Suicidal Tendencies

By Dave Martin June 21, 1997

1 Faked Death
5 Family Estate
1 Monkey King
5 Operation Killdeer
4 Shadowy Mentor
5 Suicide Mission
5 The Pledged
1 Banish
2 Big Brother Tsien
5 Claw of Fury
4 Evil Twin
1 Guiyu Zui
1 Infernal Temple
1 Shifting Loyalties
4 Tortured Memories
1 Green Senshi Chamber
2 Into the Light
5 Iron and Silk
4 Kung Fu Student
2 Orange Senshi Chamber
3 Righteous Fist
1 Shaolin Sanctuary
1 White Senshi Chamber
4 Wind on the Mountain
2 Xiaoyang Yun
1 Yellow Senshi Chamber
2 Curio Shop
1 Fox Pass
1 Hidden Sanctuary
1 Kinoshita House
1 Monkey House
5 Perpetual Motion Machine
1 Sacred Heart Hospital
1 Turtle Beach
5 Whirlpool of Blood
= 89 cards

Stats:

BY TYPE
25 Characters
1 Edges
28 Events
18 Feng Shui Sites
13 Sites
4 States
BY COST
11 0 cost
16 1 cost
29 2 cost
11 3 cost
22 variable cost
1.60 average cost (excluding variable)
BY FIGHTING
9 1 fighting
10 2 fighting
2 3 fighting
21 Total
1.67 average fighting (by character)
0.39 average fighting (by card)
BY FOUNDATION
10 Ascended
8 Eaters of Lotus
8 Guiding Hand
PERCENTAGES
29% Base resource
20% Feng Shui
15% Site
BY SET
55 Limited
17 Netherworld
17 Flashpoint
BY RARITY
5 Very Common
52 Common
7 Uncommon
25 Rares
28% Rares
BY FACTION
26 Ascended
19 Eaters of Lotus
26 Guiding Hand
18 Neutral

Notes:

This is the deck which won Flashpoint Finchley X. Its key concept is to use Shadowy Mentor and Tortured Memories to steal opposing characters, make them commit suicide with Suicide Mission while they are under your control and to repeat the process with the aid of the Hand's recycling.
Dave (Jovial Master) Martin is newly married and this may explain the theme. Or perhaps it's his job as a school-teacher which makes him find inventive uses for Suicide Mission - he previously impressed us with his Dark Traveler/Suicide Mission deck which one now sees being used in the US.
In the light of recent discussions, it is interesting to note that the deck has a high proportion of rares - 25 in all. Several of the usual suspects are in the deck but, for a change, it is a Lotus deck without the Thing with 1000 Tongues.
It is a medium sized deck with three factions and so one might expect it to be too slow for a three player game. This was not the case in the final though and 61 of its 89 cards were used.

Last modified: January 16, 1998.
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