Phantom Blade Kata

Legend of the Five Rings card from Glory of the Empire, Three Dynasties

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kata, Spirit

Card Text

You have the ability, "Spirit Limited: Discard a card and target your Personality: Create a +2F Spirit • Weapon Item and attach it to him."
Limited: Put this card into play. Discard all your other Kata.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Three Dynasties

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• The ability on Phantom Blade Kata now reads, "Limited: Put this card into play in your home. Discard any other Kata cards you control. While this card remains in play, you have the ability, “Spirit Limited: Discard a card: Create a +2F Spirit • Weapon Item and attach it to your target Personality.”" [CE 15 MRP, 22 March 2010] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 148

Rules Q&A

• Q: Does the performing spirit in the constraints block of Rage of the Spirits have to be a personality or follower? Could it be, say, the spirit weapon created by Phantom Blade Kata?
  Rage of the Spirits Battle: Even if this unit is not at the current battlefield, bow this Shugenja and your performing Spirit, and target an enemy card without attachments and with Force lower than or equal to your Spirit's: Destroy the enemy card. If this Shugenja is Earth, gain 1 Honor.
  Phantom Blade Kata Limited: Put this card into play in your home. Discard any other Kata cards you control. While this card is in play, you have the ability, "Spirit Limited: Discard a card: Create a +2F Spirit • Weapon Item and attach it to your target Personality."
  A: Only Personalities and Followers "perform" actions, so you could not choose a card type other than those two.
  But since it doesn't specify which, you could choose either a Personality or Follower Spirit. Brook Cunningham, "Rage of the Spirits and random spirits", 5 Nov 2011
• Q: Limited: Put this card into play in your home. Discard any other Kata cards you control. While this card is in play, you have the ability, "Spirit Limited: Discard a card: Create a +2F Spirit • Weapon Item and attach it to your target Personality."
  Is this card in play until the end of the turn? Does that mean that i can only use it's granted Limited action once?
  A: Like dishonor or bowing or destruction, putting a card into play is an instant effect and therefore has no duration. Once it's in play, it stays there.
  Because it's instant and has no duration, the default "until the turn ends" duration for effects does not apply. Brook Cunningham, "Phantom Blade Kata", 11 Nov 2009