Shinjo Tashima

Legend of the Five Rings card from Crimson and Jade

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Unicorn

Keywords

Cavalry, Magistrate, Samurai, Unicorn Clan

Card Text

Tashima has +2F/+2C while opposed by any Human Personalities with 0 Personal Honor, or while facing one in a duel.
Limited: Any number of times per turn, bow Tashima and target a Bandit or an Unaligned Samurai: Tashima duels him. Destroy the duel's loser.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Namely does Imperial Census affect Shinjo Tashima (Shinjo Osema)? Is his gold cost 8 or 7 when checked by the census?
  A: It's 7. He's affected. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 17 September 2001", 18 Sep 2001
• Q: Situation Two: A Dragon player names Shinjo. Hitomi Tashima is an experienced Shinjo Tashima, and of the Dragon clan. Is this, then, a legal choice?
  A: Yes. See above. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 19 February 2001", 24 Feb 2001
• Q: Can Shinjo Tashima use his limited ability to challenge the follower Bandit Gangs to a duel (using the rule that followers without a printed statistic have 0 in that statistic)? Tashima does not read challenge a personality, simply just a Bandit.
  Similarly, can Utaku Kamoko exp 3 challenge Kolat followers?
  A: Based on the Facing Your Devils ruling, challenges must be between Personalities. Neither Holdings nor Followers may be challenged. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 9 February 2001", 15 Feb 2001
• Q: Going along with that thought, I have another question:
  Imperial Census bows each Human Personality with Gold cost less than the Gold Production of his or her controller's Stronghold plus 3. In the case of The Otaku Palaces, that means anybody who costs 7 and below. Now, in the case of magistrates, namely Shinjo Tashima, they will join for one less gold off the Palaces. So, for example, his printed gold cost is 8, but he joins for 7. Does Imperial Census check for that? Or only printed cost?
  A: Imperial Census checks current gold cost, counting all current modifications. However, the mod from the Utaku Palaces only applies when the personality is coming into play ('will join you for 1 less gold'). Once they are in play, their gold cost is no longer being modified by the Stronghold, so they would be unaffected by the Census. Clans like Fox and Palaces TA, though, have modifications that always apply, so those modifications would be taken into account when checking the Census. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for", 12 Jan 2001