Children of the Empire

Children of the Empire
Product Code	L5C16
Release Date	2019-02-14
Previous	Underhand of the Emperor
Next	Warriors of the Wind
Cycle	Premium Expansions

Children of the Empire is the first Premium Expansion and contains three copies of seventy-six new cards, plus one copy of six new cards. The cover art is made by Mauro Dal Bo.

Promotional cards with full extended art were released with the Children of the Empire icon .

Cards

ID	Name	Clan	Deck	Type	Traits	Text Box
45	Akodo Toturi		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Champion. Imperial.	Action: During a conflict in which this character is participating, if you have the Imperial Favor – each player cannot play cards from his or her hand until the end of the conflict.
12	Courtly Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Duelist.	After this character wins a duel, honor it. After this character loses a duel, dishonor it. Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. The controller of the duel's winner draw 2 cards.
37	Honest Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Cavalry. Duelist.	Composure – This character gets +2. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.) Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. The controller of the duel's winner moves a character from his or her home area to the conflict.
58	Mirumoto Daishō		Conflict	Attachment	Weapon.	Restricted. Attached character may not have other restricted attachments. While attached character is dueling, your opponent cannot bid 1 or 5.
34	Social Puppeteer		Dynasty	Character	Courtier.	Composure – This character must be chosen as a target of an opponent's event, if able. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.) Action: During a conflict in which this character is participating – switch honor dials with your opponent until your next honor bid.
23	Student of War		Dynasty	Character	Bushi.	Composure – This character cannot lose fate or be discarded. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.)
68	Subdue the Spirits		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict, if you are more honorable than your opponent – until the end of the conflict, each participating character you control adds its glory to each of its skills. (This applies in addition to any modifiers to the skills of those characters due to being honored or dishonored.)
52	In Defense of Rokugan		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict, sacrifice a (friendly) defending character and choose an attacking character – set the attacking character's skill to 0 until the end of the conflict.
80	Stay Your Hand		Conflict	Event	—	Interrupt: When a duel that targets a character you control would resolve – cancel the duel.
74	Jewel of the Khamasīn		Conflict	Attachment	Item. Meishōdō.	Action: While attached character is attacking, lose 1 honor – reduce the attacked province's province strength by 1 until the end of the conflict (to a minimum of 0). (Unlimited.)
62	Hand to Hand		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict, choose an attachment on a participating character – discard the attachment. If you do, your opponent may resolve this ability.
60	Karmic Balance		Conflict	Event	Philosophy.	Play only if your honor bid is equal to an opponent's. Action: Each player shuffles his or her hand and conflict discard pile into his or her conflict deck and draws 4 cards. Remove this card from the game.
55	Try Again Tomorrow		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict in which you control a participating honored Courtier character, choose an attacking character – move that character home.
28	Sage of Gisei Toshi		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Scholar.	Action: During a conflict, if you are more honorable than your opponent, choose a participating character your opponent controls – move this character home. If you do, move that character home.
10	Heavy Ballista		Dynasty	Holding	—	Action: During a conflict in which you are defending, discard a card from your hand and choose a ready attacking character. That character's controller selects one – bow that character, or remove 1 fate from it.
72	Miyako's Undertaking		Conflict	Event	—	Play only if you have 6 or fewer honor. Action: During a conflict, choose a non-unique character in your opponent's dynasty discard pile and a participating character you control – until the end of the conflict, your character becomes a copy of the character in your opponent's discard pile.
19	Mirumoto Hitomi		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Duelist.	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel against up to two characters your opponent controls — resolve the duel. For each character that loses the duel, its controller must either dishonor or bow it.
9	Hida Yakamo		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Berserker. Duelist.	While you are less honorable than an opponent, this character does not bow as a result of a conflict resolution and cannot lose duels. (This character is not the loser of the duel, but the character of its opponent remains the winner of the duel.)
63	The Fires of Justice		Conflict	Event	—	Void role only. Reaction: After you win a conflict, your opponent chooses a participating character he or she controls. Select one – remove all fate from that character, or move any amount of fate from your opponent's fate pool onto that character.
41	Aspiring Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Duelist. Mantis Clan.	Composure – This character gets +2 glory. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.) Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. Honor the duel's winner.
59	Magnificent Triumph		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict, chose a character that had won a duel during this conflict – until the end of the conflict, that character gets +2, +2 , and cannot be chosen as the target of opponent's events.
31	Loyal Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Duelist.	After this character wins a conflict, gain 1 honor. After this character loses a conflict, lose 1 honor. Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. Treat the printed text box of the duel's loser as if it were blank (except for Traits) until the end of the conflict.
18	Tranquil Philosopher		Dynasty	Character	Monk.	Action: Choose an unclaimed ring – move 1 fate from that ring to another unclaimed ring. Then, gain 1 honor.
