Akagi Sensei, fallen big guys?

1 The Exquisite Palace of the Crane (1)

1 The Exquisite Palace of the Crane (2)

# Dynasty (40)

# Events (1)
1 Dark Audience

# Holdings (19)
2 General's Hatamoto
3 Productive Mine
1 Counting House
1 Family Library
3 Jade Pearl Inn
1 Temple of Tengen
3 Marketplace
2 Deep Harbor
3 Humble House

# Personalities (20)
1 Bayushi Nitoshi - exp
1 Daigotsu Arakan - exp
1 Daigotsu Gyoken - exp3
3 Minikui no Oni
1 Nishoji, the Steel-Eyed
3 Ogre Bushi
1 The Dark Naga - exp
1 The Shakash - exp
1 Tochiko, the Jagged Tusk of Death
1 Moshi Tomiko - exp
1 Asukai, the Tireless
1 Ichiro Otani, the Stone Breaker
1 Hiruma Nikaru, the Flesh Eater
1 Akodo Tsudoken Xpt 1
1 Iuchi Wattu
1 Daidoji Tametaka - exp2

# Fate (41)

# Strategies (26)
3 Back to the Front
2 Unsettling Gathering
3 The Tale of the Disgraced
2 Expensive Achievement (or advance warning)
2 Holding Cells
2 Breaking the Rhythm
3 Strength of the Bear
1 Lakeside Retreat
2 Fall Back!
3 Absolution
2 The Crystal Tears
1 Creating Order

# Items (11)
3 Ominous Armor
3 Justice of the Crane
3 Family sword
2 Fortune's Charm

# Rings (3)
1 Ring of Air
1 Ring of Earth
1 False Ring of Void

# Senseis (1)
1 Akagi Sensei





The deck is simply awesome (and near undefeated). The goal here is to make two turns of gold, than 2 6F guys on T3 (becoming 9F unit immediatly), then two other each turns... On bad draw, you still can make minikui on T2 and start blitzing (not recommended) or enter only 1 big guy T3 + holdings...
The deck have a impressive gold flow and tempo being able to enter 2 personalities and a weapon each turn.
the deck don't fear Purge at all even if he can eventually once in 8/9 games lost a personality by this event.

When being sure of not being opposed (thanks to great intimidation power), the deck attack, sending home one big unit with akagi... If opponent attack, crane counterattack splitting on each province the following turn (yes including all four if necessary !) taking every one except one opposed (moving home with akagi)...Not attacking him is often a very bad idea as force are exponential... By turn 5, the deck can easily munster a 51F attack on the last province.

The deck is voluntarily low on defensive tricks/conqueror as he doesn't want to defend at all... he can on occasions thanks to massive move tricks (he start defending with one and finish with 4 big guys)...

the deck have no natural predator and the only 50/50 match up CAN be kensai/fallen dueling depending of the exact build and the exact meta played (the deck can easily enter kharmic strike)...

This match up is horrible for us as he can be opposed when he want (including T3 nullying our blitz) thank to akagi and is far faster than us (crushing three/four provinces everytimes unicorn try to attack). Most of our decks can't stand a chance against him : send home is not working considering the number of meta, force malus/ranged not at all, only bowtech unicorn can stand a chance to stop them...

A unicorn deck very competitive with maximum speed and lot of meta can hope to be at 40/60 against this archetype (statistics not made with unicorn massive bowtech decks).


This one is played in bowtech as this is the most stable and autowin version but he can be played in dueling for more destructive powers but less stable match ups against other dueling and some swarm decks (lion).
The only deck who manage to win against this is dragon dueling and unicorn but with all of them with a bad ratio... All other (including tiers 1) have lost 20/30 games without winning a lone game...




Posted on the unicorn clan forums... Just a snapshot of other decks out there, I don't think we have much to worry about from it though.

Should be military alliance instead of dark audience. Anyways, it rolls over to nexus and scorpion in general.

where did you get this list Pat?

Unicorn forums, I believe the player is European.  So may not be the same meta but just something to think about.