Card Preview: July 19th

By Mike Rosenberg

Rise among the ranks, above your enemy’s heads, and rain down justice from the skies onto all opposing champions that stand in your way.

Angelic Ascension lets you transform any troop into an Angel, like the one below.

No matter how lowly, or mighty, that troop is, it will transform into an angelic being, with the capabilities of flying over opposing troops to take large chunks of life out of opposing champions.

As a quick action, Angelic Ascension can save your troops from certain doom, or make a lowly warrior turn into a mighty angel when an opponent sends one too many unsuspecting troops your way. And, in a pinch, Angelic Ascension can also transform an opponent’s troop into an angel, should they play something that is too hard to handle otherwise. Angels may be tough to fight, but sometimes, helping your opponent’s troops rise to the skies will save you from certain demise.

Sphinxes are masters of riddles, challenges, and great calamity if you cannot find solutions to their guessing games.

The Alabaster Sphinx leaves the opponent playing a guessing game at the start of each of your turns. You get to choose an troop in secret, and then it’s up to your opponent to figure out which one you chose. If they’re right, then that troop is put into play under their control. However, if they’re wrong, then you get to return that troop to play for free.

It’s a game of psychological warfare between you and your opponent, administered by the mighty sphinx. Which troop did you pick? Are you picking that troop to spite your opponent, believing that they will never guess which one you actually chose? Will your opponent assume you plan to do this, or will they simply pick the strongest troop that you could potentially bring back? Maybe your opponent assumes that you’ll pick a weaker troop, expecting that the choice of the most powerful troop in your graveyard is too obvious of a pick, or maybe…

…my head hurts already. The sphinx’s riddles, and the guessing games it induces, aren’t always easy on one’s mind.

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