A Life for a Soul

Starting with you, each player may choose a

dead Personality he owns and bring him into
play, ignoring costs and Honor Requirement.
Permanently give each Personality this
brought into play Undead and Shadowlands,
and his controller loses 3 Honor.
“Death is not eternal.” – Kuni Yori

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 Celestial Disfavor

Until the game ends, after each time an

attack is declared, each player in turn order
from the Attacker chooses and bows one
of his unbowed Personalities with his Clan
alignment and a base Gold Cost of 6 or less.
“The Elemental Dragons rarely interfere in the affairs
of mortals. When they do, the empire trembles.”

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 Exotic Goods

2
Artisan • Merchant • Retainer
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Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold.

Open: Choose your performing Artisan
Personality: Target another player’s unbowed
Personality. His controller may bow him.
If he did not bow, gain 1 Honor.
“Curiosities and trinkets are sought after throughout the
empire. They can also be very difficult to procure.”

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 Strategic Keep

6
Castle
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Bow this card: Produce 4 Gold.

Your provinces have +1 strength.
“Castles should please the senses, protect their occupants,
and guard valuable resources. Too many forsake the
first for the second and third.” – Kakita Omori

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5 Hida Mochitoko 2

0 7 2
Crab Clan • Jade • Samurai
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Hero • Unique
Battle: If Mochitoko is the only Personality in
his army: Bow a target card in an enemy unit.
“I am not impressed by your pretty words or by
the failures you call soldiers at your side. I will
not relent until you are broken at my feet.”

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4 Kuni Iyedo 3

– 7 2
Crab Clan • Earth
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Shugenja • Commander
Battle: Attach a target Follower in your hand
to your target Personality in Iyedo’s army.
“I will keep you pure, and you will keep them safe. We
are the Crab, and we shall endure the trials to come.”

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2 Asahina Okimoto 4

5 7 3
Crane Clan • Air • Courtier
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Shugenja • Unique
Political Reaction: After the resolution of
a Political action you took: Gain 1 Honor.
“Samurai across the Empire are moved to great deeds by
poems and tales. Why would the kami be any different?”

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2 Kakita Furegami 4

3 7 3
Crane Clan • Samurai • Duelist
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Iaijutsu Battle: Target an enemy

Personality with lower Chi. Set his Force
to 0. If Furegami has won a duel this
turn, bow the enemy Personality.
“One man, one sword, one strike.
All other styles are false.”

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4 Mirumoto Miyami 3

0 7 2
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Kensai
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Battle: Bow Miyami or one of her

Weapons: Straighten your target unit.
Mirumoto taught that kenjutsu was for killing.
His descendents remember his lessons. Every parry,
every feint, every strike builds towards victory.

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3 Tamori Ochimo 4

– 7 2
Dragon Clan • Earth • Monk
Shugenja • Alchemist • Unique
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Battle: You may discard a card with an

element keyword: Bow a target enemy
card without attachments. If you discarded
a card, destroy the enemy card.
“I speak for the Earth. The Earth grows
weary of being trod upon.”

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3 Akodo Tetsuru 3

6 7 3
Lion Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Tactician
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“Lord Shigetoshi has commanded that the

province be captured by nightfall. Be sure to
let the governor escape, so that his clansmen
can hear the folly of opposing the Lion.”

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2 Kitsu Marimi 3

5 6 3
Lion Clan • Water • Shugenja • Unique
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Limited: Create a 2F/2C/3PH

Lion Clan • Samurai • Ancestor •
Spirit Personality. Remove it from the
game after your next turn begins.
“I am a Lion. My ancestors lend me their strength.
You cannot hope to stand against a thousand
years of honorable service to the Empire.”

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3 Yoritomo Gazuke 4

– 7 1
Mantis Clan • Thunder • Shugenja
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Battle: Ranged 4 Attack.

“My speech is crude, my bearing common, and my
schooling lacking. I do not know of the glorious
histories of the empire, nor can I speak with eloquence
of its culture. But the Thunder Dragon has spoken
to me, and that alone makes me your peer.”

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4 Yoritomo Kakeko 4

– 8 1
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Naval • Unique
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Battle: Bow a target enemy card

without attachments.
“Oppose me? You will be fortunate if you live
long enough to amuse me. I shall descend upon
you like the storm itself, and you shall find no
solace, harbor, or respite from my wrath.”

