Expansion: HE1 Type: Actions Aiki Tactics (R) 0G 4Fo Reaction: Play when a use of Tactician occurs in a battle in which you also have a Personality with Tactician. The effects of the action (whether a Force gain or action requiring Tactician) are negated, although the other player's Tactician ability is still considered used. This does not count as the use of Tactician by your Personailty. Blackened Sky (U) 0G 1Fo Battle: Take as many consecutive actions as you wish before the next player may perform a battle or open action. All of these action must be Ranged Attacks-- you may not perform actions other than those that produce Ranged Attacks. Flavor: "Like a thick veil of rain, death fell from the heavens upon our broken legion." Broken Guard (R) 0G 3Fo Limited: Target one Region in play and bow any number of your Personalities and/or Followers such that their combined Force is greater than the number of Personalities that Region's controller has in play. The Region is destroyed. Flavor: "The Naga turned away, leaving the Crab alone in the Hiruma castle, cut off from supplies and reinforcements" Concealed Archers (C) 0G 3Fo Reaction: Play immediately before you bow one or more cards in a unit capable of a Ranged Attack who are not at this battle. Resolve this Ranged Attack as if the unit were in the battle. Add one to the strength of this Ranged Attack if the unit is led by a Naga Personality. Lose 2 honor. Day and Night (R) 4F 2Fo Open: Straighten your stronghold Flavor: "Working day and night, our peasants made the stronghold look like a hive of bees..." Flanking Maneuver (C) 0G 2Fo Battle: If your army has more units than the opposing army, you may bow one or more of your units in this battle in order to bow one opposing unit. You may only target an opposing Personality with a Chi less than the combined Force of the cards you are bowing. Toturi's Army Personalities may add their Chi to their force for perfoming this action. Journey to the Burning Sands (U) 3G 1Fo Limited: Bow one of your Personalities who may remain bowed. During each of your straighten phases that this Personality chooses not to straighten, give a +1F/+1C desert token to this Personality. Once this Personality straightens, they may not gain any more desert tokens and must straighten normally. Master's Tactics (R) 0G 1Fo Reaction: play immediately before you have played a terrain when you have a tactician in this battle. Any terrain card in play is destroyed, even if it "may not be destroyed", and your terrain cannot be destroyed by any player who does not have a tactician in this battle. All affects that would prevent this card from taking full effect are negated. This counts as your use of tactician for this battle. Open Fields (C) 0G 1Fo Battle Terrain: One of your Personalities gains a Force bonus equal to his or her Chi. This bonus cannot exceed the number of cards in the opposing army. Flavor: "Never underestimate maneuverability-- it is your greatest strength, and your enemy's greatest weakness." - Master Suana The People's Hero (C) 0G 4Fo Reaction: Play immediately after a unit is moved into a battle with a card effect and there is no defending unit in that battle. The Defender may get any one Personality from his Dynasty Deck and put him or her into play immediately as a defending unit as though they had entered play normally from that Province. All costs and restrictions must be oberved. Shuffle the Defender's Dynasty Deck. Political Marriage (U) 0G 1Fo Political Limited: Target any human or Naga Personality in play. While this Personality is in play, you may ally with that player's armies as if you had been invited as an ally for any battle in which they are either the Attacker or Defender. You gain 1 honor instead of 2 when you ally with this player. Flavor: "I'm sure any man would be glad to marry your sister, Yakamo-sama," the Crane smiled. Show Me Your Stance (U) 0G 1Fo This action cannot target nonhuman Personalities Battle: An unbowed Personality you control issues an unrefusable challenge to an opposing personality. The duel compares Personal Honor instead of Chi, but is otherwise treated normally. The winner of this duel gains 2 honor. The loser is not destroyed, but is