The Utaku Palaces

Card Type: Stronghold
Province Strength: 5
Gold Production: 5
Starting Family Honor: 5
Clan: Unicorn
Card Text: Your Magistrate Personalities and Magistrate Followers enter play for you for 1 less Gold.
Tireless Reaction: After another player declares an attack with you as the Defender, straighten your target Personality's Cavalry unit.
Legality: Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)
Deck: Pre-Game

Printings

Erratum: Reads, "The Utaku Palaces 5PS 5GP 5FH Magistrate Personalities and Magistrate Followers cost 1 less Gold for you. Reaction: Once per turn, after another player declares an attack on you, straighten all cards in one of your Cavalry units. You can do this even if the Utaku Palaces are bowed." [MRP, Gold Edition, 1 July 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 153
Erratum: Renamed from "The Otaku Palaces." [MRP, Gold Edition, 1 July 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 153
Discount applies to Magistrates you own. [JA, 9 September 2002] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 153

Q: - Does the "Utaku Palaces" unbow ability works in an "Ambush" ?
A: Yes. There is a declaration step to the Ambush attack phase, but Ambush handles it all by itself. You can still use Reactions to things that happen in that timeframe. Vaughn Derderian, "Post for June 19, 2003", 19 Jun 2003
Q: My opponent reveals Peasant Revolt in his turn: Peasant Revolt Each Personality and Follower with over 2 Force bows. No Personality or Follower with over 2 Force can straighten before your next turn
I am playing Utaku palaces: Magistrate Personalities and Magistrate Followers cost 1 less Gold for you. Reaction: Once per turn, after another player declares an attack on you, straighten all cards in one of your Cavalry units. You can do this even if the Utaku Palaces are bowed.
1. Can I unbow a Personality with over 2 force with the reaction?
A: No. Peasant Revolt prevents straightening for one long, continuous stretch of time, not just during the Straighten Phase. Jeff Alexander, "post for 7 January 2003", 8 Jan 2003
Q: Also, another quick question. When is a magistrates gold cost changed in the Utaku Palaces?
A: By its wording, continually. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 17 September 2001", 18 Sep 2001