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…
I will update this list as soon as I get more information. For instance, there might be some other storyline tournaments soon in France or Belgium.
We hope to see more of you at the next Rotterdam tournament, on Sunday 7th August 2011.
After a bit of testing and several discussions, we are proud to invite all of you to the Dutch Legends of the Five Rings CCG League. This is not any official AEG series of tournament, but an attempt to dynamize the scene in the Netherlands, while having good fun. The rules of the League are available here.
The first tournament will be hold in Rotterdam this 17th July 2011. It will mark the beginning of the League season which should last until the official AEG Kotei Season begins. The tournament will be a normal Before the Dawn legal constructed one, but we will only ask the players wishing to take part in the League to register with their Clan and pay the fee. It is recommended to all participating players to print the League rules and list of achievements. This will make it more practical to mark any achievement during game (Note: for courtesy reasons, please try to do so during the straightening phase of your opponent’s turn or immediately after each game).
If anyone wishes to make any remark, propose improvement or constructive criticism, please do so in the comments or by sending me an e-mail directly. We have 3 full weeks to make this a memorable event and a successful League. Edit: I have also created a Group, as it seems better to handle Events and Tournaments. Sorry about the related “spamming” which wasn’t really intended.
