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Card Shark 94: Rainbow Dash, Sonic Rainboom

Greetings to you, happy Super Bowl day, happy Groundhog Day, and happy birthaversary to our favorite rainbow-maned horse! Welcome back to Card Shark! To honor our little Dashie, I’m looking at what I consider to be her prettiest Ultra Rare card (it’s so shiny!). Does it live up to the hype? Let’s find out! Here’s my take on Absolute Discord’s “Rainbow Dash, Sonic Rainboom!”

When the impossible becomes possible! Par for the course with early set cards, the cost-to-power ratio on this thing is very uneven on the surface. One of these costs 3 AT and 4 Blue req, and you’re only getting 2 Blue power for your efforts. But she doesn’t have to start out like that! As she enters play, you stick three Momentum counters on her. For every Momentum counter, Dash has +2 power while involved in a Faceoff. With three Momentum counters, that’s a max of 8 power during one Faceoff! That is a lot of power, and it won’t stay around forever. At the end of your turn, you remove a Momentum counter from Dash. Essentially, for each of your turns after she is played, she goes from 8 power during a Faceoff to 6 power and finally 4. Once that final Momentum counter is removed, you must retire Dash. This is the definition of a temporary power surge. And it’s a pretty great surge too! No Competitive characters can reach that power normally (at least, without spending more AT to boost them further like Rainbow Dash, Best of the Best or Night Glider, Ambitious Aerobat). I wouldn’t say a temporary 8 power isn’t the worst thing, either. Believe it or not, there are ZERO cards with 8 printed power in the entire game, and let’s be real, that’s probably necessary. And the power doesn’t all immediately go away, either. She may only have 6 Faceoff power by the end of your first turn, but should your opponent start any Faceoffs involving her, that Momentum power counts there, too. Not to mention how digital screens don’t do this card justice - I have two or three of these and they are PRETTY. It’s bright, it’s colorful, it’s flashy. I miss cards with cool foil like that. That might be my favorite thing about this card.

You probably guessed that something about this card isn’t 20% cooler. Obviously, this card doesn’t have a long playing life. Once all those Momentum counters are removed, it’s bye-bye to Dashie. So you need to make the most out of those Momentum counters as long as they’re in play. I cannot stress that enough. Furthermore, and possibly more importantly, that’s also a steep price to pay for a card with 2 printed power that only gains extra power during Faceoffs. There are other, more common cards that can get you a giant chunk of power for a reasonable price without the threat of retirement, though most aren’t Blue. Tall Tale, Too Tall can be discounted depending on how many Earth Ponies you have at one Problem. Rescue Party, The Power of Friendship not only flips you an additional card during Faceoffs involving it, but it can’t be frightened by any Prince Rutherfords or Greater Wyrms. There are even Resources that can boost power while erasing abilities, such as Dressed Up and Clouded By Anger, but they unfortunately wouldn’t work well on this card since it would stop any Momentum counters from boosting it during Faceoffs. It sucks to say this, but compared to more recent Blue Super Rares and Ultra Rares, such as Night Glider, Overpowering and Daybreaker, Blinding Light... this card is not good. It’s overpriced and just doesn’t have enough of a decent power payout that other cards can’t easily replicate. Ah well. At least it’s colorful.

Here’s a few more cards that can taste the rainbow:

*Fluttershy, Acceptable Business Attire. Starting this list is something of a... weird play. Not sure if I’d call it techy, but whatevs. Acceptable Business Attire gives all your Pegasus Friends Persistent as well as having Persistent itself. If a Persistent Friend would leave play, you can frighten it instead of having it leave play. Maybe it would leave play through... retirement? Well, let’s say you take the last Momentum counter off of Dash and are ready to retire her. If you have this Fluttershy in play, you can frighten Dash instead and she won’t leave play! From my interpretation of the card text, Dash can exist in play without any Momentum counters on her in several ways, including this way. (If I’m completely wrong here, don’t hesitate to tell me and I will amend accordingly! This is just where my mind goes when I’m caught up on homework and don’t have any major issues in my life to worry about.)

