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Beings of Ib
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Darksbane
, Sep 07 2010 04:39 PM | Last updated Sep 24 2010 02:00 PM
Beings of IbType: Character Faction: Cthulhu Cost: 0 Skill: 0 Icons: Game Text: Phantom. Servitor. Lower the cost to play Bokrug by 1 (to a minimum of 1). If you control a single Ancient One character, count its skill and icons at any story to which Beings of Ib is committed. Set: TH Number: 7 Illustrator: Brad Rigney |
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10 Comments
Curious.. If you have the ancient one and a Beings of Ib commited to the same story, would the icons and skill be counted twice?
Sure!
The card also has my favourite cost, and its not like Cthulu lacks ancient ones. I like the look of this card.
It will still be free if you play it before Iod.
You can't argue with 0 cost, but this guy doesn't actually do anything on his own, making this pretty heavily a build-around card. Bokrug isn't that exciting of a card, so we should look at other Ancient Ones. (Reducing his cost to 5 or less is good, but it seems like a pretty shaky all-in strategy.) There are only a few I'd strongly consider: Iod, Nyarlathotep, and Y'Golonac, with honorable mention to Dormant Cthulhu.
The elephant in the room remains the fact that you are required to have an Ancient One on the board for Beings to actually do anything, and that's easier said than done.
Bokrug is terrible, so forget the first half of the Beings' ability.
Yig seems like the perfect pairing to me because the main thrust of his own ability is icon-based. Not only does Yig have great icon flexibility, he can also generate extra icons on his own. Most other Ancient Ones are fine at giving Beings of Ib 4 or 5 icons, but that's nothing compared to the 10 that Yig can offer. Go big with Yig!
As a bonus, if you're running a dedicated Serpent deck, the Beings of Ib are a good candidate to be sacrificed to Disguised Threat since they didn't cost you anything to begin with.