Tsuruchi Hiro

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Mantis

Keywords

Unique, Experienced, Mantis Clan, Master Bowman, Samurai, Soul of Tsuruchi Experienced

Card Text

Followers attached to Hiro that can produce ranged attacks have +2 ranged attack strength.
Battle: Twice per turn: Ranged 2 Attack.
Battle: Any number of times per turn, bow Hiro: Ranged 5 Attack.

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Tsuruchi Hiro 2F/3C 0HR 7G 2PH Mantis Clan Master Bowman. Samurai. Soul of Tsuruchi. All Followers attached to Hiro that can produce Ranged Attacks have +1 Ranged Attack Strength. All other Followers attached to Hiro gain "Battle: Bow for a Ranged 1 Attack." Battle: Bow Hiro for a Ranged 4 Attack." [MRP, Winds of Change, July 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 130
• Erratum: Tsuruchi Hiro was accidentally reprinted with a Chi of 4. This is an error. His Chi is still only 3. [MRP] Legend of the Five Rings FAQ, April 26, 2004, p. 16

Rules Q&A

• Q: Player A takes a Ranged attack action from a personality that has exactly enough strength to kill an opposing personality. Let's say a Tsuruchi Hiro targets a 4 Force personality with his built in Ranged 4 attack.
  My opponent reacts with Outer Walls to reduce the strength of the attack to 2.
  Is it a legal play for me to now react to the original Ranged attack reaction with Tsuruchi technique to increase the strength of the attack to 5?
  A: Sure. Tsuruchi Technique and Outer Walls both have the same timing trigger (immediately before the Ranged Attack effect resolves), so they'll get played during the same window of Reactions, passing around the table until each player passes in a row. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 June 2004", 10 Jun 2004
• Q: Danjuro, who got turned into a shugenja. Tsuruchi Hiro.
  My opponent targets Tsuruchi Hiro with Break the Line. Can I redirect Break the Line to Danjuro?
  A: Yes. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 May 2004", 27 May 2004
• Q: I have my opportunity to play a Battle or Open action in the Battle Action Segment. I want to use an attacking Tsuruchi Hiro plus No Hiding Place to kill a Seruma in the other player's fief.
  A: [MARTY] No Hiding Place says:
  "Reaction: Play before producing a ranged attack from exactly one of your attacking cards in the current battle to target a card in the Defender’s home with that ranged attack. The ranged attack has -1 strength."
  Now, the trigger might seem to at first indicate you play this card immediately before resolving ("producing") the Ranged Attack effect of an Action. However, you'll never get that far with Tsuruchi Hiro because you'll never be able to pick Seruma as a legal target for his action and move onto this point.
  This means that in order to have No Hiding Place do its thing, you need it to resolve before you choose targets.
  Jeff Alexander wrote the following in "Rules for 4 March 2004 Martin Lund, "Rules for 29 March 2004", 31 Mar 2004