Smack Back Yak Attack

by Matt Widmann October 3, 1997

2 Back for Seconds
3 Booby Trap
2 Dirk Wisely's Gambit
5 Final Brawl
2 Flying Kick
5 Friends of the Dragon
3 Golden Comeback
5 Hacker
2 House on the Hill
1 Iala Mane
2 Kar Fai's Crib
3 Kiii-YAAAH!
3 Marisol
1 Masked Avenger
3 Redeemed Gunman
1 Shamanistic Lieutenant
1 The Crucible
1 The Prof
1 Thunder on Thunder
1 Ting Ting
1 Who's the Big Man Now?!
3 City Park
1 Drug Lab
2 Inner Sanctum
5 Jagged Cliffs
2 Proving Ground
2 Pump-Action Shotgun
1 Turtle Island
5 Yakuza Enforcer
= 69 cards

Analysis

BY TYPE
26 Characters
23 Events
13 Feng Shui Sites
5 Sites
2 States
BY COST
11 0 cost
20 1 cost
12 2 cost
8 3 cost
4 4 cost
1 5 cost
13 variable cost
1.59 average cost (excluding variable)
BY FIGHTING
9 1 fighting
5 2 fighting
7 4 fighting
4 6 fighting
1 8 fighting
26 Total
3.04 average fighting (by character)
1.14 average fighting (by card)
BY FOUNDATION
15 Dragons
PERCENTAGES
22% Base resource
19% Feng Shui
7% Site
4% Chi
6% Magic
12% Tech
BY SET
35 Limited
10 Netherworld
24 Flashpoint
BY RARITY
12 Very Common
42 Common
4 Uncommon
11 Rares (16%)
BY FACTION
48 Dragons
21 Neutral

Notes

Matt used this deck in both the Final Brawl and Nationals at Gencon 97 and did very well with it in both events. I never played against it myself but it clearly draws much of its strength from the combination of damage dispensers: Final Brawl, Booby Trap and Jagged Cliffs with immune characters: Marisol, The Prof and Yakuza Enforcer. Many of the traditionally strong Dragon cards are there but it is interesting to note that Ting Ting's right hand man, The Golden Gunman, is not present. Then too, there is only rare feng shui site - I wonder why Fox Pass was not included - it would work well with several cards in this deck.
I sense that the deck was built to deal with a strong Lotus presence - Hacker, Shamanistic Lieutenant, The Crucible and Thunder on Thunder all seem like anti-Lotus cards to me. This was not needed at Gencon 97 but I suspect that, after Throne Wars, Things will be different ...

Last modified: March 13, 1998.
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