dishonored and sent home, bowed. A Time for Mortal Men (C) 0G 3Fo Open: Destroy one of your ancestors to give its attached Personality a 3F/3C bonus until the end of the turn. Flavor: "They say our ancestors look down on us from the heavens-- then let them stay there." - Yoritomo Type: KIHO Chasing Osano-Wo (C) 0C 3Fo Kiho Battle: Bow one of your monks or shugenja to give a Force bonus to any Personality equal to the Force of your monk or shugenja, plus the Personal Honor of the target. Flavor: "The lovely shugenja danced unafraid upon the thunderous winds, a bride to the storm." Flee the Darkness (U) 0G 1Fo Kiho Reaction: Bow a shugenja or monk when another player is targeting one of your Personalities with a battle action, or an open action during battle. The action is canceled and all effects are negated. Flavor: "Fight with her or against her, Daini. There is no time for indecision." - Shahadet Mizu-do (C) 0G 2Fo Kiho Battle: Bow one of your shugenja or monks and target one of your Personalities in this battle. Until the end of the battle, your Personality gains Force bonuses equal to those gained by any cards in the opposing army (except those gained through a Mizu-do). Flavor: "... water is the softest substance, yet it still can break the hardest stone..." Type: FOLLOWERS Elite Spearmen (C) 2F 0C 2H 4G -PH 3Fo Battle: Ranged 2 attack. This does not bow the Spearmen, but may only be performed once per battle. Flavor: "The Naga will not speak of reason or repentance, only of destruction and genocide... perhaps we have misjudged those we so quickly called 'allies.'" - Matsu Agetoki Imperial Legion (U) 2F 0C 1H 4G -PH 3Fo Battle: Bow this Follower to bow any opposing Follower or Personality without attached Followers. You may only target a card who has less Force than three times this card's Force. Flavor: "The Naga have transgressed against the citizens of the Empire, and burned the Emperor's lands. Their crimes must be met with justice." - Kitsuki Yasu Naga Apprentice (U) 0F 0C 1H 3G -PH 1Fo Nonhuman. Battle: Bow to straighten this Personality if it is a Naga. Flavor: "The Great Akasha is our eternal life, the pool to which our souls go and the sea from which we spring. It is our memory, our past and our future." - Qamar Scouting Team (C) 0F 0C 1H 1G -PH 1Fo Cavalry. Battle: Bow and destroy this card to destroy any Terrain card in play for this battle. Reaction: Bow and destroy this card to cancel and negate the effect of any Tactics card or use of the Tactician ability that was just used. Shiryo no Hoturi (R) 0F +1C 2H 0G -PH 4Fo Crane Clan Ancestor. Unique. This card is considered Doji Hoturi for Uniqueness. Reaction: When this Personality wins a duel, draw and discard the top card of your Fate Deck. You gain additional Family Honor equal to the Focus value of the discard. Shiryo no Tsuko (R) +1F 0C 2H 0G -PH 4Fo Lion Clan Ancestor. Unique. This card is considered Matsu Tsuko for Uniqueness. Reaction: Immediately after this unit wins a battle as a defensive unit, you may declare an attack against the Attacker. No allies may be sent to these battles, and you may not assign or move any units other than this one to attack. Units currently assigned to attack your Provinces may not defend against this battle phase. Type: ITEMS Cricket (C) 2G 2Fo Attaches to a Yoritomo's Alliance Personality for 0 Gold. While the Cricket is unbowed, this Personality may not be the target of Thief, Bandit, or Kidnapper cards. All Gambling Houses in play produce one more gold. Flavor: "If fate cannot guide our footsteps, then perhaps luck will serve" - Yoritomo Masasue Dai-kyu of Anekkusai (U) 3G 2Fo Battle: Bow this Personality and select a target for a Ranged Attack. Draw and discard the top card of your Fate Deck. The Ranged Attack has a strength equal to Focus value of the discard, doubled if the Focus value is even. Flavor: "Traitors!" Kamoko shrieked as her great grey steed faltered. With her last strength, she drew back the string of her ancient bow and set the arrow free. The Jade Throne (R) 6G 2Fo Unique. Can't be attached to a Shadowlands Personality. While this card is in play, your Family Honor is increased by 15 while any player is lobbying for the Imperial