Sentei no Oni

Legend of the Five Rings card from Stronger Than Steel

Card Type

Personality

Force

16

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

16

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Unique, Experienced, Nonhuman, Oni, Shadowlands

Card Text

After Sentei enters play: Lose 10 Honor.
Reaction: Before a card's effect bows Sentei, give him -8F: Negate the bowing.
Reaction: Before Sentei is destroyed by another player's card's effect during a battle, remove him from the game: Destroy all units in the current enemy army.

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I play a wedge on my Sentei no Oni, my opponent then realises that this will wipe him out...can he then kill my Sentei with out fear of my ability to blow his army to bits due to wedge's 'can't be targeted' restriction...or does using sentei's ability (which doesn't say it targets) by pass the wedge's restriction? Just asking for the clarification so i can show my playgroup here and stop them arguing.... : ) thanks for your time yet again guys...
  A: An action only targets something if it explicitly uses the word "target" and says it targets that thing (from the linked definition above: "The word “target” must appear as a verb or an adjective for the procedure to be considered targeting..."). The only restriction Wedge imposes is that (in your example) you can no longer target your Sentei. Sentei's Reaction does not target itself, so it's still legal to take after you've Wedged the Oni. Brook Cunningham, "wedge and sentei", 18 May 2008
• Q: Suppose I use Insight to look at the top 3 cards of my opponent's Fate deck, find a Ruthless Advance there and use it to kill my own defending Sentei no Oni (exp). Can I now use Sentei's Reaction as technically it was my opponent's card's effect that destroyed him?
  A: Looks that way, yes. Zen Faulkes, "Insight + Sentei no Oni (exp)", 5 Apr 2008