Shiryo no Tsuko

Legend of the Five Rings card from Hidden Emperor 1

Card Type

Ancestor

Force

+1

Chi

0

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

0

Personal Honor

-

Clan

Lion

Keywords

Unique, Lion Clan

Card Text

This Ancestor is considered Matsu Tsuko for deck construction and checking the Unique restriction.
Repeatable Reaction: After a battle's resolution, if this Personality's army won and was defending, create an additional Attack Phase with you as the Attacker the previous Attacker as the Defender. During this new phase, allying Personalities may not attack or defend, your units other than this one may not be attack, and units currently in attacking armies at your Provinces's battlefields will not move into defending armies; none of these preventions are negation.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• If a battle created by Shiryo no Tsuko is Counterattacked before the original battles are completed, players can reassign their units. Once Counterattack resolves, the original attack resumes where it left off. Surviving units return to the battles they were in when the series of Reactions started. Bowed cards are not straightened. [JA, 14 February 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 42

Rules Q&A

• Q: Sorry, but this is a long response to question 2.
  Counterattack can only happen once all battles have resolved, not after just one battle. Therefore, all battles with B attacking A would resolve, then a chance to rally, then a counterattack by B. This Counterattack is not complete until all battles have resolved at Player A's provinces, so if player A had another counterattack, he'd have to wait until player B was done killing him. Therefore, the question is answered by the fact that Counterattack demands you wait until all battles have resolved; end of story.
  However, you COULD have this situation with Shiryo no Tsuko. Let's say Player A attacks B, then B wins a battle with Shiryo no Tsuko's personality. An attack phase begins for player B at player A. In this case you could use forced march before letting player A get on with the rest of his attack. But, what would happen if player A then counterattacked the Shiryo no Tsuko attack of player B? There are already battles going on! Would this attack phase take place, disregarding currently in-place battles in player A's original attack phase? Or would this allow the player to assign additional units to current battles?
  A: It looks as though all players are free to reassign their units any way they like. Once the Counterattack battles are over, resume the original attack where you left off, with any surviving units back in the battles they were in when the whole series of reactions started. Don't straighten any bowed cards, either. Units can find themselves fighting battles at Provinces which no longer exist. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 8 February 2001", 14 Feb 2001