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Oops, You Did It Again
SAMURAI
Medium
Get various benefits whenever your minions go to the discard pile from play.
Description
The Samurai are one of the 4 factions from the Oops, You Did It Again set.
They give you benefits from being destroyed or being discarded from play, such as power boosts, card draws, and even VPs.
Their complexity rating is: Medium.
Other factions from the same set: Ancient Egyptians, Cowboys, Vikings.
Cards Overview
The Samurai have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is the usual 30 or an average of 3 per minion.
Among their actions, there are:
* 1 play-on-minion action: Final Haiku,
* 1 play-on-base action: Honor the Fallen,
* 8 standard actions (7 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Code of Bushido, Heart of the Battle, Honor the Ancestors, Honorable Combat, Way of the Warrior (2x), Yokai Attack! (2x),
* 4 actions that directly increase a minion's power: Code of Bushido, Honor the Ancestors, Way of the Warrior (2x).
1x Code of Bushido - Place three total +1 power counters on your minions.
1x Final Haiku - Play on one of your minions. Ongoing: After this minion goes to the discard pile from play, your minions each gain +2 power until the end of the turn.
1x Heart of the Battle - Special: Play before a base scores. One of your minions there duels another player’s minion there. Destroy the losing minion.
1x Honor the Ancestors - Place a +1 power counter on one of your minions. For each other player in the game, you may shuffle a minion from your discard pile back into your deck.
1x Honor the Fallen - Play on a base. Ongoing: After one of your minions here goes to the discard pile, draw a card.
1x Honorable Combat - Choose a base where another player has more power than you. One of your minions there duels one of that player’s minions there. The controller of the winning minion gains 1 VP.
2x Way of the Warrior - Until the end of the turn, one of your minions gains +3 power, and if it goes to the discard pile from play, draw a card.
2x Yokai Attack! - Destroy one of your minions to play an extra minion and an extra action.
Actions
1x Code of Bushido - Place three total +1 power counters on your minions.
1x Final Haiku - Play on one of your minions. Ongoing: After this minion goes to the discard pile from play, your minions each gain +2 power until the end of the turn.
1x Heart of the Battle - Special: Play before a base scores. One of your minions there duels another player’s minion there. Destroy the losing minion.
1x Honor the Ancestors - Place a +1 power counter on one of your minions. For each other player in the game, you may shuffle a minion from your discard pile back into your deck.
1x Honor the Fallen - Play on a base. Ongoing: After one of your minions here goes to the discard pile, draw a card.
1x Honorable Combat - Choose a base where another player has more power than you. One of your minions there duels one of that player’s minions there. The controller of the winning minion gains 1 VP.
2x Way of the Warrior - Until the end of the turn, one of your minions gains +3 power, and if it goes to the discard pile from play, draw a card.
2x Yokai Attack! - Destroy one of your minions to play an extra minion and an extra action.
Characters
1x Shogun - power 5 - Ongoing: After another of your minions goes to the discard pile from play, place a +1 power counter on this minion.
2x Bushi - power 4 - Ongoing: After this minion goes to the discard pile from play while it has 5 or more power, gain 1 VP.
3x Ronin - power 3 - If this is your only minion on this base, you may place two +1 power counters on it.
4x Samurai-Chan - power 2 - Ongoing: After this minion goes to the discard pile from play, draw a card.
Mechanics
Get various benefits whenever your minions go to the discard pile from play.