My "Prepared to be bashed by Rich" Monksai Deck

1 The Spider's Web

# Dynasty (41)

# Events (4)
1 Alter History
1 Imperial Gift
1 Glory of the Shogun
1 Times of Strife

# Celestials (1)
1 Jurojin's Blessing

# Holdings (17)
1 Border Keep - exp
3 Shinomen Marsh
2 Shrine to Hachiman
3 Temple of Harmony
1 Temples of Gisei Toshi
1 Traveling Peddler
3 Small Farm
3 Seaside Bazaar

# Personalities (19)
1 Daigotsu Kanpeki - exp
3 Nishimura
2 Ohaba
3 Omigawa
3 Sandayu
3 Sutigu
1 Tetsuo - exp
3 Yamazaki

# Fate (40)

# Strategies (25)
3 Hundred-Fold Cut
3 Readied Steel
2 Stay Put
3 Superior Reach
2 Never Beyond My Reach
3 Nerve Strike
2 Show of Restraint
2 The Serpent's Deception
1 A Game of Dice
1 Creating Order
3 Retribution

# Items (15)
3 Cursed Relic
1 Hunger
3 Modifications
3 Wyrmbone Katana
1 Blade of Champions
3 Satoshi's Dual Warfans
1 Tsuruchi Daikyu

Weakness right now is send home. Of course I'm not an expert on this list so I'm ready to take my shots.

I would run a 6 for 5 over Seaside, more synergy with small farms and Yamazaki. Most likely Merchant Atoll since nothing else does anything for the deck.

Increase TPed to 2, either dropping a Temple of Harmony or going to 17 holdings.

Dudes are fine but i'd prolly drop a Sutigu for a Ohaba.

I'm going to try out Diagotsu's guidance with the Celestial Holdings.

Drop the Following:
-Stay Put, bad card.
-Nerve Strike, not good for sohei
-1 Show of Restraint, 1 is enough
-Hunger, still sucks
-Blade of champions, not good enough

Add:
-2 daikyu's, its good early arc, ranged 5s kill almost anything, plus its the highest force weapon in EE.
-increase Never Beyond My Reach to 3, its a kill action.
-you need movement, so RoW and Brave New World
-Strength of the Spider is a 3 of all arc.
-I like Near Miss as a 2 of, since there is almost no recursion and lots of attachment hate

1 The Spider's Web

# Dynasty (41)

# Events (4)
1 Alter History
1 Imperial Gift
1 Glory of the Shogun
1 Times of Strife

# Celestials (1)
1 Jurojin's Blessing

# Holdings (17)
1 Border Keep - exp
3 Shinomen Marsh
2 Shrine to Hachiman
3 Temple of Harmony
1 Temples of Gisei Toshi
2 Traveling Peddler
3 Small Farm
2 Merchant Atoll

# Personalities (19)
1 Daigotsu Kanpeki - exp
3 Nishimura
3 Ohaba
3 Omigawa
3 Sandayu
2 Sutigu
1 Tetsuo - exp
3 Yamazaki

# Fate (40)

# Strategies (25)
3 Hundred-Fold Cut
2 Readied Steel
3 Superior Reach
3 Never Beyond My Reach
2 The Serpent's Deception
1 A Game of Dice
1 Creating Order
3 Retribution
3 The Strength of the Spider
2 A Brave New World
2 Near Miss

# Items (14)
3 Cursed Relic
3 Modifications
3 Wyrmbone Katana
2 Satoshi's Dual Warfans
3 Tsuruchi Daikyu

# Rings (1)
1 Ring of Water

Funny thing is when I was playing it with Corey earlier we decided to take the Merchant Atolls out. I still think the Monk holding is good enough to warrant 3 of. I'll test it out the next time corey and I play again and see how the changes work out.