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jadarx
May 25, 2012

ExtraCheese posted:

I'm interested in picking this game up but I'm a bit concerned about card legalities. I've checked the website and saw it's based around the current base set but there's also talk of Onyx Edition, are any cards I buy now going to illegal after Onyx Edition? If not which expansions will still be legal? I'm probably not going to be going to any tournaments or anything so I could probably just suck it up but I would like to have legal cards even if I'm just playing casually with mates.

Here's how legality in L5R works:
You have a base set (Ivory 2 now, Onyx next) which determines the "arc". Each expansion is legal for 1 or 2 arcs. The expansions that are legal for two are the last 2-3 sets released in a particular arc. Cards from previous sets can be re-printed in new arc's base sets, but they are in the minority.

Looking at the current expansion lists, none of them are listed as being legal for both Ivory and Onyx. Ivory just got its reprint (Twenty Festivals), so there's probably about a year left. But don't quote me on that, since I haven't paid attention to the CCG at all this arc.

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