Equipment control is interesting in context of team plays.

Can I cast equipment saying "X Mage only" on Y Mage?
If yes, as I am still owner of the equipment who uses things like Moloch's Torment?

You can, but it is immediately destroyed just like if you steal equipment that is mage specific.

However if it's a team game of say two priestess, they can cast priestess specific equipment on each other all day long (regardless if they are on the same team or not).

Makunda gives them piercing.

Not great but it's something

Does the secondary target effect of force bash only apply if the original target enters a new zone?

So lets assume I have two falcons in the corner of the arena. Could the opposing forcemaster use force bash to knock one into the arena wall and then have it bash the second bird in that zone?

Uniqueness I think makes HoBS kind of unplayable, as it's power level is better with it's numbers. That being said, raising it's spell level to 2 makes it much harder to splash, and drops the play set to 4. As well, raising the cost to a mere 2 mana takes you from being able to cast two a turn from the beginning, which is what is so powerful, to something that you end up paying for in the end. It all comes down to what will still keep the card playable, but not dependable.

So you would actually run zero of them if it was unique?

shenanigans!

Okay so i am going to try and make this as clear as I can, I apologize if I lose you along the way.

*** 1st Hypothetical situation***
I am playing a force master. I mind control your knight of westlock. I then reveal an essence drain on the same knight of westlock. During the upkeep phase (because I control the creature and enchantments) I choose which upkeep to pay, or not pay, first. I choose to let the essence drain go first and do not pay the upkeep. The creature dies. Awesome (expensive) but the closest thing this game has to an instant kill! (which I think it is?)

***Enchantment Transfusion***
So by the wording in the FAQ (see decoy), enchantments are ALWAYS revealed when destroyed. So Enchantment Transfusion can send any enchantment to a new legal target when that creature dies because it is revealed and the effect happens when it is revealed.


***Healing Charm and Bull's Endurance***
Another interesting situation that occurs when the creature dies. Enchantments are forced to be revealed, and the creature heals for the amount on 4 die of damage and / or gains +4 life.

 The cool part here is that damage and destruction, then subsequent heal, happens during the damage and effects stage. Creatures do not get destroyed at the end of the action or round, but whenever the damage dealt equals / exceeds their life total, which triggers the enchantments to be revealed, which changes the life total before the phase ends.

So could either, or both, of these cards save a dying creature?

In my gut I am going to guess that they can not, but I figured that I would post them up and see what the general consensus was.

Thanks for the feedback

Quote from: Kharhaz on June 12, 2013, 08:23:23 PM

Quote from: MrSaucy on June 12, 2013, 08:08:58 PM

None of the mages are overpowered. Sure, some mages might work better against others, but none of them are individually superior.

Warlord is not on the same level as everyone else. <- Fact not an opinion

 

I hate to agree with you, but the Warlord does seem objectively weaker than the other mages. I don't think he excels in anything and there isn't much he can do that others mages can't do (or do better).

Here is a fun game:

Build a warlord spellbook.
Now take that book and switch the archetype to Earth mage. Switch out warlord only for wizard only. You now have more spell points to add to your deck and you just became a harder to defeat mage.

Quote from: Kharhaz on June 12, 2013, 04:46:31 PM

either way it is really disheartening that it only takes 1 card (that costs 9 mana, and any mage can put into his/her spell book) and your opponent has put up a first round stop to a deck theme. No other mage can be as easily hindered as the beastmaster.

Deathlock totally shuts down the Priestess side of things also, and yes it is disheartening. If Akiro's hammer went so susceptible to fire, it could be used to destroy them.

I have tried several different tactics to crack this nut. The best I have done is to buff up a Knight and teleport him to the zone. The next game the Warlock dropped a couple of traps there and took out my Knight. I then went with a Royal Archer, then next game a Wall. After 3 or 4 cycles I just game up trying to take them up and went with a mid-level swarm, out came IOP and Morduk's. So now I just go one or two big and Equip up. The Priestess is not quite the power house that the Warlock is, but can get pretty close with the right combo of equipment.

deathlock does shutdown the priestess' ability to improve her own life, but she can also divine intervention something with the intention of breaking that..... say earth elemental for giggles.

However your spellbook is probably not dependent on you gaining life, its just extra gravy for playing that archetype. The idol thing attacks the core of the swarm spellbook (to which there is no counter) with every little creature that spawns getting a very short life timer that not only disrupts the BM gravy (hehe), but also makes controlling the swarm that much easier with zone attacks, sweeps, etc.

It may not seem like much but the idol is a lot damage and control wrapped up in a rather cheap nicely defended package.

I like to play the Beastmaster. Although the Wizard's mana draining abilities are really annoying, I find the Warlock to be the worst opponent because the Finite Life and Idol of Pestilence are super destructive. Has anybody developed a strategy to take away the Finite Life or Idol of Pestilence?

Nothing much you can do except switch gears and go heavy aggressive and burn them down. We tried a Forest shadow teleport so he was attacking the idol on turn two and its not really an answer to the problem.

Nothing can be done about walled off conjurations without sacrificing your ability to build towards a sucessful creature deck. My advice is to just run a one or two creature beastmaster beatdown just like any other warlock or force master.