21	Honorable Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Duelist.	Pride. Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. The duel's winner does not bow as a result of this conflict's resolution.
69	Infiltrator's Tools		Conflict	Attachment	Item.	Attach to a Shinobi character. Attached character gains Covert. (When this character attacks, choose one character without covert. That character cannot be declared as a defender.)
39	Shiotome Heroine		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Cavalry. Battle Maiden.	Reaction: After an opponent gains 1 or more honor through a card effect – ready this character.
27	Sincere Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Duelist.	Composure – This character gets +2. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.) Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. The duel's winner is immune to events until the end of the conflict.
40	Utaku Kamoko		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Cavalry. Battle Maiden.	While this character is dishonored, do not substract its glory from its skills. Reaction: After an opponent breaks one of your provinces, choose and discard a card from your hand – ready and honor this character.
1	Kiku Matsuri		—	Province	Festival.	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a participating character controlled by each player – honor each of those characters.
22	Ikoma Orator		Dynasty	Character	Courtier.	While you are more honorable than an opponent, this character gets +2.
64	Glorious Victory		Conflict	Event	—	Reaction: After you break a province during a conflict – honor each character you control.
75	Challenge on the Fields		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel, giving each dueling character +1 for each other participating character controlled by the same player until the end of the duel. Move the duel's loser home.
65	Unmatched Expertise		Conflict	Attachment	Technique.	Fire role only. Attached character cannot receive dishonored status tokens. Forced Reaction: After attached character lose a conflict – discard this attachment.
24	Matsu Tsuko		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Berserker. Daimyō.	Action: During a conflict in which this character is attacking, if you are more honorable than your opponent – reduce the cost of the next card you play this conflict by 2.
29	Isawa Ujina		Dynasty	Character	Shugenja. Void. Elemental Master.	Forced Reaction: After the ring is claimed, choose a character with no fate – remove that character from the game. (Unlimited.)
38	Ide Negotiator		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Cavalry.	Reaction: After you reveal your honor dial – change the bid on your dial to a value 1 higher or lower than its current value (to a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 5).
66	Gift of Amaterasu		Conflict	Event	Spell. Fire.	Reaction: After you win a conflict by 5 or more skill, chose a character you control – honor that character.
7	Yasuki Procurer		Dynasty	Character	Courtier.	Action: Dishonor this character – reduce the cost of the next attachment or character you play this phase by 1.
35	Shosuro Hametsu		Dynasty	Character	Daimyō. Shinobi.	Action: Lose 1 honor – search your conflict deck for a Poison card, reveal it, and add it to your hand. Shuffle.
6	Daring Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Duelist.	While you are less honorable than an opponent, this character gets +1. Action: During a conflcit, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. Put 1 fate on the duel's winner.
3	Midnight Revels		—	Province	—	Reaction: After a conflict is declared against this province, choose a character with the highest printed cost among characters in play – bow that character.
32	Midnight Prowler		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Shinobi.	Reaction: After this character wins a conflict – look at the top 2 cards of your opponent's conflict deck. You may discard 1 of those cards.
70	Kirei-ko		Conflict	Event	—	Reaction: After a character your opponents control triggers an ability – bow that character.
50	Honed Nodachi		Conflict	Attachment	Weapon.	Attach to a Bushi character. Restricted. Reaction: After attached character wins a conflict, remove 1 fate from attached character. Your opponent chooses a participating character he or she controls – discard that character.
26	Fire Tensai Acolyte		Dynasty	Character	Shugenja. Fire.	This character cannot be declared as an attacker except during conflicts.
61	True Strike Kenjutsu		Conflict	Attachment	Technique.	Attached character gains: Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel, using each character's base instead of their total skill for this duel. Bow the duel's loser.
51	Smuggling Deal		Conflict	Event	—	Action: Give an opponent 1 honor and choose an ability on a character you control – you may trigger that ability an additional time this round (or specified period).
81	Warm Welcome		Conflict	Event	—	Play only if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's. Action: Choose a card in your conflict discard pile – play that card as if it were in your hand. If that card is an event, put it on the bottom of your conflict deck.
14	Kakita Toshimoko		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Duelist.	Interrupt: When this character would lose a conflict, initiate a duel against a character your opponent controls of his or her choice — resolve the duel. If this character wins, instead of resolving the conflict as normal, both players count 0 total skill in the conflict. (Return the contested ring to te unclaimed ring pool. The conflict has no winner.)
15	Kakita Dōjō		Dynasty	Holding	Dōjō.	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. Until the end of the conflict, the duel's loser cannot trigger its abilities. If the duel's winner is a Duelist, bow the duel's loser as well.
20	Mirumoto Dōjō		Dynasty	Holding	Dōjō.	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. Move 1 fate from the duel's loser to its owner's fate pool. If the duel's winner is a Duelist, discard that fate instead.
2	Illustrious Forge		—	Province	—	Reaction: After this province is revealed – search the top 5 cards of your conflict deck for an attachment and put it into play attached to a character you control. Shuffle.
