Courts of the Crane Clan

This holding is great in decks featuring odd honor requirements like Doji Misachika in a Crane deck on a turn 3 flip.
Also for things like Lion with any of the 8 HR Matsu personalities, etc.

And how much of the government/culture of the Empire, which is what people are going to be fighting over, will be left standing if we're just going with the option of 'smash face whilst ignoring the politics of the Empire' (which IS *option 1 in a nutshell since it has 0 focus on politics)? Because...

Dare's like that.
We need Darren to set him straight.

I have re-read the options available to us, and I figure that I am going to vote for one. If it's good enough for Hoturi and Uji, it's good enough for me, and although I think it would be terrible if great artworks are lost, as long as enough of our clan survive then there will be new things create...

I believe the only course of action is to embrace death as every samurai should. Live every moment thinking it will be your last. Now it may very well come to that. I don't believe the courtiers are going to end up being useless in this struggle...I think their efforts will be essential in convinci...

I'm not on board with option 1 because as presented, it requires the Crane to give up what we're good at in favour of what other Clans are always going to be better at. "If you choose to follow this path, it means setting aside your words, ... this path will favor more militaristic aspects of ...

Yay! Shiro is on board with option 1. Although I'm curious as to why more Crane aren't on board with option 1. One of my favorite characters was Tanitsu. Tanitsu was a Crane with promise. He was friends with all of the 4 winds, he had many favors and was secretly promised to Tsudao. He was very good...