Togashi Dai

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Heaven's Will

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Dragon

Keywords

Dragon Clan, Monk, Tattooed

Card Text

Before you pay a cost by bowing a Ring: You may pay the cost by bowing Dai.
Battle: Give Dai a Force bonus equal to the number of Rings you control.

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Okay if I have a Togashi Dai, Togashi Kazuki, Bowed ring of void and a unbowed Harmonious temple. My opponents first action is to Unexpected Betrayal's my Togashi Dai, For my action can I use the battle action on Harmonious temple I target Kazuki and my bowed ring of void. Can Togashi Dai use his trait to pay the cost of bowing instead of void?
  A: Perform: A Personality or Follower is performing an action if its controller is the player taking the action and any of these things is true: * The action comes from an ability on the Personality or Follower. * The action comes from an ability on an Item or Spell in the Personality’s unit. * The Personality or Follower was targeted by targeting in the ability’s constraints block (between the two colons).
  This list does not include "using a trait to pay a cost of an action". Togashi Dai is not performing the action on Harmonious Temple when he bows to pay the cost. Alex Jones, "Togashi Dai and Unexpected Betrayal", 4 Dec 2008
• Q: May Togashi Dai pay the cost of bowing a Ring by bowing himself instead even if he is not at the current battlefield? Am I right in assuming he is not performing?
  A: Yes, he may do that. To elaborate a bit:
  You are right in that he is not performing the Ring's action, but that's only indirectly related to the Rule of Location. Location doesn't say "Cards not at the current battlefield cannot perform actions". It says,
  1. Any cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be legally targeted by a Battle action. 2. 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.
  Now, a Personality or Follower performs an action if it targets that card in constraints (the legality of which would be governed by part 1) or if the action is ON that card (which would be governed by part 2). Brook Cunningham, "Togashi Dai & Location", 25 Oct 2008