# The Melting Pot

by Janifer Cheng
October 3, 1997

1 Bao Chou
1 Bronze Sentinel
2 Everyday Hero
2 Final Brawl
2 Friends of the Dragon
2 Golden Comeback
1 House on the Hill
3 Bloody Horde
1 Evil Twin
1 Shifting Loyalties
2 Tortured Memories
2 BuroMil Grunt
1 Crèche of the New Flesh
2 Nerve Gas
2 Neutron Bomb
2 Plasma Trooper
2 Confucian Stability
3 Golden Candle Society
2 Instrument of the Hand
2 Into the Light
1 Orange Senshi Chamber
1 Shan Tsu
1 Wind on the Mountain
1 Xiaoyang Yun
2 Brain Fire
3 Darkness Priestess
1 Ice Pagoda
1 Ice Shards
1 King of the Fire Pagoda
1 Queen of the Darkness Pagoda
5 Ancestral Tomb
2 Dawn of the Righteous
1 Fox Pass
1 Kinoshita House
1 Monkey House
5 Peacock Summit
1 Violet Meditation
1 Whirlpool of Blood
= 66 cards

## Analysis

BY TYPE
27 Characters
21 Events
15 Feng Shui Sites
3 Sites
BY COST
5 0 cost
18 1 cost
13 2 cost
10 3 cost
1 4 cost
2 5 cost
2 6 cost
15 variable cost
1.96 average cost (excluding variable)
BY FIGHTING
8 1 fighting
7 2 fighting
6 3 fighting
2 7 fighting
1 8 fighting
1 10 fighting
2.88 average fighting (by character)
1.09 average fighting (by card)
BY FOUNDATION
5 Dragons
3 Eaters of Lotus
4 Flesh Architects
5 Guiding Hand
3 Monarchs
PERCENTAGES
30% Base resource
23% Feng Shui
5% Site
9% Chi
15% Magic
5% Tech
BY SET
36 Limited
15 Netherworld
15 Flashpoint
BY RARITY
14 Very Common
35 Common
5 Uncommon
12 Rares (18%)
BY FACTION
11 Dragons
7 Eaters of Lotus
9 Flesh Architects
13 Guiding Hand
9 Monarchs
17 Neutral

## Notes

This deck made the finals of the US Nationals at Gencon 97. The common term for such a deck at Gencon was a "Peacock deck" - it uses most factions and Peacock Summit. Other cards which build on the Peacock/weenie concept are Orange Senshi Chamber, Xiaoyang Yun, Bao Chou, Bronze Sentinel and Ancestral Tomb.
The deck is an interesting mix of strong foundation characters like Plasma Trooper, major events like Tortured Memories and a few big hitters. The deck draws its power mostly from its sites but these should normally be too large to take easily.
My own decks of this kind tend to be much larger - at 66 cards this slimmer version may give the design better reliability while retaining the flexibility of the concept.
Janifer appears to be of Chinese descent and plays in New York so the title of this deck seems fitting. Janifer is a woman and, along with Lissa Sabia and Yuit Sum Vong, made sure that the Nationals lived up to the "Equal-Opportunity Butt-Kicking" slogan. Her outfit was very reminiscent of the Edge Warrior/Underground character - look for her in photos of the event on my web site. She plays most days with a group which includes Joseph Livotte and Danny Cruz - clearly a strong play group.

Last modified: March 13, 1998.
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