WEAPON MASTER

Ok, on the surface, this seems like a pretty ‘meh’ item-user deck but as you dig deeper, you find surprising depth and diversity in this deck. This is a good deck for beginners as it deals with spears, swords and bows and arrows, the likes of which most people are familiar with. The standard item-user tropes hold here. You cant do squat without items and cards like ‘Arsenal’ and ‘Knight of Swords’ help you get them. The melee and projectile items are serviceable but a bit weak on their own. They get very interesting (and more powerful) when you combine them with the proper skill cards. The more skill cards you have, the more proficient (and deadly) you become with weapons that use that skill. Once you have that, you can have a lot of fun causing damage and doing all kinds of effects to your foes (knockback, wound, bloodloss and incapacitate just to name a few). A drawback to this deck is it needs time to build up weapons and the corresponding skills. There are a few cards that speed this process up but deckbuilding would definitely help by allowing you to exclude certain weapons or whole weapon categories to really focus on others. The defensive items are pretty solid as they are without a great need for skill cards, though, they are there. There are two special abilities to choose from, both are really nice and boost your attacks in some way and allow for counter-attacks. I must say, there is a lot to like here. If not for the lag time to build and the over-dependence on items this deck would be GREAT. But as it stands, I gotta give it a rating of GOOD.