Bayushi Jou

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Dead of Winter

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Scorpion

Keywords

Courtier, Intimidator, Scorpion Clan

Card Text

Political Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets Jou: The player may choose to lose 2 Honor. If he did not choose this, negate the action's effects.
Battle: Even if Jou is bowed: Move her home.

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: a) if I play Bayushi Jou's reaction against a Shadowlands Horde or Dark Path of Shadow player, can they elect to "lose 2 honor" only to have their stronghold/"faction" negate the loss, or are the effects of the action reacted to with Jou negated unconditionally?
  b) Shosuro Tsuyoshi's text is a bit confusing. RA3 compared against Chi... does this kill any and all followers, who have a Chi of 0 (even those like Kenku Duelist, who have a Chi *modifier*)? Also, I presume the normal restrictions on a RA still apply (i.e., effectively Shosuro Tsuyoshi must be in a battle at the current battlefield to satisfy legality as well as relevance)?
  Jou -> Political Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets Jou: The player may choose to lose 2 Honor. If he did not choose this, negate the action's (remaining) effects.
  Tsuyoshi -> Reaction: After an action taken by another player targets Tsuyoshi: Ranged 3 Attack that is compared against the target's Chi.
  A: a) Yes, a Ninja or Shadowlands Horde player can "choose" the Honor loss, snicker as his Stronghold makes it never happen, then since Jou's conditional effect is based upon what he chose (not what actually happened), she doesn't negate anything.
  b) First, Tsuyoshi's Ranged Attack will indeed kill most Followers, because when checking a non-existant stat, it is considered 0. However, when checking a stat on an attachment that gives a stat bonus, the value of the bonus is considered to be the value of the stat. So a "+4C" Follower, if one existed, would survive.
  And while normal targeting restrictions of Ranged Attacks apply, you are mostly incorrect about what those restrictions ARE, in relation to Tsuyoshi. Ranged Attacks may only target "a Follower or a Personality without Followers in the current enemy army" (see here). However, Reactions are not restricted by the Rules of Presence and Location (there is no more Rule of Relevance), so there is no requirement for Tsuyoshi to be at the current battlefield when he performs the Ranged Attack. Brook Cunningham, "Bayushi Jou vs. Shadowlands Horde, Shosuro Tsuyoshi", 22 Mar 2012
• Q: Is the "Will not be negated" an effect of Unnatural flood(?)
  A: It's a condition modifying an effect than an effect in its own right. Zen Faulkes, "Bayushi Jou and Unnatural Flood", 21 Feb 2011
• Q: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=89049
  Quote from Zen:
  It will now negate the rest of Unnatural Flood. The very first effect -- move Jou home -- is negated.
  Except card text on natural flood (emphasis mine):
  Move a target enemy Personality home; if this Shugenja is Water, this movement will not be negated.
  How can an effect that will not be negated be negated?
  A: Whoops! I misread the two conditions. Sorry.
  So the movement from Unnatural flood happens, but everything after that does not. Zen Faulkes, "Bayushi Jou and Unnatural Flood", 21 Feb 2011
• Q: If a player chooses to not lose the 2 honour to Bayushi Jou's Reaction ability when targeting her with an Unnatural Flood, does her negation negate Unnatural Flood's "will not be negated" stopping her being sent home, or will she simply move home unbowed?
  A: Unnatural Flood targets Jou. No effects have happened.
  Jou's Reaction happens. It will now negate the rest of Unnatural Flood. The very first effect -- move Jou home -- is negated.
  Jou did not move. so the remaining conditional effects of Unnatural Flood do not apply. Zen Faulkes, "Bayushi Jou and Unnatural Flood", 20 Feb 2011