Toritaka Chokichi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Forgotten Legacy

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Crab

Keywords

Crab Clan, Samurai, Scout

Card Text

Battle: Bow your performing Follower: Ranged 4 Attack which may target a Personality with attached Followers if you have Reconnaissance.

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Can the extra ranged attacks from Koshin Keep target through followers if the first shot is by Toritaka's ability?
  The scenario:
  1. Koshin Keep Recon Reaction. 2. Toritaka uses her ability and a ranged attack is made against a personality with attached followers, but does not kill him.
  Can the "and you may take an additional Ranged Attack Battle action that may only target the same card" allow other ranged attacks in her army to attack the personality, or is she SOL because other ranged attacks would need to target the followers?
  A: As was ruled here with Strategic Strike, the follow-up Ranged Attacks from Koshin Keep do not inherit an special targeting allowances from the initial Ranged Attack.
  In your example, you would need to follow up with another Ranged Attack that could target the Personality past their Follower, either with another copy of Chokichi or a Strategic Strike. Ben Higgins, "Koshin Keep and Toritaka Chokichi", 26 Apr 2012
• Q: Hi there,
  A quick question about who performs an action, if the personality or a follower. The cards involved: Toritaka Chokichi: "Battle: Bow your performing Follower: Ranged 4 Attack which may target a Personality with attached Followers if you have Reconaissance." Iron Will: "Reaction: After another player targets your Paragon with a Battle action performed by a Personality with lower Personal Honor: The action's costs are ignored and its effects are negated. That player may take an additional Battle action." Overpowering Assault:Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Commander and bow his performing Follower: Destroy a target enemy card without attachments.
  1) Toritaka Chokichi uses his printed battle against a Paragon with higher personal honor. Who is performing the action, Chokichi or the follower? Can I cancelt it with Iron Will? 2) A commander uses Overpowering Assault against a Paragon with higher ph. Again, who is performing? The card says that both the commander and the follower are performing.
  Thanks a lot!
  A: 1. Per the rules on performed actions, any ability printed on a Personality is performed by that Personality. Chokichi is performing the action, and so is the Follower, since the Chokichi's text states that the Follower is performing.
  2. In this case, the Commander is performing, and again, so is the Follower, per the text of Overpowering Assault.
  And, to answer the second half of question 1 in regard to both actions:
  In both cases, Iron Will is legal to play assuming the action targeted Paragon with higher Personal Honor than the performing Personality. Brook Cunningham, "Iron Will vs Toritaka Chokichi / Overpowering Assault", 18 Sep 2011