Tsuruchi Nobumoto

Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition, Lotus Edition, Hidden City

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Mantis

Keywords

Naval, Unique, Daimyo, Experienced, Mantis Clan, Samurai

Card Text

Open: Give Nobumoto Cavalry. Remove Naval from him.
Battle: Bow Nobumoto: Ranged 4 Attack. You may move Nobumoto home.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, “Tsuruchi Nobumoto 2F/4C 0HR 7G 2PH Mantis Clan • Daimyo • Samurai Naval • Experienced • Unique. Open: Give Nobumoto the Cavalry keyword. Remove the Naval keyword from him. Battle: Bow Nobumoto: Ranged 4 Attack. You may move this unit home.” [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 166

Rules Q&A

• Q: Here's a hypothetical situation between a bowed Mirumoto Gonkuro (Yay!!) and a bowed Tsuruchi Nobumoto (Boo!!). Gonkuro casts Strength From Weakness thanks to the Temple. Does Nobumoto straighten as well? I ask because I can think of 2 outcomes:
  A: Nobumoto does not unbow. Gonkuro is a Monk for the entire time of Casting the Kiho. Casting goes on all the way through resolving all immediate effects of the Action, so this includes the time where you would have to unbow Nobumoto if Gonkuro was not a Monk.
  "Casting" lasts until the last immediate effect concludes, and has done so since 1997 when Dave Williams ruled that Chi Bonuses for / while casting remained through the Duel generated by the Kiho "Facing Your Devils" - which remains on record in the Accumulated Rulings. Martin Lund, "Rules for 20 October 2004", 24 Oct 2004
• Q: I am a Mantis player using the Castle of the Wasp stronghold. I have an overlayed Tsuruchi Nobumoto XP in play and used his action so that he is Cavalry and he has attached a Shinjo Horsebow. The following statements are true and exhaustive to the best of my knowledge.
  A: I went through the rather exhaustive list, and everything seemed perfectly reasonable and accurate with only one caveat that I could see. Martin Lund, "Rules for 11 July 2004", 15 Jul 2004
• Q: I just want to clarify. referencing Soul of a Soul of I just wanted to clearify this specifically is in reference to where a card is the soul of a card that is the soul of another card. But not to two cards who are the soul of the same card, right? Like because since you remove "soul of Tengen" via the rules of 'soul of' they are no longer a valid soul of proxy link?
  The instance where it is different (and I care) Tsuruchi Nobumoto has "soul of Mukami" he counts as Mukami for purposes of deck construction. Tsuruchi Isas counts as Mukami for purposes of deck construction. quoted for reference
  So if Tsuruchi Nobumoto is equivalent to Mukami for purposes of deck construction, and Tsuruchi Isas is equivalent to Mukami for purposes of deck construction. So this is still good, right? or is it specifically that it must be the older proxies for the newer, not the newer proxies for the older (enabling proxy for the newer) so Nobumoto can not be a proxy for mukami for purposes of a proxy for Isas?
  A: You may only use the "Soul of" listed on a card as the proxy for that card.
  Therefore, you may use Mukami as a proxy for Tsuruchi Isas. You may not use Tsuruchi Nobumoto as a proxy for Tsuruchi Isas, as Isas is not a Soul of Tsuruchi Nobumoto. Jon Palmer, "Soul of a Soul of", 4 Jan 2012