Bayushi Aramasu
Legend of the Five Rings card from Ambition's Debt
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 2
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 8
- Personal Honor
- 1
- Clan
- Mantis
- Keywords
- Unique, Experienced, Kolat, Mantis Clan, Samurai
- Card Text
- Will not be controlled by a Scorpion Clan player.
Reaction: Any number of times per turn, but only once per discard, after another player discards a card from his hand, if it is not that player's End Phase: Permanently give Aramasu +1F or +1C. - Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Ambition's Debt
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "In betraying your secrets to the Mantis, father, I have torn out your eyes. Next I will tear out your heart...."
- Artist
- Ben Peck
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rules Q&A
- Q: I'm looking at it from this standpoint: it was ruled that Yoritomo Kitao XP discards Yoritomo Aramasu from play because Yoritomo Aramasu has "Bayushi Aramasu" as a trait.
A: No, that was one line of argument posited by players who favored that ruling. The Rules Team actually decided that Card X should NOT necessarily be considered a copy of Card Y only due to being a different Experience level of Card Y. Kitao was ruled to work that way because there were logical reasons for it to go in either direction, so I settled the matter based on original intent.
The exact original digest with my Kitao/Aramasu ruling can be Jeff Alexander, "post for 9 January 2002", 10 Jan 2003 - Q: Kitao Exp kills all copies of Baysuhi Aramasu in play, and won't allow you to play them anymore...
Is Yoritomo Aramasu (Exp3) still legal? Or is he considered Bayushi Aramasu all the same, albeit with another name?
A: The way Kitao is worded, any Personality who's name isn't "Bayushi Aramasu" is safe. Jeff Alexander, "post for 30 October 2001", 31 Oct 2001