New Kimono
Legend of the Five Rings card from The War of Spirits
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Item
- Force
- +0
- Chi
- +0
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- After this Personality bows to perform the Lobby action: Other players may not discard a card to "give a gift" during its resolution. (This trait only has effect when using the Classic Lobbying optional rule.)
- Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The War of Spirits
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Not all of the days of The War of Spirits are remembered as days of bloodshed and death. In the courts of the Crane and Phoenix, the young samurai remind us that our glorious Empire still lives and breathes." - The journal of Kakita Meyoko, imperial courtier
- Artist
- April Lee
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rules Q&A
- Q: With the new favor rules aren't cards like new kimono, jade throne, and perfect gift all rendered completely without effect?
Yes, I'm afraid that those cards have been rendered largely useless in order to streamline the favor.
So I took a gander at the mentioned cards and saw: "A Perfect Gift Reaction: Bow one of your Personalities with Personal Honor above 1 when another player has bowed a Personality to lobby for the Imperial Favor. If the Favor is uncontrolled, the lobbying attempt is cancelled, and you gain control of the Imperial Favor. This still counts as a lobbying attempt. "
Sounds to me like it can still be used. Sure it's a Gift, but only by the fact that it has "Gift" in the title. Which means that New Kimono has a use! It stops anyone from using A Perfect Gift.
A: Perfect Gift looks like it still works, yes. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for July 3rd", 3 Jul 2001