Baku no Oni

Legend of the Five Rings card from Dark Allies

Card Type

Personality

Force

*

Chi

*

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Nonhuman, Oni, Shadowlands

Card Text

Before Baku enters play, permanently set its Force and Chi to equal half the number of cards in your hand, rounded down.
After Baku enters play, lose 4 Honor.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• If brought into play by a Spawning Grounds player, gains the stronghold's bonus after the printed Force and Chi values are set. [JA, 15 April 2002] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 91

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I use IGYMN to put a Baku no Oni into play, do I lose the 4 honor?
  A: Yes: entering play effect. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 18 April 2003", 19 Apr 2003
• Q: I was wondering how much turns Baku no Oni had to stay under Forgotten Tomb, 0 or depending on your cards in hand?
  How exactly does this work?
  A: Its Force doesn't change until it enters play. It will come out in 0 turns unless there is something giving Force bonuses to Oni still in your deck, like The Spawning Grounds. Jeff Alexander, "post for 11 October 2002", 12 Oct 2002
• Q: I'm assuming this has been asked already....
  Friend of mine wants to play Baku no Oni and use Forgotten Tomb with Spawning Ground.
  It should come out like this correct?
  Baku no Oni goes under Forgotten Tomb, he has 0 force, so he comes out immediately, gains the force/chi = 1/2 the # of fate cards in players hand and then gains the +1/+1 from the Spawning Ground.
  A: Wrong.
  The Spawning Ground, by MRP in Gold Edition, applies a +1/+1 bonus to all cards you own. It's always on during the game, wherever your cards are. Baku no Oni is a 1/1 before entering play and would have to wait a turn. Jeff Alexander, "post for 7 June 2002", 8 Jun 2002