YES - Captive Audience

[shosuko 2,174]

The card I've been waiting for...  FINALLY!!!muahahahahahhaaaaa  Honor stronger than Steel?  How about Steel Stronger than Honor

[theninthguardian 157]

This + Breakthrough could mean some pretty quick games.

[Barbacuo 153]

This is the card that shocked me the most from this spoiler. Followed by Cavalry Reserves.

[RandomJC 1,542]

My ponies

 

[KerenRhys 304]

I wouldn't be surprised to see the opposite as a Scorpion Event.

[BCumming 233]

Less chat, more splat!

[Mirith 1,304]

The Shiro Moto Winter Court of 1180 is best unmentioned in polite company.

[Kuni Katsuyoshi 1,261]

Just now, BCumming said:

Less chat, more splat!

That makes me think more of tomato or pie throwing than war.

how about 

Less Yak more Thwack!!

[Shu2jack 610]

16 minutes ago, shosuko said:

The card I've been waiting for...  FINALLY!!!muahahahahahhaaaaa  Honor stronger than Steel?  How about Steel Stronger than Honor

Guest of....Honor..... Is looking better now.

[Kakita Shijin 141]

Steed our demands!

[Gamedog 150]

21 minutes ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:

That makes me think more of tomato or pie throwing than war.

how about 

Less Yak more Thwack!!

"Less yakkin' and more hackin' !" was the blessing recited by my cleric of Tempus. 

[Kuni Katsuyoshi 1,261]

2 minutes ago, Gamedog said:

"Less yakkin' and more hackin' !" was the blessing recited by my cleric of Tempus. 

That's my kind of blessing!??

[Ishi Tonu 2,855]

Easily one of the most environment defining cards in the game.  Any clan that has a military focus will need to consider this card seriously.  It's a heavy influence splash, and rightly so, but, I'm having a hard time finding any other clan to borrow from if I'm going to primarily rely on military to win the day.  Having some protection against the Phoenix is also a nice bonus.

Unicorn has some serious military shenanigans that can end games in a hurry.  Very scary.

[JolOfNar 53]

41 minutes ago, Barbacuo said:

This is the card that shocked me the most from this spoiler. Followed by Cavalry Reserves.

those are BOTH horrible. Why is it free. For what possible reason is it free.

They are very strong in military, and very cheap, and have very very good cards.

All of this is offset by their political weakness. which really doesn't look that weak. 

I'd have to see them in play to make an informed judgement, but they look a whole world scarier than anything we've seen so far.

Edited August 9, 2017 by JolOfNar

[Cambeul no Oni 105]

31 minutes ago, Mirith said:

The Shiro Moto Winter Court of 1180 is best unmentioned in polite company.

Ah, good times

[Gamedog 150]

Cavalry Reserves is most interesting. Unicorn wants to win fast, but Reserves takes a bit to charge up -- until there's guys in the discard it's useless. It plays well with the inevitable broken province(s) Unicorn will take -- more discards means more targets for the Reserves. I see a lot of close victories for Unicorn. 

[Asako Michi 1,746]

8 minutes ago, Gamedog said:

Cavalry Reserves is most interesting. Unicorn wants to win fast, but Reserves takes a bit to charge up -- until there's guys in the discard it's useless. It plays well with the inevitable broken province(s) Unicorn will take -- more discards means more targets for the Reserves. I see a lot of close victories for Unicorn. 

Keep in mind, I Am Ready is free to play, but you remove 1 fate from the target character to ready them. I assume Unicorn players will want to put a single fate on 1 or 2 of their cards, just to use this ability and reuse a character for their 2nd conflict. That, combined with how cheap many of their units are, gives them a good chance to put a few bodies into play on turn one, use them up, and have them ready in the discard for Cavalry Reserves to bring back on round 2.

[Ide Yoshiya 879]

I'd just like to say that the title and flavor are a cute juxtaposition: the audience is "captive" at swordpoint. It goes a long way toward explaining why our courtiers so far have such little glory. They've expended most of it apologizing on behalf of their Moto comrades. 

[Wintersong 879]

59 minutes ago, Shu2jack said:

Guest of....Honor..... Is looking better now.

She is annoying to say the least.

[Prepare for War 155]

I mentioned on the other thread, but will repeat here as it's more on topic here.

This is a very good card here, but don't forget the hidden cost.

This game explicitly has an equivalence of 1 card = 1 honour, and the inbuilt honour cost basically makes it 2 honour spent to flip the outcome of a single conflict. That's good, but not exceptional.

Ultimately, turning around the outcome of a conflict is the baseline of what we expect any event to do, it's just a question of how reliably it does this, and the price point.

[RandomJC 1,542]

6 minutes ago, Prepare for War said:

I mentioned on the other thread, but will repeat here as it's more on topic here.

This is a very good card here, but don't forget the hidden cost.

This game explicitly has an equivalence of 1 card = 1 honour, and the inbuilt honour cost basically makes it 2 honour spent to flip the outcome of a single conflict. That's good, but not exceptional.

Ultimately, turning around the outcome of a conflict is the baseline of what we expect any event to do, it's just a question of how reliably it does this, and the price point.

Id Say 2 honor is a cheap price to pay. This does more than a lot to change the conflict.

Also would argue against the 1 card = 1 honor, But that is just personal beliefs at this stage.

[Asako Michi 1,746]

There's quite a few really good conflict cards in the preview, and while there's a couple card draw effects available, I somewhat expect Unicorn may want to bid aggressively on the first round to gain as much card advantage as possible for that initial blitz. Once this deck gets momentum going, it's just going to steamroll the opponent unless their opponent finds some way to significantly smash that momentum or dishonor the Unicorn out of the game fast.

[Asako Michi 1,746]

Maybe it's just the knee-jerk "****, Shiny" reaction, but at the moment I'm feeling with what we know of deckbuilding limitations for a single core set, Unicorn has one of the best if not THE best odds of getting several Hatamotos named out of the Kiku Matsuri. 

[Prepare for War 155]

 

6 minutes ago, RandomJC said:

 

Also would argue against the 1 card = 1 honor, But that is just personal beliefs at this stage.

 

Actually, maybe its more like 1 card = 2 honour, given that 1 card of difference creates a 2 honour differential...

[RandomJC 1,542]

3 minutes ago, Prepare for War said:

 

 

Actually, maybe its more like 1 card = 2 honour, given that 1 card of difference creates a 2 honour differential...

I'd even argue against that. It's entirely situational based on the bids, where you can gain/lose honor and it's far to complicated to be boiled down to a simple X card = Y honor.