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Isawa Uona
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Isawa Uona
Type: Character
Cost: 2
Military Skill: 2
Political Skill: –
Glory: 1
Clan: Phoenix
Shugenja. Air.
Reaction: After you play an Air card during a conflict, choose a non-unique participating character – bow that character.
“We cannot always see that which guides our way.”
Deck: Dynasty
Number: 8
Illustrator: Le Vuong
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7 Comments
That seems like a REALLY easy way to bow people... Scary stuff.
Well, what we actually got?
In clan: Benten's Touch, Kaito Kosori, Seeker of Knowledge, Winds of Change (which is going to be off-role, probably).
Neutral: Cloud the Mind, Walking the Way,
Out of clan: Hurricane punch, Maze of illusion, The Mirror's Gaze,
Of the "cards we were going to run anyway" I'd say that's just Cloud The Mind, though I could certainly make room for Walking the Way and Benten's Touch in a spell-recursion deck, and those conflict characters aren't terrible. Still, I can't help but feel that accomodating this combo is going to involve suboptimal deckbuilding choices.
So this might be good by the end of the cycle, but not so much right now.
That makes me feel better actually, thanks
On the other hand, say that you are playing just Cloud the Mind and Benten's touch (because you are now playing more cheap shugenja, and this one has weak stats, too). If you draw your opening hand, don't mulligan anything and do a bid of 3, you will still have a 70% chance of having access to one of these 6 cards in your 40 card conflict deck. These odds are going to be higher when you look at mulligans, higher bids, extra draws and so on.
I say this card opens the way for the air strategy that was promised with Kaito Kosori. We now have 3 dynasty cards that provide a benefit during air conflicts with Henshin disciple, Fearsome Mystic and Isawa Uona. This should make the air ring quite the potent ring for phoenix.
So you're saying that these were... the prints that were promised?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
Plus her value goes up when you consider her in a deck with Kudoka where you want to be running more Air Challenges per turn, which in turn make running Seekers and Kosori more viable to take advantage of their abilities to generate bonus force in a fight.
She's not as solid in the Water/Earth archetypes but I can see her having a place.
With just Cloud the Mind in your deck, she's insane. Any extra Air traited cards and she just gets better. The existence of free bows like this forces other clans to build decks around not having non-uniques for impactful slots.
Her overall effect will be meta-dependent, but she's pretty great right now.