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Imperial Gift 3 Illus Matt Wilson TM & © 2010 AEG 1 J 44
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
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
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 2
crAb clAn • JAde • sAMurAi 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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Hida Mochitoko
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7 2–
4 3
crAb clAn • eArth 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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Kuni Iyedo
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7 35
2 4
crAne clAn • Air • courtier 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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Asahina Okimoto
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7 33
2 4
crAne clAn • sAMurAi • duelist
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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Kakita Furegami
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7 20
4 3
drAgon clAn • sAMurAi • KensAi
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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Mirumoto Miyami
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7 2–
3 4
drAgon clAn • eArth • MonK shugenJA • AlcheMist • unique
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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Tamori Ochimo
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7 36
3 3
lion clAn • sAMurAi • cAvAlry • tActiciAn
“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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Akodo Tetsuru
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6 35
2 3
lion clAn • WAter • shugenJA • unique
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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Kitsu Marimi
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7 1–
3 4
MAntis clAn • thunder • shugenJA
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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Yoritomo Gazuke
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8 1–
4 4
MAntis clAn • sAMurAi • nAvAl • unique
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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Yoritomo Kakeko
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7 34
2 4
Phoenix clAn • Fire • void 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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Agasha Yuhiko
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8 36
4 4
Phoenix clAn • Fire • sAMurAi 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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Shiba Kyushi
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7 2–
3 3
scorPion clAn • sAMurAi • KensAi 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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Bayushi Orijitte
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2 1–
0 1
scorPion clAn • ninJA
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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Shosuro Nishu
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7 0–
3 2
sPider clAn • shAdoWlAnds 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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Fettered Minion
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9 0–
6 3
sPider clAn • shAdoWlAnds • nonhuMAn ogre • KensAi • unique
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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Kazuwaru
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4 3
unicorn clAn • WAter • shugenJA 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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Iuchi Quan
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8 1–
4 3
unicorn clAn • sAMurAi 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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Shinjo Liu Ying
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3 3
ronin • sAMurAi
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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Seasoned Ronin
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3 0–
2 3
ronin • sAMurAi • duelist
Steel whispers softly Cloth rips, flesh yields, veins sunder
Blood flows, a feud ends – Rezan
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Tarui
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tActicAl
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.
Coordinated Assault
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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.
Demand Obedience
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JAde
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.
Deny the Darkness
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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.
Deny the Horde
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PoliticAl
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.
Faint Praise
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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.
Howls of the Dead
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terrAin
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.
Ominous Battlefield
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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.
Opportunistic Advance
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unique
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
Planned Adversity
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PoliticAl
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.
Shadowed Words
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KAtA
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.”
Shattered Stone Kata
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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.
Sohei’s Duty
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Kiho • unique
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.”
Subversive Whispers
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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.
Succumb to Vice
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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.
Ambitious Merchant
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3 –0
3 0
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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.
Aspiring Ronin
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Awakened Blade
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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Fearsome Mempo
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
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eArth
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
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Air • WAter
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