Xiaoyang Yun's Gambit

Flashpoint Finchley I - Winning Deck

by Stephen Biggs September 2, 1996

2 Plasma Trooper
2 Hacker
2 Ting Ting's Gambit
1 Banish
2 Big Brother Tsien
3 Destroyer
3 Eunuch Underling
1 Evil Twin
1 Flood on the Mountain
2 Ghost Assassin
2 Gnarled Marauder
1 Kan Li
1 Necromantic Conspiracy
1 Shifting Loyalties
4 Sinister Priest
4 Tortured Memories
2 Blood of the Valiant
3 Confucian Stability
5 Golden Candle Society
1 Into the Light
2 Orange Senshi Chamber
3 Rigorous Discipline
1 Shan Tsu
2 Shaolin Sanctuary
1 Shaolin Surprise
2 Shaolin Warrior
2 Shield of Pure Soul
2 Thunder on the Mountain
2 Tranquil Persuader
3 Wandering Monk
2 Wind on the Mountain
2 Xiaoyang Yun
1 Queen of the Ice Pagoda
1 Alchemist's Lair (Magic)
2 Flying Windmill Kick
2 Fox Pass
5 Inner Sanctum
1 Invincible Chi
2 Memory Reprocessing
2 Monkey House
1 Night Market
4 Peacock Summit
2 Pump-Action Shotgun
2 Return to the Center
2 Scroll of Incantation
1 Secret Headquarters
1 Soul Maze
2 The Rackets
5 Trade Center
5 Whirlpool of Blood
= 108 cards

Analyses:

BY TYPE
38 Character (22 Foundation)
6 Edge
28 Event
19 Feng Shui
11 Site (2 Foundation)
6 State
BY FACTION
2 Architects of the Flesh
4 Dragons
26 Eaters of Lotus
1 Four Monarchs
35 Guiding Hand
40 Neutral
BY RARITY
17 Very Common
46 Common
27 Uncommon
18 Rare
BY SET
63 Limited
14 Netherworld
31 Flashpoint

NOTES:

In a previous incarnation, this deck was called Drunken God but, after the Flashpoint critical shift, it now stars the eponymous Xiaoyang Yun. It is mostly Hand/Lotus but has a dash of the other factions so that Xiaoyang Yun can see what they are up to and put a stop to it. There are two missing factions - Ascended and Jammers. Shifting Loyalties provides a good way of dealing with the Ascended while the Jammers are clearly considered to be an insignificant threat. It is a very flexible deck with lots of disconcerting tricks (the Drunken style). Steve won one game at Flashpoint Finchley by using Shaolin Surprise to commandeer a Arcanotank for a Gnarled Marauder which then took two feng shui sites. The final was won by playing Xiaoyang Yun after a good selection of resources had been accumulated,
taking over Sun Chen with Tortured Memories and then seizing a convenient site while the other players, armed to the teeth with Neutron Bombs and other heavy duty events, fumed impotently. I also like the way that the deck contains Wind, Flood and Thunder on the Mountain - another Drunken God motif. It also contains two Rackets - the sine qua non of Steve's designs. Steve is the Mr Suitcase of UK Shadowfist but can't get enough of this card. He has 27 Rackets already but still wants more!

Last modified: September 20, 1997.
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