Purge the Unclean

Legend of the Five Rings card from Khan's Defiance, Samurai Edition Banzai

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

1

Keywords

Fire

Card Text

Battle: Bow this Shugenja, or bow this card if this Shugenja is Fire, and target one or more enemy attachments up to the number of different Element keywords on cards in this Shugenja's army: Destroy the targets.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: So, I've recently been trying to parse the way keywords work when it comes to elemental keywords.
  I've read that Moshi Kiyamori has a fire ability, but not the fire keyword, because non-action cards don't inherit the abilities keywords. hence, he can not use the fire ability on Kami's Embrace.
  So how does Kami's Embrace work? Does it have 4 elemental keywords, or as a spell does it not inherit the keywords of it's abilities?
  Do abilities on spells count towards elemental keywords for Purge the Unclean?
  A: An addendum was made to the Rulebook (and is present within the Comprehensive Rules as well) that Spells as well as Actions inherit keywords from their abilities.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Main_Page: "Under Special Circumstances: Keywords (p. 54), alter the paragraph to:
  A reference to a "(Keyword) Spell," a "(Keyword) card," or a "(Keyword) Action card" can also refer to a Spell or Action card with an ability that has that keyword. A Spell also counts as having the keywords of all its abilities for the purpose of things that count keywords on cards. Spells or Action cards with a keyword on one ability do not necessarily have that keyword on all their other abilities." Brook Cunningham, "Confused about Keywords", 25 Mar 2008
• Q: RE: This.
  Pardon me, but I believe the above answer is incorrect.
  Aren't both the asker and answerer overlooking the fact that the Spell itself has the Fire keyword? Even a Shugenja with no keyword of his own alone in an army can cast it to some effect. Is there some reason/ruling that the Spell's action's keyword is not counted? That it IS counted seems to be implicit with the Spell's own wording "one or more".
  A: Perhaps the original poster was assuming that some card effect removed the Fire keyword from the spell. Zen Faulkes, "RE: Purge the Unclean", 17 Jul 2007
• Q: Purge the Unclean: What is the procedure if the caster has no Element Keywords and is alone in an army?
  A: Congratulations! You have successfully bowed a Shugenja.
  No effects resolve. Zen Faulkes, "Purge the Unclean", 17 Jul 2007