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So, I just got home with my new Wrath set, and man is it awesome!!
One thing is stumping me though,
He's the 50 Then 50 villain that instantly kills you if you fail one of the checks. I've read every card in the Base Set, read the rulebook, everything, he isn't mentioned anywhere that I can. He is a B card, so he should be involved in B set cards, shouldn't he? I haven't opened Deck 1, but as a B card I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to only be involved with cards outside of B. He definitely isn't involved in the Character Add On Deck, I've checked.
So, the question is - what the heck is the purpose of this card? Unless I missed something, he's mentioned on no scenario, boon, bands, adventure / AP, support, character, absolutely nothing.
Keep in mind that anything that is used in multiple APs has to be in the the initial box. If you don't use a card until AP5 and AP6, you still need him in the first set. So he might not be used in anything we have at the moment.
Foreshadowing. From the RPG:
If they wanted you to use Korramzadeh early on then they'd probably make the first Scenario the fight described in the box text, perhaps ending with the PCs sacrificing Terendelev to temporarily defeat Korramzadeh. Otherwise, the story starts after that fight.
In any case, knowing that card is there is something that'll worry some players: when will we need to use that card? How can we possibly defeat it?
It's also one less card they have to print in Deck 6.
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I definitely don't think that's the reason. Foreshadowing is a bad reason to print a card in a product it isn't going to be used in, even worse if it is only actually used in one future adventure. I'd be extremely disappointed with Paizo if "one less card to print later" had anything to do with it, I can almost guarantee that's not it.
Your comment about how he could have been used in the first scenario is actually a really cool idea, I'd love to see them do something like that in a future set.
As much as I don't like having cards I can't use yet, the Afghanistan Rule actually makes a lot of sense here and I support it enough that I'm fine holding onto an unusable card for a while if it's for that.
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Dude, open deck 1.
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Clearly, needed him in B instead of 1 to make room for some awesome boon too powerful for B.
Personally, I think it's a bit hilarious to be able to point him out as being in B. Somehow, 1 just wouldn't be as funny.
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You know, that second sentence alone is actually almost a perfectly valid answer, I freaked when I first saw him in the blog a while back as a B! I'm scared to open deck 1 before I get that far to see what uses him. I'm guessing he's like Black Magga was, and you don't actually fight him, but I'd love to be wrong. He's scarier than the final win-or-die scenarios of Runelords and Shackles OP
Shrug, I assume Korramzadeh was basically the Mythic level power Villain/Henchman in the set. Like the Sandpoint Devil in RotR and Hirgenzosk in S&S.
Since they have been following the RPG pretty closely for RotR and S&S, I assume that will continue (but it may not).
In the RPG you fight him in AP6, but he is not the big bad for the adventure path, so yes, there will be someone even worse :-).
Dude, open deck 1.
This +1!
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As a general rule, we try to put things used in multiple adventures in B, since we're always struggling to stuff everything we want in each adventure box. There are more cards in B, so we have room for spillover there.
Also, Keith is not wrong. Funny beats non-funny every day at Lone Shark.
Andrew, check out Tuesday's blog post, especially the scenario card at the top.