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The Empire of Evil Promo cards are now available!

Here's how to get them:

Legion of Supporters
The Stasis Engine
Shang Bojing
Swordbreaker Rao

Store Exclusives
Xin Ji Yang
Evil Brain in a Jar

Proving Ground Weekly Winner
Machine Warrior

Major Tournament Winner
KFC

It's a great time to renew your Legion of Supporters Membership and get the first three promos available!

* Xin Ji Yang unites her father, Xin Kai Sheng and the Centre of the Lotus, Gao Zhang in a plot to launch worldwide attacks in the ancient juncture. The key to her plan is an alliance by marriage to the Alabaster King, an underworld Demon King.

* The Lotus combines the Imperial Chinese army, an army of undead, sorcerers, and millions of demons into one unprecedented infernal army. Xin Ji Yang also solicits some aid from the Queen of the Darkness Pagoda in exchange for underworld-related favours.

* The King of the Thunder Pagoda finds out and sends forces to fight his sister... on principle.

Check out December's Shadowfist Contest: Puzzle Garden #5

Promos awarded to correct answers!

Good luck everyone!

As before, please submit all solutions to Daniel Griego via e-mail:
icediadem@yahoo.com

Shadowfist player, Simon Strange, shares with you his card-by-card commentary on the Empire of Evil booster set. Have fun reading and share your thoughts at Shadowfist_forum@yahoogroups.com.

My rating system explained:

1.0 - Totally lame card which I expect will never see play.
2.0 - A reasonable card in some cases, but in general there are better options.
3.0 - A solid card with a good variety of applications.
4.0 - Over the curve. Expect to see these cards early and often.
5.0 - Use it now before it gets nerfed.

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Abomination Serum

This card has great art, and fits the Shadowfist universe really well, but unfortunately it comes to as us as more of a novelty than a workhorse-type card. On its own it's a high-resourced 3 for +3 fighting state. If you have a scientist in play it sort of acts like a Unique Shadowy Mentor - but it's fragile because it requires that the scientist be maintained. For the same power investment I could probably just play CHAR, and in most cases I probably would.

Check out two new articles on the website!

First up is Josh Jurgenson reviewing the Guiding Hand commons from Empire of Evil.

Next is Matthew Woolley featuring a new dueling deck with some deadly synergy!

Happy reading, all!

Title: 36-Legged Horror!
Subtitle: Spirit of Persistence
Cost: Pur Mag 3
Provides: Pur
Fighting: 4
Text: Mobility. +2 damage to Characters. Cannot be prevented from
intercepting. (This overrides 'cannot intercept' and 'ceases
intercepting' effects.) Not affected by other Character's Stealth
or Superleap.
Tag:
Artist: Angga Satriohadi
Faction: Purists
Set: Empire of Evil
Rarity: U

Title: Abomination Serum
Subtitle: State
Cost: Arch Arch Mag Tech 3
Text: Unique. Subject Character gains +3 Fighting and the designator
*Abomination*. Turn and maintain a *Scientist* Character you

Many thanks to all players who submitted answers for Willow's fourth Shadowfist Puzzle Garden!

Here are the solutions:

Puzzle the First: Casting Call
Invincible Sword Princess, as a Cunning Eunuch Mastermind
Ziyi Zhang as Gao Zhang

Space Mercenary in a Funny Hat, as a Sinister Clergyman
Adam Baldwin as Reverend Adam Wither

Female Yakuza Mastermind, as a Corrupt Police Chief
Lucy Liu as Captain Liu

Beautiful Lifeguard, as a Kung Fu Conspirator
Carmen Electra as Carmen Zhou

Roguish Pirate Captain as a Guy Who Needs a Haircut
Johnny Depp as Johnny Badhair

Disappearing Super-Heroine, as a Laterally Reincarnated Scientist

The 6th annual Smackdown in Jacktown is on Saturday, November 7th, 2009.

We'll be forming up registration at 11 a.m. to throw it down at high noon. Meet us at da Vinci primary school at 559 Murphy Dr. in Jackson, Michigan (49202 for the mapquesters).

Bring $5, your meanest Battlematic, most devastating technique, and most powerful fu to face off against the reigning world champion, John Merrill, and the reigning World Dueling Champion, James Deto. There will be a Final Brawl tourney and a Who's the Big Man, Now? tourney.

Do you got what it takes to walk away a champion?

The store has expanded its popular Singles Sale to include cards from the Dark Future and Shurikens and Six Guns sets! Act now before supplies run out!

Some new updates for your perusal:

The new Shadowfist Playgroups page.

New deck construction guidelines at the Demo Decks page.

New Rulebook update on the Download page.

Update to the 2009 SWS Leaders page.

Many thanks for all the support and positive feedback with the new store items!