The White Guard
Legend of the Five Rings card from Heaven & Earth, Ivory Edition, Promotional–Ivory
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Follower
- Force
- 3
- Chi
- 0
- Gold Cost
- 7
- Keywords
- Cavalry
- Card Text
- Battle: Fear 4 that cannot target a Cavalry card (Bow a target enemy Follower, or Personality without Followers, with 4 or lower Force).
- Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Heaven & Earth
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Like the Moto of old, these savages cover themselves in the color of bones and death. To many, they are death." - Bayushi Norachai
- Artist
- Carl Frank
- Card Number
- 127
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Ivory Edition
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- They dress in the colors and symbols of death, howling the names of the Gods of Death. Thundering across the battlefield thus, even the sturdiest soul is given pause.
- Artist
- Carl Frank
- Card Number
- 214
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Promotional–Ivory
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- They dress in the colors and symbols of death, howling the names of the Gods of Death. Thundering across the battlefield thus, even the sturdiest soul is given pause.
- Artist
- Carl Frank
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I'm thinking of making a tsuno deck. My question is this: I have a Tsuno Kira, I have The White Guard, I am using The Shadowlands Horde as my stronghold. Since Kira's ability lowers the honor cost and gives shadowlands to the White Guard, can I use my stronghold to lower the gold cost of the White Guard?
A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 24 April 2003", 25 Apr 2003 - Q: The White Guard's Fear effect may only target Infantry cards. Personalities and Followers without the Cavalry Trait are considered to be infantry. Or does this Follower specifically refer to "Infantry" by means of the Foo rule? Because it could easily be read as either (kind of like Dragon/Dragon Clan). I will assume that it is referring to cards which are "Infantry" via the Foo rule (rather than merely lacking the Cavalry Trait), because the word Infantry is capitalized, rather than lowercase. Which is it?
A: "Infantry" is a game term with a definition. [GE pp. 51 & 73] When a word has a definition, keywords don't matter. [p. 33] Capital letters don't change anything. A card like "Mounted Infantry" is not an infantry card and will not be bowed by White Guard. Jeff Alexander, "post for 2 April 2003", 4 Apr 2003