Bayushi's Mask

Legend of the Five Rings card from Dawn of the Empire

Card Type

Item

Force

+1

Chi

+1

Gold Cost

8

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

Reaction: After the Maneuvers Segment ends, bow this Personality and destroy this Item to target any number of your Personalities at battlefields and any number of battlefields. Move those Personalities to those battlefields any way you like.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I use Bayushi's Mask to move Bayushi Muhito after the Cavalry Declaration segment, do I get to take a battle or open action? For example, could I destroy Bayushi's Mask and move Muhito to oppose a personality and use his reaction to play Overwhelmed?
  Bayushi Muhito Reaction: Once per turn, after Muhito moves during an Attack Phase, take a Battle or Open action.
  A: You could use the Reaction, but it won't do anything noticeable. Pages 74 and 75 clearly state when you can take Open and Battle Actions, and the only time you can do so during the Attack Phase is during the Battle Action Segment. Since you haven't begun the Battle Action Segment and Muhito gives you the timing opportunity to play a Battle or Open Action, it won't do you any good since those types of Actions are yet illegal to play.
  Effects that allow you to play an Action outside of its normal phase / segment designations either:
  A.) Make it explicitly clear that they do so, such as with Plans Within Plans.
  OR
  B.) Can't be played at any time that they would abide the rule they are breaking, such as the abjectly horrifying (and completely hypothetical) concept of a card which read, "Battle: You may take a Limited Action after this."
  * Shudder * Martin Lund, "Rules for 8 November 2004", 12 Nov 2004