As Winter Court approaches, one of the dominate clans was bolstered. What are people seeing this do to the meta?

4 minutes ago, Duciris said:

As Winter Court approaches, one of the dominate clans was bolstered. What are people seeing this do to the meta?

Its likely a little early to say for certain since (outside of Jigoku) testing most of us have only had the new cards for a week to experiment with. My predictions are that Scorpion will take Worlds this year, more on the power of opponents being unprepared for the new tricks than the overall power of the expansion.

Utaku Tetsuko seems to be the strongest card in the pack. And that Scorpion got a conflict courtier in-clan that doesn't cost five fate is nice. Shinibi decks might be a thing, but I am not sure yet. It may still be missing their Togashi Mitsu. Personally, I do not know how many of the cards from the pack I would end up using competitively, though I do see myself playing shinobi for fun at local games. I see Doji Fumiki being played as Crane has a few bow effects going on. I am not sure about the new stronghold yet, though ready effects are pretty strong, being able to take an honor from an opponent is really strong.

Phoenix, Scorpion, Dragon remain top tier.

There are some small improvments to the other clans, but, not enough to change the tier hierarchy.

Dragon (or any clan that leans on the flip/break effects of their provinces)might have been hit the hardest as there are now some generic ways to avoid face checking your opponent's provinces. I just don't think it's enough to knock Dragon out of the top tier.