*Twilight Sparkle, Zeroed Out. What’s one way you could effectively use 8 temporary power? How about Troublemaker farming? Blue is a great color to farm with, and there are many ways you could do this with Sonic Rainboom on the turn you play it. A good way to start might be getting a Troublemaker into play that you can challenge. Zeroed Out is one of my favorite ways to do this. When you play Zeroed Out, you search your deck for a Troublemaker and immediately put that Troublemaker into play face-up! It’s quick and efficient, and you even have more options in challenging the Troublemaker you find on that turn than you think. Most cards state you have to challenge an opponent’s Troublemaker, but cards like Pipsqueak, Class President and The Tree of Harmony, Trial by Friendship can bypass that. And if you don’t get to challenge a Troublemaker with that 8 Faceoff power? 6 is still nothing to sneeze at! Options are good.

*Finger Snap. Not much to say about this card. You pay 1 AT, you add another counter to one of your ready cards. If you can add at least one additional Momentum counter to Sonic Rainboom, you can have 10 power during a Faceoff and stall Dash’s retirement an additional turn. And that’s with one additional counter! One! Numbers are crazy and I have a love-hate relationship with them.

*Call in the Dream Cavalry/Defend the Hive!/Pirate Ship/Pegasus Chariot/any card that gives you a discount on moving Friends. When this Dash gets moved home after winning a Faceoff, most likely a Problem Faceoff, you want to pounce on using that temporary power as fast and as much as possible. This Dash doesn’t have Swift, so you’re stuck paying 2 AT to move her most of the time. That’s why it’s important to keep moving her cheap - you not only save AT for other actions, but you can also make up some of the AT you spent getting her into play. With Blue, I prefer having a mix of cards that can discount your moves, since Blue loves moving so very much.

Thanks for reading this Dash-tastic edition of Card Shark! Hope you’re not sick of Leaders and Legends cards yet, since my next Shark will feature another Friend from that set. I’ll be shifting back to my set cycle in a few weeks! For now, I hope you’ll come back to see what L&L card I pick to close this mini Set 11 celebration! Diamond out!

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Card Shark 69: Sunset Shimmer, Clever Girl

It’s Sunset Shimmer Day, my dudes! And with it I bring a special edition of Card Shark. Today I’m commemorating one of my favorite MLP characters of all time with this Ultra Rare Friend from Absolute Discord! I’m not sorry it had to be this way... let’s take a look at “Sunset Shimmer, Clever Girl!”

This card’s lack of usage in decks always surprised me. On the surface, she’s an entry-level Purple Friend if you have a partially Purple Mane, needing 2 AT and 1 Purple req for 2 Purple power. Once you do that, her ability stays active as long as she’s in play: Whenever your opponent plays a card, you can discard a card of the same type to gain 1 AT. That means if your opponent plays an Event, you discard an Event to gain 1 AT, and so on with Friends, Troublemakers, and Resources. It’s that easy! You don’t need to exhaust, retire, or banish Sunset to get that extra spending money. She’s also not Unique, so a full set of these in play could net you 3 AT per card your opponent plays (though I wouldn’t advise doing this). That’s not to mention the big bunch of cards that benefit from having cards in discard piles, especially now that the Core and Beyond blocks exist, and the significantly fewer cards that can actively shut down a player’s discard pile. Seriously, there’s a lot going for this card! I gotta be honest, when I was researching this Shark I did not expect to see so many factors that benefit this card in the long run. I love the Absolute Discord Ultra Rares as a whole... there has to be one lackluster UR in the set, right? Well, if there is, it isn’t this one. :)

So... where are the downsides? This is a card that’s very easy to control. You discard cards when you want and aren’t forced into it. Your opponent also can’t stop you from doing it unless they frighten, dismiss, or banish Sunset, which is a threat most hard-hitting Friends like this face. Besides these clear threats, I believe part of the lack of usage of this card is due to the ease other AT builders have compared to this one. Common cards that do this like Applejack, Factory Organizer, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Cover to Cover, and Starlight Glimmer, Guidance Counselor all simply have to be exhausted to earn that 1 AT, and they all have abilities to make up for that power loss. AJ is Stubborn and Immediate (meaning exhausting her doesn’t lose that power), Starlight is Immediate, and Cover to Cover has Meticulous 1, which can build onto Princess Twilight Sparkle, Ambassador of Friendship. It’s a bit of a complicated deck and play style, and I admit there are some deck and play styles that just don’t suit players as well as others. But if you can make the cards work in your favor, I highly recommend squeezing this one in alongside your AJs and GlimGlams.

