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How playable is Stampeding Chief?
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| [ 4 ] 40% |
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| 4 |
| [ 4 ] 40% |
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| Cobra |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:04 pm |
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We’ve been waiting for the Chief since Stampeding Shepherd was spoiled, and he’s definitely a beast! With 17 strength, fierce and damage +1, he’ll be doing some damage where it really matters: multiple wounds on strong companions, or overwhelms on weaker companions. The only question is, is Stampeding Chief worth his cost? Spotting another  minion and paying 11 twilight isn’t so easy a lot of the time.
But notice that those extra costs only apply when the Chief is played from hand! Play him from your discard pile, or from a support-area possession with Pandemonium, and he costs only  with no spotting requirement -- definitely playable. Or use the text of Stampeding Shepherd to play the Chief from your draw deck, and you’ll effectively pay  + an extra card -- another very playable option, although a little more risky since any Chiefs drawn into your hand will lose a lot of their value.
Personally I’d love to run Stampeding Chief in any deck that offers good odds of playing him from somewhere other than my hand. A lot of Evil Men decks will be able to pull this off without much trouble, so I expect the Chief will see a lot of play after Rise of Saruman hits. |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:43 pm |
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Yeah, I thought it was odd that he only is penalized if played from hand. I guess its a nudge from decipher to use their new strategy. And with Stampeding Shepherd, pretty cool.
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| DáinIronfoot |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:41 pm |
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Yeah, THIS is a card that merits a slap on the back for the designer (rather than a slap a little higher up  ). Much better than some of the disappointments we’ve seen lately...and no spelling or grammatical errors!
Definately playable if you do things right (or just get lucky drawing order), and a force to be reckoned with when he’s in play. Too bad  never had a guy like this.
But woe on the poor guy that gets stuck with this in his hand early and no other minions around yet. Yuck.
I give him a 4, and only because of that possibility. Anyone who votes a 5 has good reason to do so.  Bravo, Decipher. |
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| Anonymous Prodigy |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:12 pm |
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Imagine putting Saruman, Servant of Sauron on Stampeding Chief!  |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:34 pm |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:51 pm |
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| this guy simply kills. you can put possessions on him, and just totally kill. then play the next copy with the shepherd. |
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| NBarden |
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| Pywils |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:45 pm |
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i’m going 5 just because of the Stampeding Shepherd and the other cards evil men have.
but still i can see reason for less then that |
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| JayPL |
![]() Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:59 am |
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I believe the best option for playing him is to use those suicide Easterlings from Hunters (Easterling Scout, bold Easterling, Courageous Easterling). Otherwise it is just waste of slots in your deck (for multiple Stampeding Shepherd ’s, Pandemonium ’s, Ceremonial Armor ’s etc.). The other way I can think of is playing him as the Last Days response - he would be -2+3, effectively 9 twilight (and if ’another minion’ is Saruman, CS, then... ) If he is managed to be played a right way, his stats are really killing  however he would lose the fierce bonus if played in the skirmish phase
a 4 from me |
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| LeoKula |
![]() Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:14 am |
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| am I the only one who’s thinking oath sworn right now? maybe it will finaly be playable if there’s a way to play it on the maneuver phase |
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