Rob's Request for my Deck

[fotis]

Shokan-sama

A you kindly asked, I'm posting my deck to the list, taking some extra
time to elaborate on some strategies and thoughts. note that what I will
say is my own opinion, and anyone who wants to contribute in a
respectable way should feel more than free to do so.

First I want to differenciate between tournament play and playing for
fun. My decks in tournament play are very much different than when I
play with my friends for various reasons. First, since playing for fun
does not involve strict deck construction (most of the tournaments are
EJ) I sometimes include cards that are not legal, just for the fun of
it. Second, sometimes tournament deck are no-fun decks just because they
are only to win. Third tournement deck are made for the purposes of the
tournament, metagamed against what is expected to be a threat to you.

My collection of cards is quite big and I probably have all the cards
that would possibly fit in any kind of Dragon deck. I've tried pretty
much everything (sorry Matt but the PoWs and Gennais dont work with me),
military, many varieties of honor, Enlightenment and dishonor with
Dragons. I've tried both Strongholds with all those tactics having
played many games with each deck (this deck in this form must have
played more than 500 games). This is the combination that works best for
me, and I firmly believe its one of the best combination a Dragon deck
can have. There are other variations with Evil Portents (bombs) and the
like that work very well too, PoWs work well for some people, but this
fits me best, and it contains many cards I like to play.

This deck is a tournement deck, it served the purpose of S at M in Athens,
so its may not be at all a good deck. For Example the metagame against
FETA is minimum to 2 Sun in Shadow. On the Contrary it has a good soli
defence VS CTB and heavy military decks generally


Mountain Keep of the Dragon

Fate

3x Focus
1.Ful honor Daini From MC,
2.Sword From MC and SH
3x Avoid Fate
Although all CTB play with Norkers Sensei it has proven to be good
metagame against honor runners
3x Challenge
3x Duel
3x Art
1. Dishonor someone to Force of Will him/Test of Honor him
2. Since Yoshi's Ability is untill the end of the turn you can you Art
first to raise your Chi, then if you have drawn something big you can
challenge more easily

3x Superior Tactics
3x Entrapping
3x Block Supply Lines
3x Wind's Truth
2x Force of Will
2x Test of Honor
2x Sun in Shadow
2x Walking the Way
I dont like using all my cards 3 of a kind so it helps me grab cards i
deed. It is a winner cards very very valuable since i run all those
shugenja and it its a shame not to use them.

1x Ancestral Sword of the Dragon
1x Ancestral Sword of the Crane
Its always good to pack a second Sword for the 4 honor (Yoshi Sensei
dictates), and since I knew there were no pheonix players and my deck
suffers from Crane Turbo honor decks I put Crane Swors

1x His Most Favored
Good dishonor tech since I run TWT and with Death of the Ki-Rin it may
buy you valuable time
1x Fight for My favor
hehe sly card :)
1x Enough Talk!
1x Ring of the Void
1x Ring of Earth
1x 12th Black Scroll
If you dont have a copy, plesase get one its worth more than 3 times the
10 dollars. They cant attack without sneak and now with hantei sensei
they probly not going to have any sneaks. The other thing is that it
ends the battle immediately.
1x Toshimoko Sensei
I'm playing Hantei with the next set. Toshimoko is Crane (bleh)


Dynasty

3x Gold Mine
3x Corrupt Gold Mine
Its free gold for the first 3 turns, I know you dont like it at all. It
buys the GMs and since I have 6
personalities with 3 personal honor I dont mind taking 2 instead of 0
honor if i cant pay them with real gold.

3x Merchant Caravcan
Watch how you empty your hand with those. They may kill you
3x Small Farm
2x Sanctified Temple
2x Doji Plains
I'd prefer 1 doji and 1 Golden Sun Plain but mine has done a small trip
to England to serve the Dragons there.
1x Charter of the Dragon
1x Fortress of the Dragonfly
Heh 1 fortress was the metagame against firstr Scroll is opened for my
Yoshis. It WORKED!
1x Death of the Ki Rin
I'll probly toss that one out since all the militaries that dont play
Norkers Sensei play Kaede
1x Emperor's Peace
1x Peasant Revolt
1x Imperial Gift
1x Inheritance
1x Kolat Duplicate
1x The Hidden Emperor
3x Mirumoto Daini
3x Mirumoto Uso
3x Togashi Yoshi
3x Togashi Shinseken
3x Hitomi Nakuso
2x Kitsuki Kaagi
This guys is a lot more than he shows. Imagine if your opponent has been
a little late
and he attacks to many provinces. You can keep some battle removal, you
block there the many cards with the little force is, you kill/send home
the heavy units and then you leave the usnis with the farmland tokens,
You win the batlle and win through honor next round automatically. They
ALWAYS underestimate the tactician trait,


WARNING: This is not a Crane deck. You need some brain to get it
working. If you just try to run to 40 honor it will not work. You need
to protect your shugenja (leave a Yoshi unbwed) and know who you kill
and why you kill him. Before it start to climb for 40 honor you need to
have some control of the game first.

Well thats it....
I hope I'm not telling you stuff you already know

Kitsuki Jyaretsy
Dragon Clan Wardener

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