Cold Play

Submitted by Jason Ketcham on August 17, 2024 - 5:02pm
Guiding Hand
Classic
3-player
4-player
Competitive
50 cards.

Foundation (10 cards)

  • 5x Buddhist Bellringer
    X
  • 5x Twin Steels
    X
    Twin Steels
    Twin Steels
    Yellow Principle Gardener

    Sentinel. Once per turn, when damage is inflicted on this card, you may redirect 1 point of that damage to a Site you control.
    Flavor: 

    "I protect the land. It protects me."
    Fighting
    Fighting: 
    2
    Cost
    Cost: 
    2
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Guiding
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Keywords
    Keywords: 
    Foundation, Sentinel

Character (10 cards)

  • 1x Li Po
    X
    Li Po
    Li Po
    The Perfect Master

    Unique. All Guiding Hand Characters you control gain Superleap.
    Flavor: 

    Quan Lo's successor was a bringer of good will, harmony and peace.
    Fighting
    Fighting: 
    9
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    6
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Guiding
    Chi
    Chi
    Chi
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Keywords
    Keywords: 
    Unique
    Comments
    Comments: 

    Features the likeness of the late Braz King, former owner of Inner Kingdom Games & Shadowfist with Daniel Griego.
  • 1x The Iron Monkey
    X
    The Iron Monkey
    The Iron Monkey
    Masked Hero

    Unique. Superleap. When The Iron Monkey inflicts combat damage on the target of his attack, steal half the Power (round down) of his target's controller and give that Power to any player you choose.
    Fighting
    Fighting: 
    5
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    4
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Guiding
    Chi
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Keywords
    Keywords: 
    Unique, Superleap
  • 1x The Master
    X
    The Master
    The Master
    Yellow Martial Artist

    Unique. Unstoppable. Once per turn, you may redirect all damage that would be inflicted on this card by a single source to any undamaged Character.
    Fighting
    Fighting: 
    9
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    6
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Guiding
    Chi
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Keywords
    Keywords: 
    Unique, Unstoppable
  • 1x The Red Turtle
    X
  • 3x Yellow Geomancer
    X
  • 3x Yellow Monk
    X
    Yellow Monk
    Yellow Monk
    Martial Artist

    Once per turn when damage is inflicted on this card, you may redirect 1 damage to any Character in play.
    Flavor: 

    The Yellow Principle teaches its adherents to use their enemies' strength against them.
    Fighting
    Fighting: 
    4
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    3
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Guiding
    Chi
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators

Edge (2 cards)

  • 1x Defiant Bloom
    X
    Defiant Bloom
    Defiant Bloom
    Edge

    Limited. Turn to remove 1 damage each from up to 3 cards you control.
    Flavor: 

    Even in the Architects' future, hope survives.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    1
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Chi
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Keywords
    Keywords: 
    Limited
  • 1x Strength of the Land
    X

Event (18 cards)

  • 1x Corners of the Mouth
    X
    Corners of the Mouth
    Corners of the Mouth
    Event

    Toast It. Choose two Events in your smoked pile :: Return the chosen Events to your hand.
    Flavor: 

    The superior man is temperate in eating, for nourishment of the soul brings fortune.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    1
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Keywords
    Keywords: 
    Toast It
  • 3x First, Do No Harm
    X
  • 3x Iron and Silk
    X
    Iron and Silk
    Iron and Silk
    Event

    Choose any Character :: Until the end of the turn, all combat damage inflicted on that Character while it is intercepting is reduced to 0.
    Flavor: 

    Embrace the yin principle, and receive your opponents' blows like gifts of honey.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    0
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Errata
    January 2013
  • 4x Journey's Reward
    X
    Journey's Reward
    Journey's Reward
    Event

    Play in response to an Event :: Cancel that Event and that Event's controller gains 1 Power.
    Flavor: 

    "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but sometimes you end up at an unexpected destination."
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    0
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
  • 2x Resistance in Numbers
    X
    Resistance in Numbers
    Resistance in Numbers
    Event

    Turn X Characters you control :: Target Site gains Toughness: X until the end of the turn and cannot be damaged, smoked or removed from play by Events until the end of the turn.
    Flavor: 

    Together, we can make a difference.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Guiding
    Cost: 
    0
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
  • 1x Shaking the Mountain
    X
  • 4x Violet Meditation
    X
    Violet Meditation
    Violet Meditation
    Event

    Play at the start of your turn and target an opponent :: Generate X Power. X = the number of Edges and Power- generating Sites controlled by the target, minus the number of cards in your burned-for-victory pile. No other card you control or play generates Power during your Establishing Shot this turn.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Chi
    Cost: 
    0
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
    Designators
    Errata
    March 2014

Feng Shui Site (8 cards)

Site (2 cards)

Original creator: 
Jason Ketcham

Built this deck not only to test the growing pool of Yellow cards but see if I can win with a deck where the strategy is to literally sit, do nothing and win. Anyone who attacks you gets frustrated and doesn't find it worth it. You're usually stacking too many obnoxious effects on them for it to be worthwhile. Once your defensive Yellow Army is up, go for the win with all of them and a Guiding Hand stick. Swap a Yellow Monk with the new SWS version of Old Man Wu once he releases.