The Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Broken Blades, Promotional–Diamond

Card Type

Stronghold

Province Strength

7

Gold Production

4

Starting Family Honor

3

Clan

Scorpion

Card Text

If you control no Shadowlands cards, you may ignore Scorpion Clan cards' Honor Requirements.
Political Tireless Reaction, w: After an action from your Political Strategy resolves, shuffle the Strategy into your Fate deck instead of discarding it. You may bow your target performing Courtier to ignore the cost of bowing this Stronghold.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Pre-Game

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "The Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro 7PS 4GP 3FH Ignore Scorpion Clan Honor requirements if you control no Shadowlands cards. Political Reaction: Once per turn, bow your Stronghold or one of your Courtiers after successfully playing a Political Action card to shuffle it into your Fate deck instead of discarding it. You may do this when your Stronghold is bowed." [MRP, Diamond Edition, 27 October 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 151

Rules Q&A

• Q: Running the Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro, it says "Ignore Scorpion clan Honor Requirements if you control no Shadowlands cards."
  does that apply also to followers as well??
  A: Yes. And if you can manage to find a Follower with the "Scorpion Clan" trait, it will even matter. Jeff Alexander, "post for 23 May 2003", 29 May 2003
• Q: The Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro says:
  Tireless Political Reaction, (bow): After an action from your Political Strategy resolves, shuffle the Strategy into your Fate deck instead of discarding it. You may bow your target performing Courtier to ignore the cost of bowing this Stronghold.
  Bayushi says:
  You may ignore the cost of bowing Bayushi for Political actions he performs.
  1) Would Bayushi be able to fulfill the conditions of the Shadowed Tower reaction without bowing?
  2) Is there more recent wording for these? If so, where would I find it? I thought that 'performing' was removed from the game. I got these wordings from the Oracle of the Void database, but if there is a more up-to-date or more official source, I would appreciate a link.
  A: 1) Yes, those cards interact the way you think.
  2) Those are the most up-to-date wordings for these cards, though admittedly the entire Oracle isn't quite Ivory-ized yet. In this case though, while performing is gone from Ivory now, it was too integral a part of the game in the past to remove from older cards, so it's preserved on such cards. The definition of "performing" will soon be added to the Legacy Format Rules (I've gotten a little behind, sorry), which besides the Oracle is needed to fully play with all older cards. Brook Cunningham, "Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro + Bayushi", 26 May 2014