L5R - Crab Oni Deck by Togashi Hiro

Old School Crab Oni Deck

This is my old school Crab Oni Deck. You will notice that this deck, like my Dragon Tournament Deck, contains only older cards. I dismantled this deck just around the time Forbidden Knowledge came out. At the time, it was a heinous deck that crush most everyone, but I never got to enter it into a tournament (I just have to play Dragon). How this deck can stand against modern decks remains to be seen. But I am reassembling this deck, so we shall soon see. My second Crab Deck, the one that replaced this one, will be moving to the Time of the Void, splinter stronghold.

DYNASTY DECK (34 cards)

1 Plague

1 Desperate Measures

1 The Falling Darkness

1 The Doji Plains

1 The Festering Pit of Fu Leng

1 Master Smith

3 Small Farm

3 Sanctified Temple

3 Iron Mine

3 Corrupted Iron Mine

3 Jade Works

3 Hida Yakamo (Oni)

3 Toku

3 Ogre Bushi

1 Oni no Akuma

1 Oni no Ogon (5/2)

3 Oni no Tsuburu

FATE DECK (31 cards)

1 Ancestral Sword of the Crab Clan

2 Ambush

3 Breach of Etiquette

3 Charge

3 Confusion at Court

3 Evil Portents

3 Explosives

2 Forced March

3 Frenzy

2 Oath of Fealty

2 Superior Tactics

3 Test of Might

1 Ogre Warriors

ALTERNATE CARDS

1 x Return of Fu Leng (honor victory???)

1 x Inheritance (the speed that this card can offer can't be overlooked)

1 x Kuni Wastelands (this card, too, can offer a lot of speed to the deck)

3 x Ogre Outlaws (replace Ogre Bushi, but watchout for Iaijutsu Duels, as these can really change the tide)

3 x Feign Death (since you don't rely on followers or items, this can keep your guys alive and killin')

This deck is fast and furious. Play it relentlessly, don't stop attacking. You must destroy your opponent quick or all is lost. You only have 14 personalities in the deck, so that rules out any long engagements. But if you can destroy 2 provinces quickly, you will have a good chance of putting your opponent away.