Shinbone Warrior

Legend of the Five Rings card from Drums of War, Tomorrow

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

4

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Ratling

Keywords

Loyal, Broken Shinbone Tribe, Bushi, Nonhuman, Ratling, Warrior

Card Text

You may include up to ten copies of Shinbone Warrior in your deck.
Battle/Open: Destroy your three target performing Broken Shinbone Tribe cards to search your Dynasty deck, then discard pile, for a Shinbone Pack. Bring it into play at this card's location when this action was announced, ignoring costs.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hi,
  I have a doubt about the "Celestial Edition Location rule" during the battle action segment.
  Here are the different cases : 1/ I control 3 Shinbone Warriors at the current battlefield. I use the open action : The Shinbone Pack is brought into play at the current battlefield, I think. 2/ I control 3 Shinbone Warriors at the current battlefield and one other at home. 2.1/ May I choose the Shinbone Warriors at home to perform his open action ? I think no because he is not at the current battlefied. 2.2/ I choose one Shinbone Warrior at the current battlefield to perform the open action, may I destroy this way the Shinbone Warrior who his at home (I need to destroy 3 of them) ?
  Card Text : Shinbone Warrior Open: Target and destroy 3 Broken Shinbone Tribe cards you control: Search your Dynasty deck, then discard pile, for a Shinbone Pack. Bring it into play at this location, ignoring costs.
  Thanks in advance, Rémi.
  A: 1. Correct. The effect is worded slightly poorly, since if you destroy the card whose action you are taking for its cost, it is no longer IN a "Location" when the entering play effect checks. So, consider that to be referring to the location when it took the action, which would be the current battlefield in your example.
  2.1 and 2.2. No, you cannot target cards at home for the cost when taking the action during a battle, because of the Rule of Location as you surmised. Brook Cunningham, "Celestial Edition Location rule VS Shinbone Warrior", 6 Apr 2010
• Q: When I play against a ratling player, who has in play 3 shinbone warriors of which one of them is dishonored, and he also controls a Yotsu Dojo. He then uses the ability on the dishonored Shinbone Warrior and sacrifices other two warriors. (H)ow much honor does he gain from reaction on yotsu dojo(?)
  A: viewtopic.php?t=46804
  Four. Still. Zen Faulkes, "Yotsu Dojo and Shinbone Warrior", 19 Jun 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
• Q: [OBH] regarding Shinbone Pack, it says "Search your Dynasty Deck and then Discard pile for a Shinbone Warrior, and [put it into play]"
  Are you allowed to decline to find a Shinbone Warrior in your Dynasty Deck even if you have them in there?
  A: @kempy_nezumi is incorrect. The final sentence in the CR under #Search (pg 91/92) indicates, "A player may choose to have a search fail even if he or she is able to find the card searched for." Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 7 Nov 2025
• Q: Question: Will At'tuk'tok sensei allow me to play Shinbone Warrior out of Kyuden Kitsune? Shinbone Warrior has the Loyal keyword but the sensei gives all my ratlings my clan alignment.
  A: No. Oh
  At'tok'tuk Sensei doesn't affect deck construction, so you can't play 4 copies of each non-Unique Ratling with Heart of the Shinomen Forest But Loyal isn't a deck construction rule. Alex Jones, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 19 Jan 2022