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This is the deck which Nithyan used to win Flashpoint Finchley XXIII. We were playing with RetroFist rules but the deck only makes a token nod to this by playing Tanbi Guiawu in place of a fifth Thing with 1000 Tongues.
The deck does not maximise its one nasty combo - Kun Kan/Evil Twin/The Hungry/Glimpse of the Abyss. Instead it maintains the flexibility you need for a multi-player game. It contains many ways to shut down the opposition and many ways to win. The Thing with 1000 Tongues is foremost amongst these. The Thing dominated this tournament for a sixth month streak in 97 and may now be making a Golden Comeback.
Nithyan takes chances with a low proportion of both feng shui sites and foundation characters. The Pocket Demons are frequently used to make up for the lack of sites. The foundation characters are not so critical in a single faction deck - you just have to discard aggressively at the start of the game.
The deck is built big for the multi-player game - one game it played saw another player exhaust a 50 card deck. You might expect that it would then have trouble in a two-player game but, as the final showed, it can be quite lethal there too.
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Eaters of the Lotus | |
Magic |
| 2 | Banish | 3 | Alchemist's Lair (Magic) |
| 5 | Eunuch Underling | 4 | Amulet of the Turtle |
| 5 | Evil Twin | 4 | Discerning Fire |
| 5 | Glimpse of the Abyss | 4 | Memory Reprocessing |
| 5 | Infernal Temple | 5 | Pocket Demon |
| 1 | Jueding Shelun | 4 | Scroll of Incantation |
| 4 | Kun Kan | 4 | Shattering Fire |
| 2 | Necromantic Conspiracy | 2 | The Hungry |
| 2 | Purist Sorcerer | Feng Shui | |
| 2 | Shifting Loyalties | 4 | City Park |
| 5 | Sinister Priest | 1 | Dragon Mountain |
| 1 | Sung Hi | 1 | Fortress of Shadow |
| 1 | Tanbi Guiawu | 4 | Inner Sanctum |
| 4 | Thing with 1000 Tongues | 1 | Kinoshita House |
| 5 | Tortured Memories | 2 | Pinball Hall |
| 3 | Vassals of the Lotus | 1 | Sacred Ground |
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Four Monarchs | 1 | Turtle Beach |
| 2 | Queen of the Ice Pagoda | ||
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| 1 | White Ninja (new) | 100 | cards |
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Last updated on 29 June 1998
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