Stronghold Kits
Your local retailer’s regularly scheduled in-store events are the steady pulse of Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game Organized Play.
Organized Play exists to help you find more opportunities to play, meet new players, welcome potential players, and enjoy both casual and competitive experiences. Stronghold Kits introduce custom prizes that reward your participation in the game's community.
Each Stronghold Kit is designed to support three Dynasty Leagues (of four weeks each)—or three Conflict Tournaments—as well as one additional special event. These kits come with dozens of alternate art and extended art cards, custom tokens, and other gaming components. These items, when you claim them, provide additional color to your conflicts in Rokugan.
Kit Contents
Each Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game Stronghold Kit comes with materials to support up to 32 players in as many as 12 weeks of Dynasty League play or 3 Conflict Tournaments.
The result is that your favorite local game store becomes your stronghold—the place where you can enjoy consistent support for Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game Organized Play.
In fact, each Stronghold Kit even includes a number of promotional Patronage Cards for retailers to reward players who purchase Legend of the Five Rings products at their stores. Simply pick up a Dynasty Pack, playmat, or Clan Pack when you show up for your 2018 Season One game night, and you get an extended art version of the Wandering Ronin card (while supplies last).
You will also find participation prizes, prizes for the top competitors, prizes for the top players from each Great Clan, and a single copy of most cards in the kit that is intended for the event organizer to award or keep at his or her discretion.
All told, the 2018 Season One Stronghold Kit contains 247 extended art cards, 13 metal fate tokens, 7 clan specific first player tokens, 7 plastic Dragon Clan-themed Imperial Favor cards, 4 custom playmats, and 1 acrylic honor dial.
Read the “Prize Structure” section below for more information about how you can earn these prizes.
Prize Structure
In order to support the best possible Organized Play experience for your local Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game player base, we have designed our Stronghold Kits so that each of them allows event organizers to choose between two exciting models of play and prize distribution.
Specifically, the 2018 Season One Stronghold Kit is structured so that its contents can be used to support either a Dynasty League of twelve weekly events or three monthly Conflict Tournaments.
Dynasty Leagues — Season One
| Dynasty League 1 | Dynasty League 2 | Dynasty League 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First time playing during the month | Extended Art Card – Rout | Extended Art Card – Outwit | Extended Art Card – Miya Mystic |
| Winner of Week 1 | Extended Art Card – Entrenched Position | Extended Art Card – Ancestral Lands | Extended Art Card – Pilgrimmage |
| Winner of Week 2 | Extended Art Card – Entrenched Position | Extended Art Card – Ancestral Lands | Extended Art Card – Pilgrimmage |
| Winner of Week 3 | Extended Art Card – Entrenched Position | Extended Art Card – Ancestral Lands | Extended Art Card – Pilgrimmage |
| Winner of Week 4 | Plastic Card – Imperial Favor (Dragon) | Plastic Card – Imperial Favor (Dragon) | Plastic Card – Imperial Favor (Dragon) |
| Winner of every week | Metal Token – Fate Token x5 | Metal Token – Fate Token x5 | Metal Token – Fate Token x5 |
| Top of each clan after 4 weeks | Extended Art Card – Top of Clan Prize | Extended Art Card – Top of Clan Prize | Extended Art Card – Top of Clan Prize |
Conflict Tournaments — Season One
| Conflict Tournament 1 (Month 1) | Conflict Tournament 2 (Month 2) | Conflict Tournament 3 (Month 3) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top 32 | Extended Art Card – Rout | Extended Art Card – Outwit | Extended Art Card – Miya Mystic |
| Top 4 | Metal Token - Fate Token x5 | Metal Token - Fate Token x5 | Metal Token - Fate Token x5 |
| Top 2 | Extended Art Card – Entrenched Position | Extended Art Card – Ancestral Lands | Extended Art Card – Pilgrimmage |
| 1st | Plastic Card – Imperial Favor (Dragon) | Plastic Card – Imperial Favor (Dragon) | Plastic Card – Imperial Favor (Dragon) |
| Top of Clan – Crab | Extended Art Card – Eager Scout | Extended Art Card – Eager Scout | Extended Art Card – Eager Scout |
| Top of Clan – Crane | Extended Art Card – Doji Whisperer | Extended Art Card – Doji Whisperer | Extended Art Card – Doji Whisperer |
| Top of Clan – Dragon | Extended Art Card – Seeker of Enlightenment | Extended Art Card – Seeker of Enlightenment | Extended Art Card – Seeker of Enlightenment |
| Top of Clan – Lion | Extended Art Card – Obstinate Recruit | Extended Art Card – Obstinate Recruit | Extended Art Card – Obstinate Recruit |
| Top of Clan – Phoenix | Extended Art Card – Shiba Peacemaker | Extended Art Card – Shiba Peacemaker | Extended Art Card – Shiba Peacemaker |
| Top of Clan – Scorpion | Extended Art Card – Bayushi Liar | Extended Art Card – Bayushi Liar | Extended Art Card – Bayushi Liar |
| Top of Clan – Unicorn | Extended Art Card – Utaku Infantry | Extended Art Card – Utaku Infantry | Extended Art Card – Utaku Infantry |
| Randomly Distributed | Extended Art Card – Entrenched Position | Extended Art Card – Ancestral Lands | Extended Art Card – Pilgrimmage |
As you may note, the weekly events correspond with a single month’s worth of prizes, so event organizers may—if they wish—alternate between a Conflict Tournament one month and a Dynasty League the next, or any such combination.
Special Events
During Season One, each retailer will use the contents of the Stronghold Kit to host an additional special event. The 2018 Season One special event is the Stronghold Showdown—a special event that allows players to gather for spirited competition and clan politics. The 2018 Season One Stronghold Kit supports a Stronghold Showdown of up to 32 players.
- Participation: Extended Art Card - Shameful Display
- Top 4: Custom Playmat, Featuring Art from the Core Set
- Top of Clan: Clan-specific First Player Token
- Champion: Acrylic Honor Dial, Themed to the Core Set
Reinforcement Packs
Has your group grown beyond the 32 players supported by the Stronghold Kit? If so, that’s great!
It also means that you should talk to your local retailer about the Reinforcement Packs they can use to supplement larger events.
Each Reinforcement Pack comes with enough cards to support 8 more players throughout the season’s weekly or monthly events. Alternatively, your retailer can use these cards to host even more in-store events, or to ease into Legend of the Five Rings Organized Play with fewer, smaller events until you can build your player base up to the larger and more exciting events supported by a Stronghold Kit.
- 8 copies of each Stronghold Kit Top 32 prize
- 1 copy of each Stronghold Kit Top 2 prize
- 7 Top of Clan cards—one for the top-ranked player from of each of the seven Great Clans
- 24 copies of the associated Stronghold Kit's Patronage Card
Just as with the Patronage Cards from the Stronghold Kit, the Patronage Cards in the Reinforcement Packs are meant for retailers to hand out with each Legend of the Five Rings purchase (while supplies last).
Updated on January 10th, 2018 - Made minor corrections to prize descriptions.
