145. Chancellor
Set: Dominion
$3 Action- +$2. You may immediately put your deck into your discard pile.
Analysis: http://dominionstrategy.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/guest-article-chancellor/
And here we have a card so crappy I am not sure I have ever actually bought it. Now granted, deck control and awareness is one of my biggest weaknesses as a player. My concept of deck control can basically be boiled down to
Am I greening up my deck yet? ----NO-----> CYCLE THE DECK LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
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Think about not playing +Cards I don't need....then do it anyway.
With an outlook like that, it's no surprise that I'm not impressed by a card whose main attraction is its deck control. Take that away, and it's literally a Silver with the added bonus of costing an action. The folks over at DS seem to have the same general opinion of it, so at least I am not completely off my nut on this one. Even the article has a tone of "it doesn't suck THAT much guys D:" and those articles always focus more on a card's strengths and potential than anything. The blame thing doesn't even work with KC or Thrones. Not that worthless in the early game or on a midgame lucky turn where you hit $5-7 early and still somehow have a spare action, but beyond that it is highly situational, and not even the fun "you can build a derpy gimmick deck around it with some boards" kinda situational.
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~Tommeri Uranius Bombaldi the Fourth, esq.
(aka not Krakenprophet)