Naga Tattoo

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

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Naga, Tattoo

Card Text

Limited: Choose your performing unbowed Tattooed Personality who has not performed a copy of this action this game: Permanently give him -1F and the ability, "Battle: Move this Personality to an adjacent battlefield."

Focus Value

2

Legality

Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Friend of mine wanted me to ask this. Naga Tattoo, he feels that it only works for a personality in the battle being resolved moving out, not moving someone into the battle being resolved. I said the tattoo satisifed presence (which he agreed with) and relevance, it creates or moves something in the battle, but he disaggreed on that point. Example below, in case I muddied the waters. Tattooed guy with Naga tattoo attacking provine A. Currently resolving province B. I said Naga tattoo lets me move him into this province with its action, it satisifies presence and relevance. Friend feels I can only move tattooed guy if we're resolving A and I use his abilty to move him out of A (say, to D).
  A: You made the correct call. Your friend is mistaken. Moving one of your own units into the current battle satisfies both Presence and Relevance [p. 53] -- it's just like using Superior Tactics to move in from elsewhere. And the Naga Tattoo doesn't say anything that would restrict the movement to just one direction in or out, like "move into this battle from an adjacent one". Jeff Alexander, "post for 24 April 2002", 25 Apr 2002
• Q: 3) If she has a Naga Tattoo (-1F), and she uses her ability, does the -1F no longer apply, for the same reason?
  A: You're three for three. Jeff Alexander, "post for 21 January 2002", 22 Jan 2002