This is a spoiler I’ve been really looking forward to posting !

Patriot Games

Asset / Action
Control Check 5
+2 Mid Block
Death / Evil / Order / Water

Asset Difficulty 4
Terrain
After this card is added to your staging area, first you then your opponent name one non-character card. No copies of the named cards may be readied.

Split Action Difficulty 3
R: After a card in your staging area is destroyed by your opponents card effect, take one foundation in your discard pile and add it to your staging area committed.

They’re printed! Both Ross and myself will be collecting them from the heavenly hands of James Hata himself, next Thursday at GenCon Indy.

Thanks to Baz, Ross, Justin, Jim Freeman and Steve Graham.

finally it arrives! been working on decks to abuse this beast for months shame i wont be able to make it to team nationals this year to defend my title but here's hoping we can get ..patriot games.. this year.

one request to james hata, I haven't seen the artwork yet and would really like all the world to see me dressed as j.talbain, so if there's any chance you can post a picture of the card it would be greatly appreciated.

One question I have to ask, is it legal for Nats?

it will be legal for uk nats, a fact i intend to exploit to the fullest with a truly random deck. its not going to be legal for worlds though.

Hewittzil said:

being second at those nats i can truely say that is a well earned prize!
and my heck, cant be readied!? what!? Ever!? dont give that to victor PLEASE!

action sides a nice bonus too! first prize asset with a split!

Theo said:

patriot games + reanimated = lol

Wow, guess I'm gonna either have to

A: Get my hands on some of them

or

B: Find a fricken way to deal with it... Asset hate...

At last! I know you guys have been waiting for this for an age, so I'm glad it's finally printed.

Kev

thats one nice asset i look fowerd to playing it.

and bring on the reanimated (thinks of super secret tec t deal with it)

I don't think reanimated will do anything with it. Although it is quite the impressive asset. I really like the action side more though since there is so few counters to foundation destruction in mini-block.

tannerface said:

The man brings up a good point, is it 4-point or 5-point watermark?

I can confirm it is definitely 5 point watermarked

I just noticed all the posts about needing asset-hate now, you may wish to re-read the action side of the card where we added in-built anti-asset hate

Speedsta said:

I noticed

I also noticed that you made biliard player even more awesome with it!!

tannerface said:

yeah it will because whatever your opponent calls when they get the chance to, you can just add back to your hand and drop it again ready

Da_ghetto_gamer said:

Also reanimated adds a card from hand to staging area therefore he picks up the asset puts it back down and theres another set of cards down. but all you need to do is be clever and tap reanimated down since the asset says any non character card

wait no you will have to figure a way of tapping it down first . my bad i thought it said tap as well nvmd. all though that would be wrong i take it if victor did do that the named card targeted would be able to ready if a new card is targeted. also plus if you use billard it wouldnt work that well unless you get a different card out. last thing if victor use reanimated on the named card then that would be the only way he can ready it really i think that sounds about right so at least it wont be to broken (all though reanimated is thank heaven only victor can use it.)

but if the card leaves play (so removed from staging area) wouldn't the floating stop or is it a perminant lockdown (so if you somehow loop it you can stop every non character card in play from ever readying)?

kiit said:

By using reanimated for example?

From the way the card's worded above, there's no expiry on the lockdown. So they don't ready, ever. Including in the ready phase as normal.

This could be truly hideous. Or it could be we're interpreting it wrong, or Matt's not posted quite the right text (never trust a lawyer to get things right ). I guess we'll all see for certain sometime next week.

when patriot games leaves play, the game forgets which cards were chosen when it came into play so they are free to be readied as normal. re-animated just lets you ready your cards in a fashion through its effect. if you bounce patriot itself with re-animated it forgets its targets and you both select new targets when it enters play. thats the way we designed it to work and the way it will be ruled to work, if it prevented readying forever it would be busted beyond belief.

So in effect it has "while this card is in play", just not printed on the card?

I refer you to my comment about interprting it it wrongly

I was wondering if I might be able to get a couple sets off of you guys if possible, I can send you some copies of my character card when that gets printed if you want to do a trade just send me an email:

[email protected]

I'm always happy to share the love between the Champion promos, especially since not many find their way to the UK. I'll let the other members of team Patriot know about your post and see what they think, and let you know.

Since I don't normally post on the USA boards, I'm not sure who you are from your username (I'm Ross, by the way - the guy in the coat on the Patriot asset)

What name will appear on your character card?

Speedsta said:

That would be Kirk Polka, 2009 Canadian Nats Champ