Yoritomo Sensei
Legend of the Five Rings card from Ambition's Debt
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Sensei
- Province Strength
- +0
- Gold Production
- +0
- Starting Family Honor
- +0
- Keywords
- All Clans
- Card Text
- Your Gold-producing Holdings enter play for you for 1 less Gold, to a minimum of 1.
When bowing your Stronghold to pay for a Personality, it produces 1 less Gold. - Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Pre-Game
Printings
Ambition's Debt
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- Gold and chrysanthemums: a brave man's dreams.
- Artist
- KC Lancaster
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rulings
- Only cards whose gold cost was reduced have a minimum cost of 1. It does not make 0G holdings cost 1G. [ZF] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 144
- The minimum gold cost refers to how cheap Yoritomo Sensei makes cards. Holdings' costs may be further reduced by other means. [ZF, 31 May 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 144
- Reduces the amount of gold produced when a stronghold is bowed, regardless of whether the gold is generated as the stronghold's base production, ability, or trait. [ZF, 1 August 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 144
- E.g., it reduces the amount of gold produced by Sacred Temples of the Phoenix for shugenja (but not spells). Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 144
Rules Q&A
- Q: [Jade] Does Yoritomo Sensei reduces the gold of the Sacred Temple of the Phoenix ability to pay Sgugenjas or only affects the printed Gold Production (3)?
A: It was ruled contemporarily that effects which alter a Strongholds GP only alter the base production and not additional abilities like those of the Phoenix Stronghold. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 24 Sep 2026