Oracle of Water

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Imperial Edition, Emerald Edition, Obsidian Edition, Jade Edition, Pearl Edition

Card Type

Holding

Gold Cost

6

Keywords

Unique, Oracle, Retainer, Water

Card Text

Water Absent Repeatable Battle, w, : Move a target Personality in your home to the current battlefield.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Double Chi affects the Oracle's Focus card normally. [ibid.] The Oracles of Fire and Water were accidentally given each other's abilities in the Imperial Edition. This has since been corrected. Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 46
• Erratum: Changed: now has the effect of the Imperial Oracle of Fire. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 13
• Clarified: no longer implies the added unit can be freely assigned to either side of the battle. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 13
• Erratum: Imperial Edition version should be treated as having the title "Oracle of Fire" for play and deck construction purposes. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 13
• Double Chi affects the Oracle's Focus card normally. [ibid.] It seems as though the Oracles of Fire and Water were accidentally given each other's abilities. Accumulated Rulings, April 22, 1998, p. 26
• Erratum: Changed: now has the effect of the Imperial Oracle of Fire. Clarified: no longer implies the added unit can be freely assigned to either side of the battle. Errata: Imperial Edition version should be treated as having the title "Oracle of Fire" for play and deck construction purposes. Legend of the Five Rings FAQ, Version 3.4 & errata, June 1997, p. 26

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I have Kuon(exp3) attack Prov A and he wins and Rallycrys can I use the action on the Oracle of Water to bring in Kuon into the current battle at Prov B?
  A: As already noted, the Most Recent Printing of Oracle of Water merely requires that the unit move from your home to the current battle. Kuon goes back to your home after his battle, so you can use the Oracle on him. Martin Lund, "Rules for 25 April 2004", 28 Apr 2004
• Q: In Card Vault, I have a note dated 2005-Nov-07 and sourced from the old "AEG Rulings and Errata" list that says:
  "The Imperial Edition Oracle of Water counts as the Oracle of Fire for deck-building and play purposes."
  I guess the titles on these two cards were mistakenly switched, because, just as the text for the Oracle of Water seems to be for the Oracle of Fire, the Oracle of Fire's text seems to be written for the Oracle of Water, yet, I see no similar note attached to the Oracle of Fire in CV. So, my question is: I know the text has been corrected in the Oracle of the Void database, but, for deck-building and play purposes, does the IE Oracle of Fire similarly count as the Oracle of Water?
  MacBeth2001 wrote: "No. In this case, Most Recent Printing Rules would take effect, and your IE copy of Oracle of Fire would be considered to have the text of the most recent printing of the card with that title/exp level, that being the GE version of Oracle of Fire (as updated by the Oracle of the Void database of course)."
  Yeah, I realized that after thinking about it some more. Sorry for wasting time with such a silly question. 8-P
  A: No. In this case, Most Recent Printing Rules would take effect, and your IE copy of Oracle of Fire would be considered to have the text of the most recent printing of the card with that title/exp level, that being the GE version of Oracle of Fire (as updated by the Oracle of the Void database of course). Brook Cunningham, "Imperial Edition Oracles of Water and Fire", 29 Oct 2013