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Last week I got myself to Hobbytown expecting to see the 11/11:30 tourney to be there like usual, but I saw no one so I just left. Apparently no one shows up until 12 nowadays. Like today for example. So I decided to wait until everyone arrived. The day almost became casual play until I someone how convinced the guy who runs the events to run a tourney today. That's really the only reason why I was there. To win free booster packs... Greedy, I know, but I want to get my money's worth. Plus I'm very confident my deck is capable of beating practically all of the players there. The last time I played, I went 3-0 no problem. I run straight up Phoenix honor out of the Shrine of Champions with more send home actions than my opponents could count. Well not really.. My deck just tries to run to 40 honor as FAST as possible. Here's the deck list:
Shrine of Champions
Border Keep/Bamboo Harvestors
Dynasty Deck (40):
Events/Regions/Guidances (6):
1 Winter's Embrace (Stall 2 turns)
1 Decree of Peace (Supposed to stall a turn or take a province. I've found this useless in every game so far. I plan to take this out.)
1 Temple to Te'tik'kir (Temple with send home action on it)
1 Imperial Outpost (Temple that bows a unit in battle)
1 Well Defended Border (1 Honor per turn if left unchecked)
1 Emma-O's Guidance (Combo with Houhou and Daigotsu Oki)
Holdings (14):
3 Silver Mine (Buys me dead Houhou's and other odd numbered people)
3 My Father's Shrine (Temple. Bow a dude for 1 honor)
3 Temple to Shinsei (Temple. Bow a dude for 2 honor)
2 Seiden Sanzo (To kill Shiba Ningen tokens and Houhou's)
1 Expendable Resources (Card draw to kill Shiba Ningen tokens and Houhou's)
1 Counting House (Card draw is important! Any good military deck will have me at 1 province by the time I pass 40)
1 Diamond Mine (Absolutely useless. This slot belongs to a 3rd Seiden Sanzo)
Personalities (20):
3 Asako Misako (Send home, gain 1 honor)
3 Isawa Kumai (6 gold, 4 personal honor, alchemist, air/void. Love her.)
3 Asako Hoshimi (Same as above but 3 PH and air/fire.)
3 Houhou (Staple suicidal honor gainer)
3 Imaishi (Send home, gain 2 honor)
1 Isawa Kyoko exp (Send home, gain 1 honor)
1 Isawa Mitsuko (Free Temple to Shinsei honor, and stays straight with Blessings of Sky. Can straighten a temple for send home or rout)
1 Shiba Ningen (Free 2 honor with token)
1 Isawa Mizuhiko (Useless, but cheap. Has water element though)
1 Daigotsu Oki (Gain 3 honor, stall a dude, revive with Emma-o's guidance for another 3 honor, stall another dude)
Fate (40):
Strategies (34):
3 Advanced Spellcraft (bow a dude, potentially gain 1 honor)
3 Reinforce the Gates (anti-Sneak Attack)
3 Outer Walls (Staple defense)
3 Final Duty (Roasty toasty personalities)
3 Unimpeachable Name (Dishonor meta. Bow a dude, gain 2 honor)
3 Unstoppable Power (Force reduction into honor, take additional battle action. AMAZING)
3 The Direct Approach (Stall a dude)
3 Settling the Homeless (Send home)
3 Rout (Send home, kill an attachment YES. Love this card)
2 Blessings of Sky (Send home, gain 2 honor)
2 Crushing Strength (I hate those pesky followers and items)
2 Forewarning (New Order/ War of Dark Fire meta, and any other event)
1 The Thriving Light (Amazing card period)
Spells (6):
