Shiba Tsukune

Legend of the Five Rings card from Pearl Edition, Jade Edition, Time of the Void

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

5

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Phoenix

Keywords

Loyal, Unique, Clan Champion, Experienced, Phoenix Clan, Samurai

Card Text

Tsukune has +1F/+2C while allying or in an army with allies.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Shiba Tsukune 4F/4C 5HR 8G 2PH Phoenix Clan Champion. Samurai. Unique. Experienced. Shiba Tsukune will only join a Phoenix player. Shiba Tsukune has a 1F/2C bonus while allying or in an army with allies." [MRP, Pearl Edition] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 122
• Clarified: the +3C bonus is gained upon entering the duel. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 19
• Erratum: Added: Phoenix Clan Champion. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 19

Rules Q&A

• Q: b) My opponent is also playing Phoenix. I target my opponent's Shiba Tsukune with the Asahina's Blessing and then Quest for Guidance. Does his Shiba Tsukune now go into my discard as my honorable dead?
  A: She goes into your discard pile, but not as Honorable Dead. Jeff Alexander, "post for 31 March 2003", 1 Apr 2003
• Q: Are the following card gold legal?
  Evil Feeds Upon Itself Matsu Goemon Shiba Tsukune
  All the cards were released in the Spirit Wars starters with gold bugs, however they are not listing in the gold legal cardlist on the Alderac website.
  A: How long ago did you look? I just went to http://l5r.alderac.com/gold_checklist.html and found Goemon and Tsukune listed (but not Evil Feeds, which has had the Gold Edition bug removed by errata). Jeff Alexander, "post for 9 January 2002", 10 Jan 2002
• Q: In either Spirit Wars or Soul of the Empire, there was a card that indicated that the Council of Five had they're meeting table destroyed by Shiba Tsukune. She wanted the table to be remade with 6 seats to allow the champion(her) to sit at it. Yet, the promo card The Council Reforms definitely indicates that the table was recreated with only 5 seats. What caused the motion Tsukune put forth to fail? Was there a specific reason, or was it just a ploy to get out the promo card? Anyone out there know the story? Please tell!
  A: The Council of Five refused to follow her command, basically. The Phoenix have always had clashes of authority between the Shiba, the family of the founding Kami, and the Isawa, the family that holds the true power behind the clan. She said, "Make it seat six!" and they said, "No." The flavor text describes some of their reasoning. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 6 March 2001", 18 Mar 2001
• Q: Shiba Tsukune: (C)an I include both the kyd xp2 version and her normal xp 2 version in the same deck?
  A: Rules Archive, Experienced: "Experienced and Experienced KYD cards are separate cards. Both may be in a deck, and neither impinges upon the other's uniqueness." Zen Faulkes, "Shiba Tsukune KYD", 27 May 2007
• Q: Also her trait doesn't say "this" card is non-unique, but rather "Tsukune is non-unique" so does it apply to all copies of cards named (Shiba) Tsukune in play and in the deck?
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Shiba Tsukune KYD", 27 May 2007
• Q: So if her kyd exp 2 version is in play can I have both her xp1 and xp3 versions seperately in play without needing to overlay?
  A: No. The Experienced and Experienced 3 versions have a uniqueness conflict. Zen Faulkes, "Shiba Tsukune KYD", 27 May 2007