What's happening, Metuselahs?
I've just received a 12-pack of Nights of Reckoning Boosters, and I had to check if I can manage to build my own imbued deck, which I was very itrigued to learn how to play with them and tbh, I like Jennie "Cassie247" Orne.
So, this is the pack of 12 rares I got from this boosters:
- Vigil, The Thin Like : yey! but emm well I had one already from some trades..
- Moise Kasavubu : hell, I like him, but his cost of 2 pool may be a lot for him, because I still don't own any Ashur Tablets + Liquidation to get a solid pol gain.
- Expiate x2 : oh no, please, no more! I had already one from trading and I don't think I'm going to ever use them...
- Surge : yey! I had already one, but in order to build a combat-ish deck they must be useful, so great!
- Project : good one, will I use it?
- Imprison : don't remember if I've seen any of these in the TWDA, so I'll keep the "yey" for later...
- Foresee : I wanted to have this one, best to prevent my imbued to be incapacitated after an error of blocking someone capable of obliterating my poor human.
- Champion : yey... well I didn't say it enough loud..... YEYYY!!!!
- The Crusader Sword : another must-have, so yey! for me.
- Blood Cult Awareness Network : nice but I already had 2 of them in a good auction (just had to paid for them like 0'5$ for the pack... ahh too many copies I won't use..
- Smite : even though I think it's cost is expensive in convictions, I like it, so I'll try to get this card into my deck.
As for the others, got 3x Angel of Berlin, not enough Convictions (just 3 Strike, 3 React and 4 Second Sight...), and for the imbueds... only ONE Jennie!! I'm quite disappointed about that... at least I got a copy of each Imbued, I think, and 3 copies of Travis, one of Maman Boumba and one of the imbued with +1 bleed and damage to other imbueds.
In the end, good boosters, I'm happy with the results, and I wanted to open more Champions (eheheh) and a Church of Vindicated Faith, which I'll have to ebay or trade one copy.
What do you think? Crappy Boosters or good enough? Thanks to a mate, I paid less for the pack, and I think I can build an average deck with this and some of my cards (aaallll my Target cards will be here-> my 3 TargetVitals, the 2 Target:Head and the Target: Arm...I want moar!)
Take on the night, Metuselahs!
Champion is really overrated by people who've never played it. You don't usually end up having enough conviction to use it regularly, so it's a lot less useful than it appears to be.
ReplyDeleteGetting three copies of Travis was good luck, since he's basically required for imbued decks to work since they can't use Blood Doll or Con Boon. Getting Beatrice (the +bleeder who doesn't play well with other imbued) is also great, as it's very easy and often profitable to drop a copy of her and a single Second Sight into any deck of the appropriate grouping.
It's kind of sad that you didn't get any Inspire, since that's one of the must-have rares, but I'm pretty sure that you can get stuff from NoR quite cheaply on the secondary market.
@John Eno
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting :) as I've written, I'm just starting with the imbueds and I know only a bit about them.
True, no inspire in the boosters *sigh* I'll try to get more boosters and/or some Inspire.
Travis is quite good, but I know a dude here that sells some imbued crypt and he has like 4 Travis in trade, but no Jennies.
Now my plan is to research on the net different types of imbued decks, from the mytical twd one and another that could make a good use of surge, living wood staff, cleave, and more combative :)
Beatrice would be a good addition to my Brujah G4-5 multirush deck :) a good weenie that can make me push harder to my prey hehehe
I really hope I can use Champion in the deck, at least the copy I have, even though is expensive. If you think about it like that, maybe a single or a couple of them is enough in a deck, isn't it?
:)
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ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't think that Champion is a bad card or anything like that. It's just that during the heyday of imbued-bashing on the newsgroup, Champion was often trotted out (usually by people who hadn't ever played it) by people to illustrate how the imbued are broken.
ReplyDeleteIt's fine as a "break glass in case of emergency" card, but I advise against thinking that you're going to be able to rely on it regularly.