Rikugunshokan

Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Gold

Card Type

Follower

Force

3

Chi

0

Honor Requirement

1

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

-

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

This Personality has Tactician.
You must declare an attack on each of your turns and assign this Personality, if possible.
After your Dynasty Phase begins, if this unit has not been assigned to a battlefield during this turn: Lose 2 Honor.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Actions that create an attack and assign its unit (e.g., Ambush) fulfill the requirement for avoiding honor loss. [JA, 29 July 2002] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 46

Rules Q&A

• Q: Let's say I have Rikugunshokan and Akodo Ginawa exp[lots] in play. I use Ginawa-sama's ability to draw a card.
  Rikugunshokan: While this Follower is attached, its Personality gains the Tactician trait. You must declare an attack and assign this unit each turn if you can legally do so. If you cannot asign this unit, lose 2 Honor.
  Will I lose 2 honor this turn because I did not assign Rikugunshokan to a battle or do I not lose 2 honor because there was no battle to which I could not assign the unit?
  A: You lose 2 because you could not assign the unit. Jeff Alexander, "post for 17 October 2002", 18 Oct 2002
• Q: I know that the answer will not be know before the realease of BB but I might have forgotten my question at the time, so I'll wait and be please to see the answer at the right time.
  Dangerous Extremes says No player may declare an attack ...
  Now if a card force you to attack, such as An empty victory, how this will interact, do you have to blow your province and attack or does An empty victory go without pertinent effect? And with Rikugunshokan?
  A: If you aren't allowed to declare an attack, you can't declare an attack. It's that simple. You are not forced to pay any special costs to allow yourself to attack.
  Something that penalizes you for not attacking may or may not care that you couldn't -- only whether you did. You have to take these on a case by case basis. An Empty Victory will do nothing. Rikugunshokan will cause a loss no matter why you didn't attack with him. Jeff Alexander, "post for 31 July 2002", 1 Aug 2002