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Ginawa
Common Personality, Imperial Edition
Force: 2 Chi: 3
Required Honor: - Gold: 4 Personal Honor: 1
Unaligned Samurai * Toturi's Army
Rare Personality, Crimson and Jade
Required Honor: 0 Gold: 8 Personal Honor: 2
Unaligned Samurai * Toturi's Army * Unique * Experienced * Ginawa gains a 4C bonus when dueling a ninja.
Limited: Bow to challenge any ninja or Kolat to a duel. The target may refuse if his controller pays 6 gold.
Rare Personality, Hidden Emperor 2
Unaligned Samurai * Unique * Experienced 2 * Toturi's Army * Ginawa gains a 4C bonus when dueling ninja. May attach a bloodsword without cost.
Reaction: Bow Ginawa when another Personality is about to cause an honor loss to a player other than the Personality's controller. Ginawa challenges that Personality to a duel that cannot be refused. If Ginawa wins the duel, the honor loss is reduced to zero.
Quotes:
"He watched the Lion armies leave for Otosan Uchi and a quiet sadness filled his heart as he wished he could ride with them... again."
"He remembers his fallen master. He remembers the eyes of the assassin who took his life."
"I seek the ninja who killed my master," he said to me, "and may the Seven Fortunes help the man who stands in my way."
"You cannot forever, ninja."
"I am learning the ways of the ninja who killed my lord, and I see his eyes in every face..."
Game Note:
The normal Ginawa is an versatile tool in any Toturi's Army deck, it is cheap, powerful, and has enough chi to be the target of a superior tactics. The experienced Ginawas are both slightly over cost for their force and chi. Although their abilities are useful against sneaky Scorpion and Ninja decks, the only good reason for including these experienced versions in a deck is for overlaying purposes. For overlaying, I would suggest three regular Ginawas and one experianced two Ginawa, the experianced one Ginawa is just not worth it.
Story Note:
Formally known as Akodo Ginawa, he became ronin in disgrace after his Akodo master was mysteriously killed. He joined up with Toturi during the Clan Wars like most other ronins in the Emerald Empire. However, Ginawa never forgot his ultimate goal, vengeance for the death of his old daimyo. Ginawa entered a state of depression after he failed to defend his second Akodo daimyo, Toturi, when he was found missing. Matsu Hiroru convinced Ginawa to help him find Toturi when he promised to deliver his master's murderer. Somehow, along the way Ginawa gotten ahold of the bloodsword Revenge.
