What's happening, Metuselahs?
This week, talking with a local vtes player, he told me to use the card "Aura of Invincibility" in my Daughters of Cacophony Baron deck, and I think I will test this deck on friday.
Why do I started liking this card?
Aura of Invincibility
Type: Action Modifier
Cost: 1 blood
Only usable during a referendum, before any votes are cast.
If this referendum passes, put this card on the acting vampire and put a counter on this card. This vampire gets an additional vote for each counter on this card in referendums he or she calls. Add a counter to this card when a referendum called by this vampire passes. If a referendum called by this vampire fails, burn this card and send this vampire to torpor. A vampire can have only one Aura of Invincibility.
My first 3 copies of AoI came from my first Ventrue (KoT) deck, and my first thought was "holy sh**, this is pure junk..." and I haven't use it even once since then.
This week, as I started before, I was told that it could be a good help in voting with the deck, because in the turn the DoC act, they can manage to have a good votelock (in this case, with also Baron tech, more votes, but in my deck at least no Embraces :p) thanks to cards like Bastille Opera House, Conductor, Madrigal and even Firebrand.
There is no pleasure without any sort of risk, and the risk of getting into torpor if the referendum fails isn't too bad, just have to use my daughter with the aura first, to gain the most votes of the Conductor, and keep on rollin'...
Thanks to BeAst to answer my questions here, if someone would ask himself the same ones:
Q1 -- if I use Aura of Invincibility and my vampire with it is blocked (referendum doesn't happen), does she go to torpor?
Q2 -- if I suffer a "delaying tactics" and the vamp casting votes has Aura of Invincibility, does she go to torpor?
Answer: No torpor, in first case, there is no referendum to fail, and in the second one the referendum is cancelled, so it never failed.
Become invincibles, Metuselahs!
PS: if I write another entry tomorrow spitting acid on the AoI, it means every time I tried to use it, my poor Daughter went into mordor...
Don't forget about Vox Domini. This card actually makes referendum fail. So can Fakir al Sidi. As for Fakir - well, you will see, when he is influenced out. But Vox Domini can be a threat if it is frequently used in your playgroup.
ReplyDeleteLet me know how it goes, I've always wondered about that card!
ReplyDelete@Silmegil
ReplyDeleteTrue, reading Vox Domini, it would make my vamp to visit mordor, so does Fakir al Sidi.... that grammar... :p
In my playgroup I haven't seen Vox Domini yet, but fearing a Vox Domini is like bleeding for 4 fearing the Archon, and we love risk ;)
@Brandonsantacruz
I've tested it on the DoC deck, even though the game went really bad and I was close to score a VP, my pred was a magaji deck and the meta-meta-pred was a New Carthage Brujah Princes.. I'll make report of the game ^^