Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 06:44:38 EDT To: tstone@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us From: horseboy@cris.com Subject: a monk deck, if your still looking for ideas well, heres a monk deck that i use, it's one of my favorite decks at the moment and has been for a while, so i figure i'll put it all down, and the concepts behind it, and you can see what you think, and mayby put it up DYNASTY CARDS Holdings: small farm x3, jade works x3, prayr shrines x3, stables x3, go master x1, sanctified temple x1 Regions: Temple of osano-wo x3 Events: Test of the emerald champion, Return of Fu Leng Personalities: Takao x3, Agasha Heizo x2, Koichi x2, Hoshi Eisai x2, Gekkai x2 Shioda, Lady kitsune, Exp. Yodin, Tetsuya, Exp. Togashi Hoshi, Thunder dragon Void dragon, Earth dragon, Dragon of fire, Water dragon FATE CARDS Items: Armor of Osano-wo x1 Kihos: Flee the darkness x2, Grasp of the earth dragon x1 Actions: all five rings, Superior tactics x2, Musabi x2, Rallying cry x3 Contentious terrain x2, Dispersive terrain x1, Iaijutsu dule x3 Test of might x3, Strike with no thought x3, Strike without striking x2 Chi strike x3, Feint x2, Iaijutsu challange x3, Burning your essence x2 Spells: None Folowers: None Thats the layout of the deck, it's a military/enlightenment based deck with (obviously) heavy emphasis on duling. The main dulers in the deck are Takao and Gekkai, first using Takao to get the ring of fire into play, which is usualy the first ring for this deck, then using Gekkai after that. Most of the military power from the deck comes from the dragons, which have a tendancy to co me out fairly fast, as the deck usualy had decent cash flow, and honor requierme nts are neglagable with all the dules and the Lady kitsune. The military power accounts for the ring of earth, either on defense or with the armor of Osano-wo, and it is possable for it to put the water ring in play with it's own terrains, though it's quite a bit harder that way. The air ring comes out 90% of the time using the water dragon/Agasha Heizo combo, being very useful open innate abilities. The only real problem is the ring of the void, theres no real trick to getting that one out besides focusing alot and not minding tossing the cards you focus. Also, this usualy seems to be an advantage more then a hinderance, there are no samurai in the deck, only monk or shugenga, with the exception of Togashi Hoshi, which is neither. AND finaly, a card combo that usualy wins dules for me (if you havent heard of this one yet) is using the Feint card durring the dule, and as the "free focus" after the dule, playing a chi strike, and then folowing it all up with a strike without striking, to bring them both back into your hand. so, go ahead and mail me back if you can, and tell me what you think of this lon g winded mail. This deck is often used, and works well, at least for me, i hope it makes it up on your page, it's as updated as possible, as it uses 4 cards from the 3 episode of hidden emperor, untill later!