geoff plays with big cats

Title: geoff plays with big cats
Author: Geoff "gsiva" Snider
Date: Oct 22, 2001 Rating: 3.0

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Cards:

‘lion box the only good lion box, 6/3/7

wind sezaru, the wolf

dynasty 41

jade works x3

copper mine x3

small farm x3

large farm x3

hiruma dojo x3

trading grounds x3

imperial gift

welcome home

ikoma sume x3

ikoma ijiasu x3

akodo tadenori x3

matsu domotai x3

matsu domotai exp.

ikoma otemi x3

akodo ginawa exp. 4

matsu hitomi

matsu kenji

matsu ketsui

matsu nimuro

fate 40

focus x3

burning your essence x3

imperial edicts x3

let your spirit guide you x3

iaijutsu art x3

enough talk x3

defend your honor x3

strength of purity x3

superior tactics x3

revealing the ancient wisdom

shiryo no taisa

imperial standard

celestial sword of the lion

golden obi of the sun goddess

atarasi’s armor

lion’s pride x3

tsuko’s heart

hunting tiger

matsu house guard

ring of the void

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Strategy: ‘

on the offensive, the lions must be quick. take a province by the third turn with a tactician like tadenori, ijiasu, or a beefed up domotai + SOP (and maybe a follower). if you don’t get decent gold on turns 1 and 2, then just keep dumping personalities until you’re sitting on about 10+ production.

your worst enemies are the scorpions, but if you get a good jump on them (militarily or in honor) then you should do okay. as long as you have more personalities then you should do pretty well.

beware crane honor decks. make sure and duel them whenever possible (they’ll be lobbying for the favor like mad). keep their personalities to a minimum with your duels (and a dishonored crane is worse than a dead crane).

use Superior tactics to evade defenders, and use your box only to NEGATE terrains. force them to waste that extra battle action to destroy their own terrain before they play another one. ‘