Bayushi Tai

Legend of the Five Rings card from Heaven & Earth

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

8

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Scorpion

Keywords

Unique, Experienced, Samurai, Scorpion Clan, Spy

Card Text

Tireless Battle: Create a 0F/1C/0PH Personality in Tai's army. Move Tai home. When the battle ends, remove the created Personality from the game.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hi all,
  Just got back from playing in the Wrath pre-release, and I had some questions regarding the changes made to tokens.
  for those who don't have a copy, here's the text:
  /start quote
  Tokens (p71)
  This section has been greatly expanded.
  The second paragraph should read "some effects create Follower tokens, or Item tokens, or Personality tokens. Any token that matches a card type (see p 59-61) is considered a card in every way as well as a token. Other kinds, such as Weapon or Fire tokens, are tokens only."
  Any card or action that creates a token is considered just as much the source of all the token's immediate effects as the token itself is. For example, an action that creates a +1F token on a Personality is treated as an action that creates a Force bonus.
  Only cards can bow. Pure tokens cannot bow, including to pay costs. Things that count as both tokens and cards follow the rules for cards.
  /end quote
  This seems to clear up a few problems with token personalities (Essence of Gaki-Do, Bayushi Tai XP), who couldn't be bowed by other players card effects.
  My problem is with the statement: "Other kinds, such as Weapon or Fire tokens, are tokens only."
  Unless I missed something, a Weapon token is an Item that is attached to a personality, not something like a Spirit, Poison, Aura, Fire or unnamed (eg -1 chi) token, that is not attached but is a permenant change that goes away if they hit the discard pile :)
  A: You've missed something. "Weapon" is not a card type. It is a trait. Being a Weapon does not automatically make something an Item.
  If a token counts as an Item, it will be both a token and a card regardless of what traits it has. Martin Lund, "Rules for 22-25 August 2004", 30 Aug 2004
• Q: I was just wondering if the token Bayushi Tai creates can be destroyed to pay the cost for using Overwhelmed.
  A: No. Jeff's already addressed this one. Here is the archived ruling:
  "From: Jeff Alexander <jalexander@alderac.com> Subj: Re: [L5R-CCG] Tokens and Bowing Extension
  Non-card tokens are neither bowed nor unbowed. A pure token Personality cannot be destroyed to pay for Overwhelmed." Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 June 2004", 10 Jun 2004
• Q: - he's [Emerald Champion] considered to have an HR of 0
  Now imagine the same situation with Bayushi Tai Exp's personality token. What are the missing stats of an Egg copying the token ?
  A: Zero. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 11 April 2003", 12 Apr 2003