Asako Sagoten
Legend of the Five Rings card from Fire & Shadow
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 6
- Personal Honor
- 2
- Clan
- Spirit
- Keywords
- Spirit
- Card Text
- Sagoten will not gain the Ninja keyword.
Repeatable Battle/Open, w: If no other player has lower Family Honor than you, gain 5 Honor. - Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Fire & Shadow
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "I warned you of the Scorpion a thousand years ago, Father, but you did not listen. Now, I must return and put things right, or your failure will forever curse the Empire."
- Artist
- Mark A. Nelson
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rulings
- Ability may be used if all honor totals are tied, because nobody is "lower" than you. [Card text, ZF, 23 August 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 90
Rules Q&A
- Q: Everyone knows the combo of Tribute to Your House and Asako Sagoten for quick >honor gains. Albeit, not a great combo, it's one that I play with in one of my >fun decks. I was thinking about this combo, and then it came to my attention, >how is this such a combo affected by the new wording on In Time of War?
Tribute to your House reads: Political Limited: Destroy your rightmost province. Until the beginning of your >next turn the player (or players) with the most family honor is considered to >have family honor equal to their starting family honor. Honor gains and losses >occur as usual during this period and affect the player's true family honor >during this time. This is not considered an honor loss.
While not considered an honor loss, per se, it would take you back to your >starting family honor. So the question is, could you technically use two or >more Sagotens after dropping a Tribute under IToW? Or is this >Psuedo-Current-Honor not change anything based upon what your starting honor >is? Or what? I'm just trying to figure out what I can and cannot do here :P
A: Tribute to your House effectively circumvents In Time of War's new wording. At the beginning of your next turn, your honor resets itself to what it really is, just in time to count as "what it was when the turn began". You can gain as much honor as you want behind the scenes, using Sagoten or any number of other measures. Jeff Alexander, "post for 2 October 2001", 2 Oct 2001 - Q: It's a tight call, but I give the nod to Miya. Are we really THAT scared of Asako Sagoten?
Maybe, he is broken after all.
[Miya Sensei] Won't affect Sagoten. +10 to - is still -. Now, if Sagoten had a 0 HR....
A: Incorrect. Miya Sensei does not increase their honor requirement by 10, it increases it *to* 10. Asako Sagoten would be affected by Miya Sensei (out of any Stronghold except Spirit, that is). Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for January 31st", 31 Jan 2001