Personal Sohei
Legend of the Five Rings card from Dark Allies
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Follower
- Force
- 1
- Chi
- 1
- Honor Requirement
- 2
- Gold Cost
- 4
- Personal Honor
- -
- Keywords
- Monk
- Card Text
- This card may perform Kiho actions. (Sohei does not add to his Personality's Chi.)
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Dark Allies
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- The Brothers of Rebirth were once members of the Order of Osano-Wo. At Osano-Wo's command, they have sworn to obey the will of the new Fortune, Tsukune.
- Artist
- Pam Eklund
- Card Number
- 53
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: WC: I don't see the problem with cultist(A non gold legal card casting kihos in open.) If followers casting kihos was so broken, then why did Personal Sohei get printed? It is a rare with force 1 and acting chi of 1 with a cost of 4. I doubt we will see it any decks in the slower more mellow Gold environment.
The ruling against followers casting kihos, was done in a way that it reversed how the cards had been played for well over 3 years when Crimson and Jade came out in 1997.
A: Yes sir. Deliberately, too, and with full knowledge that we were affecting Open as well. The ability to add Kiho-casting ability to any deck without suffering any extra gold cost and without changing its Personality mix was found undesirable by the Design Team. The capability of using Spells and/or Kihos in a deck should require design choices. Letting Cultists cast them made it trivial. Letting Followers in general cast them made them too easy to use for Clans we don't want strong in magic, like Lion and Shadowlands. Jeff Alexander, "post for 16 September 2002", 17 Sep 2002