Mirumotto Duelling Deck
using the Mountain keep of the Dragon
by Hitomi Kinjin


DECK LIST

Dynasty                                 Fate
personalities                                 Actions
3x Mirumotto Daini                                2x Lies, Lies, Lies
3x Mirumotto Taki                                 2x treachery and deceit
3x Mirumotto Hitomi                                 3x smoke and mirrors
Hitomi Exp.3                                 2x counter attack
2x Togashi Yoshi                                3x superior tactics
3x Mirumotto Uso                                 2x iaijutsu art
2x Mirumotto Sukune                                2x test of might
3x Agasha Gennai                                2x iaijutsu duel
Dairya exp. 2                                 2x iaijutsu challenge
2x Soshi Jujun                                 Items
Isawa Norikasu                                 The 12th Black Scroll
Holdings                                 Mirumotto's "niten"
3x gold mine                                 Lord Moon's Bone
fortress of the Dragonfly                                  Togashi's Daisho
3x Merchants Caravan                                 The Imperial Standard
2x Hiruma Dojo                                 ancestral sword of dragon
2x ancient sage                                 ancestral armor of dragon
3x small farm                                 the Mirumotto Wakizashi
2x kabuki theater troupe                                 followers
events                                 3x Imperial Legion
Kisada's Funeral                                 3x Ashigaru
Inheritance                                 Mirumotto House Gaurd
Imperial Gift                                 Kiho's
Hoshi's Challenge                                 2x Root the Mountain
                                 2x Winds of Truth
                                 spell
                                 Amnesia
                                 Rings
                                 Ring of Fire
                                 Ring of Earth
                                 Ring of void
                                Toshimoko Sensei

Deck story
When i put this deck together i was planning for a honor victory. I know it would not be as quick as a crane but i thought it would be fast enough to be competetive. I also believed since most of my personalities were mirumotto i would have a decent military presence, again, not that I would get the second turn province, but enough to protect myself if the other guy tried to take a second turn province. I will tell of three games i played with it.
The first game i played was against a Hitomi Tattoo Military Deck. I was lucky enough to control the favor the entire game, and i also had higher chi then he did, so i won all of my duels. In the early game i kept up with him force wise, so he did not get the early province. This, in the end, is what won me the game. It allowed me to build up force. He ended up taking three of my province with out me even defending them due to the centepede tattoo's and superior tactics. In the end, however, he had to attack my last province and with the favor, a treachey and deciet, and two iaijutsu duels i decemated his army, won the battle, and brought my honor to 42, winning the game on my turn.
I got the pleasure of playing a ninja deck next. I gave up on winning a honor victory before the game started, and decided to destroy the ninja militarily. Again during this game i controlled the favor the whole game and had higher chi then he did. First turn i got out a fortress of the Dragonfly and two merchant caravans. This basically sealed the victory for me. Second turn i got the Inheritance, Mirumotto Hitomi, Mirumotto Daini, and a gold mine. With the fortress out i had the 10 chi i needeed to attack his provinces. The only personality he had out was a nashiko, and my chi was to high for him to put my personality back in my deck. It was over by turn six.
The final game i want to talk about is against the unicorn. this one hurt. I had the favor and higher chi, unfortunatly, he had confusion at court and calvary. On turn three i had two provinces left. This slowed down my personality production, but it is not what lost me the game. What lost me the game was his Oracle of Earth, Scout, Deadly ground combination. I had the actions in my hand to decemate his army. I mean his average chi was 2.5. My duels would kill him. With the deadly ground, however, i never got a chance to play them. We played four games and they all ended the same way, Oracle, scout, deadly ground. The only good thing is that my honor was over 30 by the time he killed me, so if i can speed it up a hair maybe i can beat him to the punch.