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Ninja Follower - PreEAW

nkzack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:02:27 GMT

Hidden Moon Dojo

Dynasty
Yogo Reiko Exp
Bayushi Tsubaki
3 Bayushi Keirei
3 Bayushi Suboru
3 Shosuro Sogetsu
3 Shosuro Nishu
3 Bayushi Arashii
3 Shosuro Takuma
3 Shosuro Tamoko

3 Geisha House
2 Border Village
3 Famous Bazaar
Traveling Peddler
2 Counting House
Head of Fudo
Limbs of Fudo
Belly of Fudo

Bayushi's Guidance
Fire Dragon's Guidance
The New Order

Fate
3 Flawless Assassin
3 Apprentice Shinobi
3 The Silent Blade

3 Walk in Shadows
3 Black Hearts, Red Blades
3 Silent Rot
3 Shadow Plays
3 Unexplained Illness
3 Strike from the Shadows
3 Only Actions Speak
3 Peasant Vengeance
3 Determined Force
Sneak Attack
Subtle Sting

Ring of the Void
Ring of Water

Nishu and Tamoko's are there to round out the gold curve and ensure that you have several warm bodies for the Rule of Presence. From the lineup, you can see that only Keirei costs 6 gold (with clan discount). Majority of your personalities cost 5 gold with the clan discount. Bayushi's Guidance is meant to be used as an early personality removal, while the Fire Dragon's Guidance is to give you an additional battle action that can potentially kill people.

Strike from the Shadows and BHRB are there to provide you with additional card draw. Your battle actions will consist of Silent Blade, Silent Rot, Unexplained Illness, Peasant Vengeance, Only Actions Speak and Determined Force. Now, the other cards are also for their battle actions, but the mentioned cards are ones that will help you gain an advantage in battle. Before you go off saying that OAS and DetForce are almost impossible to find, they're some of the best cards in the environment right now. If you are having a difficult time acquiring these cards, you can substitute cards that will give you more battle actions. Nightshade touch might be a good substitute since you have Nishu and Tamoko to bow for them. Another action that you can use would be Fall Back. That way, you can commit your entire army to the attack, and if your opponent doesn't defend, you can use Fall Back, combined with Flawless Assassin and Keirei to take multiple provinces, while giving you some personalities on defense.

Unexplained Illness and Subtle Sting are meant to actually prevent personalities from going into battle while clearing a path for you on the attack. Don't be afraid to lose a little bit of honor from the Sting as your main goal is to attack relentlessly.

Comment away :)

A new form of Power (Uji's dishonor control)

Dark_Uji — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:04:59 GMT

So its be a while and I just wanted to show you guys how I am planning to update the "Promise of Power". Magi's rock now. I'm torn as to run any shuggies at all but touch o' death and whispers are just too powerful not too. Let me know what ya think.

A new form of Power (Uji's dishonor control) (0)

By: The Black Tiger of Shadows

Posted: Sep 08 15:01:15

Description:
Open bow heavy with plenty of dishonor. Allows for heavy attacking with little to no threat of battle. Still has a lot of dynasty honor hits (Kaz, Yoshihara, Hisoka) but can battle better due to control aspects. Key to victory: Hanayashiki or Yogo Rieko cause I need to be able to use bow abilities and then straighten and attack. Also super helpful on the deffence for stopping attacks by bowing key threats, or non dishonored guys. Pick it apart guys.

Deck format: Celestial, Open

Deck type: Competitive

Palace of Crimson Shadows

Dynasty (41)

Fate (41)

Average focus: 2.61

EaW: Dishonor Magistrates

Bolt Crank — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:40:29 GMT

And... here is the ground work for my other EaW deck. Dishonor out of SSK thansk to new support. Additionally, this is also the come back deck. The deck you win at the final province due to blanketed forest + Restoring Order, The Laws Strength, Superior Mobility, and A Stained Cleansed.

The deck is designed to slow the game down, I blow up my own guys, to kill yours, I bring mine back with Ritsuko + Will and do things like dishonor them, if that happens in battle that's also a -2 honor loss depending.

Ultimately, this one is really the... "I'm going to take you to -20 kicking and screaming without having to do complex math myself".

1 Seven Stings Keep

# Dynasty (41)

# Events (3)
1 Alter History
1 Successful Bounty
1 Conspiracy

# Regions (2)
1 Hanayashiki
1 Toshi Ranbo

# Holdings (15)
3 Offices of the Emerald Magistrates
3 Geisha House
1 Chugo Seido
1 Counting House
1 Kitsune Den
3 Rich Coffers
1 Traveling Peddler
2 Hidden Entrance

# Personalities (21)
1 Bayushi Hisoka - exp
1 Bayushi Jutsushi - exp
1 Bayushi Miyako - exp2
3 Bayushi Darisu
2 Bayushi Hikoko
3 Bayushi Jutsushi
2 Bayushi Kahoku
2 Bayushi Himaru
1 Yogo Kazunori
2 Bayushi Sorii
3 Shosuro Ritsuko

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (40)
2 A Stain Cleansed
3 Restoring Order
3 The Law's Strength
3 The Light of Justice
3 Under Arrest
3 Shame Never Dies
3 Game of Sincerity
1 Relentless Conviction
3 Shameful and Cowardly
2 Desperate Battle
3 Superior Mobility
3 Blanketed Forest
3 Will
3 Reinforce the Gates
2 Cowed by Wisdom

# Rings (1)
1 Ring of the Void

EaW: BS PK

Bayushi Akai — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:14:54 GMT

Fortress of Blackened Sight

Dynasty (40)

Celestials (1)
Bishamon's Guidance -The +2F really helps, and it's a free kill action later on

Events (2)
Alter History -Can be any honour meta, I like this one as it can give favour control in military matchups. Need more testing to see if it's really even needed
Consecration of Steel

