Hey fellow UFS'ers.

Just wanted to highlight yet another card that I think is underrated ( Nobody would chuck any cards at me goddammit). Hence following the new Billy's them i'll cover the oft overlooked at a distance.

* And again my computer refuses to give me an image. *

Bugger.- SOOOOOOO English.

Anyhow At a disatnce.

2 diff 3cc Action. Air chaos water +1 high block

First F:Until the begining of your next turn, foundations get +2 diff unless said palyer has an attack in there card pool. Failing a check to play a foundation won't end said palyers combat phase. Not playable during your first turn.

You'd have to blind or mentally unstable * ahem* not to notice taht this card caught the attention of MR H's nerfhammer.

First F

Not playable during your first turn.

It's evident taht Hata caught on to how mind numbingly cripplingly this card is with the recent rise of chaos.

On the other hand. Hehe it's Air's best tool

Since Februaury Control haxxing has been on the rise in the UFS metagame USA and UK both. Akuma, BRT and Forethought most noticeably.

Hacking more often than not provides your opponent with card advantage. At the tip of a hat. Akuma only needs 4+, BRT needs to be turned 90` and Anti k' requires 2 cards at a 4 control check.

The problem with hacking as my old- friend Icky said is: " The counter cards to hacking need to be played. Hacking prevents play."

So Destiny and Ayame's could well be redundant, But not At a distance ( pun intended)

Imagine the following scenario:

your opponent is playing as :::Akuma::: and you are playing any Air/Aggro build charcter. Let's say Billy just for theme's sake.

It is your turn 2 and the opponent went first.

Your staging areas consists of the follwing cards:

(Akuma) 3BRt's and other Evil foundations.

(Billy) 3 clean freak, 3 of any of billy's foundations.

You Attempt to play at a distance... Akuma attempts to hack your check.

Two things could happen.

You elect to fail:

Akuma wins out seeing as he used his ability and gained a card advantage.

BRT gives you both a clean slate.

You elect to tap to pass:

Opponent loses adavnatge.

you become immune to end turn haxx like Anti k' until your next turn.

Yup. Due to At a distance's wording. you cannot end your turn by failing a CC for a foundation. you can just paly out.

I'll add part 2 of my musings tommorrow since i'm tired and need a word with my club manager.

Thanks for reading.

Hanzo

this is going in my sophita lockdown once i get a playset.

this card upsets me. Because it takes 4-dot Cammy's ability and prints it on a card, and she can't even use it with her ability to make it more brutal.

I'm trying to figure out how to use mine at the moment. I have 3. Kicking around ideas, but it's a complex card. Not one you just play and lulz ensue.

I had a thought. AaD in a Chaos Former Champion-based Punch deck. Perhaps with Balrog. At a Distance prevents your opponent from simply spilling defensive foundations/board control and weathering your punches (which mostly hover around 4 damage, or reguire Balrog's +check E to pass) until they get into a win condition. Or at least, it makes it harder for them.

With AaD, you spend your turn playing Punches, forming with Billiard Player to get Former Champion, then forming with Former Champion to scoop all your punches back. They spend their turn committing foundations to play foundations, or playing effectively fruitless attacks (before they wanted to play them, anyway... hopefully).

It's nice to see I'm not the only one who noticed how stupidly good this card can be.

well since no one mentioned it.

***Seong-Mina***

Wafflecopter said:

Mate can we talk some more about that.

That could be the PERFECT strategy for myBalrog deck i plan on taking to regionals.

WOOOHOOOOOO

Anyways there is now part 2.

I've decided to cancel the series as my skills as a writer appear to always epiclly fail.

But I will enclose random musings from time to time heh.

Thanks for the discusiion fellow UFS'er's

See you in the arena

trane said:

Ummm not a wise idea, Trane if they fail the check for a foundation the combat pahse does not end. Sorry.

"well since no one mentioned it.

***Seong-Mina***"- Quote quarzark.

Awww........................... ****. this could get heavy.

yeah, the thought is to play At a Distance, add it back to her hand play Ira Spinta, mess with them, then spam foundations and at the end of turn add Ira Spinta back to hand with Tenacious. Rinse repeat.

quarzark said:

You found me out...

iSpin loops <3

Aren't lockdown decks fun? <3

it gets even better with Lord of the Makai and British Subject added

and don't even get me started about what happens when Clean Freak hits the board too...

quarzark said:

it gets even better with Lord of the Makai and British Subject added

I play Makai to ensure I don't lose anything via Spinta. It's a one-sided game.

And nah, they aren't fun to play. Rather actually boring when your opponent scoops everytime on turn 3...

Shaneth said:

quarzark said:

it gets even better with Lord of the Makai and British Subject added

I play Makai to ensure I don't lose anything via Spinta. It's a one-sided game.

And nah, they aren't fun to play. Rather actually boring when your opponent scoops everytime on turn 3...

British Subject is there to add the card they just added to your momentum back into play if it's necessary, like if you only have 1 Tenacious on the board.

and some lockdown decks are fun. Fortune and Glory Gill was probably my best deck ever, and is still widely hated in my meta by name alone. (see 4x ***, 3x Z Castle, 53 pieces of control)

Shaneth said:

But I played *Donovan* religiously because he so accurately portrays my playstyle, so my method of measuring may be a bit skewed =/