Radakast

Legend of the Five Rings card from 1,000 Years of Darkness

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Naga, Unaligned

Keywords

Experienced 2, Unique, Constrictor, Naga, Nonhuman

Card Text

Battle: A number of times per turn equal to Radakast's Chi, target an enemy Nonhuman non-Naga Personality or Follower with Force less than or equal to Radakast's: Destroy it. If the target was not Shadowlands, permanently give Radakast +1F.

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: The Naga Radakast exp2 from the KYD set does destroy human personalities?
  A: No. The target must be Nonhuman and not a Naga. Jeff Alexander, "post for 23 January 2003", 24 Jan 2003
• Q: @Brook Cunningham Totally. I get the consistency thing. To me though there would be an obvious difference between say ghedai doing his ability when at home vs. Radakast. It also makes some abilities like naga shujenja (which also should be able to use his ability when not present) and ghedai significantly less viable And forgive my constant references to naga cards as it's the first deck I remade since jumping back in Haha
  A: Like I said, I'm leaning toward putting in the extra work, but Location was so much clearer and better a Rule than Relevance ever was, and there have to be lines where the Rules change the cards versus when the cards have to be changed via Oracle'd to work how they used to. Like, I can't write a trait on every pre-Ivory Conqueror, forbidding him from straightening if any other Conqueror is doing it too, or on every Duelist of a certain age, giving him the first option to focus if his Chi is lower or equal, rather than just winning ties. I mean, I COULD... but, like, nah bro. 😛 Fun Fact tangental to the above: The first "Duelist"-keyworded card in L5R was Bayushi Yokuan in Scorpion Clan Coup. The keyword meant absolutely nothing until Lotus Edition. Brook Cunningham, "Oracle of the Void #rules", 12 Mar 2021