Yoshi Sensei

Legend of the Five Rings card from Ambition's Debt

Card Type

Sensei

Province Strength

+0

Gold Production

+0

Starting Family Honor

+0

Keywords

All Clans

Card Text

Honor gains from Proclaiming have a maximum value of 1.
Honor losses from your cards' effects to other players do not happen; this is not negation.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Pre-Game

Printings

Rulings

• Affects the gain from just the Personality. I.e., if honor loss also occurs (e.g., from using corrupt holdings), do not add those losses and the Personality's gain and then apply the one-point maximum to the total. [January 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 145

Rules Q&A

• Q: Deeds, Not Words. Political Open: Target a player. Until the end of the turn, that player gains 1 Honor in addition to any other award when one of his Personalities wins a duel, and 1 additional Honor for each opposing card destroyed in the Resolution Segment of battle. Honor gains from any other source are counted as losses instead of gains for that player.
  Yoshi Sensei. All clans. Sensei. When a player pays full Gold cost for a Personality of his or her Clan, the player cannot gain over 1 Honor, regardless of the Personality's Personal Honor. Your card effects do not cause Honor losses for other players.
  How do these two cards interact? If I'm running Yoshi sensei and Deeds my opponent, what happens to his honor gains. Nothing? Are they cancelled? Does he lose honor?
  A: They're still converted into losses, because the ruling on DNW is that the source of the loss is the same as the source of the gain would have been, not DNW itself.
  Furthermore, by extension of the ruling that value minimums and maximums are always applied last, DNW would turn the gain into a loss before Yoshi Sensei would cap the gain to a maximum of 1. Your opponent would always lose the full honor. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 14 June", 20 Jun 2001
• Q: Yoshi Sensei says "Your card effects do not cause honor losses for other players."
  Imperial Funeral says "Starting with the current player and going clockwise, each player in turn has one chance to bow any or all personalities they control, and gain 1 honor for each personality that does so. Players lose 3 honor for each personality that remains unbowed, and these personalities are dishonored."
  Now the question is, does Imperial Funeral cause the honor loss, and is thus prohibited from effect by Yoshi Sensei?
  A: Yup. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for January 31st, addendum", 31 Jan 2001