Saturday, March 13, 2010

HttB for non-Bloodlines decks

There are limited cards in HttB that would help non-Bloodlines decks.

Scobax allows a pre bleed reduction, identical to aus Telepathic Counter. Useful in a draft tourney due to limited options, i'm pretty iffy about it in constructed. 1 card for avoiding 1 pool loss?

Momentary Delay looks very useful for large cap decks trying to overcome weenie AUS or ANI, a very common match-up.

Cavalier is definitely very powerful (1 blood for 1 untap) as long as extensive blood gain is available. Additional actions are out and out one of the means to ousting and avoiding the oust. Cavalier competes with Perfectionist for top utilitarian Archetype.

Dabbler is harder to use with its 3 disc. req. Decks with stealth could find a use for it, though I think the easiest are combat decks. Carrion Crows, Stoneskin and Claws of the Dead.

Amulet of Temporal Perception plugs a problem in Trujah decks, which is what do the little helpers around the Trujah of choice do? Having more than one Trujah is a non-option due to their high cost and Scarce. Obvious (ab)uses of the Amulet would be an Ankara Citadel-ed random mook using True History, Rewind Time, Hourglass of the Mind.

Joumlon's Axe and Dagger are decent weapons. Joumlon's Axe is critical against IG and costs nothing, with the drawback of being Unique. Dagger allows you to pull another one out for free, and can do ranged pokes.

Foldable Machine Gun is ugh. Just awful. Could've done something else. Anything else.

Hunger Moon has ridiculous artwork. With a usable ability, though other than trick decks (read: spying mission or Imbued/Gehenna ones) i don't see this working that well.

The Rising has (slightly) less stupid art. Harder to pull off, but very powerful game breaker.

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