Yasuki Trader
Legend of the Five Rings card from Reign of Blood, Ivory Edition, Promotional–Ivory
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 2
- Keywords
- Retainer
- Card Text
- w: Produce 2 Gold.
Limited, w: Shuffle an Item in your discard pile into your deck. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- MRP
- MRP to make its second trait an action.
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Reign of Blood
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "The Emperor commands no trade with gaijin." "He also commands that the Crab never fail," Jinn-Kuen replied. "That takes priority over our honor."
- Artist
- Anthony Francisco
- Card Number
- 11
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Ivory Edition
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "They go everywhere and none of the other clans ever think about them, except to scorn their money-grubbing ways. I admire their brilliance." - Kuni Renyu
- Artist
- Anthony Francisco
- Card Number
- 57
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Promotional–Ivory
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- "They go everywhere and none of the other clans ever think about them, except to scorn their money-grubbing ways. I admire their brilliance." - Kuni Renyu
- Artist
- Anthony Francisco
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Should read, "Yasuki Trader 2G Retainer. Bow Yasuki Trader to produce 2 Gold. Limited: Bow Yasuki Trader to search your Fate discard pile for an Item. Show it to all players, then shuffle it into your deck." [Erratum, JA, 5 December 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 88
- Erratum: Yasuki Trader: The Item-search effect is a Limited action. [errata] Legend of the Five Rings FAQ, April 26, 2004, p. 17
Rules Q&A
- Q: First, I cannot use Yasuki Trader to get Spells from my discard pile while SH is my stronghold, because "your" is defined as "Controlled by you. (Cards not in play have no controller.)" on pg. 105 of the DE rulebook, therefore the spells are not "your spells", and not an item.
So how does MGC ever get a personality back from the discard pile, as no card in a discard pile has a controller, and therefore cannot be one of "your" cards?
A: Because Morning Glory Castle says "one of your Honorably Dead Phoenix Clan Personality". There is only one place those can be: in your discard pile. Explicit card text overrides general rules. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 8 March 2004", 9 Mar 2004 - Q: "Your Spells are considered to be both Spells and Items."
Can you recycle spells with Yasuki Trader? Or are they only items while in play?
A: No; yes. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 16 Feb. 204", 18 Feb 2004 - Q: Could I use Yasuki Trader to retrieve a spell in my discard pile?
Yes (Diamond rules, pg. 55, 99).
You mean No.
A: Yes, I do mean no. (One of the problems with the Diamond rulebook is the lack of an index. I strongly suspected there was something about controllers I was missing, but couldn't find it.) Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 16 December 2003, Part 2", 16 Dec 2003 - Q: So is this reversal?
A: You don't have to ask; Jeff is right by definition. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 7 December 2003", 7 Dec 2003 - Q: Here Jeff refers to the bowing as a cost and costs cannot also be considered as effects can they?
A: Yes, they can. Something can simutaneaously be an effect and a cost (precedent: Hida Kosho). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 7 December 2003", 7 Dec 2003