Dáin’s DC Duos #10

I don’t think I’ve ever done two Duos on the same day before, but I see no reason I can’t start now. We’ve got a pretty lively crowd today, so why not?

Here’s two MORE possessions from Lasting Alliances. Enjoy!

Staff of the White Council
Artifact • Staff
Strength +1
Bearer must be a Wizard.
Bearer gains muster.
Each time a spell is played, you may exert bearer to add or remove .
“‘Halt!’ he called in a voice like thunder, and his staff blazed forth with a flash like the lightning.”
Maybe you could make it unique? If you could put one of these on each of your wizards, that could be a ton of choke. I like the ability a lot, either choking the opponent or powering up those "Spot X twilight tokens to..." events.

Technically it’s not a possession, I know.

I thought about throwing another version of Gandalf’s Staff into Lasting Alliances but decided to hold off for one of the later sets. Instead, I decided to have a generic staff that any of the three Wizards from the set could bear. Sure, it’s a little powerful, but so is the "Exert bearer twice to make a minion strength -3" of the regular old Wizard Staff. What do you think, though? Is it so powerful it overshadows the old generic staff?

•Gandalf’s Cloak
Possession • Cloak
Bearer must be a Wizard.
Bearer may not have his strength or vitality reduced by weather conditions.
Maneuver: Discard this possession to take a event into hand from your draw deck or discard pile.
“The old man with the casket threw aside his hood and cloak. ‘Here is Gandalf! And none too soon it seems.’”
The maneuver ability is cool. I could see this being slightly abused with A Wizard is Never Late, though.

Ah, another cloak. I always wondered why Decipher never made a card based on Gandalf the Grey’s cloak, and it’s prominence in the scene from the lore seemed to make Lasting Alliances a perfect time to bring it into the game. Not much to say other than that...it kinda speaks for itself. The only comment I have is that the culture consists of a lot of Men in my sets, and considering Gandalf was with the men of Dale when the lore’s scene took place, even THAT fits...taking their events into hand. *shrug* Just something nifty I realized as I was making it.

And its maneuver ability also sets up all those spells nicely. We’ll start those tomorrow, and I really mean "tomorrow" this time. Honest.

Staff of the White Council
Artifact • Staff
Strength +1
Bearer must be a Wizard.
Bearer gains muster.
Each time a spell is played, you may exert bearer to add or remove .
“‘Halt!’ he called in a voice like thunder, and his staff blazed forth with a flash like the lightning.”

•Gandalf’s Cloak
Possession • Cloak
Bearer must be a Wizard.
Bearer may not have his strength or vitality reduced by weather conditions.
Maneuver: Discard this possession to take a event into hand from your draw deck or discard pile.
“The old man with the casket threw aside his hood and cloak. ‘Here is Gandalf! And none too soon it seems.’”

Strange and Sorcerous
Event • Fellowship
Spell.
Exert your Wizard bearing a pipe to add 1 to the number of pipes you can spot.
“Then Gandalf’s smoke-ring would go green and come back to hover over the wizard’s head. He had quite a cloud of them about him already....”

Wizard’s Fire
Event • Skirmish
Spell.
Exert Gandalf bearing an artifact X times to exert X minions (twice if at a forest).
“He gathered the huge pinecones from the branches of his tree. Then he set one alight with bright blue fire, and threw it whizzing down among the circle of the wolves.”

Decent. You might want to add something else to it - maybe make it like this:

Exert your Wizard bearing a pipe to play a pipe from your discard pile or add 1 to the number of pipes you can spot.

Awesome! My only suggestion is that you add ’once’ after the word ’minions’, to make it look like a real card (see Release the Angry Flood for an example).

By the way, I like the fact that you’re giving the cards the Spell keyword - are you planning on making any cards that key off of Spells?