This province looks fairly 'meh' at first glance but I think once we have seen more Dragon (and possibly Phoenix) cards it's value could well improve. Pure speculation at this stage but I think those clans might well have a theme whereby they 'trigger' additional abilities and effects off of Ring effects.
We have also seen with Crane that this could be the case for Clan Champions - their abilities being closely related to Ring effects during, or post conflict.
from the looks of it; first impressions at least, I think it looks a bit like a middle finger to passive aggressive honor decks. Like Crane might shape out to be, decks that don't care too much about crushing provinces but want them fire/air rings. This might have come up in playtesting as something wrothy of meta out of box, but I highly doubt it. Honestly while I do enjoy the idea of every card having its place, I think this card was just a card designed to be a 5PS out of the box with no real downside. Might see play in turtle decks, but I think a better version of this card is the Crab Province card that lets you use the ring effect on the defense. I won't be surprised when every crab player flips that card from under his stronghold.
This card? Meh... might see play, but I doubt ALL card will see play out of the box sadly, this looks like just one of those cards. The, "Fortified Position" of the L5R Corebox. Looks nice on paper, and people may even try and make it work, but in the end it's just a decently stated card with a mediocre effect. The decks that end up running it will replace it the moment they can.
but I'm hardly ever right on these types of things
On 6/12/2017 at 1:15 PM, Joe From Cincinnati said:So, if provinces work the way we suspect (only one of each ring type), that'll be a bummer for Pheonix and, really, anyone who has a special void province.
You are correct. But the limit of 1 Province of each ring does make sense, I think. Would that mean a player can include 3 copies of said Province but only have 1 in play? Or...????
Laslty, maybe Phoenix Clan will have access to worthy Provinces of their own upon release?
4 hours ago, LordBlunt said:You are correct. But the limit of 1 Province of each ring does make sense, I think. Would that mean a player can include 3 copies of said Province but only have 1 in play? Or...????
Laslty, maybe Phoenix Clan will have access to worthy Provinces of their own upon release?
4 hours ago, LordBlunt said:You are correct. But the limit of 1 Province of each ring does make sense, I think. Would that mean a player can include 3 copies of said Province but only have 1 in play? Or...????
Laslty, maybe Phoenix Clan will have access to worthy Provinces of their own upon release?
It does make sense because you select your 5 provinces before the game starts, they are not in your Dynasty deck. You start with all five provinces in the game face down. Although we can never be sure it seems like the only logical explanation.
9 hours ago, LordBlunt said:Laslty, maybe Phoenix Clan will have access to worthy Provinces of their own upon release?
From what we've seen so far, I think Phoenix have the BEST province in the game.
4 hours ago, Tonbo Karasu said:
Pretty sure this is the best province up to date.