The First Oni

Legend of the Five Rings card from Dawn of the Empire

Card Type

Personality

Force

7

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Unique, Disciple, Inexperienced, Kami, Nonhuman, Oni, Shadowlands

Card Text

After The First Oni enters play: Lose 10 Honor, which will not be copied, reduced, or increased.
Will not attach Items.
Limited: Target another player's unbowed Personality: Lose 5 Honor. Declare an additional Attack Phase, creating a battlefield not associated with any Province. The First Oni assigns to attack there. The target assigns to defend there. After the Attack Phase, resume the Action Phase.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• There are no battles at Provinces. [JA, 15 December 2004] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 97

Rules Q&A

• Q: 1) There was a question asked about the First Oni inxp asked in the last two weeks concerning assignement and movement to other battles that did not include the one he creates between him and another personality. I remember Marty answering, but there was a question about assignement to battles at other battlefields that was going to be sent on to Jeff, did we ever recieve an answer back on this?
  A: Yes, about 5 posts after this question, in fact. :)
  It is now archived in the Accumulated Rulings:
  "There are no battles at Provinces. [JA, 15 December 2004]" (Accumulated Rulings, "The First Oni (Inexperienced)")
  It was not the Designer's intent to create any other battlefields. Martin Lund, "Rules for 15 December 2004", 22 Dec 2004
• Q: But The First Oni inexp does not say that battles do not occur at the defenders provinces and he does not say that personalities other than The First Oni himeself and his target cannot assign to those provinces, so...
  1) Can you and the defender assign other personalities to attack and defend the defender's provinces?
  A: Yes. Nothing says that you can't. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 December 2004", 10 Dec 2004
• Q: 2) Can the First Oni inexp be moved into those other battles?
  A: Yes. Nothing says that he can't. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 December 2004", 10 Dec 2004
• Q: Can you grab an inexperienced personality (The First Oni) with A Time For Vengeance?
  A: No. The card must have no Experience level. Zen Faulkes, "A Time For Vengeance", 20 Dec 2005
• Q: If the The First Oni (inexp) uses his ability on a unbowed shugenja, can Shiba Danjuro jump in the way?
  Will the action become illegal if he does? (see rule below)
  Accumulated Rulings: Actions and abilities wrote:
  If one or more of an action's targets become illegal between when they are chosen and when the action begins to resolve, that action will not affect those targets. This remains true even if they become illegal, then return to being legal. [JA, 15 June 2004; 22 June 2004]
  A: Danjuro's Reaction will be the Action that has effects that fail to resolve.
  You elect to use his ability to redirect (he's currently a legal target to redirect to). You bow him (he's no longer a legal target to redirect to). You try to resolve the effect. You can't redirect to an illegal target (bowed Danjuro) according to Page 74 of the Diamond Edition Rulebook, so that effect (redirection) is Negated.
  When page 74 talks about "something else it could have targeted originally," it does not mean that you look back in time to find all the cards that could have been chosen then. It means you use the same requirements for targeting that existed back then on the cards as they exist right now.
  Next player gets an opportunity to React to the First Oni's ability.
  All players pass on Reactions.
  The First Oni gleefully eats your Shugenja while Danjuro falls flat on his face. Martin Lund, "First Oni and Danjuro", 5 Mar 2005