Bawaru no Oni

Legend of the Five Rings card from Winds of Change, Training Grounds

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Nonhuman, Oni, Shadowlands

Card Text

After Bawaru enters play, lose 4 Honor.
After battle resolution begins, if there are any unbowed enemy Personalities at Bawaru's battlefield, straighten Bawaru.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: My opponent who is playing Spawning Ground playes Egg of Pan-Ku and copies Bawaru-no-Oni, he then claims that due to the fact that Spawning Ground gives a bonus to all his personalities at all times, in his opinion a permanent bonus, that the Egg will duplicate the bonus and end up with the new personality effectively getting +2 +2.
  A: Your opponent is wrong. Jeff Alexander posted on this on March 29th, in "Rules for 26 March 2004" as follows: Martin Lund, "Rules for 5 April 2004", 7 Apr 2004
• Q: *Bawaru no Oni reads: "At the beginning of the Resolution Segment, straighten Bawaru no Oni if there are any unbowed opposing Personalities."
  *Wedge reads : "Battle: Target one of your units in this battle. You cannot target that unit or cards in it with actions until after the battle ends. Destroy the unit when the battle ends. If the unit is still in this army at the beginning of the Resolution Segment, double the Force of the Personality and each Follower in the unit."
  *Overconfidence reads: "Reaction: When a personality has recieved from an action a force bonus more than or equal to his or her printed chi, bow the personality. The Personality cannot straighten during his or her controller's next straighten phase."
  If a Wedged Bawaru no Oni is Overconfidenced, can his trait straighten him?
  A: Yes. Overconfidence only prohibits straightening "during his or her controller's next straighten phase." [card text]
  Notice that it's important that the active player choose to apply Wedge's Force increase before Bawaru's trait. They both happen "at the beginning of the Resolution Segment". If the active player declares that Bawaru's trait applies first, it can't help him. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 4 Feb. 2004", 5 Feb 2004
• Q: My opponent plays Wedge on a Bawaru no Oni. At the begining of resolution I play Overconfidence to bow the Oni. Does Bawaru's trait then straigten him before total force is compared?
  A: Both Wedge's bonus and the oni's trait occur at the beginning of resolution, so the Third Cardinal Rule kicks in. Active player chooses. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 6 December 2003", 6 Dec 2003