Voitagi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Gold Edition, Training Grounds, Promotional–Diamond, Twenty Festivals, Heaven & Earth, An Oni's Fury, Wrath of the Emperor, Promotional–Twenty Festivals

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

3

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Samurai, Shadowlands, Soul of Uragirimono, Undead

Card Text

After Voitagi enters play, lose 3 Honor.
Battle: Fear 3 (Bow a target enemy Follower or Personality without Followers with 3 or lower Force).

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: 3) Player A has 2 Voitagis in Battle A, 2 Goblin Wizards in Battle B, and 1 Suiteiru no Oni in Battle C. Which of the following can Player A legally perform? a) Resolve Battle A, let Suiteiru eat one Voitagi and give the tokens to the other Voitagi.
  A: Sure. You've got Presence and Relevance in the current Battle. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 and 25 October 2004", 27 Oct 2004
• Q: b) Resolve Battle A, let Suiteiru eat one Voitagi and give the tokens to a Goblin Wizard or to Suiteiru himself.
  A: Sure. You've still got Presence and Relevance. Targeting someone to eat them is enough to meet Relevance. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 and 25 October 2004", 27 Oct 2004
• Q: c) Resolve Battle A, let Suiteiru eat one Goblin Wizard and give the tokens to a Voitagi.
  A: Yes again. Targeting Voitagi to give him tokens meets Relevance, as does creating Tokens in the current battle. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 and 25 October 2004", 27 Oct 2004
• Q: d) Resolve Battle A, let Suiteiru eat one Voitagi and give the tokens to a Goblin Wizard or to Suiteiru himself.
  A: Is this a trick question? It is the same as question "b." The answer is the same. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 and 25 October 2004", 27 Oct 2004
• Q: The Shadowlands player drops Brutal Confrontation. He then attempts to bow Voitagi to have Iuchiban issue an unrefusable challenge. The Unicorn player says that the bowing Personality is the one doing the challenge. The disagreement gets a judge to come over and it was ruled that the bowing Personality issues the challenge by implication. The Shadowlands player is asking for clarification:
  A: The ability in question, granted by Brutal Confrontation reads, "Battle: Bow one of your Personalities to challenge an opposing Personality to an unrefusable duel of Force or Chi."
  Only one Personality is specified under the ability. The ability does not reference any of your other Personalities, so that Personality has to be the one doing the challenging and the cost payment. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 October 2004", 11 Oct 2004
• Q: Can Imperial Messenger be used to increase the honor loss from bringing Voitagi (or similar personality with honor-losing entering play effects) into play?
  A: Yes. Martin Lund, "Rules for 11 June 2004", 14 Jun 2004
• Q: 1. Players A's army which consists of an Ashura and a Voitagi opposes player Z 's army which consists of a bowed Ashura and a bowed Votagi. Now we got to resoulution. When player Z's Ashura is destroyed by resolution. Player Z targets player A's Ashura with his Ashura's effect. What happens now? Is players Z's Votagi a legal target for player A's Ashura or must player A destroy his own Votagi?
  A: He's got to destroy his own Voitagi, since it is the only one still in play. Battle Resolution will destroy the losing Ashura and Voitagi at the same time, so neither will be valid choices for a retaliatory Ashura effect. Martin Lund, "Rules for 3 June 2004", 6 Jun 2004
• Q: Player A is doing corrupt Crane with Pulse of the Black River active and an Ashura attacking Player B's province, or ambushing, or whatever.
  Player B is also doing the corruption love with a Voitagi with Bloodstained Peasents attatched (5 force Unit).
  Player A has Ashura "do what he must" and blows him up (with To Do What we Must). Ashura's trait kicks in and destroys Bloodstained Peasents (or some other legal target... I think), then TDWWM resolves to kill the remaining Voitagi...
  The question is, how much Honor does Player A get from Pulse?
  A: 4 Honor. He destroyed Ashura and Voitagi with an Action. Martin Lund, "Rules for 31 May 2004", 2 Jun 2004