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2 Agasha Yuhiko 4

4 7 3
Phoenix Clan • Fire • Void
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Shugenja • Alchemist
Battle: Discard a card with an element
keyword: Give Yuhiko a Force bonus equal
to the discarded card’s Focus Value. You
may make a Ranged Attack with strength
equal to the discarded card’s Focus Value.
The kami are in all things, watching, listening.
Those who can speak with them learn great secrets.
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4 Shiba Kyushi 4

6 8 3
Phoenix Clan • Fire • Samurai
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Yojimbo • Unique
Battle: Bow Kyushi unless you control
a Shugenja: Ranged 4 Attack.
“I beg your forgiveness, Isawa-san. There is
an assassin on the roof. If you would indulge
me with a moment to deal with him, we will
shortly be able to continue our journey.”

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3 Bayushi Orijitte 3

– 7 2
Scorpion Clan • Samurai • Kensai
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Bitter Lies • Unique
Battle: Show the top card of your
Fate deck: If its Focus Value is odd,
or is lower than the Focus Value of
one of Orijitte’s Weapons, draw it.
Only fools believe that the masters of the school of
Bitter Lies prevail merely through good fortune.

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0 Shosuro Nishu 1

– 2 1
Scorpion Clan • Ninja
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Battle: Even if Nishu is not at the current

battlefield, bow him: Give a target Ninja +2F.
Upon passing their gempukku, some Scorpion are
given dark outfits, exotic weapons, and training in
unusual skills. They believe they have been singled
out for greatness. They are merely distractions.

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3 Fettered Minion 2

– 7 0
Spider Clan • Shadowlands
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Samurai • Undead
After Fettered Minion enters
play: Lose 3 Honor.
Fettered Minion has +3F while in an
army with another Undead card.
For the poor souls claimed by Jigoku, service is
eternal. There is no escape. Even death promises
but a moment’s respite from endless conflict.
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6 Kazuwaru 3

– 9 0
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Nonhuman
Ogre • Kensai • Unique
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After Kazuwaru enters play: Lose 4 Honor.

Battle: Give a target enemy Personality
a –3F Maimed token. You may
create a +3F Improvised • Weapon
Item and attach it to Kazuwaru.
“You broke my club, samurai.
You will provide me another.”
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4 Iuchi Quan 3

0 8 2
Unicorn Clan • Water • Shugenja
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Cavalry • Scout
Recon Limited: Target a province. Quan
divines the landscape. After the next
Cavalry Maneuvers Segment this turn,
you may assign a unit (with an unbowed
Personality) to that province’s battlefield.
“The normal route is blocked by floods,
but I have found another way.”
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4 Shinjo Liu Ying 3

– 8 1
Unicorn Clan • Samurai
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Tactician • Unique
Battle: Move a target enemy
Personality home.
“Vainglorious? Far from it. I merely advise that few
other generals could have routed the enemy so utterly.”

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3 Seasoned Ronin 3

1 5 2
Ronin • Samurai
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Battle: Give all Ronin Personalities and

Followers in Seasoned Ronin’s army +1F.
“Although they will follow the orders of the clans,
ronin serve best alongside their fellow wave men.”

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2 Tarui 3

– 3 0
Ronin • Samurai • Duelist
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Steel whispers softly

Cloth rips, flesh yields, veins sunder
Blood flows, a feud ends
– Rezan

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 Coordinated Assault

0
Tactical
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Battle: Choose one to three performing

Tacticians: Give each of them +3F.
The superiority of the Lion leadership lies not
in one general, or even several. The Lion are
peerless on the battlefield because every leader of
men can be trusted to implement even the most
complex of plans on the spur of the moment.

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 Demand Obedience

0
Battle: Choose your performing Samurai
Personality: Look at the top 5 cards of your
Fate deck. You may attach one of them that is
a Follower to your Samurai. Put the remaining
cards at the bottom of the deck in any order.
Samurai are the pinnacle of society.
When they call, it is an honor to follow.

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 Deny the Darkness

0
Jade
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Battle: Choose your unbowed performing

defending Personality: Bow a target enemy
Personality, and if he is Shadowlands, negate
his straightening (until the turn ends).
For over a thousand years, the defenders of the Empire
have found ways to protect Rokugan. Even the forces of the
Shadowlands have been broken before Rokugan’s protectors.

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 Deny the Horde

1
Battle: If your army has fewer units than
the enemy army, choose your unbowed
performing Samurai or Berserker: The
enemy leader targets and destroys one of
his Personalities in his current army.
The resiliency of the Crab is legendary
within Rokugan. Their armies stand against
overwhelming odds, yet emerge victorious.

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 Faint Praise

0
Political
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Open: Before the next time this turn a player

gains Honor during his Dynasty Phase or
from one of his own actions, he loses that
amount of Honor instead of gaining it.
Mockery is a fine art. The listener must
know he has been snubbed, but also must
not be given a basis for vendetta.

