So what does a jacked-up Tyrannomancer play like?


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I'm choosing a role for Balazar, and while at first the Eidolomancer's "use Str skill for Con/Dex" and "get d12s for Str blessings" seemed to make that role a lock, I'm now leaning toward Tyrannomancer. I'd rather play with an interesting deck dynamic than simply buff up the same old mechanics.

I'm picturing streams of monsters cycling through my deck, and hands comprised largely of orange cards, and some chortling as the master of swarms of minions. But what's the reality?


Haven't played that role, but my guess would be that you'll be able to be very reckless, given that you can amass several expendable cards as hit points that you can still use when they end up in your discard pile. A friend of mine was playing Eidolomancer, and I feel like he clogged his hand often, which is not an issue here.

Ignoring blessings, the role has the better combat and support option as well, so you're just all around better than your counterpart in what you could already do, while the other role is actually the one that makes you versatile here.

Designer

Our six-player Wrath group had a jacked-up Tyrannomancer. Eventually he had tons of monsters he could play out of his discard pile, but what he went for fairly early on was recharging for a monster (to cycle his deck) and the ability to add 1d8 to himself and others at his location fighting summoned creatures and grab a monster after summoned fights. Wrath has a lot of summoning, and our group had Balazar and Seelah as the two marshals constantly in the same location and doing the marshal mythic power pingpong strategy (use mythic power to buff up the other marshal, then they quickly use it to give you back the power before they have to discard down, repeat every turn) to handle difficult locations like the Abattoir (a horror in 6-player).


In case anyone is interested, this is the sheet I made to play Tyrannomancer Balazar. (The yellow highlights are the parts of his powers that are available prior to his role.)

TYRANNOSHEET.

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