UK Grand Championship
With 87 players, this is the first big tournament following the release of the Clan War expansion.
…Clan War
This week the new premium box Clan War comes out. This expansion is notable insofar as it focuses more on multiplayer formats. However, there are a number gems for the standard 1v1 format, so this set should not be missed.
…Meta Check – Netherlands GC
The Grand Championship at the Het Lab is the first European tournament of the year and makes for a nice comparison to the US events in this new meta.
…Meta Check – Texas Kotei
As one of the first events of each season the Texas Kotei, historically this event has been pretty influential. This year, it had 30 players and ended in a Jade Throne final.
…Meta Check – LVO GC
Over the last few months we’ve had a massive shakeup in the environment, with lots of new cards coming, roles being opened, and a new banned and restricted list.
…Defenders of the Wall – Crab Pack Review
Today we have Eoin giving his review on the Crab cards in the Defenders of the Wall. Along with some help from Justin covering the non-Crab cards.
…Seekers of Wisdom – Dragon Pack Review
For this pack review, we have some of the top Dragon players giving their thoughts. It starts with Gunnar who posted his initial review a few weeks back, and now we’ve added Arash, Suburbaknght, Neojko, Will, Nightcrawlers, Aneil, and Chaley’s thoughts.
…Winter Court 2019
Each season culminates in the global gathering for Legend of the Five Rings that is Winter Court. This year we had a pretty wild meta with a number of big changes just before the event leaving the environment largely unexplored, add to that the convergence of players from environments all across the world and you’ve got a pretty exciting event.
…Every Day I’m Shuffling
Shuffling is a core element of a card game and getting your deck sufficiently randomised has been a point of discussion cards were first shuffled. This article is actually a re-post with permission of one which originally appeared on the Dojo of Lies website. In it, Rory Heffernan goes into some great detail and visualises the randomisation of the different types of shuffle.
…Meta Check – Spanish Grand Championship
With 90 players, the Spanish Grand Championship was unsurprisingly the biggest so far. Although the new restricted list came out the week before, it wasn’t in effect for this particular event.
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