Togashi Kazuki

Legend of the Five Rings card from Path of the Destroyer

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

9

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Dragon

Keywords

Unique, Dragon Clan, Experienced, Monk, Samurai, Tattooed, Yojimbo

Card Text

Open: Target a Personality: Set his Force equal to Kazuki's.
Reaction: When another player's action would target a Personality in Kazuki's army, discard a Ring from your hand or bow one of your Rings: The action targets another legal Personality in his army instead.

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2008 The Imperial Yojimbo II - Mike Petke

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: How does the interaction between Kazuki's open ability (Open: Set a target Personality's Force equal to Kazuki's.) and Tsukimi's trait (Your Samurai at Tsukimi's location have a Force bonus equal to the highest Chi of any Shugenja you control.) work?
  Let's say I control both of them and a chi 3 shugenja. If I use Kazuki's ability on either of himself or Tsukimi does their force become 8 (Kazuki's base 5 plus 3 for the shugenja's chi) or 11 (Kazuki's base current force before the ability is used plus an addition three from the shugenja.)?
  Thanks
  A: In your scenario, after using Kazuki's ability on any Samurai target, the target's Force would be 8.
  Tsukimi's continuous bonus, or any pre-existing bonus, is not re-added after changing someone's current Force. It is factored into the change beforehand. "Setting" to a value is just giving a new appropriate bonus or penalty in order to reach the value. Let's say you target a Samurai with a base 3F with Kazuki's ability in your example. The Samurai's current Force before that is 6F (3F + 3F from Tsukimi's trait). Kazuki's ability would then give him +2F, in order for his Force to become 8 and match Kazuki. Brook Cunningham, "Shiba Tsukimi and Togashi Kazuki", 31 Jul 2010
• Q: I did a search on this topic and found some things that seem like answers, but I'd like some explicit clarification. Togashi Shintaro has a base force of 0 and 3 +1F Fire tokens. If Togashi Kazuki EXP uses his Open action, does Shintaro's force go to 5 or to 8? Basically, does Kazuki already "see" the force bonus from the fire tokens?
  Togashi Shintaro 0/3 3/6/2 Dragon Clan * Fire * Monk * Tattooed After Shintaro Enters play: Give him three +1F Fire Tokens. BATTLE: Destroy a fire token on Shintaro: Range 3 Attack
  Togashi Kazuki 5/4 0/9/2 Dragon Clan * Monk * Samurai * Tattooed * Yojimbo * Experienced * Unique Open: Set a target personality's force equal to Kazuki's. Reaction: When another player would target a personality in Kazuki's army, discard a ring from your hand or bow one of your rings: The action targets another personality in his army.
  A: 5.
  http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Card_features#Calculating_stats: "The game always checks a stat's current value(.)"
  http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Card_features#S ... to_a_value: "To set a stat to a value, give it the smallest possible appropriate bonus or penalty such that it reaches that value."
  Here, a 0F/3C Personality has a +3F tokens. An effect sets the Personality's Force to 5. The Personality's Force gains +2F to go to 5. Because the token's bonuses are already part of the Force stat, it is not reapplied. Zen Faulkes, "Togashi Kazuki and Togashi Shintaro", 19 Dec 2009