Gold Cost: 2
CASTLE
Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold.
Limited: If you have fewer provinces than each other player, or exactly one province, chose your performing Siege Personality: Give him Conqueror.
We saw the glint of steel, like teeth, from a long way off.
Gold Cost: 0.
Focus Value: 4.
As a focus effect: After this duel ends, if your personality won it, gain 1 Honor.
Battle: If you are the defender: Look at the top 4 cards of your Dynasty deck. If one of them is a personality, you may put him into play at the current battlefield, ignoring gold cost. Put the remaining cards back in any order. Discard him after the battle ends.
Tell me what you know. Now.
This will take place on Sunday March 11th, at 11h00. Don’t be late and register early too!
Until then, enjoy the video (credit to Ineke Brussee).
Naoharu’s Gift
WINTER * UNIQUE
Show a card in your hand to another player. You offer it as a gift. He may put it in his hand; if he does, you gain honor equal to its base Focus Value. If you showed a card and he did not put it in his hand, discard the card and draw two cards.
“Naoharu is long since gone, but his lessons endure for a new generation to learn.” – Doji Shunya
The Second City Release Tournament in Utrecht, at The Joker, has been moved to Sunday 2nd October. Please don’t forget to send an e-mail to Faber to register, preferably before the end of next week.
Gamers of the West received the game in Rotterdam too. There will also be a Release Event there, but this Sunday 18th September. I would strongly encourage everyone to go to both if they can. This way, you can get two different starters and get to play against different opponents and play-style than what you are used to. It is sometimes what can make the difference, in terms of experience…
The Event pages will be updated to take both events into account.
Story wise, the choices were limited to 3 personalities per Clan, some of them being the “seppuku peeps” of Celestial Edition (Doji Kazuo for the Crane, for instance). In the end, the Rinn twins went in the final and Andrei (Mantis duelling) did beat Niklas (Crane dishonor) on a better draw. Second day support and usual horse trading ended up with a comfortable Mantis victory. Tsuruchi Nobukatsu will be the new Ruby Champion and sensei of the Emerald Magistrates dojo. A full report with stats for both days is available on AEG’s forum.
Alle details:
- Wat: Second City Sealed deck.
- Wanneer: Zaterdag 17 September. Start 11:00, einde voor 17:00.
- Waar: The Joker, Oudegracht 230A, Utrecht.
- Wat kost dat: E25,-
- Wat ik daarvoor krijg: Starter naar keuze (Dragon, Mantis, en Scorpion) 3 boosters, en de Promo The Imperial Treasury voor alle deelnemers
- Wat er valt te winnen: 1 booster p.p. in de prijzenpot, plus promos. (Gaining Experience en Heavy Infantry Dojo zijn te winnen)
LET OP: Het is deze keer op een zaterdag, en begint om 11:00. Dit in tegenstelling van de ‘reguliere’ set-up van Zondag en 12:00.
Stuur een e-mail naar Faber (faber at brz punt nu) om in te schrijven.
Ook zal de set zeer binnenkort als losse kaarten beschikbaar zijn in zijn webshop, kyudenholland.com/shop
Until now, I have seen Crane, Mantis and Scorpion. Please note that the Crane SH is Kyuden Otomo -exp. It creates Imperial Favor tokens than can be stored and later used like the discarding of the Imperial Favor itself. It does not work bowed, and is a 6PS – 4G – 6FH stronghold. Scorpions get a Ninja SH, the Otoro Estate. It has 7PS – 4G – 0PH and can’t lose honor from Ninja cards it owns. It also has a spying open and an RA battle action with move home. The Mantis is a Scout SH, Koshin Keep, with a Recon giving a double RA on it which can stack. All in all, many cards seem to be reprints of really old cards from Gold, some identical, some with a twist or improvement.
New rules come into place too. The buying someone from your faction in dynasty phase for full to get its honor is now replaced by a Proclaim rulebook ability which does the same whenever it enters play (once only and in your turn). With many cards presented in SC and EE base set which are actually cycling cards in and out of the Dynasty deck or the provinces, this will be used and abused by honor decks, I am sure. Victory conditions are also modified. Dishonor will need to wait for the end of your opponent turn to make sure he is a -20. Enlightenment will be at the beginning of your own turn, like Honor. Also the Ring of Earth needs you to now win a battle without getting any of your own peeps killed to put it inot play. So it looks like DT wanted to make Enlightenment slightly more difficult. Probably because the new recursion feast was making it too easy to quickly put Water, Void and Air into play…
Well, that’s about it. Don’t forget to register on Facebook for the League game in Rotterdam this Sunday aternoon. And don’t forget to register for TORC in Luxembourg (September) or the Euro Championship in Dublin (October). And stay tuned for new tournaments in Rotterdam or Utrecht.
But I can not resist the pleasure to tell you about this card: Kitsu Fukui. This gorgeous Lion Librarian is the result of last year storyline tournament in Rotterdam. Bennie Kalf won the prize and decided to make a Lion personality a Head Librarian. We were all expecting an Ikoma, but it is a Kitsu Water Shugenja.
So Bennie, congratulations again on your win and your card and thanks for bringing Rotterdam its first card in L5R! Well done…