Holdings (15)
3x Geisha House
3x Border Village
2x Barley Farm
2x Wooden Barricade
2x War Encampment
1x Kaiu Smithy
1x Travelling Peddler
1x Counting House

Personalities (22)
1x Bayushi Miyako XP2 -She kills any non-Duelist in the game. She's awesome even without being a Magistrate
1x Yogo Rieko XP -Too versatile to not play. She's basically 3 Personalities in one slot
1x Bayushi Jutsushi XP
1x Bayushi Hisoka XP
1x Tsuruchi Gidayu
3x Bayushi Darisu
3x Tsuruchi Sanjo -The second best non-Unique Magistrate in the game. I tried out Tatsuhiko, and Sanjo's send home is simply too good
3x Bayushi Jutsushi -The best non-Unique Magistrate in the game
3x Bayushi Hikoko
3x Bayushi Sorii -In here because I'm trying it with Steel on Steel
2x Bayushi Kahoku -He's okay, legally I have to play him so he makes the cut

Fate

Items (7)
3x Rising Sun Blade -As game defining as Taoist was when it got printed, it brought sexy back to weapons
3x Blades of the Fallen Phoenix -A personal choice, alternatives are Storm-Forged Blade, Seppun Blade and Radiant Steel
1x Chagatai's Armor -I don't like playing this card, but I can't argue about it's effectiveness when it hits the table

Strategies (29)
3x Restoring Order
3x The Law's Strength
3x Cowed by Wisdom -It's sometimes a bow action!
3x The Light of Justice -Can be used on the attack. Straightens the unit. Makes baby Jebus cry. It replaced Reinforce, and I love Reinforce. Don't play it if people are using Swift Counterattack
3x Stolen Property -So amazing in a environment where people regularly attach 8g weapons
3x Defensive Nature -Most versatile action in the game
2x Superior Mobility
2x Shameful and Cowardly -Was playing 3, found it was too slow to really warrant it, and I had an easy enough time dishonouring
2x Deathly Aura -Very little difference between it and Sneak in the deck, so it may as well be this
2x Steel on Steel -Only playing 2 as I'm wary of dueling locally, worth playing 3 if your local players don't duel
2x Test of Sincerity -Die or be set up for my future kill actions. It's an example of the decks hunger for cards, but well worth it[/]
1x Relentless Conviction

Followers (2)
2x Bitter Lies Student -It's Rising Sun Blade 4+5!

Rings (2)
1x Ring of Water
1x Ring of the Void -When you're using Cowed and a movement card to kill someone, playing 4 cards in one battle isn't hard

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First things first, this deck will not dishonour anyone out. Ever. It is a Straight Military deck that kills entire units without trying very hard. It's a PK deck that's total BS, and it runs out of Blackened Sight. It's BS PK

This deck defends like a ***, generally killing anything that ever opposes it. It attacks by giving someone a Rising Sun Blade, and then using Naval or Deathly Aura to make defending look dumb. The majority of its kill ignores attachments and force, two of the primary factors in the CE environment, though it pays for this by requiring either set up via dishonour or eating cards from your hand.

The box Limited ability is okay, sometimes helps you get the correct pieces of the puzzle, mainly makes you sigh over how crap the next two turns are.
The Battle action is hella lame, you'll rarely be able to bow anyone who matters.
The 8PS is awesome, and combined with the Limited action makes it worth running it over SSK.

Options for the deck are increase the kill actions with Fearless Defense and A Stain Cleansed, increase the control with Control and Paid Off or increase the honour loss element with Ambush and Conspiracy.

EaW: Keyword Neutral kill everything

Bolt Crank — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:27:33 GMT

Okay, so, just to get peoples minds going. This is the third deck that I've built today. These are probably the three I'm going to tinker and refine out till I figure out which one works best. The point of this deck is just killing people. I mean, it's possible to get a ranged 9 vs chi... so... yeah, narrow cliffs pulls it's weight. I might actually consider that card taht drops the terrain first.

1 Fortress of Blackened Sight

# Dynasty (40)

# Events (2)
1 The War of Dark Fire
1 The New Order

# Celestials (1)
1 Bishamon's Guidance

# Regions (2)
1 Farmlands
1 Hidden Valley

# Holdings (15)
3 Border Village
1 Counting House
3 Geisha House
3 Barley Farm
3 Rich Coffers
1 Traveling Peddler
1 Expendable Resources

# Personalities (20)
3 Goju Katsume
3 Bayushi Arashii
1 Bayushi Paneki - exp5
1 Bayushi Jutsushi - exp
1 Bayushi Miyako - exp2
3 Bayushi Kahoku
1 Bayushi Ishikura
1 Yogo Rieko - exp
3 Yogo Rieko
3 Bayushi Momochi

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (34)
3 Shameful and Cowardly
3 Settling the Homeless
3 Echoes of Disgrace
3 Game of Sincerity
1 Relentless Conviction
3 Arrows Do Not Falter
3 Determined Force
3 Final Duty
3 Narrow Cliffs
3 Outer Walls
3 The Cost of Pride
3 Shameful Injury

# Items (7)
1 Tsuruchi's Legacy
1 Yagimaki's Fist
3 Rising Sun Blade
1 Rekai's Yumi
1 Armor of the Ryu

EaW: Ring Manipulation Kensai

Bolt Crank — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:37:47 GMT

Here is my take on EAW Kensai. Now that egg of panku has it's database up, I can tinker with this idea. The plan, is to keep a full hand using wonderful ring manipulation from a certain spell. In some dry flips, it performs very well mid - to late game. Like all kensai decks, it's a little weak vs the blitz. But our new stronghold helps somewhat with that.

Oh yeah, inadvertenly, the focus values are rather insane. After I built this, I realize I probably need to stick in Yarijitsu x3. I might take down some of the 1x cards that are open based to do so.

