Cardiology: Quick Thinker

Decision - Should You Play Quick Thinker?

We here at Call it Shadespire! were not initially planning on putting out a post today, because of the upcoming holidays. However, rather than leaving everyone without our rapier wit and precise analysis, we've decided instead to go ahead and make today's post extra-special. Therefore, today we'll be looking at a blast from the past - Quick Thinker - and deciding whether or not you should play it.

TL; DR:

Of course not, walnut; it's banned.

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Cardiology: Double Feature! Branching Fate/One Fate

Decision: Should You Play Branching Fate/One Fate? TL;DR: Do you stride far? Then you should probably be playing Branching Fate. Other warbands with high dice counts should consider playing Branching as well. If you can manage to regularly roll 3 magic dice on spell attacks, One Fate is quite good. Otherwise, pass on it.
Prelude:Double Feature! This week we're taking a look at two different cards for Cardiology; rest assured this departure from standard operating procedure is for good reason. Namely, the math required to analyze One Fate is very similar to the math required to analyze Branching Fate. We couldn't see a reason to stretch the same work into two articles, so this week you're getting a two-for-one special.
Factor: Warband In order to score either of the Fate objectives, you've got to be rolling three or more dice on attack or defense. Rolling three dice on attack is pretty common (defense - less so), but some warbands definitely come naturally better eq…

Special: Las Vegas Open Recap

SPECIAL: LVO RECAP
So the Call It Shadespire playgroup headed out to play in the Las Vegas Open last weekend, and this article will focus on our experience there!

Factor: The People I want to start out by saying that the people playing Shadespire at the convention were - universally - awesome. Everyone there seemed out to have a good time, and all of my matches were fantastic, no exaggeration. I'd like to give a special shout out to the Canadians there - especially Sam, Justin, and Kaptain Murder - who were all friendly to the Albuquerque crew, even putting up with our appropriation of Canadian culture in our team names (on Friday we were LETTERKENNY, on Sunday we were DIRTY DANGLES).

My opponents were all super cool, and I honestly had a blast every single game. It's been a long time since I played a tournament and didn't have a single game that felt bad.
Factor: Las Vegas
For real, hanging out in Las Vegas involves a lot of walking - and this is coming from a nurse. …

Cardiology: Hunting Aspect

Decision: Should You Play Hunting Aspect? TL;DR: It really sucks to say this, but probably not.
Factor: The Numbers At first glance, this card is incredible. Numerically, it's out of this world; no other card gives four characteristic points. Essentially, Hunting Aspect combines Great Fortitude, Great Strides, and Enchanted Collar into a single card. Let's take a closer look at what those stat points actually do for us.

To start, Hunting Aspect hits us with +2 move. Lighaen - the only legal target for Aspect - starts with 5 move, so Aspect will bump him to a truly impressive seven move. This allows you to move Lighaen from almost anywhere on the board to almost anywhere else. This point is probably better made with a visual representation. Let's say your beginning setup looks something like this - with your hunters represented by the blue circles and Lighaen positioned in the back.

This kind of setup would allow us to play very aggressively with the hunters, all…

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