Recruiting Allies

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

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

6

Card Text

Battle: If there are one or more enemy units at the current battlefield: Create three 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personalities in your army there. Remove them from the game after the battle ends.

Focus Value

2

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Recruiting Allies Battle: If there are one or more enemy units at the current battlefield: Create three 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality cards in your army there. Remove them from the game after the battle ends.
  Standing Fast Battle: Target one of your unbowed Samurai or Berserker Personalities: Target up to two units opposing him with a combined total Gold Cost less than his unit's total Gold Cost. Bow them. Destroy any cards in those units with 0 Gold Cost.
  If I create little samurai guys with Recruiting Allies can 2 of them be destroyed if my opponent uses Standing Fast with a 4G cost person? Do my temporary samurai dudes have a gold cost?
  A: There is no printed cost of the Samurai personalities created by Recruiting Allies. Therefore, it defaults to zero. As long as your opponent has a Samurai or Berserker personality with greater than 0 gold cost opposing the Recruiting Allies, he may bow, and then destroy two of them with Standing Fast. Dan Jacobson, "Recruiting Allies + Standing Fast", 16 Nov 2008
• Q: Will this combo work?
  A: I'm sorry, but this question is too vague to answer. I see three cards listed in your post, but there's nothing written there about how you're trying to make them interact. Brook Cunningham, "The Khan's Gambit and Recruiting Allies", 26 Apr 2008
• Q: "You cannot use abilities on your cards at this battlefield." sounds like it refers to personalities but the wording of Unshakable makes it iffy.
  A: I can at least answer this. Your quoted part of The Khan's Gambit means that you cannot take any action (take an action = use an ability) that is on any of your cards at that Terrain's battlefield; not just Personalities, but your Attachments in that battlefield's army, too.
  Again, though, I can't tell exactly what bearing you feel this has on Unshakable. It's not a card AT the battlefield (ie, in an army there), so it's not affected by Khan's Gambit's restriction. Brook Cunningham, "The Khan's Gambit and Recruiting Allies", 26 Apr 2008
• Q: If I Unshakable an action card with a gold cost, do I have to pay the gold cost?
  Example, Unshakable plus Recruiting Allies.
  Thank you,
  A: The additional action is announced, targeted, paid for and resolved normally. Alex Jones, "Unshakable + Actions w/ Gold Costs", 14 Apr 2008