Ratling Archers
Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition, Ambition's Debt, Diamond Edition, Twenty Festivals, Hidden City, Promotional–Twenty Festivals
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Follower
- Force
- 1
- Chi
- 0
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Keywords
- Nonhuman, Pack, Ratling
- Card Text
- This Follower has +2F while attached to a Ratling.
Battle: Ranged 2 Attack. - Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Hidden Emperor (Jade), Rain of Blood (Diamond), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Lotus Edition
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- The One Tribe has been reborn, and yet the Nezumi are no closer to their empire than before. What path will the creatures choose now?
- Artist
- Mike Jackson
- Card Number
- 351
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Ambition's Debt
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Around the Twilight Mountains, the Sun burned the horizon black as she left the dawning sky. Since then, not a ratling's whisker has been seen outside of Crab lands. Strange, neh?" - Hida Yasamura
- Artist
- Ben Peck
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Diamond Edition
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Why humans no aim? Stupid humans."
- Artist
- Mike Jackson
- Card Number
- 363
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Yes, but they work quite cheaply." - Yoritomo Yusuke
- Artist
- Mike Jackson
- Card Number
- 211
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Hidden City
- Rarity
- Starter
- Flavor Text
- "Why humans no aim? Stupid humans."
- Artist
- Mike Jackson
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Promotional–Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- "Yes, but they work quite cheaply." - Yoritomo Yusuke
- Artist
- Mike Jackson
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Reads, "Ratling Archers 1F/0C 0HR 3G -PH 2FV Ratling Pack. Creature. This card has +2F while attached to a Ratling. Battle: Ranged 2 Attack." [MRP, Khan's Defiance, 22 January 2007] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 46
Rules Q&A
- Q: My question concernes the following: Warrens of the Nezumi (all your Ratlings have the ability "Battle: Bow and destroy this card to destroy an opposing follower)
Kan'ok'ti'chek (whenever one of your Ratling Followers attatched to your Ratling Personalities is destroyed, return it to play attatched and Unbowed to [this personality])
Ratling Archers (make a RA 2 attack once per turn without bowing).
Lets say they are attatched to Yo'eetr or some such, they use their attack, and then blow themselves up to destroy an opposing follower, they get re-attatched to Kan'ok... can they use their RA again? Or does the "until end of turn" apply still after they are dead?
A: By default, everything in L5R applies after the card is dead, since leaving play does not automatically cause any effects to end. The Archers' ability has been used this turn. It cannot be used again. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 4 March 2004", 5 Mar 2004 - Q: This was asked elsewhere and I cannot find the answer. Here is the question.
I've always been a little confused about how to differentiate between clans and certain keywords. I know that any personality with "Ratling", "Naga", "Ninja", ect. listed as a keyword would be considered part of the Ratling, Naga, or Ninja clan respectively for stronghold purposes. But it gets a little confusing when certain cards ask for a "Ratling", "Naga", etc. target. For example, I'm playing a Ratling stronghold with Lady of the Forest Sensei. Would my Fox personalities also be considered a "Ratling" or "Ratling Personality" when using things like Ratling Archers or Ratling Hordes?
A: Yes, they would. Brook Cunningham, "Legacy question: Naga and Ratlin keyword issue", 10 Jul 2013