Favor. Any player may destroy this card as a limited action by bowing Personalities with a combined Personal Honor greater than 10. The Jade Throne may not be destroyed or stolen with a card effect. Type: EVENTS The Hidden Emperor (R) All players have their rightmost Province destroyed. Each player may elect to renouce their ability to declare an attack against a player with fewer Provinces than themselves until the end of the game. Any player who renounces that ability does not have their Province destroyed. Naga Storm Mirumoto Mountain (U) Until the end of the game, only one Province of a player can be destroyed per turn. If a player has a second Province destroyed during the same player's turn, the Province is saved and the effects of this event end. Rebuilding the Empire (U) Any player with fewer than four Provinces may gain an additional Province to the right of his or her rightmost Province. Any player who does so has his or her honor decreased (not increased) to its starting honor level, and may not declare an attack until after your next events phase. This honor loss cannot be prevented or redirected. Selection of the Chancellor (U) All Personalities are candidates for Chancellor. Any Personality may vote for any Personality (including themselves) by bowing as a Political Limited action, giving votes to the candidate equal to their Personal Honor. At the beginning of your next events phase, the Personality with the most votes becomes Chancellor. The Chancellor's controller gains 5 honor and the Imperial Favor. Type: REGIONS Haunted Lands (C) While in a battle at this Province, all Shadowlands Personalities and Followers have the ability Battle: Discard a card from your hand to produce a Fear X effect, where X is equal to the Focus value of the discard. Flavor: "The darkness breathes there, and the rivers flow backwatds. It is a foul, accursed place, but it is our home." - Hiruma Yoshi Hiruma Castle (U) Unique. While this card is in play, your Personalities and Followers have a 1F bonus while facing one or more opposing Shadowlands cards in a battle. If this Province is destroyed in battle, all Shadowlands Personalities and Followers in the attacking army gain a permanent 1F bonus. The Mountains Below Kyuden Hitomi (C) Battle: Beginning with the top card of your fate deck, draw and reveal each card unitl you reveal a terrain. You may put this terrain immediately into play for this battle, or discard it. All other revealed cards are shuffled back into your deck. You may do this once per battle. Tidal Land Bridge (R) Unique. At the beginning of your events phase, remove a tidal token from this region if there is one. Otherwise, put a tidal token on this region. Personalities may not assign to attack or move into a battle at this Province when there is a tidal token on this region. Type: HOLDINGS Fu Leng's Skull (R) 6G Unique. Shadowlands. Open: Bow to straighten any Shadowlands card. Lose 7 honor. This loss of honor cannot be prevented or redirected. Flavor: "Its lips are torn and bloodied, its flesh lies rotting at the bottom of the sea. Yet he is still my Emperor, and I hear his voice foaming up from the depths of the Pit, echoed in this eternal cup of bone...Where he commands, I have no choice but to follow." Grove of the Five Masters (U) 2G Unique. Limited: Bow to get any one kiho from your deck. Show it to the other players and place it in your hand. Discard one card from your Fate Hand. Flavor: "The world is its own magic." - carved onto the central stone of the Grove The Hiruma Dojo (C) 4G Bow to produce 3 gold. Reaction: Bow to reduce the gold cost of a samurai by 4 as it is being brought into play. Flavor: "You call that fighting? Pah! To hide behind steel is not courage. First learn to fight with only your hands and your wits, and then men will call you brave." - Hiruma Osuno The Scorpion Children (C) 3G You lose 1 honor immediately before each of your straigten phases. Reaction: Cancel a ninja action targeting you or your cards. Flavor: "Kachiko was only too willing to leave them behind... as if she had other plans for her Clan's future..." Type: PERSONALITIES Daidoji Rekai (C) 3F 3C 0H 6G 2PH Crane Clan Archer. Samurai. Battle: Bow for a Ranged 