The Tale of Tsukuro

Legend of the Five Rings card from Words and Deeds

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

Limited: Target your Personality. Lose 8 Honor. Permanently give the target Shadowlands and the ability, "Battle: Target one or more of your Shadowlands Personalities at any location. Move them to the current battlefield. This ability has Absent and Remote if this Personality targets himself."

Focus Value

4

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Erratum

Second colon in the ability removed via internet erratum.

Deck

Fate

Story

2006 Winner's Choice 2: Long Island - Chris Batson

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "The Tale of Tsukuro 0G 4FV Unique. Limited: Lose 8 Honor. Your target Personality permanently gains Shadowlands and the ability, "Battle: Move one or more of your target Shadowlands Personalities to the current battlefield." " [Minor correction, 1 May 2008; comma substituted for misprinted colon] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 163

Rules Q&A

• Q: I have 3 shadowlands personalities in play. One of them has the Tale of Tsukuro ability. I declare an attack. I didn't assign anybody. Resolved the battle in an undefended province. Can I move either/both of the 2 shadowlands personalities that doesn't have the Tale of Tsukuro ability and have the shadowlands personality with the Tale of Tsukuro ability just stay home(?)
  A: No.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Battles#Combat_Segment: "If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield in order to take that action." The ability is on the Personality.
  "EXCEPTION: A Battle Action can target or be taken by a card in a unit at another location if its costs or effects say they can move the unit to the current battlefield. Choices within the action must then be taken, if possible, such that they do move the unit there." So it can be initiated at home, but the Personality can't stay there. Zen Faulkes, "The Tale of Tsukuro movement", 3 Aug 2008
• Q: Can I seppuku the Samurai/Courtier I target with the Tale of Tsukuro?
  A: Using the default rulebook action? http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_S#Seppuku: "...before you lose Honor from an action that targeted... one of your Courtier or Samurai Personalities..."
  The Tale of Tsukuro targets. Yes. Zen Faulkes, "The Tale of Tsukuro and Seppuku", 15 Jun 2008
• Q: The Tale of Tsukuro (R) Cost: 0; Focus: 4. Unique. Limited: Lose 8 Honor. Your target Personality permanently gains Shadowlands and the ability: “Battle: Move one or more of your target Shadowlands Personalities to the current battlefield.”
  Note that the underlined part is between the first colon (after the designator) and the second colon. This is what the rules define as "constraints block".
  Constraints block
  1. In an action, text between the two colons (that is, between the designator and the effects block) that can include conditions, costs, some (but not necessarily all) targeting, and triggers.
  That means that the costs of The Tale of Tsukuro are: -Losing 8 Honor -Giving Shadowlands permanently to a target personality -Giving an ability permanently to that target
  Is that correct?
  EDIT Note: Please let me point that other cards that grant abilities to other cards use commas to separate the granted ability from the rest of the text. See Arrival of the Obsidian Champion as an example of this.
  A: We had you covered 21 days ago, my friend.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Rulings_T#The_Tale_of_Tsukuro "Reads, "The Tale of Tsukuro 0G 4FV Unique. Limited: Lose 8 Honor. Your target Personality permanently gains Shadowlands and the ability, "Battle: Move one or more of your target Shadowlands Personalities to the current battlefield." " [Minor correction, 1 May 2008; comma substituted for misprinted colon]" Brook Cunningham, "The Tale of Tsukuro", 22 May 2008