• Q: Doesn't that mean that if Voitagi challenges a samurai, he gets +1/+1, if he challenges a Shadowlands Personality, he gets +1PH, and if he challenges a shadowlands samurai, you choose which one to get?
  A: And here we have an object lesson in what happens when you make a ruling without reading the cards. :( I forgot what rewards For the Empire gives...
  The above is correct. Sorry for the confusion. At least I pointed people towards the correct source... Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 20 April 2003, Part 2", 20 Apr 2003
• Q: If I used Iaijtusu Duel to destroy Voitagi with two Skeletal Troops on it, do I get credit for destroying the Skeletal Troops (so 6 honor and taint 3?).
  A: No. Jeff Alexander, "post for 25 March 2003", 26 Mar 2003
• Q: Hi there, just a quick question for Jeff.
  I am playing out of Kyuden Doji and I have a Voitagi and another samurai in play. I use For the Empire to initiate a duel between my Voitagi and my opponents samurai.
  If I replace Voitagi with my non-shadowlands samurai, which of the winning benefits go I gain??
  a) My non-shadowlands samurai won the duel therefore I gain 3 honor and +1 ph.
  or b) Voitagi initiated the duel therefore I get +1f +1c.
  A: c) Neither the Shadowlands Personality nor the Samurai originally targeted won the duel, so there is no reward. The loser still dies. Jeff Alexander, "post for 7 March 2003", 8 Mar 2003
• Q: As you're bringing Voitagi (or other samuri who causes you an honour loss as you use an ability or bring them out) out, can you seppeku him in order to reduce the honour loss of bringing him out to zero?
  A: No, because he's not taking an action, being targeted by an action, or making a decision. [GE p. 65] (Point of Information: this would reduce the loss to 1, not 0, if it were allowed.)
  You can, however, play Honorable Seppuku to reduce it to 0 and gain 0 (his Personal Honor). Jeff Alexander, "post for 21 November 2002", 22 Nov 2002
• Q: If I have medium infantry attached to Kitsune Ryukan and a Voitagi bows out the medium infantry with it's fear 3 effect, can I still use Ryukan's battle action to copy the force of the medium infantry as a force bonus?
  A: Yes. He will gain +3F (assuming normal Medium Infantry stats). Jeff Alexander, "post for 15 February 2002", 16 Feb 2002
• Q: I'd like to make an appeal argument regarding the ruling on Honored Sensei:
  viewtopic.php?f=59&t=113343
  Although Voitagi is a Shadowlands personaility, he is a Human personaility, since he lacks the "nonhuman" keyword.
  Honored Sensei specifically states the bonus is garnered from a "non-Shadowlands Naga or Human personality". Voitagi meets the latter requirements of being a Human personality.
  There is no restriction of "non-shadowlands personality", nor is there any comma separating the designations "non-shadowlands" and "naga". Therefore, the plain text on the card should be interpreted as such.
  If this was not the intent, please issue an errata to cease further confusion.
  A: The distributivity rules for adjectives and conjunctions have not changed in a very long time.
  On Honored Sensei, "non-Shadowlands" applies to both Naga and Human Personalities. Alex Jones, "Honored Sensei + Voitagi", 10 Apr 2015
• Q: Was wondering if the +1 gold production granted from Honored Sensei can be used to purchase Voitagi.
  Honored Sensei
  This specifically says "non-Shadowlands Naga or Human Personality", which is different than "non-Shadowlands, Naga, or Human Personality"
  Voitagi was ruled as being a Human Personality, he is not a Naga.
  viewtopic.php?f=59&t=112758&p=1459736&hilit=voitagi#p1459736
  A: Voitagi is Human, but he is not Non-Shadowlands, so Honored Sensei will not produce the extra gold for him, nor will you gain honor. Jon Palmer, "Honored Sensei + Voitagi", 10 Apr 2015
• Q: Just looking at the Twenty Festivals Previews on Oracle and noticed that all of the Undead cards currently legal for Twenty Festivals Arc also have the Nonhuman keyword. The only exception to this is Voitagi (http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=9182). Is there any specific reason he is missing the keyword?
  A: "Why" questions are more the purview of the main L5R forum, but from a Rules perspective, "because he doesn't" is really the only answer I can give. Voitagi is Human (as many Undead cards have been throughout the game's history - I run Wrath of the People in my Modern Breeder deck), the others aren't. Jon Palmer, "Voitagi and "Undead" Keyword", 27 Feb 2015