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Disguised Protector
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Disguised Protector
Type: Character
Cost: 4
Military Skill: 3
Political Skill: 3
Glory: 1
Clan: Scorpion
Bushi. Shinobi. YÅjimbÅ.
Action: During a conflict in which this character is participating – each player adds the bid on his or her honor dial to his or her skill total during this conflict’s resolution.
Her face might be bare, but she was never without a mask.
Deck: Dynasty
Number: 67
Illustrator: Le Vuong
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3 Comments
This is a neat little mechanic to encourage your own high bidding, which is cool. But I dunno how the idea of being dishonourable means you fight/debate better reflects a disguised bodyguard. I'm not strongly linked to the theme of this game as it is, so any explanation would help.
It's a little strange, but I think I see what they're going for here. Being a yojimbo, as her name already suggests, means that she's a martial samurai who's job it is to serve as a bodyguard to a more important samurai. But, as her name and shinobi trait implies and her card art makes clear, she's not openly presenting herself as a bushi, indeed it doesn't even seem that she's openly presenting herself as a Scorpion... most likely she's presenting herself as a ronin. Infiltration in general is a dishonorable act, and the Honor Bid / Honor Dial is supposed to represent how dishonorable and devious you are being relative to your opponent (hence why bidding higher gets you more cards but makes you give Honor to your opponent, and having a higher number is important for cards like I Can Swim), so I think the idea is that the relative honor bids (since it's a mirrored effect, they still only have a relative effect) in the case of this card also reflect how dishonorably successful the Disguised Protector has been at infiltrating the enemy and setting themselves up in a perfect position to protect their charge, either physically or with an abuse of earned trust.
I would wonder why exactly this card is even a yojimbo though or referenced as such when nothing about its card text reflects it protecting other Scorpion cards, even indirectly, but that has been pretty consistent for Scorpion yojimbo so far.
Nice to Shinobi trait again.
Not sure I'd run this unless trying to build a deck around that trait, and I don't think we're in a position where that is worth doing yet.