Takuan
Legend of the Five Rings card from Pearl Edition, Anvil of Despair, Jade Edition, Siege of Sleeping Mountain
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 4
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- 0
- Gold Cost
- 11
- Personal Honor
- 2
- Clan
- Toturi's Army
- Keywords
- Lieutenant, Samurai, Toturi's Army
- Card Text
- All other Toturi's Army Personalities in Takuan's army have +1F/+1C.
- Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Pearl Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Takuan turned to the Imperial Advisor behind the jade Throne. "Help me, Yoshi. I was not trained to rule an Empire." The Crane smiled and raised his fan in contemplation. "Then I shall rule it for you, my friend."
- Artist
- Dean Vincent White
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Anvil of Despair
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Dean Vincent White
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Jade Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Takuan turned to the Imperial Advisor behind the jade Throne. "Help me, Yoshi. I was not trained to rule an Empire." The Crane smiled and raised his fan in contemplation. "Then I shall rule it for you, my friend."
- Artist
- Dean Vincent White
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Siege of Sleeping Mountain
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "The Emperor is missing and I stand in his place as defender of his Jade Throne. Is there any man in the Empire who would dare defy me?"
- Artist
- Dean Vincent White
- Card Number
- Toturi's Army 04
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rulings
- His bonus is continually recalculated, and only applies during an Attack Phase. [DW, 19 June 1997] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 126
- Accumulated Rulings Accumulated Rulings, April 22, 1998, p. 33
Rules Q&A
- Q: The whole deal with In Search and conditional force bonuses relies on the condition *ceasing* to be met, and then being met again. Take Takuan. He gives a force bonus to all TA personalities in his army. If he's attacking, and In Search is played, his bonus is *still there*, but reduced to zero. Now, if he uses a SupTac to move to a different province, the 0f bonus he was giving everyone goes from 0 to nonexistant. Now, if he uses *another* SupTac to move back in, his bonus gets reapplied at full strength, due to the fact that it ceased existing for a second, and then got reapplied. That is *not* the case with an attached Sword.
What is the definition, then, of reapplied?
A: The bonus completely ceases to exist because a condition for the bonus is not met. Only conditional bonus (i.e., those using a word like "if" or "when") can be reapplied. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 1 August 2001", 2 Aug 2001