Uso Sensei

Legend of the Five Rings card from Web of Lies

Card Type

Sensei

Province Strength

+0

Gold Production

+0

Starting Family Honor

+0

Keywords

Dragon Clan

Card Text

Your Personalities may not issue challenges during your Action Phase.
Actions that create duels during a battle, if your Personality is the challenger, have the additional effect, "Destroy the loser."

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Pre-Game

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: That makes no sense. The guy can't die twice first of all. When guys die they die.
  A: Unless their dying gets stopped by Golden Obi of the Sun Goddess, or Iron Pillar, or they get brough back to life with "Feign Death." Martin Lund, "Rules for 31 January 2005", 4 Feb 2005
• Q: Also, how does the timing work here? I mean, Uso Sensei is a trait, not an action, so wouldn't the two deaths happen at the same time, And therefore allowing you to FD the second one?
  A: Get to know the Accumulated Rulings:
  "If an effect creates additional results for winning or losing a duel (e.g., Uso Sensei): - Multiple results apply in the order they're written. [JA, email, 9 December 2004] - If another result of winning or losing is added, it is appended to the ones that already exist (if any). [JA, email, 9 December 2004]" (Accumulated Rulings, "Duels")
  Appended means "added on to the end of the list." Martin Lund, "Rules for 31 January 2005", 4 Feb 2005
• Q: Option 1: You die once, due to the duel's text. You play FD. You die again, due to Uso's text. End result: You are dead.
  This is right, the key is that Uso Sensei says that the duel kills as an "additional" effect. So it kills once as a result of the duel, then it kills again from Uso Sensei.
  A: Very, very close. It kills once as a result of the duel, then it kills again as another result of the duel. (Subtle point, but the added destruction is an effect of the duel and not an effect of Uso Sensei, by the Sensei's own text.) Martin Lund, "Rules for 28 January 2004", 4 Feb 2005
• Q: Someone told me that when you do Uso Sensei with a duel that's already lethal, it actually kills you twice, making stuff like Feign Death useless. Is that right? If it is, I don't see the logic behind it.
  A: There is no logic behind it from a Story perspective. Martin Lund, "Rules for 26 and 27 January 2005", 3 Feb 2005
• Q: From a rules perspective, the logic is very simple: Uso Sensei adds, "Destroy the loser" to the other results of a duel, and the various results of losing the duel resolve sequentially, with the added effects tacked onto the end.
  A: So, if you play Steel on Steel, which already has an effect to destroy the loser, you'll add an additional effect on the end with Uso Sensei, causing two sequential effects that both destroy the loser. Martin Lund, "Rules for 26 and 27 January 2005", 3 Feb 2005
• Q: 3. Uso Sensei and Explored Territory. I just want to confirm this, because I'm fairly sure of my understanding here: Uso Sensei adds a card Effect to duels that reads "Destroy the loser", yes? which means that with Explored Territory in play, a Test of Might would result in a bowed loser and a destroyed Explored Territory, yes? Provided, of course, that the player chose to use the available Reaction...
  A: The Reaction on Explored Territory des not destroy Explored Territory.
  However, yes, you can choose to Negate the destruction of the loser, and all other effects of the duel resolve normally (gain 2 honor, bow the loser). Martin Lund, "Rules for 21 January 2005", 24 Jan 2005
• Q: Let's say I have a personality with 2 PH. My opponent, playing Uso Sensei, has just killed him with Steel on Steel. I play two Feign Deaths to save my peep. How much honor do I lose if the personality was honorable before he died the first time? 4 or 6?
  A: We'll just walk through the effects one at a time.
  Duel Resolution starts.
  The first "Destroy the Loser" effect resolves.
  --> Respond with Feign Death
  --> Return the Personality
  --> Dishonor the Personality
  --> Lose 2 Honor
  The second "Destroy the Loser" effect resolves.
  --> Lose 2 Honor for Dishonorable Death
  --> Respond with Feign Death
  --> Return the Personality
  --> Dishonor the Personality (Fails)
  --> Lose 2 Honor
  Total loss = 6 Honor Martin Lund, "Feign Death/Uso Sensei Question", 11 Apr 2005
• Q: Can a dragon personnality [controlled by an Uso Sensei player - ZF] targeted by the Temple of the Ninth Kami issue the duel or does he become dishonored?
  A: It can be issued, because Temple of the Ninth Kami does not force your Samurai to issue a challenge during your Action Phase. It's the Shadowlands player's Action Phase. Zen Faulkes, "Uso Sensei vs. Temple of the Ninth Kami", 17 Mar 2005