Shadowfist Deck: Chinese Money Laundry by Tony Adams

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[posted 4 June 2003; updated 3 Aug 2008]

Tony Adams made it to the final round of the GenCon UK 2003 Final Brawl (constructed, multiplayer) tournament and won the GenCon UK 2004 Final Brawl and GenCon UK 2007 Final Brawl tournaments with this deck. The three versions are a little different; all are posted here (most recent first).
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2007 version originally posted to the Shadowfist-UK group on Yahoogroups on 5 Sep 2007 by Tony Adams. You can read the original post in the archive.

CHINESE MONEY LAUNDRY (GenCon UK 2007 winner)
by Tony Adams (107 cards)

5x Golden Candle Society
5x Little Grasshopper
5x Buddhist Monk

2x Yen Fan
2x The Iron Monkey
1x Sun Chen
1x Hung Hei Kwon
1x Kwan Lung-Wei
2x Yung Chang
3x Derek Han

5x Confucian Stability
5x Wind on the Mountain

2x Shield of Pure Soul
3x Chinese Connection

2x Orange Senshi Chamber
2x Yellow Senshi Chamber
1x Green Senshi Chamber

4x Wing of the Crane

5x The Pledged

2x G-Man
1x Bleys Fontaine

5x Bull Market
5x Operation Killdeer
1x Bite of the Jellyfish
5x Shadowy Mentor

5x Family Estate
1x Nuclear Power Plant

1x Cassandra
1x White Ninja (promo)

1x Lusignan's Tower
1x Drug Lab
1x The Bazaar

4x Puzzle Garden
4x Perpetual Motion Machine
2x Tangram Alley
3x Whirlpool of Blood
2x Temple of Celestial Mercy
1x Temple of the Angry Spirits
1x Kinoshita House
2x Fox Pass
1x City Square
1x Turtle Beach

The errata to Mentor and Bull Market were pretty harmless, as the extra point of power is easy to come by in this deck, and I'm happy to Bull Market on other players turns - one more hitter to Mentor.

The deck is fairly resilient to being pounded on, with cheap stoppage (especially Wing of the Crane and Chinese Connection) to protect the site structure and big hitters. If the worst comes to the worst (and it did - 1 Nuclear Power Plant, 4 power, and zero BFV is not a great position mid-game), Mentor or Bull Market provide decent comeback.

Superleap still seems to me to be the most broken ability in the game for 4+ player games. That and Confucian mean that Hand will be top of the heap for a while yet.

Thanks to Andy Holt for running the events and everybody who played. The players are a large part of why I'm still playing Fist 12 years on.

Oh, and maybe next year it'll be below 100 cards. Or not.

Cheers all,
Tony

[typing by Tony Adams]

2004 version originally posted to the Shadowfist-UK group on Yahoogroups on 24 Oct 2004 by Tony Adams. Republished with permission. You can read the original post in the archive.

CHINESE MONEY LAUNDRY (GenCon UK 2004 winner)
by Tony Adams (107 cards)

  5x Golden Candle Society
  5x Little Grasshopper
  5x Buddhist Monk

  2x Yen Fan
  2x The Iron Monkey
  1x Tranquil Persuader
  1x Sun Chen
  1x Hung Hei Kwon
  3x Derek Han
  1x Billy Chow

  5x Confucian Stability
  1x Shaolin Surprise
  4x Wind on the Mountain
  1x Positive Chi

  2x Shield of Pure Soul
  4x Chinese Connection

  3x Orange Senshi Chamber
  2x Yellow Senshi Chamber
  1x Green Senshi Chamber

  2x Wing of the Crane

  4x The Pledged
  2x Student of the Bear
  2x The Suits

  1x Serena Chase
  1x Bleys Fontaine

  5x Bull Market
  5x Operation Killdeer
  2x Bite of the Jellyfish
  5x Shadowy Mentor

  4x Family Estate
  1x Nuclear Power Plant

  1x Cassandra
  1x White Ninja (promo)

  1x Secret Headquarters

  5x Puzzle Garden
  4x Perpetual Motion Machine
  1x Tangram Alley
  3x Whirlpool of Blood
  1x Heaven's Peak
  1x Temple of Celestial Mercy
  1x Temple of the Angry Spirits
  1x Kinoshita House
  2x Fox Pass
  1x City Square
  1x Turtle Beach

Basically the same deck as I ran last year, except that Little Grasshopper and especially Buddhist Monk meant I could make the deck more reliable by cutting back on Ascended stuff. Now only 2 cards plus the Bull Markets need more than one Asc resource.

Clearly the deck doesn't need to be this big, probably should be around 80 or 90 cards. There is basically no search (2x Shield of Pure Soul, Cassandra), and I don't get close to decking even in a long game. This would mean running 3x and 4x instead of 5x. I don't understand the game well enough to know what should go. Any opinions?

Thanks to everybody who came - it's good to have people playing for enjoyment of the game instead of $$$ - any MtG players will know what I mean.

Cheers, Tony

[typing by Tony Adams]

2003 version originally posted to the Shadowfist Forum on Yahoogroups on 27 Apr 2003 by Steve Bailey. Republished with permission. If you're a member of the group, you can read the original in the archive.

CHINESE MONEY LAUNDRY (GenCon UK 2003 finalist)
by Tony Adams (108 cards)

  5x Golden Candle Society
  2x Shaolin Student
  2x Wandering Monk
  1x Rightous Fist

  3x Yen Fan
  2x Iron Monkey
  1x Sun Chen
  3x Derek Han

  5x Confucian Stability
  3x Shaolin Surpise
  5x Wind on the Mountain
  3x Iron & Silk
  1x Into the Light

  3x Shield of Pure Soul
  2x Chinese Connection

  3x Orange Senshi Chamber
  2x Yellow Sensi Chamber
  1x Violet Senshi Chamber
  1x Green Senshi Chamber

  1x Temple of Boundless Meditation

  5x Student of the Bear
  1x The Pledged
  3x The Suits

  2x Serena Chase
  2x Bleys Fontaine
  2x Eastern King

  5x Bull Market
  5x Operation Killdeer
  5x Shadowy Mentor

  5x Family Estate
  1x Nuclear Power Plant 

  1x Secret Headquarters
  1x Lusignan's Tower

  1x The Fox Outfoxed

  5x Puzzle Garden
  3x Perpetual Motion Machine
  2x Tangram Alley
  2x Whirlpool of Blood
  1x Golden Mile
  2x Smiling Heaven Lake
  1x Temple of Celestial Mercy
  1x Temple of the Angry Spirits
  1x Gambling House
  1x Kinoshita House
  2x Fox Pass

[typing by Steve Bailey]

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