As mentioned previously, I modeled the card on the full bleeds that AGOT 2.0 does. I posted an example here

I have never been to gencon, but what was the largest l5r event? 350 and 100 sounds like a lot to the fact that most were praising how big it was a week ago

I hate when people make that argument. It's completely different. In AGOT lcg they aren't telling any story. GRRM told a story and ffg is just making a game of it. For l5r, the story is the game and is being told by the players of the game (in a way)

One, you are assuming the original thunders are the same people. For all we know they may be different. Two, I'm fine with the reboot but I wish FFG changed every name. That way no one could have preconceived notions about what has happend and what should happen.

My understanding is that world's is held in their hq. It's not a NA vs Europe thing. However I thought they started providing airfare and hotel accommodations to the people who have qualified for world's

I just looked up the 2013 gencon l5r event and there were 70 people. I'm not quite sure how 350 or 100 is more limited

Not saying your wrong, but if AEG didn't own the rights, why were they able to print them as promos in Ivory?

Apparently my last post got eaten. I have no problem with people doing whatever they want with it. I'll probably do the rest of the iconics provided I can find art.

I modeled the full bleed on the AGOT ones. There they moved the conflict icons from the top to the bottom. However, AGOT uses static icons without values so it may not have been a good comparison. I'm on my way out for memorial day weekend but I'll see if I can keep the conflict numbers in the same location. The only issue is that will require putting the mon below the conflict numbers which might look odd

So I got bored and decided to make a full bleed Hotaru

I'd say there is definitely a Toturi card coming however, I wouldn't say its assured for the core set. In the AEG days, they would put out contracts for art well ahead of sets. In some cases the artist would post the art and the card using wouldn't be released for another 2-3 sets (and sometimes never). I don't know how FFG does it, but it wouldn't surprise me if they are close to finalizing the print files for the entire first block and that piece could just as easily be in those cards than the core.

With microsoft word and undersizing the cards slightly you should be able to fit 9 per page.

I don't think Unicorn would have 2 provinces. With 17 provinces that means each clan has 1 and 2 neutral for each element. If we are all correct and you need to have 1 of each element for provinces, then giving unicorn 2 provinces means 1 element doesn't have a deck construction choice (unless your clan one shares the element) and everyone is forced to use that one.

I know no Spanish, but could the translation also be Persona? That leads credence to the sensei or multiplayer role belief

Can't you see how wrong that is? For next to no investment you were killing a very expensive character with attachments and you gained other things off of it. As far as what Crane and dragon have that make them better duelists? Well for 1, Crane have the duels. We haven't seen every card but right now the only way to initiate a duel is with crane cards. Of the two cards, the unique has a powerful effect should he win and so/so disadvantage if you lose. You are either sending home all but 1 of his guys or just sending home him. Further, you should probably only be using his ability if you start out ahead or think you can bluff for honor. As for the other card, you can put it on any character you want and you control the targets. Provided you start even a little ahead, you are probably safe bidding 1 and winning or gaining a bunch honor. As for dragon, while we haven't seen a lot of cards, we know they have attachments and those will help with dueling.

Typically you only want to ever run a single version in a deck. As you can't bring both out at the same time and can't have more than 3 TOTAL copies of a character in your deck, you typically only want to run copies of the one that helps you the most.

By that logic, Kachiko should be listed in the floating cards for Scorpion but does not appear. Also, the fact that the only known Crane in the core is Hotaru, makes this a bad assumption to make.

I would actually assume the latter. In AGOT, you can only include 3 copies of a unique character in your deck period and you can only have 1 of them in play at any time. Assuming they make an expansion hotaru, you could not run 3x Hotaru (core) and 3x Hotaru (expansion), but you could run 1x Hotaru (core) and 2x Hotaru (expansion). However, you couldn't have both in play at the same time.

Right, but have you seen anything stating that Toturi will have a card in the core set?

You are correct on the Dragon. It was in the initial release of previewed cards that I ignored the numbers on as They seemed not to be final. In regards to the Lion clan champion, I thought Toturi was the Clan champ. His spreadsheet had both Toturi and Arasou as floating cards. I assume one is the champion and will be in the set. I haven't seen any mention that the other one will unless I missed it.

I would actually set the width of the card to 2.3 (this should auto size the height to 3.2. This makes them slightly smaller than the actual cards and easy to sleeve in with another card.

Very nice breakdown. Here is where I found differences between my spreadsheet and yours. 1) I have Elemental Fury as card 16. I am certain I saw that revealed. This puts Ancestral Lands at 15 (Unless sorting is by element and not alphabetical). 2) I have Borderlands Fortification as card 38 3) I have no number on Way of the Dragon 4) You have several cards in the floating cards that I have not seen mentioned as cards. I know the champions have been stated to be in the set but cards such as Akodo General or Akodo Arasou I have not seen mentioned.

I'd assume after release it will go to like their other games where you get an article every couple weeks. You have to remember that they have 250 cards that need to be spoiled over 14 weeks (average of 18 cards per week) and they need to keep up hype during that time. After that its 20 cards every 4 weeks (average 5 cards per week)

I don't think this is right. '-' + 3 is still '-'

I thought maybe I could logicially deduce the what the cards are based on the clans under the assumption that each clan got the same total amount of cards. However, that doesn't work because under the assumption that all the crane cards have been seen, that means that each clan should have 24 cards. However, summing the total number of revealed unicorn cards, the unknown cards between unicorn and the neutrals, and the unknown cards between the scorpion and unicorn cards only gives you 22. That means barring some weird numbering, Unicorn has less cards than at least crane