Ok so for the first time in a little over 12 months I flopped cardboard last weekend at the Charity Tournament in Melbourne. In the process I managed to finish 4th overall, being knocked out in the t4 by the eventual winner.Before I go on with deck feedback in detail I want to . . . → Read More: Once More Into The Breach
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Following my 3-4 record at the Feeding Hills Kotei, I was happy with the Seawatch Castle deck, but wanted something more. Looking at the Crane decks that had won Kotei already, I was happy to see a fair amount of differences between them. Comparing them with each other and against my playstyle, I figured . . . → Read More: With a Little Help From My Friends – Ottawa Kotei Report Where to start? If you are poster or avid reader of The Home of the Crane Clan forums, you know that I’ve been a big fan of the dishonor decks now available to the Crane since I got to play an earlier version at the NH Winner’s Choice event back in 2010. While I’ve . . . → Read More: Return to Candy Castle – NE Kotei Report Let’s get this out in the open right away: I am a much better player of L5R than I am a deck builder for it. While a few other articles for this blog have revolved how I build decks and decks I have built, I have no shame in saying they are, more often . . . → Read More: Yogo Kazunori or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Netdeck. In my last article, From the Ground Up, we outlined a new Dynasty deck working under the theme of Crane Dueling Magistrate. In this article, we will complete the Fate deck, make a few final tweaks to both decks and present a ready to playtest list. No sense wasting any more time, let’s dive . . . → Read More: Fate of the World – EaW Deck Building, part 2 What with Empire at War’s release right around the corner and the influx of 160 new cards in to the Celestial Edition card pool, I figured it might be time to show our readers a little bit of insight in to how I go about building a deck for the new tournament environment. I’m . . . → Read More: From the Ground Up – EaW Deck Building, part 1 Honestly, when I first saw Seawatch (Candy) Castle, I was under whelmed. The trade off of switching from Shiro Daidoji and losing one Province Strength, PK as well as honor gain in trade for send home and an extra Favor gain didn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy game. Then I . . . → Read More: Seawatched Wave Men – Crane Military This is a follow-up to the earlier article: Candy Battle Honor and it incorporates aspects of testing since that date, and thoughts from this article: The Stat is Quo. Like the prior Candy Battle Honor there is a focus on everyone being able to do something, and after running into the nightmare that is Phoenix Dueling . . . → Read More: Art & Duels – Kakita Honor In looking at the cards from The Plague War (TPW) set it quickly became apparent to me that the Crane would have to go into battles with the intent of winning them. This deck is my first pass at doing that with TPW cards, and it uses a couple of ideas. Seawatch Castle (aka . . . → Read More: Candy Battle Honor |
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