Tamori Futaba

Legend of the Five Rings card from Rise of the Shogun

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Dragon

Keywords

Dragon Clan, Earth, Shugenja

Card Text

After Futaba enters play: Create a blank Ring card in your home. After the next time this game Futaba leaves play, destroy it.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Does Hitomi Dajan's ability count Tamori Futaba's Ring?
  Hitomi Dajan (Dark Journey Home) Battle: Target a player with a unit in this battle. Dajan gains 1F/1C until the end of the battle for each of that player's Elemental Rings. You cannot target the same player with this action more than once per battle.
  Tamori Futaba (Rise of the Shogun) After Futaba enters play, create a blank Ring card in your home. After she leaves play, destroy that Ring.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Older_Cards#Card_types For cards printed prior to KHAN'S DEFIANCE: Card types All instances of the term "Elemental Ring(s)" should be considered to read "Ring(s)". [ADDED April 28 2008]
  Search gives me Zen's rulings from 2006, prior to the (I assume) Legacy Council's ruling above. Thank you.
  A: Yes, Dajan counts Futaba's Ring.
  Per the Legacy-interpretation rule you quoted, there is no functional difference between an "Elemental Ring" and a "Ring".
  (Fun fact: The Rise of the Shogun expansion in which Futaba appeared actually marks the first set in which the keyword "Elemental" was dropped wholesale from the game.) Brook Cunningham, "Does Hitomi Dajan's ability count Tamori Futaba's Ring?", 1 Dec 2011
• Q: out of curiosity. the ring that Tamori Futaba creates when enters the battlefield. can you target it with togashi limited action to "put it in your hand" and put another into the battlefield? is it like a token in magic? like you can do the thing to it to pay the cost but no matter where it goes it just exiles?
  A: Created cards cannot exist out of play.
  That said, Togashi's action's two effects are independent of one another, and the action itself has no costs. As long as you meet required targeting of a Ring you control in play, even if it doesn't go into your hand, the second effect of the action, putting a different Ring into play from your hand, still takes place. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 28 Jun 2024