Yoritomo Okitsugu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Code of Bushido, Samurai Edition, Promotional–Samurai

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Mantis

Keywords

Mantis Clan, Samurai, Scout

Card Text

Battle: Ranged 3 Attack.
Recon Limited: Target a Province. You have Reconnaissance at its battlefields. While they remain at its battlefield, your Followers whose Personalities assigned there have the ability, "Battle, w: Ranged 3 Attack."

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Yoritomo Okitsugu 3F/3C 0HR 7G 1PH Mantis Clan • Samurai • Scout. Battle: Ranged 3 Attack. Recon Limited: Target a Province. While they remain at its battlefield, your Followers whose units assigned there have the ability, "Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 3 Attack."" [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 165
• Erratum: Reads, “Yoritomo Okitsugu 3F/3C 0HR 7G 1PH Mantis Clan • Samurai • Scout. Battle: Once per battle: Ranged 3 Attack. Recon Limited: Target a province. Your Followers whose units assign to its battlefield have the ability, “Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 3 Attack.” while they are there.” [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 171

Rules Q&A

• Q: So I saw this and thought I would comment too.
  The other side of the argument from Qalyar is that Okitsugu's text says...
  This is worded like Control, who's effects only last "While this samurai remains unbowed and in play", and as soon as either of those conditions cease to be true the effect ends. With Okitsugu, the only real difference is how many things are being affected, and the condition under which the effect ends.
  Therefore any effect that creates/attaches followers after a unit assigns can't be under this effect. If this effect were to apply to created followers wouldn't the text need to say something more like this..."Recon Limited: Target a Province. While at its battlefield, your Followers whose units assigned there have the ability..."
  from the rules...
  While Indicates a condition that applies if something is true over a given period. [snipped example, for brevity] EXCEPTION: “While” together with “remains” has a different meaning; see “Remain.”
  Remain A duration that lasts while something “remains” in a given state ends whenever the thing is no longer in that state.
  The effect can't start until the unit assigns, but at that point the follower isn't in the unit, so the effect can't apply to it. The follower is not in the required state(effectively it endded for that follower during assignment).
  Truely, the biggest problem with this card's wording is that the "while/reamins" condition is applied to the follower, but the trigger to apply the effect is assignment of the unit.
  A: Errata has been issued for Yoritomo Okitsugu. Alex Jones, "Yoritomo Okitsugu", 6 Jul 2011
• Q: (I use) Yoritomo Okitsugu's ability(.) Then during battle I attach Traveling Ronin to a personality that assigned to that province. Does the Traveling Ronin get the ability to bow to produce a ranged 3 attack?
  A: The unit did assign. They have the ability. Zen Faulkes, "Yoritomo Okitsugu and unit", 18 Jul 2007