Bayushi Kaukatsu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Khan's Defiance, Samurai Edition Banzai

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

9

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Scorpion

Keywords

Experienced 2, Unique, Courtier, Imperial, Imperial Chancellor, Scorpion Clan

Card Text

Kaukatsu's abilities cannot be copied.
After another player's action targets Kaukatsu, the player targets one of his honorable Personalities. Dishonor him.
Political Limited: Target a dishonorable Personality. His controller loses 3 Honor, then targets one of his honorable Personalities. Dishonor him.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I have Shosuro Jimen in play. My opponent declares an attack on my last 3 provinces with one personality per province. Having only Jimen and Bayushi Kaukatsu in play, I defend only 2 provinces. My opponent resolves the undefended province and used Rapid Deployment(or any action that would move the personalities out) and moves the other 2 personalities to his location and ,thus, successfully destroying the province.
  Can Shosuro Jimen dishonor one of the personality that moved to the undefended province?
  A: No.
  After the first battle, those Personalities did not oppose your Personalities "in the battle", so there is no trigger for Jimen after it resolves.
  After Jimen and Kaukatsu's battles, though the Personalities opposed them at some time between Maneuvers and their leaving during the first battle, they never opposed them IN THOSE BATTLES (which start when the attacker chooses to resolve them, after he resolved the first), so there is no legal trigger for Jimen then either.
  EDIT: This ruling is (Fixed) from how it first appeared. Brook Cunningham, "Shosuro Jimen(non exp) trigger to opposed", 6 Mar 2009
• Q: Bayushi Paneki x4 and Bayushi Kaukatsu x2 are triggered traits
  A: That's completely true. Paneki is not an appropriate example as he does not modify an Action's effects or costs at all. I've amended that statement. However, there are effects like those of the Crab's Strength, Kuni Daigo, or Shosuro Kamatari that all add additional costs to actions when you play them. Cards like "Deeds, Not Words" similarly add additional effects to actions whenever they resolve. You don't take any those additional costs or effects into consideration when you look for a card in a hand or discard pile with that particular cost or effect due to Blind Cards. Martin Lund, "Lies, Lies, Lies... + Spider's Lair", 1 May 2008