Mental Meta 2: Every Day I’m Shuffling

When people see the word ‘meta’ they too often think it just applies to the card choices you can make for your deck. This series will instead look at ways by which you can improve the way you think about the game in an attempt to get an advantage over your opponent.

Foreword
This article analyses shuffling techniques and estimates deck order after shuffling. If, after shuffling a deck, you know the location (accurately or otherwise) of any card or card type in a deck (yours or your opponent’s), it is your duty as a player to reshuffle or ask your opponent to reshuffle the deck as that knowledge is cheating. All estimates here are for example purposes only.
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EE Scorpion Previews II: Electric Boogaloo

Once again we’ve been honoured with the latest Scorpion previews. We’re putting them up as a batch on the frontpage as that should get around the issues we had last time.

Enjoy!

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EE Previews: Scorpion Strongholds

Today is the day the Scorpion Stronghold Design Diary went up on www.L5R.com, and you can read that here.

This post will give a quick rundown of the Strongholds, and the decks we’re expecting to be running out of them. Continue reading

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The Great Clans Review: Scorpion by Matt Tyler

The Great Clans Review: Scorpion

This is the second book I’ve done a review for from the L5R RPG line-up, and I figured I’d do something a bit more different with this one. With Emerald Empire I gave a run-down of one of the schools shown in the Scorpion chapter, this time I’d like to look at the full chapter itself.

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Second City Scans


With Second City getting an early release at Gencon, I decided to take this opportunity to steal Eoin Burke’s playset and scan cards I’ve been reliably informed aren’t already around somewhere on the internet.

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RPG Adventure- Dark Subtlety

This week I have the pleasure of hosting a adventure written by our very own Matt Tyler.

In the southern plains of the Scorpion lands, the governor of a lonely city celebrates his son’s Gempukku. Is it an honest celebration, or a mask for something more subtle?

Dark Subtlety is an adventure for 4 to 6 Rank 1 characters using the 4th Edition Legend of the Five Rings rules, and is intended to introduce players to the many situations they may find themselves in in future adventures.

Download here- Dark Subtlety

Make sure to post on our forums and give Matt some feedback so we can convince him to make this a regular thing.

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Second City Previews

The Dojo Of Lies is once again proud to host the Scorpion Previews of the latest L5R set, due to release in September. Because Gencon is so close and AEG want to give people there a chance to grab some of the set early, they have generously started the Preview Cycle early for all of us unfortunately enough to be missing out.

Check out the Previews on the Forum.

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Variations on a Theme- Scorpion Ninja

With the final Gencon of Celestial upon us, it’s time for Scorpion to win another one. This time around we’ll be discussing Ninja, one of the most fun Military decks in the environment.

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Variations on a Theme- Scorpion Dishonour

With the final Gencon of Celestial upon us, it’s time for Scorpion to win another one. In this article we’ll discuss the options available to Scorpion Dishonour, including a decklist that highlights one of the styles available to the decktype.

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The Gencon Environment

Obviously it can be impossible to say what exactly will be the decks to beat at Gencon, but we can certainly make educated guesses about what are the top decks in each Clan. It’s important to remember that because of Clan diversity in L5R, people are more likely to play subpar decks in a major event than in other CCGs. As someone who has done this (Ninjastrates!!!), I totally understand and support the reasons people do this, but it can lead to some strange matchups that you could never have planned for.

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