Torii Tattoo

Legend of the Five Rings card from The War of Spirits

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Tattoo

Card Text

Limited: Choose your performing unbowed Tattooed Personality who has not performed a copy of this action this game: Permanently give him the ability, "Reaction: Any number of times per turn, but only once per duel, before this Personality enters a duel: All other Reactions taken from now until the duel ends have their effects negated."

Focus Value

3

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• If a Personality with this tattoo uses it during a duel he or she entered via He's Mine!, He's Mine! is canceled, causing the Personality not to enter the duel or bow, while the Personality originally in the duel stays bowed. [JA, 13 March 2002] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 37

Rules Q&A

• Q: Torii Tattoo
  A: Untargeted by rule #3. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 August 2002", 23 Aug 2002
• Q: If your Samurai (the one who entered the duel via He's Mine!) has a Torii Tattoo and used its ability to cancel all other reactions, would the He's Mine! be canceled? Or does the Torii Tattoo only cancel reactions that have not happened yet?
  A: It would cancel He's Mine! too, since that was a Reaction played during the duel (by virtue of its wording: it's played when a Personality enters a duel, ergo the duel is underway). All effects of He's Mine! which have not yet resolved don't happen, so the new Personality does not enter the duel and does not bow when the duel ends, but the bowing of the Personality you already have in the duel already happened and does not get undone. Jeff Alexander, "post for 13 March 2002", 14 Mar 2002
• Q: Does Torii Tattoo prevent actions from cancelling duels. The tattoo says it activates before the personality enters a duel. Not "during the duel" as far as I understand it. Any help would be appreciated.
  Type Action Title Torii Tattoo Rarity/Edition C Spirit Wars Text Limited: Target one of your Personalites with the Tattooed trait and without a Torii Tattoo. For the rest of the game, the personality has a Torii Tatoo and gains the ability. "Reaction: Immediatley before this personality enters a duel, automatically cancel all other Reactions until this duel ends."
  A: Reactions to the challenge or to the action creating the challenge will still be played before Torii Tattoo can be used, since those events happen chronologically before the duel begins, and hence long before your duelist enters it. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 February 2002", 23 Feb 2002