53	Iaijutsu Master		Conflict	Attachment	Skill.	Attach to a Duelist character. Reaction: After honor dials are revealed during a duel in which attached character is participating – increase or decrease the value of your bid by 1 (to a minimum of 0).
17	Prudent Challenger		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Duelist.	Courtesy. (When this character leaves play, gain 1 fate.) Action: During a conflcit, initiate a duel – resolve the duel. Choose an attachment attached to the duel's loser and discard it.
54	Storied Defeat		Conflict	Event	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a character that has lost a duel during this conflict – bow that character. You may spend 1 fate to dishonor that character.
42	Seppun Hidden Guard		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Imperial. Yōjimbō.	Interrupt: When the effects of a character ability that targets a unique character you control would initiate, sacrifice this character – cancel those effects. The player who initiated that ability discards 1 random card from his or her hand.
4	Temple of the Dragons		—	Province	Temple.	Reaction: After this province is revealed – resolve the contested ring's effects as if you were the attacking player.
47	Miya Library		Dynasty	Holding	Imperial. Library.	Limit 1 per deck. Action: Look at the top 4 cards of your dynasty deck. You may choose an Imperial character from among them and switch it with this card (faceup). Put the cards back on top in any order.
78	Unveiled Destiny		Conflict	Attachment	Weapon.	Seeker role only. Reaction: While attached character is attacking, the contested ring gains the element of your role. (If attached character wins the conflict as an attacker, you may choose which of its ring effects to resolve.)
44	Righteous Magistrate		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Imperial. Magistrate.	Keeper role only. While this character is defending, players cannot gain or lose honor.
43	Humble Magistrate		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Imperial. Magistrate.	Seeker role only. While this character is attacking, each character with printed cost 4 or higher does not count its skill towards the resolution of this conflict.
46	Hantei XXXVIII		Dynasty	Character	Imperial. Emperor. Mythic.	No attachments. If an opponent has the Imperial Favor, discard this character. Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character — bow that character. Interrupt: When an opponent triggers an ability that chooses 1 or more targets — you choose those targets instead.
79	Defend Your Honor		Conflict	Event	—	Keeper role only. Interrupt: When the effects of an opponent's event would initiate during a conflict, initiate a duel against a character your opponent controls of his or her choice – resolve the duel. If your character is the duel's winner, cancel those effects.
5	Vassal Fields		—	Province	—	Action: During a conflict at this province – your opponent loses 1 fate.
71	Unmask		Conflict	Event	—	Void role only. Action: During a conflict, if the bid on your honor dial is higher than your opponent's, choose a participating character – discard that character's status token and set its skills to their printed values until the end of the conflict. Its controller gains 2 honor.
25	Tactician's Camp		Dynasty	Holding	Battlefield.	Each honored character you control gets +1 .
8	Siege Captain		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Commander. Engineer.	—
73	Shinjo Ambusher		Conflict	Character	Bushi. Cavalry.	Reaction: After you play this character into a conflict – the attacked province cannot trigger its abilities this conflict.
67	Severed From the Stream		Conflict	Event	Spell. Void.	Action: Perform a glory count. The player who loses the glory count returns all rings in his or her claimed ring pool to the unclaimed ring pool.
48	Proving Ground		Dynasty	Holding	Dōjō.	Reaction: After a character you control wins a duel – draw 1 card. (Limit twice per round.)
13	Paragon of Grace		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Courtier.	Action: During a conflict in which this character is participating on your side alone – your opponent chooses and discards 1 card from his or her hand. If this character is honored, that card is chosen at random instead.
76	Leniency		Conflict	Event	—	Air role only. Interrupt: When you would resolve a ring effect, choose a character with printed cost 2 or lower in your provinces – instead of resolving the ring effect, put that character into play.
11	Ichigenkin Soloist		Dynasty	Character	Courtier.	Composure – This character cannot be chosen as the target of an opponent's triggered ability. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.)
33	Attendant to the Emperor		Dynasty	Character	Courtier. Imperial.	—
57	Solitary Strength		Conflict	Attachment	—	Air role only. If attached character is participating in a conflict with 1 or more other characters you control, discard this attachment. Reaction: After attached character wins a conflict – gain 1 honor.
82	Prayers to Ebisu		Conflict	Event	—	Action: Each player with 19 or more honor loses 4 honor. Each player with 6 or fewer honor gains 4 honor. Draw 1 card.
36	Outskirsts Sentry		Dynasty	Character	Bushi. Scout.	Reaction: After a character is moved to the conflict in which this character is participating, choose a participating character – honor that character.
77	Kujira's Hireling		Conflict	Character	Bushi. Rōnin.	Action: Spend 1 fate and select one – this character gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase, or this character gets -1 and -1 until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this ability. (Unlimited.)
16	Kitsuki Counselor		Dynasty	Character	Courtier.	Composure – This character gets +1 and +1. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.)
49	Guardian of Virtue		Conflict	Character	Bushi.	Air role only. Composure – This character does not bow as a result of conflict resolution in conflicts in which it is defending. (You have composure if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's.)
56	Civil Discourse		Conflict	Event	—	Earth role only. During a conflict, initiate a duel against a character your opponent controls of his or her choice – resolve the duel. Until the end of the conflict, the duel's loser gains: "Increase the cost to play each card in your hand by 1."
30	Ancestral Shrine		Dynasty	Holding	Shrine.	Action: Return 1 or more rings from your claimed ring pool to the unclaimed ring pool – you gain 1 honor for each ring returned this way.