The Swift Sword

The Golden Plains
Border Keep
Bamboo Harvesters

Dynasty (40)
The Second City
Shinden Shorai

Ryoshun's Guidance
Benten's Blessing

1x Traveling Peddler
1x Stolen Merchandise
3x Archery Range
3x Copper Mine
3x Remote Village
3x Ageless Shrine

1x Takasho
1x Ikoma Shika exp.
3x Ikoma Yamahatsu
3x Ikoma Shinju
3x Ikoma Shika
3x Tsuruchi Yashiro
3x Qalyar
3x Jahan
2x Keppo

Fate (40)
1x Ikoma House Guard
3x Murderous Thieves
3x Satoshi's Dual Warfans

1x Scouting the Pass
2x Spirit of the Scout
2x Strategic Strike
2x Precision
2x Sniping
3x Ancient Fued
3x No Hiding Place
3x Disrupting Communication
3x Well Prepared
3x Surrounded
3x The Cycle of Vengeance
3x Deep Snows
3x Sundering Strike

The deck is meant to be able to kill virtually any unit opposing it and generate sufficient force to take provinces with ease. The peeps that cause honor losses are a concern so some of the Lion's must be proclaimed which may slow the deck down too much.

Any suggestions?

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Makito and Thick Marsh.

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Like the deck, have you thought about adding maybe two brothers in battle I see only 13 guys can ping off it, but possibly having three extra range attacks can help sometimes. Especially against hida xp.

also seeking the truth might be good to add i always run out of actions way to quick with my version and getting to grab them back has helped at times.

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Seeking the truth s a definite possibility I forgot all about it.

Makito in place of Takasho is a change I'll try out. It does increase the decks costs but it doesn't come with an honor loss.

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I was suggesting in addition to Takasho. One of the problems with RA decks is the inability to deal with big attachments. With so many RA modifiers, a reliable number of actual ranged attacks becomes more important.

Also, consider Precision in the place of Surrounded. Depending on your area.

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Definietly add more sneak’s (normal or new scout one) – otherwise first battle goona be hard – especially with parajimgo, yojimbo, ninja, siege – who kill you with just stronghold, with just a single defender, their save a province. I do not leave home without 3 in my deck.
Thick marsh and heart of darkness are just too good – bowing berserkers and kensai’s without negation, delay or redirect.
3x precision is a must for me – not only increase range, but can save your scout from others melee/range.
Disrupting Communication In 3 copies is too much for me – you do not have free scout followers, to bow, and I found that I lose battles because I have no unbowed personalities – half I bowed myself, another half was bowed or killed by enemy – 0F in resolution…

I'm running a similar build.

Lesson's learned so far.

-Sneak attack/scouting the pass are a must for this deck. You need the first action to take out their biggest blocker.

-Sniping while it can be awesome is situational imo. possibly better to use a proactive action.

-No hiding place where i play is expected and played around. People will assign at off battlefields making it a dead card more times than not.

-Heart of Darkness is a game winner. If you can get some use it. I run it 2x with 2x deep snows. (thick marsh is also a good choice but I haven't had much success with it over deep snows)

-I don't use Sundering strike in the deck... I really should but with my last slot i added broken alliance.

From playtesting I can tell you my build at least struggles against dedicated honor runners and attachment heavy/high force decks. (added Kaido for anti high force yet to play test that yet.) Alter history and beatiful host might be things to consider as meta.

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I like the concept and I'm planning to build something similar.
I was considering to add some out of clans from Crane and/or Mantis. Specially Daidoji Narizane. In a TGP deck could easely bow two cards. I know, it's like a 9G for us and "only" bows, but I want to hear your opinion about him.

Bow is inferior to kill. I'd only include a guy that expensive if he had a printed kill action, like every expensive guy in this deck.

If you really want to add a scout from out of clain consider Hiruma Tensin or Shikaro as they both support the deck.

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Working on my own scout deck atm. Let me know how yours is doing please. Especially against big unit decks.

In my initial testing against a Unicorn/crab tactician deck, Dan Jacobson's newest evil, I was consistently coming up short at least one RA to win the big battle and was subject to creating stalemates.

I've added in another scout sneak, Dairuko and made some other tweaks. Once I get some more testing in I'll post the deck.

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awesome. while i still have my tactigon and HOM decks I'd love to try to get my scout deck to a point where its competitive.

Did some more testing last night and sadly concluded this deck isn't quite going to be competitive. It is clearly able to win against most military decks, once I got the balance of RA's to cheap guys right, but it simply has to have too many things go just right to beat Kensai. You wind up having to use up fate cards, broken alliance/sundering, to break the big weapons to get the kensai into range of your RA's and that means he has had time to kill your guys first.

The problem is the lack of base RA's over 4 (the deck runs 2 but it needs more like 6 or 8 ).

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well adding HOD and thick marsh could help with the big decks, also reckless and unorthodox. I know its a lot of cards to add but mess around with it and i believe you can get a nice balance of cards that can mess with big units.

Maybe add some force reducers, costly feud, koyama, arata, vigilant eyes, etc.

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The problem with most of that stuff is they doesn't remove the unit in one action. Kensai will be killing my units with most every action. To change that would require running more attachments and the stuff you mention which would squeeze out the stuff that makes the deck work in the first place.

BTW HoD is really pretty pointless except in honor decks where you're ok with losing all your defenders as long as you hold the province. In an offensive military deck playing a card that basically says, if you run out of actions before I run out of units I'll bow your two biggest guys, is almost exactly the same as passing.

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