I just got my three sets. Probably before my buddy, a long time L5R player. I thought I my want to try to put together two decks for us to play. I believe looking at the card lists that there are some cards I only have three of, and they'd be hard to divide equitably. Any advice for building two decks. I haven't looked into deck building yet, so I'm a complete newb.

Ideally, the two decks would be Lion and Crane, but if swapping one of those out for another clan would make the card division work better, I'd love to hear that.

2 minutes ago, defendi said:

I just got my three sets. Probably before my buddy, a long time L5R player. I thought I my want to try to put together two decks for us to play. I believe looking at the card lists that there are some cards I only have three of, and they'd be hard to divide equitably. Any advice for building two decks. I haven't looked into deck building yet, so I'm a complete newb.

Ideally, the two decks would be Lion and Crane, but if swapping one of those out for another clan would make the card division work better, I'd love to hear that.

With three cores, building two legal decks is pretty easy. You'll have more than enough neutrals to share between the two of you. (Each core has either 2 or three copies of each neutral, with three cores you have enough copies to share)

The only hiccup you may run into is with splash clans. If you're making Lion and Crane decks. It means that as long as either deck does not splash the same clan, or each other, you can build two decks just fine.

The only time you would have an issue maintaining two decks of different clans would be if you are splashing one of those two clans into the other or if both were splashing from the same clan.

With 3 cores you have 3 of each clan card and 6 or 9 of each Neutral card.

So you could easily maintain both a Lion and Crane and just be sure you don't overlap the splash. In fact in learning to play you could just not splash at all.

EDIT RandomJC is a touch faster

5 minutes ago, Krashwire said:

The only time you would have an issue maintaining two decks of different clans would be if you are splashing one of those two clans into the other or if both were splashing from the same clan.

With 3 cores you have 3 of each clan card and 6 or 9 of each Neutral card.

So you could easily maintain both a Lion and Crane and just be sure you don't overlap the splash. In fact in learning to play you could just not splash at all.

EDIT RandomJC is a touch faster

i have too much free time.

Where's the best place for me to go to get advice on building a good lion and crane deck?

Poke around on Discord, poke around on the crane forums. I think the lion boards died. Poke around on cardgamedb and fiveringsdb to see what decks people have published.

I think it depends on what you are going for in terms of play. If you are just going for casual play then it's something you can just go through with trial an error, picking what sounds fun and exploring this great new game.

If you want to hit the ground running in a more competitive fashion, try Crane with Scorpion splash as this gives you 6 "counterspells" and arguably the best deck in the environment to test against.

For Lion, look for something that isn't too reliant on events as the Crane/Scorpion deck will naturally shut it down. One problem you can come across is that when you start making your decks more competitive you have some overlap. For example, a Crane splash in a Lion deck can help you combat the Crane/Scorpion deck..........but the Crane/Scorpion deck will need some of the same cards to be optimal.

Either way, have fun with it and enjoy the process of building and learning the in's and out's of all the clans.

I think Lion are typically running Dragon at the moment on the competitive level?

That being said, if you aren't trying to be super competitive, you can probably play any combination to a reasonable level. Skill matters more than deck once you have a deck put together. Most of the choices are nuances.

You can always print out proxy card slips. If you are just trying things out, playing casual games or playing with friends, then who cares if you use proxy cards/slips - do as you please. In tournaments you can't use proxy cards, but I would use them for deckbuilding and trying things out.

Kolat Informant Demo Decks these are print and play, a place to start. (They're 30/30 decks though)