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Comment on Ten Things I Think I Think #1 by Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:12:10 +0000

Well, my current deck that’s running all the 6-for-5 holdings is Scoprion Paragons with no attachments (aside from the one million attachments which come from Grateful Reward and Nakanu Technique), so I have to take card draw where I can get it. Modifications is definitely a good option with that gold scheme.

I don’t think it’s a gold scheme that necessarily lends itself to blitz, but at least in the naked Scorpion deck it definitely just wants to churn out two guys a turn, every turn.

And I personally think Trevor is crazy.

Comment on Ten Things I Think I Think #1 by Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:31:27 +0000

Bk Xp is trash most of the time.

Comment on Ten Things I Think I Think #1 by Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:12:59 +0000

Well, there’s also a couple other options available in the card draw side for that type of deck:

1. Modifications. 7 gc attachments fit into that schema much nicer than 8gc ones do.
2. If it’s an attachment deck – Thunder or Elemental Destruction both work well with the gold scheme from my testing, for instance – then Temples of Gisei Toshi probably has a slot. So does Glory of the Shogun.
3. Figure that you’re aiming for the game to be over by turn 4 anyway (5 if you stall out) and run without anything to compensate for Peddler – if you get it in, it means your deck was running slower than you’d like, and you probably can’t use it more than once in this timeframe anyway. Twice at the outside.

Most of the Mantis personality complaining was that 1) the personalities didn’t really help the decks of the time (and CE did go on with FL legal for what, 7 months?) and 2) the unique wasn’t a match for the other uniques, being for a deck that didn’t exist at the time and cheaper/less powerful than the others. Especially with the new spell rules, Sasako is incredible, and now that scouts are actually playable the scout is ridiculous. (I don’t really think that highly of Nobukatsu, but he’s alright – the problem is just that you can’t really plan around the gold off his ability, so you’re paying for that part of it and it all too often can’t be used)

Comment on Ten Things I Think I Think #1 by Justin

Justin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:57:28 +0000

For the gold scheme with nothing but 6-for-5 holding, you’d better have a good way to draw cards, because Traveling Peddler is obviously super-painful with that gold scheme. Reasonable card-draw engines which are always in play include:

1. Bamboo Harvester XP (only reasonable for clans which almost always go second)
2. Steel Soul Dojo (Hmm, maybe Spider really should try this out)
3. The Khan’s Estate (but Unicorn have less reason to run this gold scheme)
4. Eternal Victory Dojo (but you’d never do this as a Lion player)

Comment on Emperor Edition Starter Decks Preview by Justin

Justin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:43 +0000

I’m a fan of the tokens. They’re made of pretty thick cardboard and laminated on top. So they’re obviously still super-light (since they are cardboard), but they don’t feel flimsy at all. If you’re actually played Myth Pantheons, they’re fairly similar to those tokens, but much bigger.

Comment on Emperor Edition Starter Decks Preview by Deckard

Deckard — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:02:56 +0000

Hm… I would have put the champion on the top. It would have been way cooler for players of other games walking past the table to catch an eyeful of, by a factor of… Infinity. Other than that, looks pretty darn good. I don’t know how I feel about the material of the tokens. I’ll have to feel them in order to judge. If it’s just standard, cheap cardboard, I’d rather they have made them out of plastic.

Comment on Three Things To Expect in Early Emperor Edition by Slaven

Slaven — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:39:54 +0000

I appreciate the compliment and thank you for reading. I’d read a number of good articles, but none that really focused on Cliff Notes for new or not-yet-experience in EE players. i figured those guys and gals would be able to use a brief highlights article better than most. Thanks!

Comment on Emperor Edition Starter Decks Preview by kwek

kwek — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:25:19 +0000

kolat. kolat. everywhere.

i still think “we will ride” for the unicorn though
thanks for the article.
i’m in lesbians with the box.

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Comment on Three Things To Expect in Early Emperor Edition by The Kawon

The Kawon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:12:54 +0000

Excellent Article. A little bit short, but a very good introduction into the wonderful environment that EE is.
By the way this is no irony – EE rewards the better player IMHO. You need a plan in Deck Construction and you must identify 40 cards in both Decks that really have the highest effective card value (ECV).