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[Fotis Flevotomos]

Brothers,

It has been sometime since I last posted, I recently moved houses, and it took
us some time to setup the computers again, but I'm back finally.

Finally, the new story arc is being introduced, Spirit Wars is an awesome new
expansion (especially if you take in mind that Gold+SW will be our cardpool
from the release of Gold till GenCon2001).

I believe dueling is back in the scene (and will stay for good in the
post-golden era) and many of us that love it and have left it to the side for
all this time may be willing to give it a try again.

As for the Spirit Wars prerelease, even though I come a bit late to this issue,
I believe it has been one of the best pre-releases I have ever played,
everything was ballance to a large degree and all three strongholds were
interesting and fun to play, leaving the same opportunities for all, which made
us forget the previous Kosaten Shiro fiasco.

For constructed play, the Shrine of the Spirits seems to be a little bit too
strong, but it wont be around for much and you can consider it the bandwagoner's
last gift from the designer. The Pheonix stronghold is awesone, tottally, but
it take brains to run it and I dont think we will be seeing it all too often.
Finally, the Lion stronghold is not bad, not very good either. Especially in
gold that the Lion will have a bunch of cheap tacticians to run (0/4 for 6g and
2/4 for 7g is very cheap for gold standards) plus Lion can use Akodo Sensei
with the Terrain Breaker.

About our clan now.

Tho Topaz Champuion is really cool but the 8HR freaked me out. he's
definatelly a non-3x
Uso exp is definately too expensive, but he gets in for the fun of it.
Miya Yemi, Just have her in mind for the post Gold era where the favor doesnt
do evrerything.
Tamori Chosai, he's tottaly awesome but I guess his 6HR is the drawback for 
his cheapness
Tamori Shaitung's numbers sound fine, only that I havent put much thought into
him yet.
Togashi Mio is not all that bad, not good either. He fits to strategies I'm not
into.
Fields of the Sun and Great Crater(bye bye March and Enemy of my Enemy) are of
some utility.
Revering the Past shouts for Shiryo no Togashi
Shiryo no Nyoko, she gets into the Ancestor book, not my deck though....
Warriors of the Great Climb, gets easily pumped, 5G is a bit bit of a problem
though...
Better and Honorable are Dragon weapons, they have a nice story, but Judgement
is better, they are nice in fun decks though.
All new Tattooes are somehow interesting, there is a lot of go-home action,
some non-targeting which works with Yodin Sensei.

Finally, what rang my bell and as I have seen, not just mine is Akodo Sensei.
When I went to the first prerelease that I played and someone told me what it
did I begun from this moment constructing a strategy to use the him. I have
been trying to make a Tactician Honor runner for quite some time but it lacked
the strength that Akodo sensei can give.


So, Here we go:


Iron mountain


Dynasty

Personalities:
3x Mirumoto Daini
3x Mirumoto Uso
3x Hitomi Nakuso
2x Kitsuki Yasu
2x Tamori Chosai
1x Hitomi Reju
1x Doji Reju Exp2
1x Uso Exp
1x Hitomi Exp3

Regions:
3x Shinsei's Shrine

Events:
1x Imperial Gift
1x Inheritance
1x Kolat Duplicate
1x Revering the Past

Holdings:
3x Small Farm
3x GoldMine
2x Hiruma Dojo
1x Charter of the Dragon
3x Merchant Caravan
1x Temple of Divine Influence
2x Jade Works
1x Fortress of the Dragonfly



Fate:

1x Akodo Sensei
1x 12th Black Scroll
1x Rinfg of the Void
1x Ancestral Sword of the Dragon
1x Currupted Jade Sliver
1x Hitomi Technique
1x Superior Tactics
1x Come one at a Time
1x White Shire Plain
1x Shiryo no Togashi
2x Walking the Way
2x Enough Talk
2x The Sun in Shadow
3x Iaijutsu Duel
3x Iaijutsu Challenge
3x For the Empire
3x Entrapping Terrain
3x Evil Portents
3x Block Supply Lines
3x Superior Strategist
3x The Sun Returns 


It wins a lot, its fun to play, you have to be carefull because it cant do
overkills in duels but the focus values are quite high. Your chances to
Portents Bomb are fairly high, since you have 5 cards that can eventually
fetch them. I believe that with a little bit of tunning, which I'm not into
doing since there are no EJ tournaments around, it can be blasting...


Have fun,

Fotis I. Flevotomos
Kitsuki Jyaretsu
Dragon Clan Wardener