Shahai

Legend of the Five Rings card from Web of Lies

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Unique, Bloodspeaker, Experienced, Lady of Blood, Shadowlands, Shugenja

Card Text

After Shahai enters play: Lose 6 Honor and give all your Personalities a Blood token.
Maho Limited: Destroy a Blood token on Shahai and target a dead Personality: Shahai copies of one of his base abilities that does not itself copy abilities, adding to it the restriction "Once per turn" until she uses this ability again. Remove the target from the game.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Is distinct from Iuchi Shahai (Experienced). [ZF, 6 June 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 122
• May not be overlayed on a non-Experienced Iuchi Shahai. [JA, 8 June 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 122

Rules Q&A

• Q: And if a Shadowlands Daigotsu is dead in a discard pile, can Shahai (exp) use a Blood token to gain the same ability?
  A: "Shahai gains a copy of one of his printed abilities until she uses this ability again."
  She specifies "printed ability." Any ability gained via an effect (even an effect of that own card's traits) is not one of its "printed abilities" unless the effect that put it there specifies such. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 January 2005", 12 Jan 2005
• Q: Shahai (R Personality [WoL] SD): 5F 5C -H 8G 0PH * Shadowlands Lady of Blood * Bloodspeaker * Shugenja Experienced * Unique * Lose 6 Honor. * After Shahai enters play, give all Personalities you control a Blood token. * Maho Limited: Destroy a Blood token on Shahai: Target a dead Personality. Shahai gains a copy of one of his printed abilities until she uses this ability again. She may use it once per turn. Remove the target from the game.
  The rulebook syas that when a personality is destroyed it gains the Honorable Dead or Dishonorable Dead status. The rulebook nor the archive don't specify that this designation goes away if they are returned from the dead pile to play. Does this mean that if I have Shahai in play, Shahai can use her ability on a personality that has been returned from being destroyed (such as Feign Death) because she does not specify that they need to be in a dead pile?
  A: You've got to be kidding.
  Okay, fine. Here it is. Cards in play are not dead. Official. Zen Faulkes, "Shahai and Dead Personalities", 3 Mar 2005
• Q: Does this mean that if I have Shahai in play, Shahai can use her ability on a personality that has been returned from being destroyed (such as Feign Death) because she does not specify that they need to be in a dead pile?
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Shahai and Dead Personalities", 3 Mar 2005