Shinbone Warpack

Legend of the Five Rings card from Khan's Defiance

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Ratling

Keywords

Experienced Shinbone Pack, Unique, Broken Shinbone Tribe, Bushi, Nonhuman, Ratling

Card Text

Will not challenge or be challenged.
After the first time each turn a Ratling Personality is destroyed: Give Shinbone Warpack a +2F Pack token.
Before Shinbone Warpack would be destroyed, remove a Pack token from it: Negate the destruction.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2006 Defend the Emperor Top of Clan - Matt Loomis

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Despite being on two lines, the keyword "Broken Shinbone Tribe" is all one keyword. [Minor erratum, 4 September 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 155

Rules Q&A

• Q: I have a question concerning Shinbone Warpack (The Experienced Shinbone Pack from Khan's Defiance).
  From Shinbone Warpack:
  What happens to the pack if it has say, 3 pack tokens, and is given a -3 chi penalty, bringing it's chi to 0?
  From the LE Rulebook:
  As I understand it, it would go something like this:
  1) Chi = zero, Shinbone Warpack is destroyed.
  2) Remove a Pack token to negate the destruction.
  3) Chi is still zero, Shinbone Warpack is destroyed.
  4) Remove a Pack token to negate the destruction.
  5) Chi is still zero, Shinbone Warpack is destroyed.
  Rinse and repeat until all Pack tokens have been removed and Warpack is destroyed. Is this correct? Or does the first "Remove a Pack token to negate the destruction." also negate the chi penalty or othwerwise keep the Warpack alive?
  Thanks in advance for your help!
  A: Wow, this goes right back to the very first FAQ and the Goblin Warmonger.
  It's doomed.
  You can negate the destruction as much as you want, but if that Chi penalty is still there, it will immediately die again. Zen Faulkes, "Shinbone Warpack", 30 May 2007
• Q: [LE] if a Shinbone Warrior uses its open ability while a Shinbone Warpack is at home , does the warpack gain 0 or 2 tokens?
  A: One. Or zero, if none of the destroyed targets were Personalities or the trait already triggered from another destruction earlier in the turn. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 22 Dec 2025