Courts of the Crane Clan

As a bushi, she counts herself for her ability. A lion could obstinate recruit, obstinate recruit, beiona gaining 2 fate, and then still have 4 fate.

EDIT: missed the "other" in her text, my bad.

Also note, he doesn't need to be present in the losing conflict to use his reaction.

Claim air with Hotaru on offense, then claim air again for 6 honor.

Disgrace? I'm not sure I follow. Winning a political conflict with her means gaining 4 honor with air, honoring 2 of your guys with fire, drawing 2 cards with earth, burning 2 fate with void, or bowing out 2 enemies with water. That's an incredibly powerful ability.

Crane clan has the best pants in Rokugan

I think it's about equal given what we've seen so far from the previews. Phoenix draws a card, but that card can get discarded from ring of earth and spies at court. We've not seen anything that interacts with your opponent's conflict deck yet, so you're revealing a card, possibly causing your oppon...

If you're lucky enough to get 3 of her out and start the honor train rolling....

And you get an honor token! And you get an honor token! Everybody gets an honor token! Oprah.gif

The character that gets bowed from this doesn't need to be in the conflict either.