Snow Crane Tattoo

Legend of the Five Rings card from The War of Spirits

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Tattoo

Card Text

Limited: Target your performing unbowed Tattooed Personality who has not performed a copy of this action or Crane Tattoo's action this game. Until the game ends, he may not perform Crane Tattoo's and permanently give him the ability, "Reaction: After a focused card is revealed during a duel, give it +2FV."

Focus Value

3

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Erratum

Errata'd via the internet.

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Only affects Focus values during duels. [VRD, 18 November 2000; JA, 8 June 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 33

Rules Q&A

• Q: Someone mentioned something really weird the other night, and I was wondering if this is so. Snow Crane Tattoo Limited: Target one of your Personalities with the Tattooed trait and without a Crane or Snow Crane Tattoo. For the rest of the game, the Personality has a Snow Crane Tattoo and gains the ability "Reaction: Once per turn, after a Focus value is revealed, raise it by 2." A personality with a Snow Crane Tattoo cannot have a Crane Tattoo.
  Does this mean they can take the reaction for duels they are not involved in?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 23 October 2002", 24 Oct 2002
• Q: Regarding your ruling on Hitomi Echiko & the Snow Crane Tattoo (in your post on 21 October 2002) I assume you meant to say that if Echiko has bowed to use her ability during a duel and the Snow Crane Tattoo is ON HER that the tattoo could not be used.
  A: Correct. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 October 2002", 23 Oct 2002
• Q: If the Snow Crane Tattoo is on one of my other personalities it should be legal for me to use even if my duelist is bowed as the tattoo's reaction targets the personality with the tattoo and the focus value being raised but not the duelist. Is this correct?
  A: Yes, someone else with the Snow Crane Tattoo could raise Echiko's focuses. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 October 2002", 23 Oct 2002
• Q: 2) If I bow Hitomi Echiko to ditch the opponent's last focused card, then, once the duel resolves, can I still use the Snow Crane Tattoo reaction to boost her focus card? Can she still Bend Like A Reed?
  A: No and no -- Snow Crane Tattoo because it's an ability on a bowed card, Bend Like a Reed because that would target one of your own bowed Personalities. Jeff Alexander, "post for 21 October 2002", 22 Oct 2002
• Q: 3) Is it true that a Snow Crane Tattoo can boost a focus card in a duel involving a personality other than the personality with the tattoo?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 21 October 2002", 22 Oct 2002
• Q: Snow Crane Tattoo
  A: Targeted by rule #4. Targets the thing it affects: the focus card whose value gets raised. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 August 2002", 23 Aug 2002
• Q: Alright, now that the relevent text is there... am i right in thinking that the tattoo doesnt have to be on the personality in the duel in order to use the reaction?
  A: You are right. Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 July 2002", 30 Jul 2002
• Q: 1.) A lot of cards have recently been drastically errata-ed: not simply basic ruling changes, but the cards themselves have been rewritten (The Emperor's Under-Hand, Snow Crane Tattoo, Imperial Funeral (again), and Nagimaki, among others). Will AEG be following the 7th Sea model for these cards and placing errata-text versions of them in future starters?
  A: Where feasible. I don't have plans to do it across the board. Jeff Alexander, "post for 30 October 2001", 31 Oct 2001
• Q: Fine, just fine, but.......
  Limited: Target one of your Personalities with the Tattooed trait and without a Crane or Snow Crane Tattoo. For the rest of the game, the Personality has a Snow Crane Tattoo and gains the ability "Reaction: Once per turn, after a Focus value is revealed, raise it by 2." A personality with a Snow Crane Tattoo cannot have a Crane Tattoo.
  sorry bruddah, that text is straight from leg search..... muhahahaha
  A: Snow Crane Tattoo has been ruled to apply to duels only. Check the archives. Jeff Alexander, "post for 29 October 2001", 30 Oct 2001
• Q: Jeff,
  So will we have a Most Recent Printing on the card
  A: If it's ever reprinted, probably. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 8 June 2001", 12 Jun 2001
• Q: I'm all for intent based rulings, being internally consistent, and designers doing their jobs. I don't mind if Snow Crane Tattoo applies only to duels. I'm glad Jeff made that ruling. Now I want him to make another intent based ruling concerning a tattoo card and I think it is one that a majority of the playing populace will agree about. Dragon Tattoo. Being able to add Zero tokens as an ability is silly and I'm sure was never the intent of the card.
  I guess I'm just looking for consistency at least when it comes to ruling on tattoos.
  A: Why just tattoos? Jeff Alexander, "replies to 8 June 2001", 12 Jun 2001
• Q: 7. Does the personality with the Snow Crane Tattoo have to be the one focusing to increase the focus value? The wording on the card lets the personality raise the focus value even if he is not involved in the duel.
  A: Yes, that's fine. Snow Crane Tattoo only works on Focus values in duels, but it will work on the Focus values of any personality you control, not just the Tattooed one. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 27th", 27 Nov 2000
• Q: Snow Crane Tattoo R
  A: <snip> Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for November 15th", 15 Nov 2000