Soul of the Clan

Legend of the Five Rings card from Web of Lies

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Reserve, Formation

Card Text

Absent Battle: If you control two bowed Personalities at home, put this card into play at the current battlefield. Discard your other Formations. You may take an additional Battle action.
Absent Repeatable Battle: If this card is in play and you are meeting the conditions to put it there, target your bowed Personality in your home that has not been in an army this attack, and a bowed Personality in the enemy leader's home. Straighten both targets, ignoring effects that negate their straightening or say they will not straighten. Move your Personality, and the other player's if he chooses, to the current battlefield.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: 3 - Can I play Soul of the Clan if the other player has not personalities at his home?
  A: You can put the Formation into play, sure.
  You can't use the ability on the Formation, however, unless you have all the necessary targets. That means you need, "a bowed Personality at the enemy leader's home," or you can't use the ability. Martin Lund, "Rules for 13 December 2004", 15 Dec 2004
• Q: Can Soul of the Clan straighten Mitsu/Jusai if they have any fire tokens on them?
  A: Yes. "Even if they cannot straighten," Soul of the Clan card text. Zen Faulkes, "Jusai and Soul of the Clan", 30 Mar 2005
• Q: hello. Sorry again! i have one question to ask about soul of the clan. firstly here is the printing that is on soul of the clan.
  Quote:
  Reserve Formation Formed by 2 bowed Personalities at your home. You may play this card without Presence. Battle: Target a bowed Personality at your home that has not been in an army this attack, and a bowed Personality at the enemy leader's home. Straighten both targets, even if they cannot straighten. Move your Personality, and the other player's (if he wishes), to the current battlefield.
  here's the question. assuming my opponent has no unbowed personalities at his home and all of them are defending in another Province and i have bowed personalities at home. can i use the ability to move juz my personalities into the battle and not my opponent 's?
  i know this maybe stupid but i'm asking a question that someone has asked. but just to present the steps clearly to you. juz wondering if it's allowed to do the pan'ku's infinite copy. the ability of p'anku that is used is shown as below.
  Quote:
  Open: Once per turn, target a non-Dragon Personality. Copy one of the target's abilities or boldface traits until the next time this ability is used.
  during your opponent's turn, p'anku copy the oni trait from one of your onis.
  during your turn, you attach mask of the maw to any personality.
  Quote:
  Open: Bow the Mask and target an Oni Personality to copy all actions on that Oni onto this Personality until the end of the turn. If you wish, until the end of the turn, the Oni may not use any of its actions.
  and bow the mask to open p'anku's copy ability. and after that you just use p'anku's ability to copy the copy ability from the mask. thus by doing this, it's like this,
  first turn, copy oni
  turn 2, bow mask to copy the copy ability(thus give mask the copy abilities)
  turn 3, use p'anku's ability to copy the copy ability from the mask. (so p'anku has 2 copy ability)
  turn 4, use p'anku's second copy ability to copy the the copy ability from the mask again( p'anku nw has 3 copy ability) and u continue doing this until you have enough.
  next, using all the copy abilities that p'anku has, you use the last ability that u have copied to copy Chimamire no Oni's reaction.
  Quote:
  Reaction: If your Stronghold is the Spawning Grounds, after Chimamire no Oni is destroyed, put a -1C token on up to two Personalities.
  so in short from just now,
  turn 4, use copy ability 3 to copy the reaction.
  turn 5, use copy ability 2 to copy the reaction.
  turn 6, use copy ability 1 to copy the reaction again.
  turn 7, kill p'anku.
  thus triggering the reaction and killing everyone on the opponent 's table.
  thanks for taking time to read my post and making the necessary time to do the typing. thanks once again.
  A: Guessing you mean "bowed" here, as that's what SOul of the Clan look sofr. Zen Faulkes, "Soul Of The Clan/pan'ku", 15 Mar 2005
• Q: and all of them are defending in another Province and i have bowed personalities at home. can i use the ability to move juz my personalities into the battle and not my opponent 's?
  A: No (Diamond rules, pg. 73: "You cannot announce a targeted action if a legal target does not exist.").
  Leaving the P'an Ku question for Marty. Zen Faulkes, "Soul Of The Clan/pan'ku", 15 Mar 2005