Otaku Kamoko

Legend of the Five Rings card from Pearl Edition, Jade Edition, Time of the Void

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

5

Gold Cost

11

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Double Chi, Experienced 2, Unique, Samurai, Seven Thunder, Thunder, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Will not attach non-Cavalry Followers.
Repeatable Limited, w: Discard a card from one of your Provinces to search your Dynasty deck for a Personality and refill the Province with him or her (face-down).
Repeatable Reaction, w: After a Personality moves from Kamoko's battlefield, destroy him or her.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Otaku Kamoko 5F/4C 5HR 11G 3PH Unicorn Clan Thunder. Samurai. Experienced 2 Cavalry. Double Chi. Unique. Otaku Kamoko will only attach Cavalry Followers. Limited: Bow Otaku Kamoko and discard a card from one of your Provinces. Refill the Province with any one Personality from your Dynasty deck, face-down. Reshuffle the deck. Reaction: Bow Otaku Kamoko. Destroy any one Personality leaving this battle." [MRP, Pearl Edition] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 119
• Cannot destroy a Personality when Entrapping Terrain resolves, because Entrapping Terrain ends the battle before units go home. [Card text, DW, email, 25 September 1997] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 119
• Erratum: Changed: her +1F bonus when attacking is now a trait, not a Reaction. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 19
• Erratum: Errata/Clarified: is Unique. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 19
• Q: Let's say I overlay the first Experienced Otaku Kamoko over the original. Does she get +2F while attacking? A: No. When you overlay, only abilities -- defined as Limited/Open/ Battle/Reaction effects on p. 31 -- are retained by the new card. All original printed stats and traits are lost. The regular Kamoko's "1F bonus when attacking" doesn't have an action type keyword, so it's a trait and doesn't carry over. (Matsu Gohei works the same way.) Legend of the Five Rings FAQ, Version 3.6.2, May 1998, p. 15
• Erratum: Otaku Kamoko (Unicorn Clan Thunder • Experienced 2) is Unique. The Imperial Herald, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Issue 7), p. 21

Rules Q&A

• Q: There is an "Utaku" family. It and the "Otaku" family are equivalent. I don't know what you mean about the Togashi family being special in the past. rules
  Utaku and Otaku are equivalent even in the case of Otaku Kamoko? :)
  A: Yes. Why? Jeff Alexander, "post for 12 December 2002", 13 Dec 2002
• Q: Can I play Shiryo no Shinjo on Otaku Kamoko?
  A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 8 August 2001", 10 Aug 2001