Ryouko

Legend of the Five Rings card from Winds of Change

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

8

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Cavalry, Emissary of Tengoku, Fushicho, Nonhuman, Phoenix Clan, Shugenja

Card Text

Will not attach Spells.
Before Ryouko enters your discard pile after being destroyed: You may permanently raise its Honor Requirement by 6 and place it on top of your Dynasty deck, face-up, instead of discarding it.
Battle: Once per battle: Ranged 2 Attack.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: my question regards the combining of range attacks of items and the Personalities they are attached to.
  Take for example Ryouko the Phoenix favourite immortal rooster. He has a Yumi of Fire attached. Can I combine the Yumi's Range Attack with the innate range attack of Ryouko? If not why?
  A: You'd need to combine the Ryouko's attach with the first RA of the Yumi's action, since it makes 2 consecutive attacks, and you have to declare Combined Ranged Attacks when the Action is announced, before targeting. Martin Lund, "Rules for 10 July 2004", 11 Jul 2004
• Q: Ryouko says that when it dies, you may permanently increase its Honor Requirement by 6 and return it to the top of your Dynasty deck instead of putting it into your Discard Pile.
  This is no problem. What I want to know is, face-up or face-down? It's not Shuffled back in, so there is nothing to imply it has to go face-down to me. Is there some ruling made in past concerning cards that go to the top of decks that dictate their revealed/hidden state?
  A: Unless an effect explicitly instructs you to have a card in a deck face-up, all cards in decks are kept face-down, as per the basic set-up instructions from pages 51-53 in the Diamond Edition Rulebook. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 May 2004", 27 May 2004