The Student
Legend of the Five Rings card from Death at Koten
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 2
- Honor Requirement
- 1
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Personal Honor
- 2
- Clan
- Scorpion
- Keywords
- Samurai, Scorpion Clan, Student
- Card Text
- The Student has +1F while The Sensei is in play.
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Death at Koten
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "First I shall learn how an honorable samurai must act, and then I shall learn how I must act."
- Artist
- IFS
- Card Number
- 33
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I searched the Rulings and went through the Comprehensive Rules, but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant to this question. The Student says:
The Student has +1F while you control The Sensei.
In a recent game, we assumed that this means that each copy of The Student you have in play gains +1F if you control any number of copies of The Sensei i.e. his force would always be 3F. However, we had some discussion about the possibility that The Student could gain +1F for EACH copy of The Sensei you control, so if you, say, control three copies of The Sensei, The Student would be 5F. We settled on the former because we assumed that if it meant "for each copy of The Sensei", that's what it would say. However, I thought it would be worth checking to confirm. Were we correct i.e. it's just +1F for any number of copies of The Sensei you control and not +1F for each?
Thanks.
A: The force bonus is +1F regardless of how many "The Sensei" cards you control, as long as that number is greater than zero. Dan Jacobson, "The Student and his Force Bonus from The Sensei", 8 Jun 2009