Here are some more cards that can help Sunset get the most out of her purging:

*Maud Pie, Rockin’. If you want to get the most out of a discarding play style, this is the Mane you should use. Maud has +1 power for each card type in your discard pile, which, if you’ve been able to get all those card types into your discard pile, can build up to 7 power. This combo can basically limit your opponent from playing a variety of card types to prevent Maud from building power (but there are ways you can get around this). It sounds easy, but in reality I imagine it is very complex, so try this with caution!

*Sweetie Belle, Cutie Mark Crusader. Here’s another Mane that can combine with other cards to create devastating results. Sweetie can snatch Resources from your discard pile and return them to your hand (presumably after you discard them with Sunset Shimmer). Your opponent plays a Resource, you discard a Resource, you get 1 AT, you get that Resource back at the end of your next turn. I’ve surprisingly seen this Mane pop up in a few competitive decks here and there, and I think it’d be fun to experiment with considering the bulk of Resources you can retrieve with this card. Fetch a Staff of Sacanas, a Varmint Barricade, a Seabreeze’s Flower, a Heart’s Desire...

*Hoity Toity, Discerning Eye. Hoity Toity only says cards entering the discard pile from play will be banished. Cards in the hand are not considered to be in play, so directly discarding a card from your hand won’t get it banished. It’s a weird little loophole that can really hurt your opponent in the long run (if you can escape all those frightening/dismissal/banishment threats). TBH, I feel like simply saying this will either get something banned or introduce a new Leaders and Legends card that shuts this strategy down, so if that happens you can blame me.

*Orchard Blossom, A Whole New You. This Friend is a little pricey on the AT side, but can do a world of good otherwise. When Orchard is played, you discard the top 3 cards of your deck (which is a tricky thing you can work around itself), and then put a Friend from your discard pile into play. Orchard doesn’t say you have to choose a Friend discarded with her effect, so you can pick out a Friend you discard with Sunset Shimmer to get that extra cash to play Orchard. It all adds up in the end! (Does that make any sense whatsoever?)

Thank you for reading a special Sunset Shimmer edition of Card Shark! This Tuesday’s Shark is the 70th Shark, but I’m pushing that Ultra Rare to Shark #71. Why, you ask? Only because I can reveal that I have another exclusive Leaders and Legends card reveal! This Shark will be special, so make sure you come back to see what I have in store! Diamond out!

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Card Shark 24: Weather Mare, Shocking!

Hey, look what I found! It's another new Card Shark to celebrate Derpy Appreciation Day today! I picked this card specifically to continue my cycle through each card expansion - and boy, does it look like something that could come from Absolute Discord. Time to look at "Weather Mare, Shocking!"

(Side note: I don't plan on this being a one-time thing! I plan on publishing special Sharks for each special pony-themed day, so you can look out for those throughout the year! Now onto the critique!)

The first thing I want to note here is that we are looking at a bonafide Rare entry-level Friend. That's a positive right from the get-go. She also has Swift, meaning that you can pay 1 AT to play her and keep one to move her later. Then it gets a little more random: When she is moved, she either gains a +1 power counter or she is frightened. That is a really hefty chance. Your 1 power, 1 AT Friend can go up to 2 power or she’s just frightened. This could be a good option as a last resort if you just can't find other decent Blue entry cards for some reason. I can also see this being used in old-fashioned Pinkie Pie Random decks since it does have 1 printed power. I’m not sure if an anti-frightening card like Maud Pie, Not Amused or Appleoosa would affect this since it is a random choice, but if it does, you’d be golden to keep this in play (should she have enough power, and there are ways to distribute that onto her that I won’t go over because this rule is a bit fuzzy to me). Not to mention she could surprise your opponent. “Oh, I see you’re getting ready to play a 1 cost entry-level Friend HEY WAIT A MINUTE YOU HAVE THAT THING?!” Despite the fact that this card is Blue, she sure does have a lot of Pink qualities!

