Characters:
1x Xianghua.
Attacks:
4x Waterfall
4x Playful Slice
4x Pointing Thrust
4x Triple Botta in Tempo
4x Flash Needle
Actions:
3x Acrobatic
Assets:
3x Sword of No Name
Foundations:
4x Deceptively Quick
3x Playful
3x Lost Partner
4x Genius Alchemist
3x Strange Fashion
4x Looking for a Thrill
3x Financial Troubles
3x For the Money
3x Communing with the Ancients
4x Needs No Ally
Ok, first off let me say I am VERY proud of this build. I've been toying with Xianghua since CSI spoiled the set, and this is by far the best and most consistent build I've put together. The only one worthy of posting as well. The main goal is to get Playful Slice into the discard pile. Either pitch it if you draw it or else you'll probably check it. During testing I had one in the discard pile by the end of my second turn each game. Every turn you plan to play attacks, which is every turn you have any and no need to play foundations to your pool, use X's Form to put Playful Slice in the pool. As you may have guessed, the main kill comes from the Waterfall combo, however, you wont need to rely just on that to win. I beat Mitsurugi using Playful Slice and 2 Flash Needles, no multiples, turn three; turn four killed him with Playful Slice and 1 more Flash Needle with multiple. Needs No Ally is an invaluable tool. Game two against Mitsu I declared All and played Genius Alchemist, Looking for a thrill, and two Financial Troubles into my card pool, passed them all and ended. This build is incredibly consistent, despite what people are saying on the forums about how Xianghua seems too risky to build in this format. Bull. My Mitsu build is on this forum, it is incredibly solid and still got beat by Xianghua 2-1!