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Magnificent Kimono
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Magnificent Kimono
Type: Attachment
Cost: 0
Bonus Military Skill: +0
Bonus Political Skill: +1
Clan: Phoenix
Item.
Attached character gains pride. (After this character wins a conflict, honor it. After this character loses a conflict, dishonor it.)
Influence: 1
Deck: Conflict
Number: 172
Illustrator: Heather V. Kreiter
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Ironically the card called Maginificent Kimono has the incorrect cross section...should always be left over right. Unless they are dead but they look very much alive. There are other cards that violate this too. Whose is the game's art director?
This is the card that can best leverage pride of all cards in the game. You add it to your character when you know the conflict will be won by you (i.e. not enough defenders, an attack to provoke defenders or they are going for Display of Power or so). There are several excellent bearers of this card in phoenix, and these are either hard to defend against (haughty magistrate, Fearsome Mystic, radiant orator) or that participate in multiple conflicts (Prodigy of the Waves, Chikai Order Protector). Characters in this latter category are prime targets for getting dishonored, specifically because they participate in multiple conflicts. You will find yourself adding the kimono to these when they get dishonored the first time, after which pride is just pure upside.
Magnificent Kimono is a good card, but you have to play it with Isawa Mori Seido, and you want characters that really want that bonus. Its major downside is not that pride is bad, but more that its effect isn't felt in the conflict in which you play it.
Also, if you play your cards right, your character is leaving play honored. This in turn means you have more honor to burn on drawing cards. This makes Magnificent Kimono barely cost a card.
Also, Against the Crane Stronghold, anything that adds one political will usually elevate your character to 3 pol. It's a small upside, but it is certainly an upside. Another trick is to play this together with Favorable grounds. It is common that you can honor your character a second time just by throwing them in as a participant.