Crab

Legend of the Five Rings deck by Kempy Nezumi - L5RRules archive, 83 cards, legal in Twenty Festivals.

Imperial Herald Crab Clan Strategy for Thunderous Acclaim By Aaron Frede | May 18, 2015 Sons and Daughters of Hida! Welcome to Thunderous Acclaim, the newest expansion for the L5R CCG. It is a time of tumult for the Crab Clan, with their defenses stretched thin. Between manning the Great Carpenter Wall and helping to defend the walls around the Second Festering Pit in the Scorpion lands, the Crab are in a complicated position. This is true in the game, too. It's been a rough Kotei season so far; with only one win and a handful of Second Place finishes, the Crab have been in the bottom three clans results-wise. This is somewhat surprising, considering the decent matchup that "Big Crab" has against Mantis, who have been inordinately strong throughout the 2015 Spring Kotei season thus far. However, Thunderous Acclaim brings some new tools to the Crab. With that in mind, let's examine some options for a competitive Crab deck as the new set releases and we move towards GenCon, the European Championships and the 2015 Fall Kotei season: -The Crab Siege deck gets some love in Thunderous Acclaim, graduating from a mostly thematic deck to at least a second tier competitor. Ichigo Sensei allows you to play very defensively against other Military decks, setting yourself up to win a large, opposed battle and skyrocket in terms of Honor. Combined with some of the new Personalities, this becomes a very viable option for Crab players seeking to test out a new victory condition. -The "Big Crab" deck doesn't get a huge bump in the set, with only Hida Toranosuke Experienced as a new Personality. It nonetheless remains strong against the current "big dog" in the competitive field, Mantis. -Toritaka Suppon is a good addition to a Crab Swarm Military, build which itself remains a solid Military deck as proven by the Clan's win at the Utah Kotei. -Crab Dishonor is also still viable, although it hasn't really received any new tricks. What I want to focus on today, however, is a different t

Dynasty (40)

• 3× Banished
• 3× Bookkeeper
• 1× Earthborn Temple
• 1× Forgotten Legacy
• 1× Hida Kisada
• 3× Iron Mine
• 3× Jade Works
• 3× Komori Taruko
• 3× Kuni Araizen
• 3× Kuni Igarasu
• 1× Kuni Renyu
• 1× Kuni Shinoda, Advisor to the Jade Champion
• 3× Kuni Soseki
• 3× Kuni Tomokazu
• 2× Mystic Dojo
• 3× Nexus of Lies
• 2× Temple of Destiny
• 1× Weapon Artist

Fate (41)

• 3× A Breed Apart
• 2× Accessible Terrain
• 1× Diligent Care
• 3× Divide Into Ash
• 2× Guidance in War
• 2× Honed to a Razor's Edge
• 2× Lakeside Retreat
• 2× Legacy of Tadaka
• 1× Ring of Earth
• 2× Servitors of Stone
• 3× Stones of Purity
• 3× Strategic Withdrawal
• 2× Strength of the Torrent
• 2× The Price of Shame
• 1× Traditionalist
• 1× Utz!
• 3× Veil of Water
• 3× Victory Through Deference
• 3× Ward of Air

Pre-Game (2)

• 1× Daigo Sensei
• 1× The Unassailable Fortress of the Crab