Tomorrow's Immortals

by Nithiyan Thiruudaian

5 Confucian Stability
3 Fong Sai Yuk
1 Gardener
5 Golden Candle Society
1 Green Senshi Chamber
2 Instrument of the Hand
1 Into the Light
5 Iron and Silk
1 Kung Fu Student
2 Orange Senshi Chamber
1 Quan Lo
4 Red Monk
1 Shaolin Sanctuary
2 Shield of Pure Soul
4 Shih Ho Kuai
1 Sun Chen
2 Swordsman
2 White Senshi Chamber
3 Wind on the Mountain
1 Wong Fei Hong
1 Queen of the Ice Pagoda
1 White Ninja (new)
1 Alchemist's Lair (Chi)
1 Ancient Grove
4 Blade Palm
2 Fortune of the Turtle
2 Invincible Chi
1 The Fox Outfoxed
4 Violet Meditation
4 Wing of the Crane
1 City Square
1 Dragon Mountain
1 Fortress of Shadow
1 Fox Pass
3 Inner Sanctum
1 Kinoshita House
1 Perpetual Motion Machine
1 Pinball Hall
3 Whirlpool of Blood
= 81 cards

Analyses

By Type

27 Characters
2 Edges
28 Events
13 Feng Shui Sites
8 Sites
3 States

By Cost

11 0 cost
23 1 cost
15 2 cost
8 3 cost
1 5 cost
7 6 cost
16 variable cost
1.91 average cost (excluding variable)

By Fighting

9 1 fighting
2 2 fighting
4 4 fighting
1 6 fighting
1 7 fighting
1 8 fighting
3 9 fighting
1 10 fighting
1 11 fighting
4.26 average fighting (by character)
1.21 average fighting (by card)

By Foundation

11 Guiding Hand
1 Monarchs

Percentages

15% Base resource
16% Feng Shui
10% Site
33% Chi
2% Magic

By Set

51 Limited
18 Netherworld
11 Flashpoint
1 Promo

By Rarity

12 Very Common
25 Common
23 Uncommon
21 Rare (26%)

By Faction

47 Guiding Hand
1 Monarchs
33 Neutral

Notes

This is the winning deck from Flashpoint Finchley XIV. It is what I call a Chi deck - built around Guiding Hand and an emphasis upon the powerful Chi cards and Shih Ho Kuai. Such decks have been potent in multi-player games since the first edition of Shadowfist - it is hard to stop a powerful Superleaper protected by Fortune of the Turtle and Confucian Stability.
This version adds protection against denial sites like Fox Pass with cards from the expansion sets - Whirlpoools of Blood and Invincible Chi. It has its own complement of denial sites too but its most potent denial card is Blade Palm - Nithiyan used this to great effect to repeatedly frustrate other attempts to win by removing the target site.
The deck has fewer foundation characters and feng shui sites than the 20% rule of thumb. This risks a slow start but, once a start has been made, there is correspondingly more good stuff to win with. Nithiyan is one of our younger Finchley players and this is his first tournament victory. This new talent will keep us older players on our toes ...

Last modified: October 1, 1998.
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