seven" is more likely to be correct, being harder to misspell than "9". Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 August 2002", 30 Aug 2002
• Q: I also found at least one erroneous ruling, which I removed: Asako Hosigeru can't use his Ranged Attack if there's no opposing army (since targeted actions must have a legal target to use them).
  I am certain I remember Jeff ruling that this was legal.
  A: Yeah -- that's why I told people that I took it out. You can't perform a targeted action if there is no legal target. This was explicitly stated with regard to Daidoji Rekai (Exp. 2)'s ability (i.e., some time after the Hosigeru ruling). It's since been incorporated into the Gold rulebook. For whatever reason, nobody caught that it the Hosigeru ruling was obsolete. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 13 July 2001", 14 Jul 2001
• Q: Just a clarification and expansion on viewtopic.php?f=59&t=102742
  With Koshin Keep and Asako Hosigeru, it's pretty much a "Blackened Skies. But with Isawa Kaname as well, does this mean: pop Asako, kill entire enemy army?
  And how would one go step by step on this? For example, would this be how it works in the following:
  Asako targets Personality 1, with follower 1 and 2, personality 2, and personality 3 with follower three. Kaname pops off Follower three, then personality three, then personality 2, then follower 2 then 1, then personality one.
  I assume this is how it works...
  Relevant Text:
  Isawa Kaname Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Yojimbo Text Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength. Battle: Any number of times per turn: Ranged 1 Attack.
  A: It wouldn't kill anyone with followers, an effect that prevents Ranged Attacks, an effect that prevents force reduction, or an event that prevents destruction. But have fun killing everyone else. Jon Palmer, "In reference to Asako Hosigeru & Koshin Keep", 15 Apr 2013
• Q: Since Palmer was nice enough to remind me he existed in another thread, I have a couple questions on the interaction between Asako Hosigeru and Koshin Keep.
  1. At a battlefield where I have used Koshin Keep's Reaction, if I blow up Hosigeru to use his action, I get additional actions to continue shooting every target that did not die from the range 1, correct? I assume this would work like a pseudo Blacked Skies where I could just move from target to target and use whatever Ranged Attacks are necessary?
  2. If I started an arrow chain with a different range attack I cannot use Hosigeru because Koshin Keep's reaction specifies that the range attack can ONLY target the original card? I figure that this is the case because Hosigeru simultaneously targets everything, even though he is technically still targeting the original target.
  Asako Hosigeru: Battle: Bow and destroy Hosigeru: Simultaneous Ranged 1 Attacks targeting every enemy Follower and Personality, even those with attached Followers; the strength of these Ranged Attacks will not be increased.
  Koshin Keep: Recon Reaction: After engaging: You have Reconnaissance at the current battlefield. Until this battle ends, your Ranged Attacks that do not destroy their target have the additional effects, "reduce the target's Force by the Ranged Attack's strength and you may take an additional Ranged Attack Battle action that may only target the same card".
  A: You are correct. You can get a similar effect with I Know That Trick as well. Jon Palmer, "Asako Hosigeru & Koshin Keep", 10 Apr 2013