Bayushi Tsimaru

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Scorpion

Keywords

Unique, Bushi, Scorpion Clan, Soul of Abresax Experienced

Card Text

Political actions may not target Tsimaru.
Tsimaru may not perform Political actions.
Tsimaru's Followers have +1F.

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Is someone like Bayushi Tsimaru, who has the keyword 'Experienced' in his traits, but is not experienced himself, eligible to be retrieved with [Boundless Sight]?
  A: No (DE rules, pg, 51; Archive, General Rules, Soul of). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 3 November 2003, Part 2", 4 Nov 2003
• Q: Ok, in accordance with this:http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=71126
  Let's say I have the exact same situation. My opponent is attacking with Bayushi Tsimaru Experinced, who has used his ability once this turn and I defend with two personalities, X and Y. He plays sneak attack and uses his first action to bow both of my people.
  I attempt to Surprsing Resistance with personality X, and my opponent negates the cost by negating the movement of personality X. Am I now allowed to attempt to pay the cost by moving personality Y home, or is the action lost forever?
  A: Sorry, your action still fizzles.
  You've already targeted Personality X, so you must use him to pay Surprising Resistence's cost, as seen here.
  Ironically, that link actually answers your first question, too! Really, the Search function of the forum is quite useful; if I wasn't obsessed with showing off how smartsy I am, I could've linked Marty Lund's answer in the first place and saved you the trouble of following up. Sorry about that. Brook Cunningham, "Paying costs and negations", 2 Oct 2008
• Q: In reference to Marty's answer to this question about Daidoji Murasaki, Greater Sacrifice and Bayushi Tsimaru.
  After the third step described in Marty's answer ("Tsimaru negates the movement"), is it really allowed to pay the cost by destroying the targeted unbowed Samurai Personality ?
  Indeed Murasaki's Recon's text uses 'instead' which makes me wonder whether such substitution of cost can be reversed : doesn't 'instead' imply that once this alternate optional cost is chosen, it substitutes itself for the original cost, which can no longer be chosen later ?
  According to "Glossary, Instead" and the second example of substitution here, doubt consumes me so I'd like a small piece of explanation please.
  Thanks in advance.
  A: The Rules Team will have a little discussion about this.
  I do not believe the distinction between the two substitution examples accurately reflect the current templates on alternative cost-payment options. In particular, I can't find any Samurai-legal cards are printed with the phrasing closer to Example #1 than Example #2. This would make the alternative payment clauses in the costs section of the rulebook largely moot outside of Gold Production in practice. Martin Lund, "Daidoji Murasaki+Greater Sacrifice vs Bayushi Tsimaru", 21 Feb 2008
• Q: Is it possible to cancle the action by negating the movement?
  A: Which action?
  If movement is a cost, preventing movement will prevent effects. If it isn't, it won't, because effects are independent. Zen Faulkes, "Daidoji Murasaki+Greater Sacrifice vs Bayushi Tsimaru", 17 Feb 2008
• Q: What happens if I play Stay Your Blade and my opponent negates the movement?
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Abilities_and_actions#C._Pay_costs: "If paying an action’s mandatory costs is interfered with between announcing it and this step, no effects of the action resolve; the ability is considered to have been used; and the action is considered to have been taken, but not resolved." Zen Faulkes, "Stay Your Blade and Bayushi Tsimaru", 12 Aug 2007