1 Fortress of Blackened Sight

# Dynasty (41)

# Events (2)
1 Wisdom Gained
1 Inheriting an Heirloom

# Regions (1)
1 Takaikabe Mura

# Holdings (17)
3 Barley Farm
3 Geisha House
3 Rich Coffers
3 Secluded Outpost
1 Tetsu Kama Mine
1 Traveling Peddler
1 Counting House
2 Imperial Artificer

# Personalities (21)
3 Bayushi Himaru
1 Bayushi Ishikura
1 Bayushi Jutsushi - exp
1 Bayushi Kayama
1 Bayushi Miyako - exp2
1 Bayushi Orijitte
3 Bayushi Shigehiro
1 Yogo Kazunori
3 Yogo Rieko
1 Yogo Rieko - exp
3 Bayushi Sakai
2 Shosuro Ritsuko

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (23)
3 Hundred-Fold Cut
2 Pinned Down
1 Stay Put
3 Unstoppable Cut
1 Inexorable Defeat
1 Justly Earned Victory
1 Outmatched
1 Planned Adversity
1 Relentless Conviction
1 Subtle Sting
1 The Thriving Light
1 Ultimate Sacrifice
3 Shameful and Cowardly
3 Scouting Far Afield

# Items (10)
1 Armor of the Ryu
1 Heavenly Ninja-to of the Scorpion
3 Blade of Perfection
1 Rekai's Yumi
3 Seppun Blade
1 Fubatsu No-Dachi

# Spells (3)
3 One with the World

# Rings (5)
1 Ring of Air
1 Ring of Earth
1 Ring of Fire
1 Ring of the Void
1 Ring of Water

EaW Kensai deck draft 1

Bayushi Shiken — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:15:54 GMT

I'm not totally familiar with all the EaW cards yet, but i've made a kensai deck and so far it hasn't lost a single game no matter what it plays against or who is playing it.

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Fortress of Blackened Sight

Personalities (21)

1x Paneki

1x Miyako

1x Ishikura

1x Kayama

1x Orijitte

1x Eisaku

3x Shigehiro

3x Mago

3x Eiyu

3x Sakai

3x Momochi

Holdings (15)

3x Geisha House

1x Tetsu Kama Mine

1x Counting House

2x Border Village

2x War Encampment

1x Rich Coffers

1x Traveling Peddler

1x Kaiu Smithy

2x Secluded Outpost

1x Akodo's Grave

Regions/Events (4)

Emma-O’s Guidance

Open Shore Market

The New Order

Takaikabe Mura

Actions (25)

3x Sneak Attack

3x 100-Fold Cut

3x Yarijutsu

3x Rout

3x Unstoppable Cut

2x Pinned Down

3x Unwavering Assault

2x Retribution

3x The Cost of Pride

2x Unpredictable Strategy

Items (12)

1x Awakened Blade

3x Blade of Perfection

2x Rising Sun Blade

2x Blades of the Fallen Phoenix

1x Infamous Blade

3x Yari

Rings (2)

Ring of Water

Ring of the Void

i've made a few changes to the deck since, like taking out Ring of the Void and getting a third Unpredictable Strategy...i think i even fit Reinforce the Gates in by taking out Retribution.

I can't really express just how happy i am with this deck.

POCS Magistrate control

yogo tiger — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:08:11 GMT

this is the deck i've been running lately and in both of the play groups i've tested it in, it has done relatively well against every thing thrown at it. Just trying to see what others would use to improve it.

POCS

BH/BK

Bayushi guidance

Emma-O's Guidance

The war of Dark Fire

1x Deeds and Words

2x counting house

3x Geisha hosue

3x Barley Farm

3x Border Village

3x Corrupt Official

3x Bayushi Jutsushi

3x Bayushi Takagi

3x Bayushi Saka

3x Bayushi Hirose

2x Bayushi Kurumi

2x Bayushi Yoshihara

2x Yogo Reiko

1x Yogo Reiko xp

1x Bayushi Hisoka

1x Yogo Kazunori

1x Bayushi Paneki

1x Bayushi Kurumi xp

1x Soshi Miroki

Fate;

1xRing of the Void

1xThe Thriving Light

1xRelentless Conviction

1xTalisman of Tengoku

3x Scout Armor

3x Seeking the Guilty

3x Unfortunate Incident

3x Pull the String

3x Veiled Menance

3x Outer Walls

3x Ramifications

3x Shame Never Dies

3x Ramifications

3x Magistrates Accustations

3x Ambush

2x Restoring Order

2x Unwavering commitment

2x test of sincerity

PoCS Peaceful Diashonor

Encor — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:25:49 GMT

I tried to include various means to control my own Honor without reaching for Fosuta or other Shadowlands stuff. This deck runs several battle actions - most of them are presenceless, but some require presence - in that case Fujitani is usually meant to go.

I'm not sure if the spells fit this deck. I'd also like to cut the deck to 40/40 but I don't know what to drop.

I haven't included Bayushi's Guidance because this deck was orginally created against low Honor clans. However, it can easily take place of Emma-O's Guidance.

# Dynasty (41)

# Events (2)
1 Last Line of Defense
1 Winter's Embrace

# Celestials (1)
1 Emma-O's Guidance

# Regions (2)
1 Well-Defended Border
1 Public Garden

# Holdings (15)
3 Geisha House
3 Barley Farm
2 Corrupt Officials
2 Counting House
1 Deeds and Words
2 Diamond Mine
2 Traveling Peddler

# Personalities (21)
1 Bayushi Hisoka - exp
1 Bayushi Kurumi - exp
1 Yogo Kazunori
3 Bayushi Jutsushi
3 Bayushi Komiya
3 Bayushi Shigeru
3 Shosuro Orikasa
2 Shosuro Rokujo
1 Soshi Miroki
2 Yogo Fujitani
1 Yogo Rieko - exp

