This page is for those Crab players old and new, who are looking for sample Crab decks.

This deck packs a wallop! As you can see this is a Fast Crab Oni Deck, One Koku gives you the the chance to bring out a personality in the first turn, either Amoro or the Yakamo Oni. Now imagine Amoro and Oni no Akuma out on the first turn! Bam! LSD? Hah!

Hold the 'Portents(unless in a tight pinch) till you get all three, never mind Amoro, three 'Portents gives you 9F Ogres! Oaths will give you 10F not to mention the effect these monsters will give your BIGGEST monster, Yakamo Oni xp!

Sneak + Crush or Sneak + Deadly Ground, follow up with a rallying cry and voila! Add your loners to the fight with the Oracle or with a quick SupTac. Use Darkness Feeds... and Frenzy, with abandon, you know the rest.

Dynasty (31)	Fate (30)
Iron Mine 3x Corrupted Iron Mine 3x Jade Works 3x Small Farm 3x Sanctified Temple 2x Master Smith Kuni Wastelands Oracle of Water The Darkest Day Hida no Oni 3x Hida no Oni xp Hida Amoro 3x Ogre Outlaw 3x Kyoso no Oni 2x Oni no Akuma	Sneak Attack 3x Evil Portents 3x Rallying Cry 3x Fenzy 3x One Koku 3x Superior Tactics 3x Crushing Attack 2x Deadly Ground 2x Darkness Feeds.. 2x Confusion at Court 2x Oath of Fealty 2x Refugees 2x

Of Hidas and Hirumas...

You hate Lions don't you? And you want a deck that can take on an LSD toe to toe, this one's for you! All but 5 dynasty cards can be brought out on the first turn! Also Honor is not a problem with this deck. One rule of mine is, If your deck is AS FAST as an LSD, you can take just about any other deck there is, the thing is to configure your deck for SPEED, and NOT to dedicate it solely to STOP AN LSD.

What? Afraid that a sneaky Scorp's gonna Breach you? Defend Your Boner..er..Honor! Lady Kitsune can also help you, she brings down the honor req. and you can set her to work on the Temple of the Ancestors for easy Honor gain.

As I said, this deck can match if not outclass the Lion, when it comes to personality output, make him waste those cheesy Charges and SoP's, by slapping some Refugees or BSLs on his early kitties, and if Ryozo's around, Yakamo's fix his wagon!

Also strive to get the favor, as long as you have it, he can't use it against you. On a last note, just do what the Crab does best...DEFEND...well..if you can get away with it(Rallying Cry!), then by all means kick his sorry Lion ass!

Dynasty (33)	Fate (33)
Iron Mine 3x Blacksmith 3x Jade Works 3x Sanctified Temple 2x Master Smith Bushi Dojo Temple of the Ancestors Hida War College Farmlands 2x Hida Yakamo xp Earth Dragon Hida Sukune xp Hida Sukune 3x Hida Tampako 3x Hiruma Yoshi 3x Hiruma Kage 3x Lady Kitsune	Heavy Infantry 3x Medium Infantry 3x Berzerkers 3x Hida House Guard Stand Against the Waves 3x Entrapping Terrain 3x Block Supply Lines 3x Rallying Cry 3x Focus 3x Refugees 2x Defend Your Honor 2x Ancestral Sword of the Crab Ancestral Armor of the Crab Ancestral Standard of the Crab Egg of Pan-Ku

Hida Oghma's Tournament Winning Deck.

Hida Oghma, one of our esteemed brother in warfare presents his winning deck I advise all Crabs to take a goodlook at this deck for if you ever wanted a working and winning Crab Honor deck, this is it.

Hida Oghma writes.....

Here is an honourable crab deck that has won the last two tournamnets I have played in(One being multiplayer). The third scroll from the Scorpion clan coup has produced the dream crab deck, with anouther 3 personal honour crab samurai. This deck loves to attack, but we take into consideration defense at the same time, as well as some of thoses cheesy dragon dueling decks.

Hirumas are the honour force of the Crab now, as there are 2 personalites from the Hiruma with 3 personal honour. They both only cost 6 gold, which means first turn play, or easily aquiried 3 family honour. Kuni Yori is a deadly secret weapon that not enough crab Daimyos appreciate around here. Discard your opponents hand, I've yet to meet a clan that could win going toe to toe with the printed force of the crab and no tricks up there sleeves. You don't need them, trust me.

No clan is better suited to the test of might than the crab, and with all the new honourable crab guys, strength of purity is now a very good card to consider for the crab. The another times and Kharmic strikes depend on how many dragon decks, (Or other cheesy dueling decks) that you encounter. I am constantly bombarded with cheese from the physically inept dragon and crane. Usually I attack and then they duel my guys to death, gain even more honour, and I can't stop them. Wait for the another times, and then attack with impunity. You need assassins for those really annoying people, (And there are plenty) while the honour loss is bad, you won't regret having the capability to kill anyone who bothers you(With less than 5 chi of course).

If any card's usefulness surprised me the most, it was Shadowlands Sickness. I originally put the card in to deal with an annoying Junzo deck that thought it was too fast to beat (hehe), I forgot to take them out after whooping Junzo boy and 'lo and behold, almost every deck has some sort of shadowlands cards in them( Porcelin Mask of Fu-Leng for example). Another amazing discovery, was the fact that this deck worked equally, if not better on defense. You do the exact same thing on defense, only you get to go first!!! This deck is loaded with money, so you shouldn't have any problems with bad starts, but don't think that you immune. Shuffle well before playing. Any card that you don't need against a particular opponent, throw it away with Kuni Yori or a merchant Caravan.

There is one deck that can give this one a head ache though, and that is a Scorpion) dishonour deck. With the new high honour guys comes a price, fall below 3 family honour, and you are in trouble. This deck is no Crane deck for honour gain, but it is very very fast at gaining honour if you want it to be. Try crushing your opponent, or sitting back and reaching 40 honour. You may find that you can do both, and that your opponent can not attack and defend equally. Find their weaknesses, and exploit them. Playing a defensive deck? Sit back and defend yourself. Playing an attack deck? See how they like their own medicine. Lsd decks can be taken care of with refugees and treacherous terrains. I hope you have fun with my ideas, and may the crab rule justly over the lesser clans.

Dynasty (32)	Fate (34)
Iron mines 3x Blacksmiths 3x Jade Works 3x Merchant Caravans 3x Diamond Mine Quarry Hawks and Falcons Inheritence Hida Yakamo xp2 Hida Yakamo non-exp Hida no Oni 3x Hida Unari 3x Hiruma Yoshi 3x Hiruma Osuno 3x Kuni Yori 2x	Mantis Bushi 2x Lt. Sukune A Test of Courage 2x Along the Coast at Midnight Another Time 2x Breach of Ettiqette 2x For the Empires 2x Kharmic Strike 2x Kolat Assassin 2x Refugees 2x Shadowlands Sickness 2x Strength of Purity 2x Superior Tactics 2x Test of Honour Tests of Might 3x Traversable Terrains 2x Treacherous Terrain Egg of P'an Ku Ancestral Sword of the Crab Ring of the Void

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