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 Howls of the Dead

Open: Choose one to three performing

Undead Personalities: Give them and each
of their Undead Followers Cavalry.
Peasant legends state that the howling of the
wind is caused by the shrieks of lost souls.
On some nights, the legends are true.

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 Ominous Battlefield

0
Terrain
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Battle: Before this battle’s resolution,

you may target and bow a Nonhuman or
Cavalry card (at the current battlefield).
Horses are swift, and the more exotic denizens of
the empire bring strange and powerful abilities to
battle. But no animal can match the spirit and
discipline of the children of the Sun and Moon.

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 Opportunistic Advance

Battle: Choose your unbowed performing

Commander: He gets word of a weakness
on the enemy flank. Move another target
unit in his army to a battlefield.
Often, all that is necessary to break an
army is a unit charging its flank.

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 Planned Adversity

0
Unique
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Limited: Destroy one of your non-

Unique Holdings: Search your Dynasty
deck for a non-Unique Holding. Put
the new Holding into play (bowed).
“Leaders have plans in place for both times
of plenty and times of strife. Visionaries
can create either condition upon demand.”
– Yasuki Jinn-Kuen’s Assessment

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 Shadowed Words

0
Political
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Limited: Choose your performing Courtier

or Ninja Personality: Shuffle one or two target
Political Strategies from your discard pile into
your deck. Remove this card from the game.
Not all treaties are arranged by courtiers, nor all
deals finalized in the courts. Sometimes, politics
come to fruition in the most unorthodox places,
facilitated by the most unlikely individuals.

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 Shattered Stone Kata

0
Kata
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Limited: Put this card into play in your

home. Discard any other Kata cards there.
While this card remains in play, you have
the ability, “Battle: If you are taking this
action as an additional action, choose your
performing unbowed Monk: Ranged Attack
with strength equal to his Chi plus 1.”

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 Sohei’s Duty

0
Battle: If you control a Temple and any
enemy units are at the current battlefield,
choose your performing Monk: Move him
there. Straighten his unit if he moved. If
he is now in a defending army, you may
take an additional Battle action to use
a base ability on a card in his unit.
Warrior orders among monks are
keen to defend their shrines.

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 Subversive Whispers

0
Kiho • Unique
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Open: Bow your performing Shugenja:

Discard a face-down card in a province
or a face-up Personality in a province.
“We cannot defeat him in battle, master.”
“We will not need to.”

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 Succumb to Vice

*
Limited: Bow and dishonor your performing
Personality with one or more Sake tokens,
and pay Gold equal to the targeted unit’s
total Gold Cost: Destroy a target unit.
Members of the samurai caste are taught to
control their emotions. This leads to tragedy
when one has had too much to drink.

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0 Ambitious Merchant 0

0 1 –
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Merchant • Unique
Reaction: When paying a Gold cost, destroy
your target Holding: Produce 3 Gold.
No true samurai troubles himself with petty
things such as commerce or business. This provides
opportunity to one who is wealthy and daring
enough to handle such things for the noble classes.

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3 Aspiring Ronin 0

0 3 –
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Ronin
Will only attach to a Samurai Personality.
To advance in life, a ronin needs to serve a
samurai, a lord with lands, family, and future.
Merchants or peasants might supply money for the
next meal, but only the samurai of the clans can
supply a chance for the ronin to better herself.

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+2 Awakened Blade +1

3
Kami • Weapon • Unique
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Battle: Destroy this card: Destroy a

target enemy card with lower Force than
this Personality’s Force (before destroying
this card) and no Weapons or Armor.
Swords whose kami have awakened are great treasures.
Entire generations seek to be worthy of them.

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+3 Fearsome Mempo -1

3
Cursed
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Reaction: After engaging in a battle:

Give –2F to a target Personality or
Follower opposing this card.
“Fear can be instilled in many ways. One
of the simplest is to make your foe question
who he faces.” – Yogo Kazunori

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 Shelter of the Earth

2
Earth
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Open: Destroy this card: Create a +3F

Armor Item, or +4F if the performing
Shugenja is Earth, and attach it to him.
The kami of Earth are slow to rouse and slow
to act. However, once they have decided to
protect a place or a person, they are slow to
yield, even to the most ferocious of blows.

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 Steed of the Ebbing Tides

0
Air • Water
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Open: Bow this Shugenja unless

he is Air or Water: Give your target
Samurai Personality Cavalry.
“This invocation was created by the Unicorn
during their time in the Burning Sands. What is
fascinating is how the spell was refined after the
Unicorn met the Isawa…” – Asako Bairei

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