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (36)
3 Ambush
3 Outer Walls
3 Settling the Homeless
3 Shameful Injury
3 Oppression
3 Arranged Guilt
3 Deceit and Subterfuge
3 Inexplicable Challenge
3 Intercession
3 Pull the String
3 Unfortunate Incident
3 Veiled Menace

# Items (1)
1 Iweko's Journals

# Spells (3)
3 Whispers of the Forgotten

# Rings (1)
1 Ring of the Void

EAW initial look at Kensai (adapted from the Dragon)

Evad2112 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:00:28 GMT

I've never tried playing Kensai before, but I'm pretty gung ho about it looking at the new stronghold and what we have coming out. As I have no idea what would be a decent deck build, I took a look at the Dragon deck that did well at Gencon and thought about how Scorpion could adapt it, trying to add some more card draw and take into account I'm going second most likely. I know there are still cards in EAW that I'm not aware of, so I guess I'm asking for those that do to throw out some suggestions. Here's my initial list:

Fortress of Blackened Sight

Dynasty (40)

The Lost Path x1 (other thoughts are Bishamon's Guidance, Water Dragon Guidance, our guidance)
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Imperial Census x1 (or the new event I saw that bows out boxables on attacks for two turns I believe)

I am Ready x1

Inheriting an Heirloom x1

Plains of Resolution x2 --- or drop 1 for the new region that attaches a 0f follower to a kensai

Secluded Outpost x3

Geisha House x3

War Encampment x3

Permanent Encampment x2

Counting House x1

Traveling Peddler x1

Chugo Seido x1

Tetsu Kama Mine x1

Bayushi Sakai x3
Bayushi Shigehiro x3
Bayushi Eiyu x2 (I may be lacking the odd focus values though)

Bayushi Himaru x2

Kuronada x2

Hida Yaheiko x1

Bayushi Miyako x1

Tamago x1

Bayushi Orijitte x1

Tsuruchi Gidayu x1
Bayushi Kayama x1

Bayushi Ishikura x1

Fate (40)

Only Actions Speak x3

Yarijutsu x3

Fall Back x2

Inexorable Defeat x2 (been wanting to try this, but never could fit it into ninja)

Unwavering Assault x2

Cost of Pride x2

Kami Unleashed x2

Hundred Fold Cut x3

Retribution x2

Split the Reed x2 (want to give this a shot given I think the field will be attachment heavy)

Blade of Perfection x3

Seppun Blade x3

Rising Sun Blade x3

Awakened Blade x1

Heavenly Ninja-to of the Scorpion x1

Chain and Sword x1

Armor of the Ryu x1

Chagatai's Armor x1

Hand of the Obsidian Dragon x1

Ring of Water x1

Ring of Void x1

dd's PoCS dh deck

d_d — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:15:12 GMT

Here's my deck. Take a look. Get some ideas. Let me know what you think.

3 Ambush

3 Test of Sincerity

3 Pull the String

3 Unfortunate Incident

3 Arranged Guilt

3 Shame Never Dies (easily pulled off with Settling the Homeless)

3 Restoring Order

1 Relentless Conviction

3 Ramifications

3 Outer Walls

3 Settling the Homeless

3 Veiled Menace

1 Ring of the Void

2 Deciet and Subterfuge

2 Control (this card owns if you have enough samurai to run it)

1 Iweko's Journals

Dynasty:

1 Conspiracy

1 Imperial Ambassadorship

1 Bayushi's Guidance

1 The Empire Awaits

1 Wisdom Gained

3 Bayushi Jutsushi

3 Bayushi Hikoko (love this guy. He disses peeps Jutsushi can't)

3 Bayushi Saka

1 Bayushi Hisoka - exp

3 Bayushi Komiya

1 Yogo Kazunori

3 Soshi Yoshihara

2 Shosuro Orikasa

2 Barley Farm

2 Corrupt Officials

3 Geisha House

2 Deeds and Words

2 Counting House

2 Traveling Peddler

3 Regional Treasurer

Aside:

1 Palace of Crimson Shadows

1 Bamboo Harvesters

1 Border Keep

Kensai Gold Scheme (need a few suggestions)

Bayushi Shiken — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:16:38 GMT

And basically that's it. Whenever i put it together i end up with like...1 war encampment, 1 tetsu kama mine and maybe 2 Permanent Encampments...

I don't think it's going well. i need something that runs smooth, but i like to include Kaiu Smithy, Akodo's Grave, Counting House, Peddler and Chugo Seido.

Maybe 15 holdings tops, any help?

Uji's Promise of Power (PK Dishonor) Version 3

Dark_Uji — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:20 GMT

Uji's Promise of Power (PK Dishonor) Version 3 (0)

By: The Black Tiger of Shadows

Posted: Jul 26 16:03:30

Description:
Deck has been doing quite well, and honor decks call their moms when I play this but it has still had trouble with speed. I was trounced in casual play by a mediocer crab player and it was aggrivating to say the least. I splashed back in the nine cards that stop speed. Will let you know if it changes the outcome this thursday. Any comments would be appriciated.

Deck format: Celestial

Deck type: Competitive

Palace of Crimson Shadows

Dynasty (40)

Fate (40)

Celestials (1)

Bayushi's Guidance

Event (3)

A New Year

Last Line of Defense

Winter's Embrace

Holding (13)

Personality (22)

Bayushi Hikoko

Bayushi Hirose

Bayushi Hisoka (Experienced)

Bayushi Jutsushi

Bayushi Kurumi (Experienced)

Bayushi Saka

Isawa Fosuta (Experienced)

Yogo Rieko (Experienced)

Region (1)

Hanayashiki

Spell (8)

Touch of Death

Walking the Way

Whispers of the Forgotten

Strategy (32)

Relentless Conviction

Restoring Order

Seeking the Guilty

Settling the Homeless

Average focus: 2.58

Kensai! (Too much meta?)

