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How playable is Pandemonium?
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| Cobra |
![]() Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:39 pm |
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Another piece of the new Evil Men decktype based on support-area possessions. I’m reserving judgment on that decktype as a whole, but I will say that this type of event rarely ends up being any good. Having a card that can substitute for any minion you need seems pretty nice, but in practice it’s usually flawed in some way: the pool of minion options is too small, or your opponent just discarded the card they were stacked on, or you draw this early in the game before your support area is set up. So cards like Pandemonium can be versatile, but IMO they add more risk than they’re worth. |
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| elf lvr |
![]() Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:13 pm |
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Rapt Hillman.
He can control sites at the start of maneuver, and be stacked on a support possession before your opponent gets to liberate. Then, you can use this card to play him again and control another site. Good under the right circumstances, IMO. |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:01 pm |
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Sweet card, this is what makes  possessions really playable. It makes every support area possession into a Goblin Swarms! And there aren’t a heck of a lot of possession discarders (barring Throne of Minas Tirith) in many cultures... |
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| Cobra |
![]() Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:24 pm |
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CarpeGuitarrem wrote: It makes every support area possession into a Goblin Swarms!
Except that you need to play other cards to actually get minions off of those possessions.  Goblin Swarms is good because it comes with Pandemonium built right in, as many copies as you need!
A single Pandemonium doesn’t have that sort of efficiency at all. Unless you can quickly and reliably get a lot of minions stacked, I think you’re better off just playing another good minion, instead of wasting deck space on a card that doesn’t do anything on its own.
Of course, I’m always prepared to be proven wrong...  |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:29 am |
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| I am inclined to agree with both of you, it really depends on the situation, so far my favorite part of it is the title. Its weird all the spelling mistakes that have cropped up, Pippen, Stamped etc. |
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| AnxiousChieftain |
![]() Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:55 am |
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I don’t like it... especially the lore: "Few could survive the oncoming pillage of the Dunlending’s savage stamped."
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| Cobra |
![]() Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:50 am |
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LOL, didn’t notice that one. Should be "stampede," I assume.
Don’t get lazy on us now, Big D...  |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:20 pm |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:01 pm |
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Shadow doesn’t have a Rule of 4...
How could you have eight Stampeding Chiefs? You can only put 4x in a deck. |
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| AnxiousChieftain |
![]() Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:12 pm |
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CarpeGuitarrem wrote: How could you have eight Stampeding Chiefs? You can only put 4x in a deck.
I believe that that is the rule that NB was talking about.
Pandemonium is more like Host of Thousands than Goblin Swarms. I don’t like Pandemonium all that much, but I suppose it could be a fairly easy way to play your main minion 8 times. |
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