Last night was a decision between playing Magic or L5R, but my friend invited me to come out for a thanksgiving celebration at her church so I decided to play L5R since that's faster. When I got out of the shower, I got a text message from my other friend saying that today was a 14 proxy tourney. I was supposed to leave at that point, but when I found out it was going to be a proxy tourney I was afraid that everyone would have really good decks. I spent the next 15 minutes rushing to look online for cards that I would probably need, but when I looked at my deck I couldn't figure out what to take out. I ended up only adding 3 Hamstrung, and 2 Proper Deference, but they ended up being useless! Nobody was running duelist's and no one had an honor deck that was capable of reaching 8 honor in 1 turn. The Proper Deferences just became force reduction instead.
Round 1: Spider... Kensai? Whatever.. it was military
I arrived a little late, but luckily I was still able to play! My first opponent was my friend from school who also arrived late. He was running a spider deck with 8 proxies in it, but they didn't really help. My first turn started with Winter's Embrace, which wasn't a very ideal time. Luckily for me I managed to got Isawa Mizuhiko with two Touch of Ice's, which allowed me to reach 40 honor by turn 6. I passed with three provinces. I let him take one on turn 5, so I could have more army for the final attack and so I could draw a card with Counting House. 1-0
Round 2: Scorpion Blitz?
My next opponent was playing scorpion, but I couldn't quit figure out what kind of deck it was.. He bought a personality on turn 1 and bought a farmlands token for it and attached a weapon to it on turn 2. But then The Direct Approach halts his turn two attack, and he proceeded to buy another cheapo personality. Turn 3, he attached another weapon and farmlands token to his second dude and swung with both. Luckily for me, I forgot to bow Family Histories to gain an honor, so I was able to Rout both home leaving his weenies practically useless. Afterwards, I get out two Asako Misako's and then he never ever ever ever got near my provinces again. I passed 40 on turn 6. 2-0
Round 3: Crane Honor
The same guy I usually play against in the finals. The same Crane deck that I out run every time. Except this time I out ran him pretty bad.. (Present tense here we go) Ok, so I go first via die roll, I see Temple to Shinsei and Shiba Ningen, but Borderkeep everything else. I reveal a personality and War of Dark Fire (which can't be played until next turn). Not seeing a second holding I debate whether I should second Borderkeep the -War of Dark Fire or Shiba Ningen along with the personality. I end choosing to just second Borderkeep the personality and luckily flip a Seiden Sanzo. He buys two holdings and says go. Turn 2, my proxied War of Dark Fire hits and I buy Shiba Ningen along with a second Seidan Sanzo putting me at 10 honor, then say go. He then proceeds to buy two personalities, but doesn't gain any honor thanks to War of Dark Fire. Turn 3 I create a Shiba Ningen token (12 honor), then use both of Seiden Sanzos' abilities on it making it a 8/2/2 Cavalry token. Looking at his side, he only has two personalities and 4 provinces so I decide to swing just for the hell of it. He declares no defenders, and then Ring of Water's one of his dudes in. I rout it home and surprisingly snipe a province for the first time in my life. You have no idea how happy I was at that point... The token dies to Seiden Sanzo, then I buy a dude putting me at 15 honor then say go. On his turn he attaches a weapon that allows him to set a personality's force equal to his chi, so that puts an end to my Shiba Ningen bombs. He then buys a dude putting him at 10 honor. Turn 4, I put out another token (17 honor), then Seiden Sanzo it. I then put Touch of Ice onto my Shiba Ningen, then buy a 3ph dude along with Daigotsu Oki putting me at 23 honor. On my opponent's turn he fears being attacked and give me the 3 honor to Touch of Ice (26) and buys a personality putting himself at 14 honor. Turn 5, I create another Shiba Ningen token, Seiden Sanzo it, then buy another guy putting me at 31. My opponent bows two personalities to Touch of Ice, then buys a dude putting him at 18. I could've gone faster throughout the game, but I guess I was playing it safe. On turn 6, I decided to finish it off, make a token, bow two dudes to Temple to Shinsei, and buy a dude worth 4ph putting me at 41 honor. He knew there was nothing else he could do so he decided to try attacking two of my provinces just for the hell of it. I actually succeed in saving one and then win with 3 provinces left over. 3-0
It didn't seem like anyone else ran proxies, but the only proxy that helped was War of Dark Fire. Oh well. It was fun. I walked away with like 5 boosters. It put me in a good mood.
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After the tourney ended, I stopped by at the gas station to buy some key lime chap stick (which actually tastes pretty good) and some Mint Mojito flavored Orbit gum. It had quite a unique taste, but I have to admit it tasted pretty similar to the Mojito my sister made for me one time...
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Anywayyyss, I headed straight over to my friend's church and I walked in to hear people up on stage giving vietnamese speeches. I was up in there for a little more than an hour not understanding a word they were saying. It wasn't service or anything, although they were talking about God.. I think I'm a little more reasonable now. Before I didn't want to get anywhere near churches, but now I guess it's not that big of a deal, even though I still don't believe in God. I got to play with their old beat up piano upstairs a little bit. Unfortunately, the sustain peddle didn't work. I swear I had little girls attacking me throughout the entire day. It was like my little cousins all over again, except vietnamese hahaha. Eventually we all got to eat a crap ton of food, which was absolutely delicious! After that we went out to tapioca express and bought drinks, but I didn't really feel like getting tap x since I was already full from the free dinner at church. All in all it was a fun night. I spent the rest of my night typing this page up instead of typing my english essay. Guess I'm gonna have to put that shit on blast tomorrow after school T__T
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