Bayushi Shiken — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:47:28 GMT

There's a lot of honor meta in this deck, and a little bit vs dishonor as well. i've had 50/50 games vs crane dueling honor and LSC decks before, now with all the meta i've winning 80% of games vs both. haven't got to play it vs dishonor yet. Military the deck still seems to perform well as long as the weapons flow out (which is the fundimental issue with kensai decks). anyway, here it is.

1 Hidden Moon Dojo

# Dynasty (42)

# Events (4)
1 Consecration of Steel
1 Inheriting an Heirloom
1 I Am Ready
1 The War of Dark Fire

# Celestials (1)
1 Bayushi's Guidance

# Holdings (15)
1 Akodo's Grave
1 Chugo Seido
1 Corrupt Officials
1 Counting House
3 Geisha House
2 Secluded Outpost
1 Traveling Peddler
2 Barley Farm
2 Deeds and Words
1 Kitsune Den

# Personalities (22)
1 Bayushi Eisaku - exp
3 Bayushi Eiyu
3 Bayushi Mago
1 Bayushi Ishikura
1 Bayushi Kayama
3 Bayushi Minoru
3 Bayushi Sakai
3 Bayushi Momochi
1 Bayushi Paneki - exp5
1 Yogo Rieko - exp
2 Bayushi Arashii

# Fate (42)

# Strategies (31)
2 Determined Force
3 Hundred-Fold Cut
3 Mastery of the Blade
2 Pinned Down
3 Sneak Attack
3 Yarijutsu
2 Unwavering Assault
2 Overwhelming Pressure
2 Swift Sword Cut
2 Unpredictable Strategy
3 The Direct Approach
2 Only Actions Speak
2 Justly Earned Victory

# Items (11)
1 Chain and Sword
1 Infamous Blade
3 Rising Sun Blade
2 Iron Fan
2 Blades of the Fallen Phoenix
2 Tempered No-Dachi

it's a lot of 2's, but i've been testing to see which cards i'd rather use etc. when i thin out the actions, i'll be running more 3's.

HMD Family Planning

Bayushi Akai — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:50:33 GMT

Hidden Moon Dojo

Dynasty (40)

Celestials (1)
1 Bayushi's Guidance

Events (3)
1 Imperial Ambassadorship
1 War of Dark Fire
1 The New Order

Holdings (13)
3 Geisha House
3 Barley Farm
3 Famous Bazaar
1 Belly of Fudo
1 Limbs of Fudo
1 Counting House
1 Traveling Peddler

Personalities (23)
1 Bayushi Tsubaki
1 Yogo Rieko XP
3 Soshi Ganrou
3 Bayushi Arashii
3 Bayushi Keirei
3 Shosuro Takuma
3 Yogo Rieko
3 Shosuro Sogetsu
3 Shosuro Nishu

Fate (40)

Strategies (30)
3 Silent Rot
3 Shadow Plays
3 Determined Force
3 Unexplained Illness
3 Walk in Shadows
3 Retribution
3 Strike from the Shadows
3 Sneak Attack
2 Charge
2 Dramatic Assassination
1 Subtle Sting
1 Subversive Whispers

Followers (10)
3 Flawless Assassin
3 Apprentice Shinobi
3 The Silent Blade
1 Shadowed Steel

____________________

This is a 100% pure madness Blitz deck. It makes a Personality turn 1, and takes a Province turn 2. Then it does the same turn 3. Both of these times you will hit a Personality, and if you are lucky your opponent will be seeing mostly Holdings. For those times when your opponent's deck refuses to co-operate, Bayushi's Guidance and Subervise Whispers ensure they can't make whomever they see. Your opponent having Civility at the right time kicks your ass. Your opponent flipping all guys at the right time kicks your ass. If neither of these things happens, you will make your opponent question why he even bothers trying to play the game. When this deck works it is the evilist kind of fun

You do not want to battles. Unexplained Illness, Subtle Sting, Tsubaki, Dramatic Assassination and Walk in Shadows makes sure your opponent's peeps don't get to defend where you attack. The deck runs 6 Sneaks, so if you need to fight you do it on your terms. It is rare for an opponent to make more than one Personality a turn against this deck. The big trick to remember is that neither Shadow Plays nor Nishu specify Ninja Personality, so you can pump your Followers and remain immune to Shameful Injury- this combined with an immunity to Settling is why the deck runs the Followers instead of Weapons.

Minor changes likely are Charge -> Swift Counterattack to deal with Monk move in Kihos, and Imperial Ambassadorship to a good card when I can think of one.

LSCorpion

Bayushi Ryuken — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:40:45 GMT

Ok, this is the deck ive been using for the past 2 weeks and its working really well. Its lost twice in 20 games.

Events:War of Dark FireWinters Embrace

Last Line of Defence

Bayushis Guidance

Holdings:

3 Geisha House

3 Border Village

2 Deeds and Words

3 Corrupt Officials

1 Travelling Peddler

1 Counting House

2 Secluded Outpost

1 Tower of the Ningyo

Personalities:

Soshi Miroki

Yogo Kazunori

Bayushi Hisoka

Bayushi Kurumi exp

Yogo Reiko exp

Isawa Fosuta (just to damned good)

3 Jutsushi

3 Komiya

3 Akemi

3 Yoshihara

3 Rokujo

41 Cards but it doesnt seem to clunky.

Fate side:

Ring of the Void

The Thriving Light

Heavenly Ninja-To of the Scorpion clan

Games of Court ( its in for testing at the minute. Kinda sucks but not sure what to replace it with as of yet)

Shisa Infestation

Iwekos Journals

The Onis Eye

3 Pull the Strings

3 Veiled Menace

3 Unfortunate Incident

3 Test of Sincerity

3 Arranged Guilt

3 Settling the Homeless

2 Burn the Village

2 Convenient Disaster

2 Deceit and Subterfuge

3 Castle of Water

3 Whispers of the Forgotten

3 Flash of Bright Wings

1 Walking the Way

The theory behind this deck is simply to boost your province strength as much as you can, also draining as much of their force as you can during the open phase.

