Older Card Rulings D

Daidoji Rekai (Experienced)

• Has the Samurai keyword. [Erratum]

Daidoji Rekai (Experienced 2)

• Her ability functions identically to Daidoji Nagiko's. [Summary of other rulings, BC, 14 September 2008]

Dai Tsuchi

• Renamed from Die Tsuchi. [MRP]

Dark Oracle of Water

• The assignment of unassigned units does not target them. [DW, 23 June 1997; exception to Legacy targeting rules.]

Dark Ring of Air

• Reads, "Dark Ring of Air, 3FV Air • Shadowlands • Unique This card does not count toward an Enlightenment Victory. After one of your actions destroys another player's Shugenja or Monk: You may put this card into play from your hand. After this card enters play: Lose 5 Honor. After a Ring of Air enters play: Destroy this card. Elemental Reaction: After another player's Spell or Kiho action targets you or your cards: Negate its effects." [Erratum, 16 July 11]

Dark Ring of Earth

• Reads, "Dark Ring of Earth, 3FV Earth • Shadowlands • Unique This card does not count toward an Enlightenment Victory. After battle resolution destroys one or more attacking units, if you were the Defender and won the battle: You may put this card into play from your hand. After this card enters play: Lose 5 Honor. After a Ring of Earth enters play: Destroy this card. Personalities and Followers have -1F while attacking your provinces." [Erratum, 16 July 11]

Dark Ring of Fire

• Reads, "Dark Ring of Fire, 3FV Fire • Shadowlands • Unique This card does not count toward an Enlightenment Victory. After the second or later time one of your Personalities wins a duel this turn: You may put this card into play from your hand. After this card enters play: Lose 5 Honor. After a Ring of Fire enters play: Destroy this card. Cards focused by the controller of a Personality facing one of your Personalities in a duel have -2 Focus Value." [Erratum, 16 July 11]

Dark Ring of the Void

• Reads, "Dark Ring of the Void, 3FV Void • Shadowlands • Unique This card does not count toward an Enlightenment Victory. When this is the only card in your hand, if you are not currently resolving an effect which may cause you to draw cards: You may put this card into play from your hand. After this card enters play: Lose 5 Honor. After a Ring of the Void enters play: Destroy this card. Elemental Reaction: After your End Phase begins, if you have no cards in your hand, target a player: He must discard a card. You will not draw cards (until the turn ends)." [Erratum, 16 July 11]

Dark Ring of Water

• Reads, "Dark Ring of Water, 3FV Water • Shadowlands • Unique This card does not count toward an Enlightenment Victory. After battle resolution destroys a defending army or province, if you are the Attacker and assigned no Personalities to the current battlefield: You may put this card into play from your hand. After this card enters play: Lose 5 Honor. After a Ring of Water enters play: Destroy this card. Elemental Reaction: Before an action moves one or more cards to or from a battlefield: Negate the action's (remaining) effects." [Erratum, 16 July 11]

Death of the Ki-Rin

• The player referred to in the third sentence is the same one as in the first, not the second. [Clarified, BC, 14 September 2008]
• Whether a Clan is "normally unable to win an honor victory" is judged by base Stronghold text.

Deathseeker Technique

• Renamed from Death-Seeker Technique. [MRP, Gold Edition]

Deeds, Not Words

• An Honor loss that was substituted for a gain is still considered to come from the source of the gain and retains any other effects (such as a restriction against the gain being negated). [15 July 1999]
• The affected player gains 1 honor from winning duels with no stated honor gain. [ZF, May 2000]

Defensive Duty

• The Personality is discarded at the end of the battle regardless of where he or she is (e.g., in play). [Card text; JA, email, 4 December 2002]

Desperate Measures

• If it appears in your last province, you lose before the other player's province is destroyed. [RD, 19 May 1997; Partial reversal, BC, 14 September 2008]
• If an opponent plays Defenders of the Realm for his or her own Province, it does not save your Province, because that effect has already resolved. [JA, 18 March 2003]

Determination

• Reads, "Determination 0G 4FV Dark Virtue Reaction: After you announce an action, target one of your Samurai: The action cannot have its effects negated or have its targeting changed. After the action destroys any Personality, remove him from the game." [Erratum, 24 November 2008]
• An action that is affected by Determination can negate an earlier action that had also been affected by Determination. [ML, 30 July 2007]
• Does not circumvent a card's own self-negation clauses or self-imposed minimums or maximums (e.g., "This cannot raise a player's honor above his starting Family honor;" "This cannot reduce Chi below 1"). [ML, 13 November 2007]

Die Tsuchi

• Name changed to Dai Tsuchi. [MRP]

Doji Akiko (Experienced)

• Her abilities may be used any number of times per turn. [Erratum, Lotus Edition rulebook, 31 October 2005]

Doji Konishiko

• The once per turn restriction and bowing modify the copied action, rather than being separate on-going effects. (E.g., if the copied ability is itself copied, the copying Personality can only use the ability once a turn and must bow.) [JA, 18 January 2005]

Doji Reju

• His trait functions identically to Doji Domotai's. [Clarification, BC, 14 September 2008]

Doji Satsume

• Has the Samurai keyword. [Erratum]

Doomed Intentions

• If you have an action printed on a card in the unit, it must be used. [ZF, 14 June 2007]

Doom of the Dragon

• All references in its text to "Dragon" Personalities should be read as "Dragon Clan". [JA, 13 December 2001]

Double Agent

• The action is also retargeted as though you had played it. [DW, 28 July 1998]

Dragon of Fire

• Name changed to Fire Dragon. [MRP]

Dragon's Tooth

• Its parenthetical text is only to clarify that "Dragon" is not an abbreviation of "Dragon Clan"; its abilities may be used with a Personality who is Dragon Clan AND a Dragon. [JA, 9 February 2001; Clarified, BC, 14 September 2008]

Dragon Tattoo

• All effects of the granted ability after the placement of the Fire tokens last until the end of the game. [Erratum, JA, 29 March 2002]

Dragonfly Tattoo

• Should read, "...with Ranged Attacks or effects that unconditionally move him...". [Erratum, 24 July 1999]

Draw Them Out

• Should read, "Draw Them Out 0G 3FV Political Reaction: Play before a player who has already drawn Fate cards this turn draws one or more Fate cards due to that player's own card or Stronghold effects. The next five Fate cards that player draws this turn (including the ones about to be drawn) are discarded immediately after being drawn. Lose 1 Honor." [Erratum, JA, 20 August 2002]