3 Attack. Flavor: "Both her and her Otaku steed are too young to bear the weight they have been given. In time, their strength will be needed..." - Otaku Kamoko Kakita Yoshi (R) 0F 3C 0H 4G 2PH Crane Clan Imperial Advisor. Experienced 2. Unique. Political Reaction: Whe none of your Provinces has just been destroyed, put the Dynasty card that is in that Province on the top of your Dynasty Deck instead of your discard pile. Flavor: "He who rules with honor is like the pole-star. Around such a man, all the lesser stars can do nothing but follow in his path..." - Toturi I Damesh (C) 2F 3C 0H 5G 2PH Naga Mountaineer. While Damesh is in the attacking army, the strength of this Province is equal to the lowest Province strength of any Province in play. Flavor: "We must stand and we must fight, until all forms of darkness have been driven from this land..." Hasame (C) 2F 2C -H 3G 1PH Unaligned Samurai. Toturi's Army. Hasame will net attach nonhuman followers. Flavor: "There is no fate, no destiny. Uikku's prophecies have been fulfilled, and now we must make our own future." Ralish (C) *F 3C 0H 7G 1PH Naga Shugenja. Ralish's Force is equal to the number of forest cards you have in play. Flavor: "He is young, new-born from the egg, and his eyes still glow with the purity of the Akasha. His innocence is a virtue we will need." Shahadet (F) 5F 3C 3H 9G 2PH Naga Samurai. Experienced 2 Naga Warlord. Unique. All Naga Followers in this unit have a 1F bonus. Reaction: Cancel the effects of any one action that is moving an opposing unit out of the Province that Shahadet is in. This does not bow Shahadet, but can only be performed once per turn. Flavor: "Trust me. Dragons bleed." Naka Kuro (R) 4F 6C 10H 12G 2PH Phoenix Clan Shugenja. Experienced. Unique. Double Chi. Kuro does not need to bow to produce kiho effects, but cannot perform any kiho more than once per turn. Reaction: When Kuro performs a kiho, draw an additional card during your next end phase. Flavor: "He knows that in the shadows, someone is making the elements bleed." Otaku Tetsuko (C) 3F 3C 2H 8G 3PH Unicorn Battle Maiden. Samurai. Cavalry. Will only attach Cavalry Followers. Tetsuko has a 2F/2C bonus for each of your Provinces that have been destroyed in battle during this game. Flavor: "We sent Tashima to seek Hitomi and break the silence of the Dragon, but he has not returned..." Shinjo Yokatsu (R) 5F 5C 5H 15G 2PH Unicorn Clan Champion. Experienced. Unique. Samurai. Cavalry. Tactician. Will only join Unicorn Clan Player. All Personalities in an army with Yokatsu have a 1F bonus Reaction: Reduce the gold cost of a Cavalry Follower to zero as it is being attached to Yokatsu. Mukami (U) 0F 3C -H 6G 1PH Wasp Clan Skirmisher. Yoritomo's Army. Experienced. Unique. Battle: Bow to produce a Ranged 3 Attack. This Ranged Attack may be immediately combined with the Ranged Attack from another unit in this army. Mukami's unit is removed from this battle and returned to your fief. Ikudaiu (C) 2F 2C -H 3G 1PH Unaligned Monk Flavor: "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." Otomo Banu (U) 0F 1C 0H 4G 1PH Unaligned Political Pawn. Cousin of Hantei. Unique. Political Reaction: Bow Banu when another player has just achieved an Honor Victory with less than 60 honor. That player does not win the game, although he or she may achieve the Victory on a future turn. Destroy Banu. Takuan (R) 4F 4C 0H 13G 2PH Toturi's Army. Imperial Regent. Experienced. Samurai. Tactician. Unique. All other Toturi's Army Personalities in his army have a 1F/1C bonus Battle: Once per turn, move any nmber of your unbowed Toturi's Army Personalities into this battle from your fief. Flavor: "Toturi, my master, when will you return?" Kyoso no Oni (R) 6F 6C -H 10G 0PH Unaligned Oni Overlord. Unique. Experienced. Nonhuman. Shadowlands. No Followers or Items. Lose 5 honor. Open: Destroy any of your Personalities. Kyoso no Oni gains a 2F/2C bonus until the end of the turn. Type: STRONGHOLD Heart of the Shinomen Forest (F,UR) 5PS 3GP 3SH Your Nagas are immune to Fear. You may ignore Honor Requirements for Nagas if you have no Shadowlands cards in play. You may have up to 4 of any non-unique Naga card. You may put forests into play for 3 less gold.