This is a pure control deck and as you can see runs a total of 3 battle strategy cards. This is intentional. It doesnt defend. It doesnt go to battle. If it does, it loses.

Akemi is really good in this deck,believe it or not!

I suggest testing this deck out before tearing it apart as I have had a whole bunch of wins with it.

Do you like kill actions?

shosuro shu — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:10:47 GMT

Everyone else was posting decklists and getting feedback, so I got jealous

Seven Stings Keep

40 Dynasty:

2 Regions:
2 Open Shore Market

15 Holdings:
3 Geisha House
3 Border Village
3 Rich Coffers
2 Barley Farms
2 Diamond Mines
1 Counting House
1 Traveling Peddler

23 Personalities
3 Bayushi Arashii
3 Shosuro Sogetsu
3 Bayushi Keirei
3 Bayushi Momochi
3 Utogu no Oni
3 Bayushi Suboru (aka Suboru no Oni)
3 Yogo Reiko
1 Yogo Reiko xp
1 Bayushi Tsubaki

40 Fate:

12 Attatchments:
3 Apprentice Shinobi
3 Flawless Assassin
3 Silent Blade
3 Blowdarts

27 Strategy:
3 Silent Rot
3 The Cost of Pride
3 Rout
3 Shadow Plays
3 Strike from the Shadows
3 Black Hearts, Red Blades
3 Knife in the Darkness
2 Peasent Vengeance
2 Walk in Shadows
2 Reinforce the Gates

1 Ring
1 Ring of Water

I'm not used to running military, but it seems like it has a lot of kill to me. It's not a control deck. My ninjas often fight battles and I try to make them as thorny as possible doing so, but there's still a lot of room for dirty province slezing. The only real combo in the deck is putting a poison token on the Rhino, having Suboru copy him, and then bouncing the poison token onto the enemy (so far the most rhino's I've had at one battle is 4).

Things I'm still unsure about: The gold scheme. Aggresive border keeping to get a BV and either a Geisha or BF first turn is ideal as I can buy any 2 guys plus a holding turn 2. The OSM's are there to take pressure off the gold, letting me attach a follower half a turn earlier (I'm running Coffers for Reiko and Rout anyways). Diamond mines are still the big hang up. Maybe switching them out for a barley farm and a kaiu smithy?
Personalities seem solid. Keirei's good for the early/mid sleeze but has diminishing returns. Perhaps subbing him for Nishu the free ninja would help gold plus be more usefull?
Fate side, I feel pretty starved for free space. I like everything that is there right now, but still want to put in another PV and some Kami Unleashed. The Reinforces were originally Discretionary Valor for the card draw plus move home. And blowdarts are unfortunate but I find they're necessary for the Silent Rot.

Any feedback/advice/heckling is appreciated! Thanks!
Shu

Still beating my head against the wall (SSK Switch)

Bayushi Shiken — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:03:55 GMT

I want to take out the dishonor cards in this deck...but i feel like i won't be able to "switch" if i do. I like SSK, but i don't feel as if it does much more than bring people below honor requirements to help the military match up.

Anyway, here it is. Not sure what i can really do to make it better without removing the dishonor from it and going straight military.

Sadly, it might be a better deck out of PoCS.

1 Seven Stings Keep

# Dynasty (40)

# Events (1)
1 The War of Dark Fire

# Celestials (1)
1 Bayushi's Guidance

# Holdings (14)
1 Akodo's Grave
3 Border Village
1 Chugo Seido
1 Corrupt Officials
3 Geisha House
1 Imperial Artificer
2 Secluded Outpost
1 Traveling Peddler
1 Counting House

# Personalities (24)
3 Bayushi Hikoko
1 Bayushi Hisoka - exp
1 Bayushi Ishikura
3 Bayushi Jutsushi
1 Bayushi Kurumi - exp
2 Bayushi Maemi
3 Bayushi Momochi
1 Bayushi Paneki - exp5
3 Bayushi Saka
2 Bayushi Shigeru
2 Bayushi Shigeo
1 Yogo Kazunori
1 Yogo Rieko - exp

# Fate (40)

# Strategies (31)
2 Retribution
2 Caught Unawares
2 Province Assaulted
3 Sneak Attack
3 Game of Sincerity
3 Defensive Nature
3 Restoring Order
3 The Light of Justice
2 Threat of Execution
2 Echoes of Disgrace
2 Yarijutsu
2 Arranged Guilt
2 Deflection

# Followers (3)
3 Imperial Elite Guard

# Items (6)
1 Fubatsu No-Dachi
1 Heavenly Ninja-to of the Scorpion
1 Armor of the Ryu
3 Rising Sun Blade

Return of the Zombie Ninjas!

Bolt Crank — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:24:39 GMT

1 Seven Stings Keep

# Dynasty (40)

# Regions (2)
2 Farmlands

# Holdings (15)
3 Border Village
3 Geisha House
3 Rich Coffers
3 Seiden Sanzo
3 Barley Farm

# Personalities (23)
3 Bayushi Keirei
3 Bayushi Arashii
3 Bayushi Suboru
1 Bayushi Tsubaki
3 Shosuro Nishu
3 Shosuro Sogetsu
3 Yogo Rieko
1 Yogo Rieko - exp
3 Udo

# Fate (40)

# Strategies (37)
2 Scouting Far Afield
3 Silent Rot
3 The Cost of Pride
2 Claw and Shell
3 Caught Unawares
3 Only Actions Speak
3 Outer Walls
3 Rout
3 Shadow Plays
3 Strike from the Shadows
3 Black Hearts, Red Blades
3 Retribution
3 Reinforce the Gates

# Followers (3)
3 Flawless Assassin

Cause I'm damaged that way

oldgeorge — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:08:32 GMT

And since I've almost doubled my annual post count here the last couple of days (cause I'm terribly bored at work and it's 37 degrees outside) by commenting on decks, I suppose it's unfair to keep my disfunctional designs free from friendly fire :) So... here's my latest playtest piece, it's not meant to win Gencon by any means, but it's geared towards providing a solid matchup against most military and typical honor decks.

