We bet you wonder what the Stockholmjyhad bloggers think of The Unaligned, the new official set from VEKN, allowed for tournament play 4 November. Below we grade the minion cards on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is Tortured Confession or Mummy´s Tounge or something like that, and 5 is Govern the Unaligned or Villein or something like that.
Note: This is our views a couple of weeks after the release. We will try to do a follow up on this in a year or so - it will be very interesting to see how our views have changed then!
Bear's Skin
Ashur: 2 “Fun, but I don´t really see a
need for this.”
Tomas: 2
Myrdin: 2
Randyman: 3 “Nice but not broken. Surprisingly strong at inferior.”
Blight
Ashur: 2
Tomas: 2
Myrdin: 2
Randyman: 1 “Wallpaper IMHO.”
Dam the Heart's River
Ashur: 2
Tomas: 2
Myrdin: 2
Randyman: 2 “An ok card, but not what
the assamites need.”
Ennoia's Theater
Ashur: 4
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3
Randyman:
4 “Good, well-balanced. A barrens with a bonus.”
Focus the Blood
Ashur: 3 “Notice that it stays on the vamp
if not used = way superior to Inner Essence.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3
Randyman: 3 “A nice card, but hard to
find card slots for.”
Funeral Wake
Ashur: 2 “Sure, nice to both rush and
block with Shamblings, but I think it´s hard to find card slots in that type of
deck.”
Tomas: 4 or 5
Myrdin: 4
Randyman: 3 “Totally ok and
well-balanced.”
Gianna di Canneto
Ashur: 4 “Just compare stats and cost to
Felix Fix Hessian! And it´s ability is very useful for removing that annoying equipment.
The other ability is just plain better than Neighborhood Watch Commander.”
Tomas: 4
Myrdin: 4
Randyman: 3 “Strong!”
Gift of Proteus
Ashur: 1 “Ain´t nobody got time for
that!
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 2 ”Protean
decks seldom has the need to discard stealth or combat cards.”
Randyman: 3 “Ok, but hard to fit into a deck.”
Randyman: 3 “Ok, but hard to fit into a deck.”
Giulia Giovanni Abruzzina
Ashur: 3
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3
Randyman: 3 “Strong.”
Hall of Mirrors
Ashur: 3 “Manuever is great, and you can
both use it to avoid dangerous strikes and cancelling s:ce. This card is better
than Deathseeker.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3
Randyman:
2 “Weird card. We´ll see if this makes ravnos combat
decks more popular.”
Illusory Resources
Ashur: 2 “Ain´t nobody got time for
that! Maybe had been better as a master, although master slots are scarce.”
Tomas: 2
Myrdin: 2
Randyman:
2 “A bit good-bad. A nice way to make sure you don´t
lose the Edge in a heads up.”
In Memory of the Two Lands
Ashur: 2 ”Master slots are scarce. Would
have been more interesting if the set would have had a playable non-unique
mummy ally, but that didn´t happen.”
Tomas: 2
Myrdin:
4
Randyman: 2 ”I don´t see how any mummy
decks will turn up in the meta.”
Nar-Sheptha
Ashur: 3
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3
Randyman: 2 “This is somewhat what the
assamites need – enhanced card flow and forcing opposed minion to be acting
saves you blood and cards.”
Ophidian Gaze
Ashur: 2
Tomas: 2
Myrdin: 2 ”Bleed
reduce is always worst than bleed bounce.”
Randyman: 3 “A rather well-balanced card.”
Randyman: 3 “A rather well-balanced card.”
Priority Contract
Ashur: 3 “The trifleness makes this
playable, but it being usable only forward is a BIG drawback.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3
Randyman: 4 “Nice because it forces you
to go forward.”
Rewilding
Ashur: 1 “The card sucks. As do Arson
and Rampage. Cards like this needs more effects to be playable. Haunt is ok (if
you have locations to protect), as is Conceal.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin:
3
Randyman: 1 ”I can´t see myself using
this, not even as toilet paper.”
Saatet-ta
Ashur: 4
Tomas: 4
Myrdin: 4
Randyman: 3 “Strong ally that will see
play.”
Sanguine Entrapment
Ashur: 3 “Like Immortal Grapple some
time, this card makes all Assmates prerange stuff playble, maybe even Thin
Blood.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 4
Randyman: 3 “More combat, which isn´t
needed.”
Serpent's Numbing Kiss
Ashur: 3
Tomas: 4
Myrdin: 3
Randyman:
4 “Funny card. Nice at inferior becaused it´s free.”
Skaald
Ashur: 3 “Ain´t nobody got time for
that!”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 4
Randyman: 1 “A weak card, because it´s
only good when you are voting.”
Spiritual Guidance
Ashur: 2 “The problem is it sucks in the
early part of the game, and I don´t think it´s good later either. Maybe with
Liquidation.”
Tomas: 4
Myrdin: 2
Randyman: 3 “An ok complement, but it
presupposes Giovanni combat, which is subpar.”
Suspension of Disbelief
Ashur: 2 “I guess that if you play a
Ravnos bleed deck, without dominate and with no intention to rush/tap minions
(with Deep Song), this is good.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 2 ”This
doesn´t bleed hard enough for anyone to need to bounce it. It´s not
a Govern.”
Randyman:
2 “Just slightly better than Computer hacking. It
need´s an action modifier to motivate a bounce in the first place.”
Thing
Ashur: 4 ”I can´t really see this card
becoming such a boring combo-nuisance as Reunion Kamut, as Gangrel don´t have
cards equivalent to Recruitment Exercise and Watchtower: Wolves Feed. It´s
rather like a nice crypt acceleration-THING that gives an incentive to mix
smallcaps and bigcaps in the same deck.”
Tomas: 4
Myrdin:
3
Randyman:
3 ”An ok card that will see some play, but not much.”
Velvet Tongue
Ashur: 2
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 4
Randyman: 4 “One of my favourites in the
set. It might have tough competing with Bewitching Oration, but I think I will
try it to some tricky deck.”
Zephyr
Ashur: 3 “Act. Get blocked. Zephyr at
inferior. Majesty. Act. Untap at end of turn = Fun. Although I don´t like
playing cards that presupposes failure.”
Tomas: 3
Myrdin: 3 ”It´s
like a Change of Target.”
Randyman: 4 “A good card that will see play. I like that it has an built-in motivation to play a lot of them as you have to fail your action to play it.”
Randyman: 4 “A good card that will see play. I like that it has an built-in motivation to play a lot of them as you have to fail your action to play it.”
So, according to the Stockholmjyhad jury, the best cards in The Unaligned are:
Saatet-ta: 15 of 20
Ennoia's Theater: 14 of 20
Serpent's Numbing Kiss: 14 of 20
Thing: 14 of 20
The worst cards are:
Blight: 7 of 20
Rewilding: 8 of 20
Illusory Resources: 8 of 20
Gift of Proteus: 8 of 20
Dam the Heart's River: 8 of 20
Myrdin:
“I think more cards of this set will see play compared to Danse Macabre. The vampires
are more measured when it comes to what other vampires they can be combined
with. More of the the minion cards gives opportunity to new decks. Good work design team!”
Randyman:
“Yes, it is clear that the design team now have more ‘kött på benen’ and has
evolved in their work.”
Ashur: ”I
would like to give extra credit to Damnans (Ginés) and the other artists. I
think the artwork is very important, and I feel it´s on the same level as White
Wolfs sets, if not better.”
The pdfs of all cards can be downloaded for free at vekn.net.
