
Brolof |

A little build up to this idea. I was looking through the harrow based archetypes when I came across the Cartomancer. Being able to cast ranged touch spells is cool, as well as having a cool new ranged option, but it got me thinking. Could you possibly take one of these two abilities and make something truly glorious out of them?
My thoughts naturally went straight to Mystic Theurge. Since Witch has the same casting as wizard, it wouldn't be too much trouble to get it online. Alongside that, the ability to cast spells through the cards never specifies that it has to be a witch spell. Mixing this with a bad touch cleric, and it seems like it'd work out amazing.
The other way my thoughts went was Eldritch Knight. A level of fighter to help make the cards effective, heading into it to get more feats, a higher bab, and increase your spellcasting. Wind up turning into a weird hyrbid thrown weapon character and spellcaster. If not Eldritch Knight, maybe Evangalist to keep the hex progression.
My main question is this. Does any of this seem worth it? Is going into another class worth giving up the hex progression? I figured since you're probably going to be spending most of your standards chucking cards everywhere, you probably wouldn't need it too much. But I'm not great at the mechanics side, so I'm asking those who probably know better.

Zwordsman |
Are you planning to throw cards as actual weapons? (Deadly Dealer) or just cast spells and throw them?
THey're all touch AC if the spells only so I don't know if you truly need EK.
Honestly, I've always wanted to build a cartomancer who went into Arcane Trickster myself.
I can say that hex are very useful utility. the cure one is a free heal for everyone once a day. Evil Eye screwing with rolls is pretty amazing as well.
Ultimately it depends what exactly it is that you yourself want to do.
Are you wanting to do debuffs? witchs do that pretty well with their spell choice, and hexes.
You explicitly want to do cleric touch at range? not a terrible dip for mystic theurge.
EK and AT.. I'm not sure either would be functionally teribly better than striaght forward. I can't say I have had enough exp with them to know. I do think EK wouldn't give that much considering it wil mostly just be Bab and HP. The HP could be neat, but if you're mostly doing Touch AC...
(unless you intend to actually throw the cards via deadly dealer. In which case its a fairly good choice!
VMC magus might also be decent).
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As a random sidenote I want to mention my favorite (well one of my favorites). Occcultist's Talisman Master. It also has similar effects. If you wanted something similiar but not the same.
(no deadly dealer though. Sadly its arcane strike instead of magick strike..)