The Sight of Death

Legend of the Five Rings card from Pearl Edition, Jade Edition, Time of the Void

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho

Card Text

Limited: Bow your performing Monk or Shugenja and target your Personality with equal or less Chi: Until your next turn begins, after the next time this Personality is destroyed, if it was not the result of your own card's effect, return him to play in your home, bowed, ignoring costs.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "The Sight of Death 0G 1FV Kiho Limited: Bow one of your Shugenja or Monks and target one of your Personalities with a Chi less than or equal to that of the caster. Until the beginning of your next turn, the first time this Personality is destroyed, he or she is returned to play in your fief bowed, immediately afterwards. This does not protect a Personality who is destroyed by a card effect on one of your cards." [MRP, Pearl Edition; DW, 2/3/98] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 59
• The stipulations that "your" cards will still kill the target and that he'll return to "your" fief are set when the kiho is cast and do not change if the Personality changes control. [DW, email, 19 February 1998] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 59
• Will only return the Personality to play once. [DW, l5rinfo, 2/3/98] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 55
• Clarified: Will only return the Personality from death once. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 6
• Focus on... Shoju Sensei: "No player can achieve an Honor Victory while the Personality remains in play." The important word here is "remains." The effect only lasts as long as the targeted Personality stays continuously on the table. It ends as soon as the Personality leaves and does not resume if the Personality comes back. Feign Death, The Sight of Death, and the Crane Tattoo all return a Personality to play immediately after death; none of these cards preserve Shoju Sensei's effect. Shoju Sensei does not actually remove any individual player's Honor Victory option. It will not force everyone to lose a Province to The Return of Fu Leng, for example. Dave Williams explains. "The Return of Fu Leng is about whether you are allowed to achieve an Honor Victory ever. If you give up the ability to achieve an Honor Victory to avoid losing a Province, you turn off the power to the "I win by Honor" switch. You will never be allowed to achieve an Honor Victory. Shoju Sensei, on the other hand, says that while the target Personality is in play, you can't achieve an Honor Victory. That means that whether or not you are allowed to achieve an Honor Victory, you have to get rid of the Personality if you really want to do it. To follow the "switch" analogy, there's now a cover on the switch that you have to lift in order to flip the switch and win the game (assuming that there is power to the switch)." Shoju Sensei does not prohibit canceling an action that targets the crucial Personality. As with Kaede Sensei, Shoju Sensei's effect continues if the card gets destroyed or discarded but becomes suppressed if it's temporarily prevented from affecting play. The Imperial Herald, Issue 12, p. 33