Toturi Koshei
Legend of the Five Rings card from Dark Allies
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 2
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- 3
- Gold Cost
- 6
- Personal Honor
- 2
- Clan
- Unaligned
- Keywords
- Bodyguard, Samurai
- Card Text
- Reaction: After a Personality challenges one of yours: Bow the challenger.
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Dark Allies
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Yokubo slew Ryoma and took my lord's mask, but he will have the final victory."
- Artist
- Jason Engle
- Card Number
- 137
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I have a question about Toturi Koshei in regards to bowed personalities and Force.
If one of your personalities is challenged to a test of might, and you use Koshei's reaction, is the challenging personality's force automaticallly zero because he is bowed?
A: No. [DA rulebook p. 55]
This is how I'm going to expand upon it in the upcoming FAQ:
Q: My opponent has an 8 Force samurai in a battle against me. Can I kill him with a strength 2 ranged attack? I think I can. His Force is 0 when he's bowed.
A: You can't. As an individual card, his Force is still 8. The Force total of his unit -- and the Force that that unit adds to its army -- is 0.
Even when a unit is just one Personality card with nothing attached, there's still a distinction between individual card Force and total unit Force. Some card and game effects, like To Do What We Must and the Resolution Step at the end of a battle, care about one, and some, like Test of Might and ranged attacks, care about the other. You need to read the card or the rulebook carefully and decide which kind of Force it refers to. A ranged attack below strength 8 won't kill that samurai. Jeff Alexander, "post for 10 April 2002", 11 Apr 2002