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4/15 Red Castle Games
3W-0L 6 participants

Game 1 vs unicorn
Managed good card differential. Applied honor choke despite 2 yurt triggers. Fury helped cut down threats. Pacing was steady towards win because they had little cards. Cloud the mind turn off Champ ability and hamstrung Kaito Kosori's ability throughout game. Investigator discarded a late game Captive Audience. Opponent had 1 card in hand when stronghold broke.

Game 2 Crab
Opponent put out only a Vanguard Warrior then passed on first turn dynasty. Had Kasada in province so I assumed he had Charge! I declared first turn political on Kasada province to break, revealing Guardians that exhausted my two units and his Vanguard Warrior. Wanting to clear out Kasada I put a Wayfinder into conflict but he Assassinated. As I was contesting Water ring I and had Cloud the Mind I still wanted to flush out his power cards, so I put Tattooed Wandered into conflict. I won but didn't break and readied my other non-participating unit with ring. He passed conflict so I declared military and he did play Charge as expected. I clouded Vanguard Warrior but he had a Reprieve in hand. He also had Mountain does not fall so he was able to break a province after that defense. Thus round ended with me short on fate and cards and nothing to show. Next round Amoro came out and so I only put out 1 character given my low fate. Ultimately he Way of the Crabbed my unit and broke 2 more provinces. But with my low card bids turn 2 and 3 i got him down to 1 honor and with help of Entrenched and Mountaintop Statuary I was able to defend my Stronghold. Yokuni did work in copying Steadfast Witchhunters ability and by keeping his hand low (despite Funeral Pyre) I was able to break 4 provinces over the next several rounds and win.

Game 3 Crane
Largely a game of small advances. Opponent had great card draw throughout game and with honor effects was able to keep her honor pool up despite my low bids. I leaned on Satoshi heavily during game to flush out Imperial Storehouses and putting Miwaku Kabe on an unrevealed Pilgrammage and leaving a Satoshi copy on Restoration to try and draw opponent's declare to that province in order to discard a next turn fate to my Satoshi in play. She never took bait. During game she broke one province but she stalled out on Before the Throne once I got Yokuni out and pushed Water ring and started copying the ability of Doji Challenger in order to pull her units into battle and waste their ability to attack or defend on my second attack. Because Resto was so juicy I never used my in hand discard effects like Spies. I did try to use Policy Debate but she canceled with Voice, which I hoped to draw out anyway so I could then follow with a Banzai. Her large hand of cards was able to stall me out so game went to time and I won on points. It also looked as if I would win if we played out the round as her Stronghold province was Shameful and she didn't have the cards to continue on the defense.

Full Report
April 11 Cloud Cap Games
3W-0L
In none of these games did I draw into Yaruma or Investigator.

1st game Scorpion. Maintained province break tempo while pushing dishonor pressure once opponent hit Restoration of balance. Made risky play T1 to clear Imperial Palace on Pilgramage with Banzai'd Katana Doomed Shugenja and that paid off in setting the tempo for rest of game.

2nd game Crab. Slow start for me. Opponent broke 1 province and had good board presence early on. Then hit Resto and played into Spies at Court. I built up good unit presence after and pushed hard on choke/honor drain. Opponent conceded during my final political push on stronghold with Air ring where he had 1 honor remaining and I had +7 political boost still in hand.

3rd game Crab. Kept card choke on throughout game once restoration hit. Used Let Go on his Spyglass and Spies at Court that discarded to Way of Crab. Final Stronghold push squeaked out a win just as he had built up enough honor and board presence to start turning the game next round.

Full Report
2 full win; 1 modified loss
Early drop