The Agasha Join the Phoenix

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Dark Journey Home

Card Type

Event

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

After you reveal cards in your Provinces at the start of your turn, if this Event is face-up in one of them, choose a Family Name. Permanently give your Clan Alignment to all your Personalities in your Dynasty deck and Provinces with that Family Name.

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Erratum

Contemporary erratum to only affect cards in the deck and Provinces.

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• All existing alignments are kept. [DW, email, 13 February 1999] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 67
• Erratum: Should read "All your Personalities from that family in your deck and Provinces swear fealty to your Faction." [Erratum] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 67
• Will not remove restrictions against joining your Faction. [19 August 1999] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 67
• Nothing that happens to alignments of Personalities during the game (e.g., becoming members of a given clan due to a Sensei) affects what family can be named. [JA, 16 February 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 67
• For a name to legally chosen, there need only be one Personality who has a printed alignment (including multiple alignments) to a clan other than yours. [JA, 24 February 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 67
• Q: Do the Eternal Halls of the Shiba, Creating the Monkey Clan, or The Agasha Join the Phoenix remove any existing clan alignments? A: No. The Imperial Herald, Issue 11, p. 26
• Erratum: The Agasha Join the Phoenix: should read 'All your Personalities from that family in your deck and Provinces swear fealty to your Clan.' The Imperial Herald, Issue 11, p. 27

Rules Q&A

• Q: "Tsuno" is a family name, yes.
  Great. In this case, can we make use of The Agasha Join the Phoenix?
  "The Agasha Join the Phoenix Choose one family name from another Clan. For the rest of the game, Personalities from that family that you bring (or are bringing) into play are considered members of your Clan. (In Rokugan, a Personality's family name is first)."
  The only objection I can see is that the Shadowlands isn't a Clan (now the term is Faction) per se.
  A: There are no Tsuno Personalities from any Factions, so they can't be chosen for Agasha Join the Phoenix. Jeff Alexander, "post for 8 November 2001", 9 Nov 2001
• Q: Greetings.
  I have a question regarding a few specific instances of the event The Agasha Join the Phoenix. Perhaps a blanket definition can be made.
  The card reads, "Choose one family name from another Clan. For the rest of the game ...)."
  Situation One: A Dragon player names Doji. Doji Reju exp2 has the Dragon Clan trait. Is this a legal choice?
  A: Whether "Doji" is legal depends only on whether there are any "Doji" family Personalities with Clan alignments *other than* "Dragon Clan", which there are. The presence of one (or even a thousand) "Doji" family Personality with "Dragon Clan" makes not one speck of difference. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 19 February 2001", 24 Feb 2001