Tamori Kusugi
Legend of the Five Rings card from Emperor Edition, Honor and Treachery
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 3
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- 0
- Gold Cost
- 7
- Personal Honor
- 2
- Clan
- Dragon
- Keywords
- Dragon Clan, Earth, Shugenja, Soul of Tamori Sugi
- Card Text
- Battle: Even if Kusugi is not at the current battlefield, bow him: Raise or lower the current battlefield's province's strength by 4.
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Emperor Edition
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "There, there, and there. Attack those three points, and your rival's castle will crumble."
- Artist
- Britt Martin
- Card Number
- 95
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Honor and Treachery
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "I am sorry, friend Scorpion. I would spare you the ignominy of this defeat, but it was you who brought war to these lands."
- Artist
- Britt Martin
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I have out:
Tamori Kusugi (Personality) with the ability: "Battle: Even if Kusugi is not at the current battlefield, bow him: Raise or lower the current battlefield's province's strength by 4."
and
Chikushudo's Trickery 0GC Earth • Forest Open: Choose one or two of your performing unbowed Nonhuman Spirit Personalities, target another player's unbowed Personality, bow this Shugenja, and destroy this card: Create a battlefield. Negate all movement to it. Assign the target to attack there; he will not be destroyed during the battle's Combat Segment. Assign the performing Spirits to defend there. Fight a battle there.
If I have personalities at the Battlefield created by Chikushudo's Trickery, can I use Tamori Kusugi's ability (For instance, to get another Battle Action for Ring of Water), or does the lack of a province make his ability use illegal?
A: It's legal.
Kusugi's ability does not target the province, or otherwise refer to the province in the constraints block: the only thing that would stop you using his ability would be if you had no units at the current battlefield. Alex Jones, "Effects that refer to provinces in battles without one", 4 Jul 2012