It's been almost 10 months since I played L5R. Started with Spider clan (the so called bad guys of the game), then proceeded to branch out to another clan, and now I'm ended up with Spider, Phoenix, and Mantis. At first, I thought that I'll only expand to Phoenix, but I've finally found out that the playstyle of Phoenix is not that suitable for me, as the majority of the clan's decks was quite taxing for my brain (especially enlightenment). Hence, I kinda gave up on playing Phoenix already.
After quite some time trolling around between clans, well I have to say that I'm still a Spider at heart (hence the Dark Lord), and nothing can change the fact that I can play Spider better than other clans. Kinda irony for a player that joins the bad guys while he actually played his first game using Crane Honor Bomb (yes, I'm talking to you Raymond a.k.a. Domotai). Well, whatever...
I have to say that Spider is kinda the most versatile clan, as it provides players with quite a lot of archetypes to try out. Breeder is my first choice when I just started and throughout the times I manage to evolve it, starting from pure Breeder to one of my most favorite build, the Goblin Breeder. But same as other typical card gamers, one deck is not satisfying at all. Actually the deck that I really look forward to build was Dark Paragons, the deck that I considered that embodies Spider's way of brutality and cruelty the best.
The effort of building the deck costed me a lot of time. It took me a total of half a year to fully finish my deck (without proxies). Though it was time consuming, but the deck gave me the most satisfaction, not to mention I won the title of the Spider Clan Champion on the previous league tournament that I attended with Dark Paragons.
Now, the deck was pimped even more with the additions of some powerful personalities/peeps and some new tech I discovered using older cards that I previously don't use. Hopefully the deck continues to give me motivation to improve even more... (fingers crossed)
Well, anyone that wanna have a walk through the path of Shourido are always welcomed to join me XD. This was just some random babbling on how I started L5R, and my recent progresses. In the future, this blog will feature more of my insights in deck building (Spider mostly), deck reviews, and some tournament reports.
That's all for now, and Daigotsu shall return to his chambers. (We shall annihilate those that oppose us!)
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