Xu Sheng

Iron Arm of Jiang Dong 江东的铁臂

**Broken Arms** 破军
When Xu Sheng damages a player with an attack, he can flip their character card and they draw X cards, X is how much health they have after the damage.

**Clarification:**

* Please see Flip Character Card
* When Xu Sheng damages characters who are *Chained* with a *Fire* or *Lightning* *Attack,* he can choose to force any or all damaged characters to flip and draw X cards.
* The 'X' number in Xu Sheng's "Broken Arms" has a maximum of five. For example, if Xu Sheng successfully *Attacks* Dong Zhuo with seven units of health remaining afterwards, Dong Zhuo only draws five cards, not seven.

* "Broken Arms" can also be helpful if Xu Sheng's team is weak. Even if Xu Sheng chooses to flip a character with a lot of health (and they draw a lot of cards), the skipped turn may give his teammates time to recover if they draw the right cards.
* Some characters have abilities in which they must flip their character card. Because the 'flip' game mechanism is toggled (and a flipped character flips back face up), Xu Sheng can help these characters take their next turn by simply *Attacking* them.
* Xu Sheng's "Broken Arms" usually work well on characters with many units of health. Remember, a turn, like a unit of health, is approximately worth two units of health.
* Experienced enemy players will fear Xu Sheng and will save their *Escapes* for Xu Sheng. As a result, believing that opponents that take damage from other characters' *Attack* have no *Escapes* is a faulty assumption.

**Notable Combinations:**

* Cao Ren/SP Cao Ren/SP Diao Chan/Demigod Lu Bu - These characters have abilities that force them to flip their character cards. If Xu Sheng *Attacks* them, he can flip them back face up and allow them to take their next turn.

* Demigod Zhuge Liang - If Demigod Zhuge Liang is protecting other characters with "Heavy Fog," the ability lasts until his next action phase. Xu Sheng can extend the effects of this protection by *Attacking* and flipping Demigod Zhuge Liang.

* Dong Zhuo/Hua Xiong - These characters have many units of health and Xu Sheng can flip them and allow them to draw many cards.

* Gan Ning/Zhang Liao/Zhang He/Lu Su - These characters specialize in card destruction. This can be very useful before or after Xu Sheng uses "Broken Arms" to either make the technique more likely to succeed or to destroy the cards that the victim draws as a result of this power.

* Cao Pi - Cao Pi's "Exile" gives Xu Sheng competition when it comes to flipping players. If Cao Pi becomes damaged, he can flip face up a character that Xu Sheng flipped face down.

* Cao Zhi - Cao Zhi's "Wine Poems" allows him to flip face up if he is damaged when he is flipped face down. This mitigates the advantage that Xu Sheng gains when using "Broken Arms" on him.

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**Final Remarks:**

Any SGS player who has been on the wrong side of Xu Sheng's *Attacks* can testify for how brutal they are and how fearsome of a character Xu Sheng can be. Xu Sheng is particularly brutal against characters with a maximum health level of three, as they rarely have enough units of health to draw a substantial amount of cards from "Broken Arms." When planning on using this power on an enemy, try to weaken them by playing tool cards like *Barbarians, Hail of Arrows,* and *Duel* to reduce their current health level and reduce the number of cards that they will draw via the power.