Tsunami

Legend of the Five Rings card from Crimson and Jade

Card Type

Event

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

Each player has one of his Ports, Pearl Beds, Trading Ports, and Pearl Divers destroyed.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: This Terrain gives -1F to all infantry cards. It's straightforward for Personalities and Followers, but what about other type of cards, like items (weapons or armors, usually) or spells (like Strenght of the Tsunami)? Would a Cavalry Personality with a weapon get a 0 bonus from this terrain (+1F on the peep, -1F on the weapon = 0)?
  Thank you.
  A: No, by definition, only Personalities and Followers are "Infantry" (see here). Brook Cunningham, "Shiotome Plains and "cards"", 29 Mar 2012
• Q: I just hit what seems to be a contradiction that I'd like clarification.
  ruled: attachment that gives a stat bonus, the value of the bonus is considered to be the value of the stat. example: A follower with a chi bonus counts as having a chi stat. http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=96971
  ok, granted... this isn't a rules junta quote, but its Bryan Reese... I feel like he kinda counts when it comes to rules. ("Lead Designer" on the 1st non-cover page of the rulebook says to me he wrote the rules and is the ultimate authority)
  ruled: raising sun blade can destroy a strength of the tsunami because a strength of the tsunami has no force in spite of its force bonus. (both have a force bonus of 6 and would count as a 6 force attachment by the above ruling) http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=93733&p=1244902&hilit=tsunami+force#p1244902
  Backed up by rules team, though not specifically comparing a 6 force weapon to a '6 force' spell. ruled: Spells do not have a force stat. (not 'except when they have a stat bonus') http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=96800&p=1277897&hilit=spell+force#p1278006
  A: so, Hoshi house guard http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=3464 has a chi bonus when you have a ring. So a ranged attack against the house guard compares against this 2 chi bonus (when present) rather than the normal absent chi stat of 0? (I want to confirm that is in fact the 1st ruling. I know some older cards used to use a ' * ' to show variable stats, but by lotus edition's Hoshi House Guard this practice appears to have been done away with and the trait matches some of the older cards like it.)
  B: How "an attachment that gives a stat bonus" different from a spell with a force bonus? such as strength of Tsunami http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=7562. Or was Bryan Reese wrong?
  A: Strength of the Tsunami doesn't have +6 in the top left corner: as a spell it does not have a force bonus, nor a force stat.
  It does have a trait that grants a force bonus, but this is different from having a force bonus stat.
  Similarly, the Hoshi House Guard has a trait that grants a chi bonus, but its own chi bonus stat (and its chi stat) is 0. Alex Jones, "spells / attachment stat bonus", 22 Mar 2012