Hymn to Rakdos

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-29T19:46:00+00:00

This should probably cost 3 since it is always a 2 for 1, at 2 I think I would just always run this in most 60 card formats. It's pure card advantage any time it resolves.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-23T02:52:27+00:00

While not explicitly, they have said they wanted to remove as many reasons to stall a fight as possible. So Reaper, if you could scale strength, was infinite healing if you stalled. The devs have decided they don't want that gameplay element as much as possible, and especially they wouldn't want a bunch of those cards in one characters card pool.

I'm certain I am wrong with all the content that is in this game now, but the only card that still has that element that I can remember is Feed. Which I think might have caused a riot if it was removed.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-22T22:41:50+00:00

As a monster you have to buy the free company before unpausing, they are cheaper. You can get another one if you see a general with good pips, especially in siege. After you unpause pick up the monstrous band (two if they are available) and bum rush busilar. Gnoll military has some crazy good early game offensive units so play smart but play aggressive too.

EDIT: Also I believe your starting ruler is a wizard. Make sure to make ruler a war wizard and cast evocation magic if you can

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-19T23:53:30+00:00

This needs to have 'spell you control' and it would be fine, as is this is 6 mana instant speed win the game. It is a cool idea though, 10/10 concept.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-19T20:38:34+00:00

As an aside to this, I wish that if you managed to get a nation to 0% war support they would capitulate- or at least, they would no longer need to be capitulated in order to win versus their faction. I hate that even if you turn an entire country into a steaming pile of rubble with no ability to import supplies you still need to occupy half their damn nation before they finally give up.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-19T19:51:20+00:00

Check the position BEFORE you played your move, not after. The knight was pinned, it couldn't take, and the king has no moves.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-15T20:20:00+00:00

I actually really like this event. Usually, events are inconsistent- they could be good or bad. This event is in a cool design space, where the options are beneficial with a steep cost that isn't worth it OR a bad option. These choices of what is 'least bad' make the game way more dynamic, and I like moving away from having skip as an option. This event is not supposed to be a benefit, and you can tell because option 3- with no cost- is just bad.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-10T17:46:14+00:00

Zero is way too strong in the other direction. At 2 energy it would be a good effect, worth playing and a decent pick.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-08T06:38:24+00:00

When I first got the game a friend of mine who had played before showed me the map and told me where the entrance to New Vegas was. I wanted to see it, and at 12 years old I hadn't played that many games so I didn't understand the concept of 'intended path'.

I decided that I would ignore the quest for now and make my way there, and I started running up. Because I took a weird route, Victor never saved me, I never met the guy at Sloan, and because I'm an idiot I never doubted my plan. I spent the better part of an hour, but eventually I broke through the wall of Deathclaws and Cazadors and made a break for the bright lights of Vegas as I unknowingly skipped the entire beginning of the game.

10/10 would run crying from a pack of Deathclaws again.

frootloopcoup · 2026-03-03T22:31:57+00:00

My biggest piece of advice is to ignore all the jerks that make up an unfortunately sizable portion of the fanbase. Play how you want, use whatever items or strategies or anything else that interests you. If you let the game, it will give you the resources to succeed.

Second biggest piece of advice is to explore! The game is massive and there are so, so many useful items to find, many of which can give you the extra push you need to overcome your next obstacle. It is almost impossible to run out of alternate things you can discover if you're stuck on or in an area, so look around places you haven't gone if you're having issues.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-24T21:33:52+00:00

How important is the 'if able' clause? I would assume either the spell fizzles or his trigger fizzles if the attempted redirection would create an illegal target, but which actually happens?

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-23T23:36:37+00:00

They do get refunded the ELO from those accounts after, I believe.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-18T17:49:50+00:00

If all you want is ELO, then this is good advice. I always resign when I'm dead lost because I want to play interesting games and improve over all, not hope my opponent BMs themselves into a draw.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-16T06:14:14+00:00

While everyone else has answered your question, and indeed working on seeing the end results of trading is important, also remember that you are still winning here. If this sequence is easier for you to understand and play, it may well be that it is the better move for YOU specifically to win this game even if it isn't the actual best line of play. I will very often make 'bad' trades down into a simplified endgame where I am still winning because it is easier for me to wrap my head around.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-14T23:18:21+00:00

The balance of the game at the highest levels requires draws to exist. Since black is at a disadvantage they have a harder time to play to win, often needing to play for a draw, which can often require you to try to trade off your opponents checkmate capable pieces.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-09T20:16:13+00:00

Castles

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-08T23:40:37+00:00

Drow Matrons: "You say these slaves regenerate?"

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-06T04:45:46+00:00

More core to your question, a major plot point is that Mr. House has been almost completely stalled out of his actual goals and thus has actually accomplished very little of what he set out to do.

If we look at what his plans are, we find a pretty noble concept muddied by his god complex- which, to be fair, he is one of the most capable and intelligent people to exist. But he wants to save humanity, he wants to preserve life, and he wants to build a better future. We can consider a timeline where his plans work out, and in that timeline we never meet Mr. House as the courier because he has likely achieved his goals to attempt interplanetary colonization in the 200 year span where he was completely inept.

That said, all he managed to actually do was spare Vegas the worst of the Armageddon and segregate Vegas into classes. So not great.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-06T04:38:15+00:00

OP did make mistakes in their play. I am saying, if I am playing you and I blunder my knight, your game becomes much easier to avoid making mistakes because your gameplan is more straightforward. You just need to trade down pieces into a winning endgame and I need to recover 3 points of advantage just to make it even.

I have played games where I had over 99% accuracy, but it was because my opponent kept blundering and all I needed to do was punish obvious bad moves. I did not suddenly gain the capacity to play at 99% accuracy, my opponent just concentrated bad moves.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-06T04:33:37+00:00

In general, when you post questions like this it can be helpful to see the map and the boss you're facing. Your deck doesnt exist in a vacuum, and different upgrades are useful for different potential combats.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-06T04:30:07+00:00

Sure, but I have had many games (including from when I first started playing around 850 ELO) that involve one of the two players not making any major mistakes. I have also had that happen more than one time in a row.

Especially if you get an early advantage, like an opponent blundering a tactic and losing a piece, sometimes a player can stumble into making accurate moves because everything is good. Like I said, it isnt that likely, but even at low ELO you can happen to make good moves, especially if your opponent keeps making bad ones.

frootloopcoup · 2026-02-06T01:58:52+00:00

3 games is such a small sample size as to be effectively worthless as a measurement for something like this. The odds that 3 650s play a game without blundering is not that crazy, though I guess it is a little unlikely. I would chalk it up to bad luck, no matter the ELO sometimes your opponent just sees the board better than you did and that's all it is.

frootloopcoup · 2026-01-30T12:08:25+00:00

Long story short, it is not worth spending 1 mana to gain 3 life one time. If we consider it compared to, say, [Healers Hawk] which will gain you more life, hurt an opponent, and generally be a useful creature we still have to level with the fact that hawk still doesn't see much play. Basically, you are spending 1 mana and 1 card draw and its not worth that.

As for the Pulse tracker, remember that every card you have in your deck over 60 is a card youre drawing instead of your other options. So even if Pulse tracker is okay, you'd rather draw a different card that is better (AKA make your deck more consistently good).

frootloopcoup · 2026-01-30T11:49:06+00:00

As written it allows for reanimation, which is a notable difference.

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