Starting cards:
Stronghold:
1x Palace of Crimson Shadows

Dynasty deck:
Event:
1x Consecration of Steel
1x Emma-O's Guidance
1x Inheriting an Heirloom
Holding:
1x Chugo Seido
1x Counting House
3x Geisha House
3x Humble House
2x Offices of the Emerald Magistrates
3x Secluded Outpost
1x Tetsu Kama Mine
1x Traveling Peddler
Personality:
1x Bayushi Eisaku - exp
2x Bayushi Eiyu
3x Bayushi Hikoko
2x Bayushi Hirose
1x Bayushi Hisoka - exp
1x Bayushi Ishikura
1x Bayushi Kayama
1x Bayushi Orijitte
2x Bayushi Sakai
2x Bayushi Sorii
1x Kazuwaru
1x Bayushi Paneki - exp
1x Seppun Tashime - exp
1x Tsuruchi Gidayu - exp
1x Yogo Rieko - exp
Region:
1x Hanayashiki
1x Plains of Resolution

Fate deck:
Action:
2x Defensive Nature
2x Enticement
2x Game of Sincerity
2x Honor & Strength
3x Hundred-Fold Cut
3x Pinned Down
2x Precious Burden
3x Restoring Order
2x Scouting Far Afield
2x Split the Reed
2x Succumb to Vice
2x Test of Sincerity
3x The Light of Justice
2x Yarijutsu
Item:
2x Blades of the Fallen Phoenix
3x Rising Sun Blade
3x Seppun Blade
Ring:
1x Ring of Water

It's still a work in progress really, theoretically speaking I should definately find room for sneaks and maybe some other staples (i.e. dropping split the reed), but these days every sneak I play seems to fall face first on RtG, so I'm not so keen on the idea right now :)

Chicken PoCS Mk II

Bayushi Akai — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:37:55 GMT

Palace of Crimson Shadows

Dynasty (40)

Celestials (1)
1x Bayushi's Guidance

Events (2)
1x Generosity
1x The War of Dark Fire

Holdings (14)
3x Geisha House
3x Border Village
3x Barley Farm
2x Deeds and Words
2x Travelling Peddler
1x Counting House

Personalities (23)
1x Bayushi Hisoka XP
1x Yogo Kazanori
1x Bayushi Kurumi XP
1x Yogo Rieko XP
1x Isawa Fosuta XP
3x Bayushi Jutsushi
3x Bayushi Komiya
3x Soshi Yoshihara
3x Bayushi Shigeru
3x Shosuro Rokujo
2x Shosuro Orikasa
1x Bayushi Kurumi

Fate (40)

Strategies (34)
3x Test of Sincerity
3x Unfortunate Incident
3x Spiteful Obstruction
3x Only Actions Speak
3x Deceit and Subterfuge
3x Veiled Menace
3x Pull the String
3x Song of the World
2x Ambush
2x Settling the Homeless
2x The Direct Approach
2x Arranged Guilt
1x Planned Adversity
1x Subtle Sting

Items (2)
1x Iweko's Journal
1x Talisman of Sakkaku

Spells (3)
3x Walking the Way

Rings (1)
1x Ring of the Void

________________________

The deck focuses on bombing your opponent out, using the large amounts of card draw in the deck. It relies on the Obstruction, Direct Approach and Settling to buy it time to get out Personalities to lock the game down. As is usual for my decks, it doesn't do battles.
The deck's main issue is getting its honour low enough to UI when it doesn't get out Fosuta. It can win without it, it just involves more thinking.
I'm about to start testing with a slightly different gold scheme- I've found I generally prefer to make a Personality turn 1, so Border Village is likely to come out. I feel the deck also needs Faint Praise to give it a stronger game against Military in general (and Lion in particular).

The obviously odd choice in the deck is Generosity, but with this deck I've never had a situation where it benefited my opponent more than me, and a turn 1 Fosuta + gold or Courtier +2 gold is a ludicrous start.

Environmentally Dishonour is a solid choice because it has an amazing game against Dragon Monks and CoT Military, both of which are serious contenders.

HDM Ninja weapon midrange

Bayushi Lama — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:28:05 GMT

Been playing ninja for awhile and feels like the deck is at it's peek.. Cant seem to find new improvement for it.. Missing some cards for the deck like a 2nd keirei and pedler but will get them soon.. Made a weapon base version and it works pretty well...

HDM

#Dinasty(41)

#Events (2)

1 I am Ready

1 Inheriting an Heirloom

# Regions (1)

1 Private Shrine

# Holdings (14)

3 Border Village

3 Geisha House

2 Permanent Encampment

2 Bailey farm

2 Akodo's Grave

1 Counting House

1 Kaiu Smithy

# Celestial (1)

Bayushi Guidance

# Personality

1 Bayushi Tsubaki

3 Shosuro Miyoto

2 Shosuro Nitsu

3 Shosuro Sogetsu

3 Bayushi Arashii

2 Bayushi Keirei

3 Bayushi Subaru

3 Bayushi Takuma

1 Yogo Reiko exp

2 Yogo Reiko

#Fate(41)

#Stategy(26)

3 Shadow Play

3 Walk in Shadow

3 Strike in Shadow

2 Knife in Darkness

2 Nightshade Touch

2 Hasty Exit

2 Dramatic Assassination

3 Silent Rot

3 Black hearts, Red Blades

2 Reinforce the gates

1 Unexplained Illness

#Weapons(6)

1 Heavenly Ninja-to of the scorpion

2 Oni-Daikyu

3 Blowdart

#Follower (9)

3 Flawless Assassin

3 The Silent Blade

3 Apprentice Shinobi

The build has serve me well, lacking some cards like Keirei and Unexplained Illness and peddler cause just started during Celestial and no one is letting them go...Thought about droping nitsu.. Though thinking about putting out Reinforce the gates as it is not as useful as i think it is.. Finding some slot for ig3 ninja and new cards in ig3.. Any idea for improvement.. New thoughts and idea are appreciated...

