When Monkeys Fly

by Yuit Sum Vong August 8, 1997

1 Family Estate
1 Gruff Lieutenant
1 Liquidators
1 Shadowy Mentor
1 SWAT Team
1 The Pledged
1 Tooth of the Snake
1 Abysmal Horror
1 Eunuch Underling
1 Flying Guillotine
1 Shadowy Horror
1 Sinister Priest
1 Thorns of the Lotus
1 Tortured Memories
1 Vampiric Touch
1 Vassals of the Lotus
1 Alpha Beast
1 Buro GodHammer
1 Code Red
1 Creche of the New Flesh
1 Helix Rethread
1 Imprisoned
1 Midnight Whisperer
1 Nerve Gas
1 PubOrd Squad
1 Scorched Earth
1 Test Subjects
1 Beneficial Realignment
1 Confucian Stability
1 Instrument of the Hand
1 Iron and Silk
1 Swordsman
2 $10,000 Man
1 Gorilla Fighter
1 Alchemist's Lair (Chi)
1 Ancestral Tomb
1 Ancient Temple
1 Birdhouse Cafe
1 Blessed Orchard
1 Explosives
1 Family Home
1 Family Restaurant
1 Healing Earth
1 Hover Tank
1 Inner Sanctum
1 Jagged Cliffs
1 Lily Pond
1 Marsh
1 Netherworld Passageway
1 Sacred Ground
1 Secret Laboratory
1 Shattering Fire
1 Sniper Nest
1 Trade Center
= 55 cards

On the bench:

1 Friends of the Dragon
1 House on the Hill
1 Ring Fighter
1 Righteous One
1 Slo Mo Vengeance
1 Undercover
1 State of Emergency
1 Wong Fei Hong
1 Mooks
1 The Hungry
2 Auspicious Termites
1 Grove of Willows
1 Mountain Retreat

Stats:

BY TYPE
20 Characters
1 Edges
9 Events
12 Feng Shui Sites
4 Sites
1 Battleground Sites
8 States
BY COST
5 0 cost
16 1 cost
12 2 cost
7 3 cost
4 4 cost
11 variable cost
55 Total
1.75 average cost (excluding variable)
BY FIGHTING
7 1 fighting
5 2 fighting
3 3 fighting
2 4 fighting
3 6 fighting
2.60 average fighting (by character)
0.95 average fighting (by card)
BY FOUNDATION
4 Ascended
5 Eaters of Lotus
3 Flesh Architects
2 Guiding Hand
PERCENTAGES
25% Base resource
22% Feng Shui
7% Site
5% Chi
5% Magic
13% Tech
BY SET
48 Limited
7 Flashpoint
BY RARITY
23 Very Common
24 Common
7 Uncommon
1 Rare
BY FACTION
7 Ascended
9 Eaters of Lotus
11 Flesh Architects
5 Guiding Hand
3 Jammers

Notes:

The sealed deck format was a starter deck (Limited in this case) plus a Flashpoint booster draft. The rares in the starter were disappointing - Wong Fei Hong and the Flying Guillotine - but Yuit's first draft pick was the Hover Tank - a favourite card of hers. She also likes the Gorilla Fighter too but this went round more than once before she chose it. It is hard to play in Sealed Deck but Yuit did have two $10,000 Men and she was following my advice to use every game winner possible. To make the play deck, Yuit pulled the Dragons out of her mix plus a few excess Feng Shui sites and other odd cards. Personally, I would have kept The Hungry but Yuit does not share my fondness for this card.

Last modified: January 16, 1998.
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