Shosuro Kyuichi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Stronger Than Steel, Samurai Edition Banzai

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Ninja, Scorpion

Keywords

Duelist, Ninja, Scorpion Clan

Card Text

Reaction: After an action resolves that gave a Personality a Chi penalty (including penalties from tokens): Give the Personality a -1F/-1C Poison token.

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Does Shosuro Kyuichi's reaction happen if a person is brought into play from a province with The Blasted Lands region attached?
  A: Not an action. No. (Action = Limited, Open, Battle, Reaction.) Zen Faulkes, "The Blasted Lands and Shosuro Kyuichi", 15 Aug 2008
• Q: Is The Blasted Lands token attached (via the rule book) or is it an action?
  A: Neither. It's an effect of a trait. Zen Faulkes, "The Blasted Lands and Shosuro Kyuichi", 15 Aug 2008
• Q: Adeiko's ability says "after the effects resolve". Kyuichi's abuility says "after an action resolves".
  A: These two wordings have the same timing. http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_R#Resolve: "An action... stops resolving when its sequence of effect activation has ended, even if the application of some effects has been delayed." Zen Faulkes, "Shosuro Kyuichi and Chuda Rintaro", 2 Dec 2007
• Q: Relevant Text: Aka Name: Battle: Give a target Human Personality opposing Aka-name a -1F/-1C Poison token. Give each Shadowlands Human Personality in the target's army an additional -1F/-1C Poison token.
  Shosuro Kyuichi Reaction: After an action resolves that gave a Personality a Chi penalty (including penalties from tokens): Give the Personality a -1F/-1C Poison token.
  The Scenario: I'm going against a Spider deck. I attack with Aka Name and two Kyuichi. I sneak, and use Aka Name to give each shadowlands personality(In this case, the 4 defending) a -1F/-1C Token. I react with Kyuichi. Which of the following occur:
  1) Since Kyuichi's ability effects the target of another action, he gives a poison token to each of the 4 Shadowlands personalities Aka Name Effected 2) Kyuichi's ability only effects the person Aka Name targetted 3) Kyuichi's ability effects any single target that Aka Name's effect happened to hit.
  I'd think that it would be 1 since it doesn't specify a number of maximum targets. The effect hits everyone, so when Kyuichi reacts his reaction would slap everyone aka name hit. So what's the right answer?
  A: Everything on Shosuro Kyuichi is written in the singular, so he can give a token to one Personality only, although it can be any Personality receiving a token, not just the one inititially targeted. Zen Faulkes, "Aka Name+Shosuro Kyuichi", 24 Nov 2007
• Q: Searched the forums and couldn't find any relevant post, so I just have a quick question.
  Can Shosuro Kyuichi Scorpion Clan • Ninja • Duelist Reaction: After an action resolves that gave a Personality a Chi penalty (including penalties from tokens): Give the Personality a -1F/-1C Poison token.
  Use his reaction if I focus Strength in Shadow Style Focus Effect: If your Personality in this duel is Scorpion Clan: Lose 2 Honor. Give a Personality in the duel two -1F/-1C poison tokens. (End the duel without resolution if this destroys him.) Battle: Target one of your Scorpion Clan Samurai or Ninja: Straighten or bow a target Samurai or Ninja with equal or lower Chi and no attachments.
  A: A Focus Effect is not an action. An action is designated by Limited, Open, Battle, or Reaction. Chris Fuchs, "Strength in Shadow Style + Shosuro Kyuichi", 12 Oct 2007