Magistrate/Courtier Deck

Thirus — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:56:36 GMT

Palace of Crimson Shadows

Dynasty:40

Event:

Imperial Ambassadorship

Celestial:

Bayushi's Guidance

Holdings:15

3x Geisha House

3x Traviling Peddler

2x Deeds and Words

2x Border Village

1x Barley Farm

1x Corrupt Officials

2x Rich Coffers

1x Counting House

Personalities:23

2x Bayushi Hirose

3x Shosuro Takagi

3x Bayushi Kurumi

1x Bayushi Kurumi exp.

3x Bayushi Komiya

3x Bayushi Saka

3x Bayushi Jutsushi

1x Yogo Kazunori

1x Bayushi Hisoka exp.

3x Bayushi Shigeru

Fate:40

3x Unfortunate Incident

3x Pull the String

3x Veilded Menace

3x Arranged Guilt

3x Ambush

1x Relentless Conviction

3x Shame Never Dies

3x Deceit and Subterfuge

3x Game of Sincerity

3x Seeking the Guilty

3x Restoring Order

2x Ramifications

3x Deflection

3x Light of Justice

1x Iweko's Journals

I need Help with the gold not sure what to do with it.

PoCS Dishonor Bleed

Encor — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:30:04 GMT

The idea is rather to avoid battles unless necessary.

1 Palace of Crimson Shadows

# Dynasty (41)

# Events (2)
1 Successful Bounty
1 Imperial Census

# Celestials (1)
1 Bayushi's Guidance

# Regions (1)
1 Hanayashiki

# Holdings (14)
3 Geisha House
3 Barley Farm
3 Border Village
2 Permanent Encampment
1 Counting House
1 Traveling Peddler
1 Corrupt Officials

# Personalities (23)
3 Bayushi Jutsushi
1 Bayushi Kurumi - exp
2 Shosuro Akemi
2 Shosuro Orikasa
1 Yogo Kazunori
3 Bayushi Hirose
3 Bayushi Saka
3 Soshi Yoshihara
1 Bayushi Hisoka - exp
2 Bayushi Sorii
2 Bayushi Momochi

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (35)
3 Veiled Menace
3 The Light of Justice
2 Stolen Property
3 Shame Never Dies
3 Restoring Order
1 Relentless Conviction
3 Pull the String
2 Negotiations at Court
2 Echoes of Disgrace
3 Apprehending the Villain
3 Reinforce the Gates
2 Swift Counterattack
3 Inexplicable Challenge
2 Burn the Village

# Items (2)
1 Heavenly Ninja-to of the Scorpion
1 Iweko's Journals

# Spells (3)
3 Whispers of the Forgotten

# Rings (1)
1 Ring of the Void

Ninjas for improvement

Encor — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:47:23 GMT

I post this deck as reference to the following thread...

# Dynasty (40)

# Events (1)
1 Decree of Peace

# Celestials (1)
1 Bayushi's Guidance

# Regions (1)
1 Private Shrine

# Holdings (15)
1 Wandering Caravan
2 Rich Coffers
1 Permanent Encampment
3 Barley Farm
2 Corrupt Officials
2 Border Village
1 Counting House
3 Geisha House

# Personalities (22)
3 Yogo Rieko
1 Yogo Rieko - exp
3 The Sensei
3 Shosuro Nitsu
3 Shosuro Takuma
3 Shosuro Sogetsu
1 Bayushi Eisaku - exp
3 Bayushi Arashii
1 Bayushi Hisoka - exp
1 Bayushi Kayama

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (31)
2 Ambush
1 Masked in Shadows
3 Nightshade Touch
3 Walk in Shadows
3 Shadow Plays
3 Rout
2 Reinforce the Gates
2 Swift Counterattack
1 Knife in the Darkness
2 Dramatic Assassination
3 Black Hearts, Red Blades
3 Silent Rot
3 Outer Walls

# Followers (4)
1 Shadowed Steel
3 Apprentice Shinobi

# Items (5)
1 Oni-Daikyu
1 Heavenly Ninja-to of the Scorpion
3 Blowdarts

# Rings (1)
1 Ring of Earth

Decklists

Ninja Follower - PreEAW

A new form of Power (Uji's dishonor control)

A new form of Power (Uji's dishonor control) (0)

Celestials (1)

Event (2)

Holding (13)

Personality (24)

Region (1)

Spell (8)

Strategy (33)

EaW: Dishonor Magistrates

EaW: BS PK

EaW: Keyword Neutral kill everything

EaW: Ring Manipulation Kensai

EaW Kensai deck draft 1

POCS Magistrate control

PoCS Peaceful Diashonor

EAW initial look at Kensai (adapted from the Dragon)

dd's PoCS dh deck

Kensai Gold Scheme (need a few suggestions)

Uji's Promise of Power (PK Dishonor) Version 3

Uji's Promise of Power (PK Dishonor) Version 3 (0)

Celestials (1)

Event (3)

Holding (13)

Personality (22)

Region (1)

Spell (8)

Strategy (32)

Kensai! (Too much meta?)

HMD Family Planning

LSCorpion

Do you like kill actions?

Still beating my head against the wall (SSK Switch)

Return of the Zombie Ninjas!

Cause I'm damaged that way

Chicken PoCS Mk II

HDM Ninja weapon midrange

Magistrate/Courtier Deck

PoCS Dishonor Bleed

Ninjas for improvement