Though we are giving our love to Weather Mare today, I feel obligated to highlight the downsides of this card. She’s 1 power, 1 cost. Though her ability has a niche, it really doesn’t do anything beyond that. In the end, she’s just a 1 power, 1 cost Friend. Chances are you won’t want to play this card later in the game. You’ll have most of the color requirement to play higher-req cards and more AT to spend. Think of it like this: If you had the chance to play this card or a different, more expensive, rare, Blue Friend like Wild Fire, Speed Racer or Prince Rutherford, Quick to Judge, which one would you pick? Sure, you could play Weather Mare, but I’m gonna guess your chances of hitting hard are higher with something like Wild Fire or Prince Rutherford. I wish this card had something like a Chaotic ability that would make it a worthy flip during a Faceoff. There are several low-cost, 1 power Friends from Absolute Discord that have Chaotic abilities that would make me consider using them in a deck (look at Rarity, Sudden Inspiration). Unless you have really weird cards that could do really weird things to your opponent, I would advise against using this card.

Now here are some cards that might bake a good (but weird) muffin concoction with this card:

*Pinkie Pie, Pokey Pony. Continuing on with the Random theme, this specific Pinkie Mane can not only activate Random, but can retire Weather Mare’s low power to dismiss an opposing Friend. I remember when I first started playing the game that this Mane was pretty popular - I HATED going up against Random because it was so good. And from what I can gather rule-wise, Pinkie’s effect can also be activated if Weather Mare is frightened!

*Sea Poppy, Guessing Game. I never thought I’d actually be recommending this crazy card: Let’s say you’re moving Weather Mare and don’t have any of the frightening precautions in play. If you guess what the random choice will be correctly (that is, guess whether Weather Mare will be frightened or bulked up), then Sea Poppy can get you an extra point. There aren’t many widely-circulated cards that provide the option of a random choice like this (because, you know, random choice and all), so Sea Poppy has been shoved to the side. Will she make a reemergence with the help of Weather Mare? Probably not, but a girl can dream!

*Changeling Drone, Fear Eater. If you want to use Weather Mare’s ability to frighten herself to your advantage, Changeling Drone can do something funky with that. Drone has +2 for each frightened Friend in play - it isn’t limited to your opponent’s frightened Friends. Oddly enough, Weather Mare can actually mesh well with other frightening cards! Who knew?

Thanks for reading this special edition of Card Shark! Go eat a muffin! Gonna cover Equestrian Odysseys this Tuesday! Diamond out!

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SHE’S LIKE RARITY, TRULY OUTRAGEOUS BUT BETTER

She doesn't have color pre-reqs so you can play her in any deck and you can play her without having to worry about entry.

The effect is “as this card enters play” not “when this card is played” so you can use a blinking technique such as Luna, Good Night’s Rest to dynamically shapeshift her to adapt to the situation.

Also, the card she mimics doesn’t have to be in play, it just has to exist. She’s an RTO, a Carbo Loader, a Winged Wonder, a Redheart... as you need her to be. You could player her as an Ursa Vanquisher, bounce your oppenents friends, and then recast her as something completely different. If you wanted to protect her you could play her as Mare in the Moon and then once it’s safe you could shift her as soon as she blinks back in.

“You can only choose Friends in play, much like all the cards that say 'choose a Problem' are asking for a Problem in play. In case there was any similar confusion, 'Choose an opponent' also needs you to choose one of YOUR opponents, in the current game - not merely someone's opponent, somewhere.”

OK thank god I was literally about to type that she was going to be easily running $70 - $100 a card. Anyways that’s still a crazy good card damn I got so fucking excited lmao. In agreement with mushroommethod I hope we get some more dismissals that target 3 power friends though.

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Enterplay officially announced the MLP CCG Absolute Discord expansion pre-release event for April 24-26. During this event you can get a special Rainbow Crash foil card and get a chance to win a Lord Tirek foil as well. More info on our blog: http://www.mlpmerch.com/2015/03/ccg-absolute-discord-pre-release-event.html

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MLP CCG how to play primer carries potential spoilers!

Oh boy. We got some new stuff dropping already. More after the break!

First off, We had 3-4 tins/ boxes released with a combo of Premiere, Canterlot Nights, and Crystal Games boosters, with an added promo!

and as the title says, we have a how to play primer that enterplay released that contains 3 vanilla cards.

Twilight Sparkle

Rainbow Dash

And the problem Preparing Potions

Its unconfirmed if these will be actual cards or not, keep checking back as this further develops!

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