The Ancestral Sword of Hantei
Legend of the Five Rings card from Forbidden Knowledge
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Item
- Force
- +3
- Chi
- +3
- Gold Cost
- 9
- Keywords
- Unique
- Card Text
- Bringing this card into play has the additional cost, "Discard the Imperial Favor."
This Personality's Force and Chi are switched, and bonuses and penalties to his Force and Chi affect the opposite stat. - Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Forbidden Knowledge
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Jason Behnke
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Rulings
- Does not reverse upper or lower limits on Force or Chi, just bonuses and penalties. [December 1999] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 48
- Erratum: Does not affect focusing in a duel. [Erratum] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 48
- Erratum: Its stat-switching effect does not apply to focussing. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 6
- Q: Shouldn't the Ancestral Sword of Hantei be a Weapon? A: No, actually. The Sword of Hantei is such a powerful artifact that merely wearing it on or about one's person is enough to confer the abilities described on the card. No one but the Emperor himself has the courage or the fortitude to actually wield the thing, so the lucky bearer still has his hands free to hold a more mundane weapon. The Imperial Herald, Vol. 1, Issue 4, p. 9