[dragon] Re: Dragon digest, Vol 1 #120 - 8 msgs

[Rob Bowman]

Greetings,

Domo arigato for the insight... <deep bow>.

Yes even from my distant vantage point I have noticed certain cards showing 
up more frequently.  Again I appreciate your input.

Take care,
Rob- Mirumoto Shokan


>From: JonPaul4 at aol.com
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:55:53 EDT
>
>  Greetings,
>
>  Okay I have been away some the past few weeks so forgive me if this has
>  already been covered.  I have just noticed that the Dragon Clan won at 
>the
>  New Legacy tourney with 3 in the top 8 and placed 2nd at Test of the Ruby
>  Champion with at least 2 in the final 8.
>
>  Can we get some tourney reports and some deck lists here please?  Does
>  anyone know anything that can help us the general populance?  Domo
>  arigato... <bow>.
>
>  Take care,
>  Rob- Mirumoto Shokan
>
>
>
>I attended the new legacy event, Dragon with the mirumoto box definitely 
>the
>clan to play. Of course with the drawing power it was a complete bandwagon
>clan, but that what happens when a big tourney is involved (plus money). I
>believe nearly half of the 40+ players were playing dragon. As for specific
>decklists that's up to the winning players. (who I don't think are usually
>dragon players, could be wrong) Their decks of course took maximum 
>advantage
>of the card drawing running dueling and PK.
>
>Every deck that was in the finals (not just dragon) was running exp ki rin
>shrine which should say something about how broke it is, the personal honor
>benefit is plain evil since the decks were mostly honor runners. Also with
>the solid mix of shugenja that dragon has they were running a good 
>selection
>of spells, touch of death, torrential rain, fist of osano wo.
>
>I faced the player that took third place who was running an attack/honor 
>deck
>he used mountain, and dragon tats with a few followers. Most of his force 
>was
>"on table" and didn't come from fate actions. With all the mirumoto in the
>game dragon has very few problems with honor running as their backup 
>victory,
>especially with a splash of dueling thrown in.
>
>Cheap high focus followers were in most every deck that could run them,
>mostly as stand protection, several players were running strike at the tail
>as further protective measures.
>
>The oddest thing about the tourney was the prevalence of test of might, I
>have not seen this card used in the area for a *very* long time. Most
>everyone who even had a remote ability to attack was running test of might
>since any of their bruisers or people with a clan swords can easily win. 
>Plus
>when they win the battle they receive additional honor for destroying the
>bowed unit, carefully played it generates considerably more honor than an
>iaijitsu duel, which gave me something to think about for my next deck.
>
>Gold has drastically changed traditional playstyles, each deck that placed
>was very flexible with options of either attack or honor, that said I think
>striving to have a flexible and well rounded deck is the key in gold, where
>strict one minded focus was the key before.
>
>Interesting times,
>
>Togashi Akagi
>
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Take care,
Rob- Mirumoto Shokan


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