FL-Asset Denial

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Asset Denial
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Ninja

Open: Bow your performing Ninja personality and target a Retainer: Destroy it.

Battle: Choose your performing Ninja personality with no non-Ninja followers at the current battlefield: Move him to a different location. If he moved, straighten his unit. Discard a card in a province.

Your master will have to continue without you.

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interesting... a lot of the good holdings are retainers (stolen merchandise, tsi, dark oracle, exotic goods...) but is holding kill worth a fate card? second action is pretty good too, movement, straighten, discard.

very flexible card

Killing an opponent's 3 gold producing holding in the first few turns is like killing two people over the course of the game. Especially out of ninja, where you can control what they get to a large degree.

I'm glad I run no retainers

You won't even be running Stolen Merchandise?

Great card early game when the unopposed movement or holding destruction will matter. Its a pretty horrible top-deck later in the game though like most other ninja related cards.

Ninjas need more solid battle actions and less movement jank.

stolen isnt in the deck at the moment, maybe that will change but meh...

I was bored and was playtesting with myself ( )... had an interesting situation where stolen was out and the other deck only had border and 2 barley farms. so yeah, stolen isn't the best thing since sliced bread all the time =)

Pruto wrote:I was bored and was playtesting with myself ( )... had an interesting situation where stolen was out and the other deck only had border and 2 barley farms. so yeah, stolen isn't the best thing since sliced bread all the time =)

That's very very rare though.

less rare is someone buying colonial harbor or secluded waystation T1

the main thing about stolen is that it CAN give me some good stuff, but it won't always, which is why it hangs precariously on that last holding slot

I am much less enthusiastic about Stolen Merchandise after having played a few games with it. Most games i end up pitching it in favor of my other utility holdings.