Friday, August 18, 2023

You Don't Have To Be Psychic To Know This is A Great Card

Apparently, it's filled with fungus.
The Cavernous Hall (The Underdark chase, 8/25) is an excellent realm to have in a mainly- or all-psionicist deck. When attacked, you can choose to defend it with a champion from your hand or pool, or you can let it defend itself. The realm champion then duplicates the level and power of one of the psionicists in your pool. This can be an amazing ability, depending on who you have out. The card-drawing ability of Highmaster Illithios. The huge level of Bansmareton. The champion-destroying power of Lyr of the Mists. Or imitate Talcon and choose to lose, dragging the winning champion along with you to the discard pile.

Play The Cavernous Hall later in the game if you can, possibly as a replacement for a razed first realm. You want to hold off on playing it until you have a wide assortment of psionicist champs sitting in your pool, so that you can take a long look before deciding which one to copy. Early in the game, your choices will be limited and your opponent will have an easier time attacking. Since there is only one attack per turn in TAV, each sortie is super important. Use The Cavernous Hall to make your enemies feel like crawling into a hole in the ground!

Extra! Check out some of the gameplay posted on the Spellfire.com website. I'm not big on playing CCGs on an app (I prefer physical cards), but this looks like fun. Plus, they are using the TAV rules! I can't wait for the Spellfire relaunch.

Next time: Show some restraint!


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4 comments:

  1. Bernardo MatosinhosAugust 19, 2023 at 7:22 AM

    Great card, I surely have on my psionic deck! I’m just shy of Highmaster illitidius, but I’m searching for one!

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    1. MarcDAugust 19, 2023 at 3:30 PM

      Good luck in finding one. Keep checking eBay and the Spellfire Facebook groups.

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  2. ScottAugust 19, 2023 at 8:24 AM

    What I'd like to know on a card like this is how playable it actually is for most players. How many Psionicists are in the game, and how available are they for play? Are they all chase, so making them hard to come by, thus making this harder to get into a deck, etc?

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    1. MarcDAugust 19, 2023 at 3:32 PM

      For sure, this has to be used in an all-psionicist deck (or pretty close to it), but in that kind of deck yes there are enough champions to make it work. Lyr alone is devastating to have in the pool with this realm in play.

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