Yoritomo Kurei

Card Type: Personality
Force: 5
Chi: 3
Honor Requirement: -
Gold Cost: 8
Personal Honor: 1
Clan: Mantis
Keywords: Naval, Commander, Mantis Clan, Samurai
Card Text: Battle: Even if Kurei is at home, pay 3 Gold and target your Naval Personality: Move him to a battlefield with any enemy units. If he moved, straighten his unit.
Legality: Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
Deck: Dynasty

Printings

Rarity: Rare
Flavor Text: The Mantis have no standing army, but instead organize their forces into three fleets known as the First, Second, and Third Storms. When the clan is wronged, the Storm comes for their enemies.
Artist: Jeff Menges
Card Number: 111
Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group

Rarity: Rare
Flavor Text: Naizen and his generals led their army deaper into the mainland, restoring order everything they passed.
Artist: Jeff Menges
Card Number: 37
Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group

Rarity: Rare
Flavor Text: Naizen and his generals led their army deaper into the mainland, restoring order everything they passed.
Artist: Jeff Menges
Card Number: 27
Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group

Erratum: Reads, "Yoritomo Kurei 5F/3C -HR 8G 1PH Mantis Clan • Samurai • Naval • Commander. Battle: Even if Kurei is at home, pay 3 Gold: Move your target Naval Personality to a battlefield with one or more enemy units. If he moved, straighten his unit." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 165

Q: I just read that Yoritomo Kurei says "Even if Kurei is at home," but someone told me that the performer of an action that would move another personality to a battlefield can be done from home anyway.
A: Incorrect.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Battles#Rule_of_Location:
"1. A card in a unit must be at the current battlefield to be targeted by a Battle action." Nothing about performance.
"2. If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield in order to take that action." This is the one cards at home run afoul of. Nothing about performance there, either.
A card that moves other cards can't move those other cards around will-nilly while it remains at home. (Though said card could move itself in from home.)
More Yoritomo Kurei posts:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=71234 viewtopic.php?f=59&t=77330 Zen Faulkes, "movement from home", 29 Nov 2009
Q: Can Yoritomo Kurei use his ability, even if he is bowed, to move himself into a battle?
Relevant Text: Battle: Even if Kurei is in your home, pay 3 Gold: Move one of your target Naval Personalities to a battlefield with one or more enemy units. If he moved, straighten all cards in his unit.
A: Comprehensive rules, using abilities: "Abilities on bowed cards can not be used." Zen Faulkes, "Yoritomo Kurei", 30 Jul 2007