Hello every Psycogs! Glad to see you for a new lesson!
Victor, your favorite teacher also makes his comeback!
Originally posted by Victor
"How are doing my favorite lasses and lads? Today's theme: Removals. A slightly technical term, maybe a bit barbaric, to designate cards that are made to manage the game board!"
Those cards are very important and often take the shape of Support cards. They must be used in most of the decks where they will play a primordial role in order to control the game.
3 of the most important cards in this category are available to all Psycogs almost from the start: :
Explosion,
Toxic Leak and
Foul Play.
Originally posted by Victor
"Who doesn't like explosing things? I for sure like it! Explosion is perfect to handle any Basic Mutant that just appeared or to help out finish one that evolved a bit too much!"
To inflict 2 damages anywhere is very useful. Its versatility allow
Explosion can also be used to destroy buildings! Making it a very important tool. If we wanted to be a bit more technical, more than a Removal,
Explosion is what we call a
Ping, it can inflicts damages to any entity.
Toxic Leak is definitely what we call a Removal, nothing resists it excepts Heroics.
Originally posted by Victor
"Be careful to not target your own Mutants or their will only be bones left!"
To play it, you'll need to sacrifice 2 cards. Ideally, one of them should be your ephemeral Starter that you get each turns as it is made to serve as a ressource. After that, sacrificing a card dead in hand that does not find any opportunity to be played is a good idea.
Finally,
Foul Play is a main asset and defines actually a lot of the way to play the game!
Originally posted by Victor
"I think its name is fitting... Gmrpf"
Foul Play is very powerful but has very strong conditions in order to be played. If your opponent starts to play a lot of Mutants, it even might be interesting to wait and play it on a target with a lot of EVO. In case your opponent is just playing with 2 Mutants on the field,
Foul Play might still be played in order to deal with a very annoying Mutant, even if no EVO is earned.
Originally posted by Victor
"Since Foul Play is in almost all Decks, you need to anticipate it: play a lot of Mutants at the right moment or play it safe!"
Into the Void is very simple in its use.
Originally posted by Victor
"You can deal with anything!"
It's a black hole. Everything disappear and nothing comes out! It's the perfect tool to handle with the worst threats as long as you are willing to sacrifice the EVO tied to the Mutant. If you were wondering which Heroic card to craft first, it might be this one!
Destroying or inflicting direct damages to Mutants is not the only way to deal with them.
Originally posted by Victor
"Yes, we shoudn't forget a way to do it that I particularly appreciate it. Cooking them! Do you know that I love BBQs?"
Incinerate is a Mythic card that has the ability to affect everything on the board. This is the perfect card to handle multiple Mutants with low HPs during the same turn.
Mystic decks can also play
Set Ablaze that allow to apply
Burn 3 on a Mutant, enough to deal 6 damages in 3 turns! It can also, like
Incinerate, trigger all abilities that use the
Burn effect.
Originally posted by Victor
"Don't we forget Cannons? I love Cannons!"
Techs are specialists of this beautifulk tool we called Cannons with
Scrap Metal Cannon that allow a very efficient removal, especially in decks that generate a lot of Parts!
Still, its
Mass Cannon, available in all decks, that is particularly versatile. This card allows to play very powerful combos. A concrete exemple is present in the last deck list we shared in our latest article
here.
Originally posted by Victor
"We can use Genshiryoku who's a Zoo by the way! It generally appears on the field with a lot of stats and can attack and then be sacrificed using Mass Cannon to do a lot of damages."
This can allow you to win a game sometimes!
As you can see, Removals are very useful and can find their way in most decks. We highly recommend that you play them!
We hope this article was useful.
See you soon Psycogs!
Team Mutants: Genesis
