What's happening, Metuselahs?
Even though I haven't tested yet a Striga deck (you know, exams and all that stuff...) I've been thinking a lot about doing something effective with it. Honestly, I want to build a deck for each of the new infernal "disciplines".
When we have a look at Striga, all the cards cost its blood, and blood in an infernal deck is a big problem, even though we have now the superb Tend The Flock, the only one that has no cost is Scobax. But this is not about Striga in general, is just about one of its 2 rare cards, the Fractura.
The outferior is just a dodge, nothing more to dig about it, cel required.
At stg and STG it gets more interesting.
So we play infernal minions, we can get Concordance on them (+1 str) and now they have 2 Hand Damage. With the +1 at STG we can reach 3 damage and for each blood another additional +3. This is handy, also when we get grappled, but we must think also in defense.
Medium Cap vampire like Dylan Adv with his +1 strenght can make real good use of Fractura, and he has FOR to resist, so does the other infernals with it.
Then we have The Unnamed as a good option. Block with Sense the Sin, Scobax, etc or using Strix to get in combat with the bleeder. We can't spit aggravated? No problem, Flesh of Marble and Fractura, but we must carry tastes of vitae...
A nice card to have like a couple in the deck. At least as long as I remain without getting a game to play to test it. May do it on JOL.
Conclusion in this "strategy" article, I think that is a good card when we build a combat oriented infernal deck, and seems suited for Dylan Adv, Mary the Black (with Concordance you strke for 3 agg!), and maybe Sargon.
Will it be worth playing it? I hope so, but Concordance'd Baalis with STG, High Ground/Roll + Hexe seems more effective for me, but this rare has its uses, limited, but it has them
I also have to point out that his $ in eBay is lower now, Strix gets all the attention, understandable, just saying.
Hit, again and again, Metuselahs!
Nah, Fractura is meant for 1 vampire and 1 vampire only.
ReplyDeleteValerius GO!
Ankara him and see him do the Neo thing and dead hand the enemy as a punching bag.
(o.o)
You know I'm weak to Valerius XD HAHA
ReplyDeleteseriously, xysing, do you find Fractura useful?
Fractura is great with Mary. Use her once, and it was great. Striga is good.
ReplyDeleteThis is theory - I haven't played with these cards - but:
ReplyDeleteI think that a lot of the advantage of the Striga cards is in exactly when they are played and how.
You can play Fractura at any time during combat. You can pitch it prerange if you just want to cycle. You can also play it after strikes are chosen, ensuring you don't waste it against S:CE.
If playing after strikes are chosen, you can choose to play it before or after the initial strike. At superior, playing it after means the +1 str doesn't apply to your strike - ideal when you're hitting with Mary and want to do the exact amount of damage to burn the opposing vampire on your last strike. (Ditto, Claws of the Dead + Dylan)
I wouldn't discount the outferior, either. You can play both for a super-Acrobatics effect, and many of the vampires who might want to play Fractura (Dylan, Mary, Sargon, unnamed) happen to have celerity too.
... of course, that's only possible if you are running enough copies of the card. It's frustrating to me that the Striga card I can see myself running 12 copies of is a Rare, while Masca (which I still can't see any use for) is a Common. It's probably the worst failure in rarity selection in the set (though Barrenness comes close...)