Yamaziko

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 * Yamaziko, Ten Thunders Minion**

=__Overview__= Yamaziko is Misaki's trusted mentor, as such she has some great synergy with Misaki. She can be of use in other crews, but she really shines when paired with her star pupil.

=__Mobility__= Yamaziko has your standard human walk and charge speeds (which is actually quite amazing considering her advanced age), with no movement tricks of her own. She does, however, turn Misaki's Reckless ability into Fast instead when Misaki starts her turn within 6" of Yamaziko.

=__Offense__= Offensively Yamaziko is no slouch with her Yari, which shouldn't be surprising since she taught Misaki how to use her Bisento! She has an extremely tight damage spread, with her weak and moderate damages being the same. She has an ability called The Spark of Youth which allows her to suffer 1 wound to receive a + flip to both the attack and damage flips of a melee attack. Her Yari also has a built in trigger: Sweep, which gives her a single blast when she hits for severe damage.

=__Resilience__= With a low defense, Yamaziko can't withstand a concerted attack for more than a turn, though she does have the Use Soulstones ability. She has a zero action called Brace Spear which negates the positive flip from a charge (by giving the charging attacker a negative flip). She has a 0 spell Invigorate that allows a target friendly model within 6" to perform a Healing Flip.

Yamaziko is particularly resilient against willpower attacks with a naturally high willpower and multiple tricks to raise her crew's willpower and negate morale duels. Her first anti-willpower ability is Wise Counselor allows her to give all friendly non-master Ten Thunders models +2 wp in an 8 inch aura. Her second trick is a spell called Inspiring Presence which makes all friendly models in a 5" aura immune to Terrifying.

Finally, Yamaziko is Willowy - so when she is killed she leaves only 1 corpse counter (instead of the 2 normal for a 40mm base), which can help deny certain opponents precious corpse counters.

=__Tips and Tricks__= Yamaziko has many tricks up her sleeve. Her action Master Tactician costs 1ss to use and can only be used once per encounter, however it forces your opponent to reveal an unrevealed scheme to you - this scheme still counts as unrevealed for the purposes of counting VP.

Secondly, She has a spell called Match Wits with a 12" aura that allows her controller to draw cards whenever an enemy model's Talent or Spell allows it to draw one or more cards. This, like all effects without a set end-time, ends at the Start Close Phase so it won't help against abilities such as Arcane Reservoir or Rush of Magic.

=__Master-Specific Tips__= Keep her within 6" of Misaki whenever possible - sweet and simple. She also has Companion Misaki - so Yamaziko, Misaki, and Shang can all activate together should you so choose.

=__Minion-Specific Tips__= She can heal others and raise willpower, but she doesn't have many synergies with other models. Ten Thunders Brothers can simultaneously activate with her - as they can with any Ten Thunders model.

=__Playing Against [Minion]__= Yamaziko has some awesome tricks but a very low defense. If you send a big hitter or a few minions after her you can easily take her out in a single turn. However, her high willpower will cause fits for willpower based crews, like Pandora.

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