Duelists of Darkwana: Tenko's character board

While Baraka is on your side of the field, you may, at any point during your turn, any number of times, sacrifice a Support you control (on the field).

Afterwards, target an opponent, lowering their hit points by the number of Stamina (green) tokens that were on the sacrificed Support.

This pairs well with Tsuchigumo, another one of Tenko's Supports, which allows her to steal an opponent's Support, moving it to Tenko's side of the field and placing it under her control.

If both Tsuchigumo and the stolen Support have 5 Stamina, Tenko could use Baraka to immediately sacrifice the stolen Support, and then sacrifice Tsuchigumo, resulting in 10 points of damage.

Given its high ceiling, Baraka serves as Tenko's nuke.

It takes a lot of set-up to really make Baraka pop off, but it can take Tenko from a losing position to a win the same turn it comes down.

While Killswitch is on your side of the field, all your opponents' Items are deactivated.

They stay on the field, but their effects are basically removed for as long as Killswitch remains on your side of the field.

No, "opponents'" isn't typo.

There are game modes where you can have multiple opponents.

While Tenko's deck lack traditional Item removal, she instead wields this Support, which does a lot more, but only for a little while (the little-ness of that while depends on how long Killswitch stays in play.

When you play this Support, target a Support your opponent controls on their side of the field.

Then, move that Support to your side of the field, placing it under your control.

For as long as Tsuschigumo remains on your side of they field, you'll remain in control of that Support (which means that stolen Support will lose 1 Stamina at the start of each of your turns--as will, of course, ALL Supports under your control, inclusing Tsuchigumo.

This Support helps you steal your opponent's so you can feed that stolen Support to Baraka (yet another one of Tenko's Supports).

You can also sacrifice Tschigumo to Baraka, via the latter's effect (resulting in damaging your opponent's hit points).

However, make sure you sacrifice these Supports (to Baraka's effect) in the right order.

If you sack Tsuchigumo first, you'll lose control of the stolen Support, which will then return to your opponent's side of the field and their control.

When you play this Event:

Deal damage equal to your Influence.

Afterwards, you MAY (there wasn't room to put "may" on there without making a mess of the text box, but it's "may") add a Support from your discard pile to your hand.

Discarding cards to get a few miles of awesome is what Tenko's Items are all about.

Thanks to her ability, she easily find the right cards to toss away.

While Puzzle Box (a Level 2 Item) is on your side of the field, you can discard a Knowledge card to raise 1 of your attributes by 1 point.

You can do this at ANY time, any number of times.

That means if another player would steal or force you to discard a Knowledge card from your hand, you could respond (so long as you have Puzzle Box on your side of the field) by discarding that Knowledge card to trigger Puzzle Box's effect.

So if you have Puzzle Box on your side of the field, and your opponent's effect would force you to discard a Knowledge card in your hand, you may respond by "feeding" (discarding) the Knowledge card for Puzzle Box's effect BEFORE your opponent's effect would make you discard it (in this exact case, if you had no other cards in your hand, your opponent's discarding effect would fizzle, giving them nothing for the card, ability, and/or actions they spent).

Remember that attributes max at 5 points.

You COULD use this effect to raise another player's attribute, but you'd only want to do that in team play (see "other modes of play").

While this Item is on your side of the field, you may, once during your turn, discard a Combat card to deal 3 points of damage.

When an opponent plays an Event, and you have Force Field on your side of the field, you may discard an Influence card to negate your opponent's Event.

You may only do this once per turn (all players' turns).

A negated card is technically played, but all its effects are ignored.

The action (and any other cost, if any) spent to play the negated Event is still spent.

Send a negated card straight to its discard pile.

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Options just smell nice.

When you play this Event, you may either:

1) Deal damage equal to your Knowledge, OR . . .

2) Steal 1 random card from 1 opponent's hand.

If Tenko can get some use out of the card she swipes (and given her Items, she should), she's going to quickly outpace her opponents by stealing and turning their cards against them.

When you play this Event, you may either:

1) Gain hit points equal to (or fewer than) your Combat (remember: your hit points max at 20), OR . . .

2) Steal a random card from your opponent's hand.

When you play this card, you'll deal damage equal to your Combat.

No big deal there, right?

Except you may play this card, without spending an action, at ANY point during the game, so long as you do so immediately after losing hit points for ANY reason.

You don't have to target the same player who lowered your hit points.

The ability to play this for free after taking damage is optional.

Just because Puppet Decoy is in your hand, doesn't mean you have to use it.

This can give Tenko a nice tempo boost.

Also, if the damage Tenko takes lowers her hit points to zero, she cannot respond by playing this card . . . because she already lost.

When you play this Event, you'll gain a point in Combat (or not, if you're already maxed out in Combat).

Then, you'll gain an action.

Basically, this card pays for itself, refunding the action you spend to play it.

When you play this Event, deal damage equal to your Combat.

Afterwards, you may destroy up to 3 tokens.

Remember that you can mix and match which types of tokens you destroy.

This 3 token limit is nice if you have low Combat, but not so nice as you gain more.

The reason behind this limitation is that Tenko's kit already includes Tsuchigumo, which deals powerful blows against her opponent's Supports (and Supports, or their Stamina at least, serves as most common token type in Duelists).