Trifecta: How Do You Spell "Dispelled"?

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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How Do You Spell "Dispelled"?

Iron Force of Sethos

Spectre's Ward

Grazhue, Lover of Vice

Okay, so this is really a two-card combo that works best with one particular Guardian.

Grazhue's ability gives you a Power Stone every time you get bribed. Iron Force of Sethos prevents both players from spending stones on Spells or Items for the turn. Spectre's Ward increases the cost of all double-bordered cards by one stone.

IMPORTANT: Play Iron Force FIRST; otherwise, you'll be paying a stone to play it.

End result: Your opponent can't cast any Spells or Items this turn. And if he tries to bribe you, he loses a stone and you get one.

Other useful cards:

• Priest of Sethos: As a command card, no stones can be spent to channel either. It's pretty much a brute force type of thing. You can still use channelling creatures, but you better have some channel receivers ready -- you can't cast Power Lunch!

Trifecta: Zing! That Just Backfired

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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Zing! That Just Backfired

Embyronic Witch

Bone Fright

Djinn

Okay, so the Embyonic Witch/Djinn combination is old, but it's necessary to keep your Bone Fright alive. You play the Bone Fright and Zowie! your opponent has lost all of his ranged-attacks as they are all forced to be attacked right now. The Djinn then keeps him alive and the Witch lets you kill your opponent's primary for good measure.

Against, a dedicated ranged-attack deck, you'll probably soak up most of his hand in the first battle! If you're opponent made the mistake of playing Handles O'Rourke, he loses ALL HIS POWER STONES! Not even Eye of Missile Mayhem will get those back, although Limited Big Time Rebate will get back half of them.

Also, the Djinn is perfect if your opponent plays the Manly Guy or some other card that steals your text box. Once you play the Djinn, no further modifications are allowed, so if you have more ranged attacks, they don't have to be played.


I scared my dedicated opponent from playing his ranged attack deck for quite a while. He was afraid to use Handles. Or his Traithes.

Trifecta: Zing! Went the Strings of my Bow

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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Zing! Went the Strings of my Bow

Handles O'Rourke

Ploog's Ox Standard Bearer 19

Limited Big Time Rebate

Play Limited Big Time Rebate at the beginning of your turn. At the end of your turn, you get back half the stones you spent ROUNDED UP! Ploog's Ox Standard Bearer increased all your ranged attacks by +3 when your shield is on the attack. Handles O'Rourke is a command card that can shoot a 3-point ranged attack into any matchup for one power stone.

For one Power Stone, you can shoot a six-point ranged attack. And if you only shoot once, you get the stone back at the end of the turn. But why stop at one? Shoot five and get three stones back!

Other useful cards:

• Ploog's Chicken Standard Bearer 5:: you get the same bonus, only this time on defense.
  
• Make Juice: give yourself an extra arrow to shoot.
  
• Harkin, Spreader of the Wealth: start off with TEN stones, more than any other Guardian. You can't channel repeatedly, but you can still spend them over and over on the same guy!
  
• Bellerat, Third Called or any other Traithe: She's Vitality 4 with a 2-point ranged attack that's modified by the sum of the unmodified ranged attacks already played. One shot from Handles gives you six. And Bellaret for 2 + 3 (Handles) + 3 (Ploogs Ox) for 8 more points.
  

Warning! When using this setup, watch out for the following defensive combo! (published tomorrow!)

Trifecta: A Knight is a Horse, Nymphs, Too, of course!

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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A Knight is a Horse, Nymphs, Too, of course!

Mayor McGreed

Warwick's Conversion

Gold

With Warwick's Conversion you can make any creature you play into a Barnyard Animal and get that 7-point ranged attack. Your Captain just got whacked by a Vampire? Turn your Captain into a 17-point Sheep Dog. You got a Sloarch in the Dry Heaps? It's now a 28-point Chicken.

Cards that help the above combos tremendously:

• Nubian Slave Girl: destroy her and get your arrows back.
  
• Eye of Missile Mayhem: get back your Gold and even use it to bribe something.
  
• Shadow Bank Job: Use your opponent's Gold bribery card. Mayor McGreed is bribeable by Gold. Maybe your opponent will take a chance.
  
• Farmer Brown: Forget those silly Gold arrows. As long as you have all those Barnyard Animals anyway, push the Mayor out of City Hall and blow up those animals in the field.
  

Trifecta: A Little Pig Goes a Long Way

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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A Little Pig Goes a Long Way

Mayor McGreed

Floyd, the Flying Pig

Gold

Normally you can blow up Floyd to give +2 Vitality to all your creatures (and that's still an option if circumstances change). But another way to use Floyd is as a primary attacker after Mayor McGreed has been used as your command card. Floyd is just a tiny little 2 point creature, but with a Gold Bribery card as a ranged-attack, he can take attack as a 9. Where else are you going to find a Seven-Point Ranged Attack?

Actually, you find it Coming Real Soon.

Trifecta: Tinkerbell's Got an Attitude

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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Tinkerbell's Got an Attitude

(and the Tooth Fairy will knock out a few!)

Soul Mirror

Randy Creek Regulars

any Fairy

You think you need a little extra power to kick some serious butt? Randy Creek Regulars allow all of your fairies to accept channeling up to the full amount that your Guardian can pump out.

Your Blackwaite Jumper is a piddling 1, have Rak Nam pump him up to a 10! Afraid you'll lose your Crook End Snooter? Finn can make him a 20 against Mortals!

And, naturally, if you need a couple of extra Fairies to get your Shield going . . . well, here's comes that really useful Soul Mirror again to make all your creatures into Fairies. Your opponent will just love you to pieces.

Other useful cards:

• Give your boys Real Attitude, drop a Channeling Flux before the real fun begins!
  

Trifecta: YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER

Guardians Trifectas

Trifectas are interesting -- and sometimes deadly -- three-card combos for Guardians . . . if you can pull them off.

And watch out that you're not on the receiving end of one of them!

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YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER

Chief Lector Priest of Sethos

Change your Undead's class to a different class.

Bruno Smashmouth

If your opponent's match-up creature is the same creature class as your creature, your opponent's must go back to the Creature Pen.

any Undead

Bruno's talking to you, and you're gonna listen up good. Unnerstan'? Bruno's sendin' back all 'em creatchas wit' the same class as one of his boys. Well, all his boys'r Undead, but that's jus' temporary, y'see. Dat's 'cause Bruno's boss, the Chief Lector Priest of Sethos, he's gonna change dem from Undead to the same ding youse got.

You pull a Knight, I pull a Knight. You pull a Fairy, I pull a stinkin' Fairy. Yours boys go on home and it's gonna cost you a lotta clamjacks.