IG3 - Complete

[kaymar]

Looks like (for those of you going) AEG has decided that IG3 will be gen-con legal. They have produced a printable spoiler set:
http://www.l5r.com/images/IG3.pdf and said that IG3 will be available at gen-con for people to use.

Rar.

So onto some specific non-prior spoilerd cards that might be of use for crab from the above:

Succumb to Vice
* gc
Limited: Bow and dishonour your performing personality with one or more sake tokens, and pay a Gold cost equal to the targeted unit's total Gold cost: Destroy a target unit.
'insert flavour text'
2 fv

Bars will be happy with that one I think. Seriously worth considering splashing in Tsubo the drunk (or whatever his name is)/sake force bump card and the above into a berserker deck. This plus Impossible Force looks to be some very very nice limited control for us (since berserkers care not for being dishonoured!)

Fearsome Mempo
+3F -1C
3 gc
Cursed
Reaction: After engaging in a battle: Give -2F to a target personality or Follower opposing this card
'Flavour text'
2 fv

I like this one. I like it because +3f for 3g is good. The reaction is a bit meh (but tempofree) but I can tell the -1c is going to get annoying with all those crane duelists out there (along with the chihate terrain etc).

Uhm, think all the cards have been spoiled in the link above, feel free to have a look

[wrongspeedy]

Deny the Horde! Now who says killing your own units is a bad thing . Both Awakened Blade and the Ambitious Servant look useful. Heck even the two spells look usable for us. Its to bad the servant is unique, he is a great pair with Otsuka.

[kaymar]

Deny the horde is awesome I didnt post it above because I thought it had been spoilered when the last herald came out (it was on its front cover or something if I recall). Decks almost completely full of pk are looking dangerously possible (well, if you include followers with pk abilities....I know I do )

[barswanian]

Awakened Blade will likely be awesome with berserkers. Can kill a lot of Oni with it.

Succumb to Vice + Impossible Force? 6 limited Kill actions? Woweee.

Before now I never heard anyone groan about seeing me attach sake tokens onto my guys. After this card? That should change.

Also the art on these pdf's? Phenomenal!

Subversive Whispers is going to be a nightmare in Scorpion & Phoenix I think. Civility to get in Kuon may become mandatory :/

[Hida Tadaka]

Well, after seeing the full lot, I can say that I feel even more slighted by our personalities. Aside from Scorpion's kensai, everyone else got some pretty nice cards. We got an okay commander and a blah hero. Spider I have to say got one of the coolest flavor guys, ever. I am tempted to go corrupt to run him.

Shattered Stone Kata is going to be annoying as hell. (not so much against us; usually, but stll damn annoying)

Aspiring Ronin I think is a solid, vanilla follower for our commander decks. Great force-gold ratio and drops with a NDM reaction. Would work well with our new shuggie for a decent force boost on the fly.

Agree with everyone else that Awakened Blade is pretty damn awesome. Great Obfuscation bait.

Succumb to Vice seems pretty interesting. There are getting to be some great sake cards rolling around. Just sad that most of them have been promo stuff. I am still lacking Humble House.

[Daidoji Gabriel]

For some reason when I try to download the PDF from L5R.com it gets through the first two cards and then wont load the rest. Does anyone have a mirror link, or separate PDF they can send me?

[Rixy]

It's a nice set but, yeah, Crab didn't get anything too stellar. Ah, well. There are still some fine toys in here.