3 Touch of Ice (Bow 2 guys or gain 3 honor EVERY TURN? Wins me games.)
2 Castle of Water (Infinite Outer Walls? Meh, this card is replaceable with maybe Wall of Honor or Hamstrung)
1 Might of the Kami (Potential 3 honor every turn!)
Round 1: Spider Kensai
My first opponent was the guy who runs the tournies in the first place, and I've played against his spider deck before. It's powerful. It beat my old deck, but I was confident my new phoenix deck could handle it. Which it did. I stall with Daigotsu Oki, The Direct Approach, and Advanced Spellcraft for several turns until I pass with 4 provinces. Awesome. 1-0
Round 2: Crane Honor
The same guy I played in round 3 last time I played. Once again his steady defensive honor gaining deck was twice as slow as mine. Especially since I got the Houhou, Daigotsu Oki, and Emma O's guidance combo out. His few attempts at attacking were too weak to do anything. 2-0
Round 3: Crane Dueling Honor
My friend from school. He knows my deck better than anyone else so I knew he had meta against my deck. I've beat him plenty of times, but I just got unlucky today.. We had to roll to see who goes first since our starting honors were equal. I rolled a 4, yes I had to be going second which means more money for me which I like.Even though it would mean going second, I knew once I gain tempo I would outrun him SOO fast. Unfortunately he rolled a 1........................ Ok so I went first. Reveal 3 measly shugenja that do nothing and a My Father's Shrine. I Border Keep the 3 shugenjas into Isawa Mitsuko, Shiba Ningen, and some other random shugenja. Seriously? Shiba Ningen was too good to give up, so I dropped the other 2 and Border Keeped again.. Instead Asako Misako and someone else shows up. I end up buying her for cheap and the My Father's Shrine........ BAD start. Turn 2, another Misako shows up and something else. I'm forced to buy the 2nd Misako for cheap. Turn 3 I bow a Misako to My Father's Shrine. 7 Honor on TURN 3. How could it get any worse? I'm forced to buy Shiba Ningen for cheap for the sake of buying 2 holdings. Turn 3 of my opponent, he does Impetuous Challenge on my Shiba Ningen. Either it dies and he gains 2 honor or Ningen dishonors and he gains 4 honor... I needed the Ningen so I let him dishonor and gave my opponent 4 honor. So he decides to do yet ANOTHER Impetuous challenge. Then buys someone with 3 personal honor. He gained 11 honor in 1 turn while I was gold screwed.. Lucky him. At this point I finally had some holdings so I was able to start getting myself back into the game. I found my Daigotsu Oki combo, which he REMOVED FROM THE GAME. Meta much? That set me back as he pulled out Bukita Doji and began to dishonor me. It was okay because I was confident I could keep up. By the time I gained tempo, I was able to gain 10 honor per turn, but then he pulled his own Daigotsu Oki and managed to pass 40 a turn early. I had 3 Unstoppable Powers chillin in my hand ready to net me 9+ honor, but he never attacked unfortunately. He was at twice my honor by the time I managed to find gold at the beginning of the game. The double border keep into 1 holding really sucked. Sometimes bad luck really does decide the fate of a game.. Oh well.. 2-1
Luckily for me I received the same number of booster packs as my friend. So technically I got what I wanted, so it's all good! I'm just down about losing to bad luck.
The rares I pulled from my booster turned out to be really good, two of which are worth money!
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On a side note, today has been a really nice day. The sun is out and it's not too cold. It's actually quite warm. I found it interesting that so many families with kids were trick or treating around the shopping center (the Hub). I also heard that many people like to trick or treat at the mall too because shopping centers and malls are much safer than going door to door at night. I can understand that, but it just feels like it takes away from the tradition.. Or perhaps I just live in a cave...
Anyways, today one of the employees at Hobbytown had a head thingy with cat ears on it, and she had some black paint on her face marking her noise and whiskers drawn on her cheeks. I've seen her around Hobbytown many times so she definitely remembers me. Interestingly enough, I told her that I liked her cat ears as she passed all of us nerds, and instead of acknowledging it and saying thanks, she glanced at me then looked forward and locked her eyes straight into that direction. I could see a little smile appear on her face as she walked away. Either she didn't hear me, which I doubt, or she was showing a bit of shyness. I found it interesting to see shyness come from a 6 foot white girl who looks to be about 20 years old. Maybe she was just laughing on the inside at the fact a nerd was commenting on her cat ears.. Couldn't be though..
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