August Lindquist

Great anti khopesh card. 

Simply WOW!

Can't be stolen by Stygian Eye either, amongst other Relic shenanigans.

Finally a reason to use Infernal Obession over Stygian Eye ;-)

TBH; I'm not sure how useful his ability will be, though. Your opponent just won't target him with any wounding effects, and desctruction/sacrifice/remove from play also seem more dominant currently (unless the Agency box will reverse that trend). So, the only potential benefit I see is from losing combat struggles...

True, I don't see it as an anti-card for targeted wounding (like khopesh). But the chance of losing combat struggles is big, right? This is an awesome defender. Sure, commit with lots of terror and combat. I'll make sure to commit with this guy, lose combat and wound something from you.

The opponent has the choice to commit with enough and wound him, or commit with not enough and be wounded as well...

For me, this is a new auto-include. The 3 cost slot for ST decks is going to be a problem.

The fact he is immune to khopesh basically is good. Also, yes your opponent has to be afraid where commit characters because he can redirect if lose combat struggle. 

Use "Small price to pay" to turn one enemy insane and wound the other! 

That doesn't work though. Same as with Charles Dexter Ward. See the discussion here, with the ruling at the bottom: http://www.cardgamed...-–-basic-i-r777

Nevermind, it's different as small price to pay has the wounding go second. Should work.

then force a stone calendar into the deck to remove fate tokens for infinite happyness

 

Danigral - 5 out of 5. Yet another awesome 3-drop for ST. Not much else to say. A great all-time quarterback for ST While the rest of the Lodge members are doing their thing getting cards back or bounding in and out, he’s just chillin’ out in his wing-back chair with his disdainful look saying “Go ahead. Make my day.”

 

mnBroncos - 5 out of 5. It is amazing how good this guy is for only 3 cost. Will see play in every Silver Twilight deck.

 

Obtuse - 5 out 5. If you like Silver Twilight you just got a whopper of a character. If you love A Small Price to Pay, you just got a new card to pull off a devastating combo with. Mr. Elegant and Elusive here is bullyproof at stories and is just plain mean. A card your opponent will likely need to find an answer for when he hits the board.

 

livingend - 5 out of 5. May God have mercy on your soul, if you don’t have removal in your hand when Lindquist hits the board. Playing around this fancy bloke is almost impossible, meaning you’d basically have to tie every combat struggle he decides to show up for. Verdict: For a character to still find room in Silver Twilight’s superbly supplied three cost slot speaks for itself.

 

WWDrakey & Ire - 5 out of 5. And here we thought design was trying to make Terror more of a thing by avoiding giving Willpower to new high-impact characters. Enter August Lindquist, the man we’ll see ST running 2-3x alongside BRB for the foreseeable future. This guy… is just bonkers, all-out, undeniable goodness in an elegant and elusive package. Big silly sword, beware!

"then force a stone calendar into the deck to remove fate tokens for infinite happyness"

 Stone Calender has now be Erattaed to only remove Story Success Tokens.

There is a rules thread that talks about this, but the summary is that you can target him, and trigger his ability, but if you redirect the wound to an opponent's character then you haven't paid the additional cost of committing, and thus don't get to go to the stories.

This guy seems overpowered to me. He's not loyal or steadfast so every serious deck is going to include a few ST characters now. Compare with Core Set  Military Advisor who costs 4, has fewer icons, takes the wound (Toughness +2 vs August's Fated 3) and has to pay 2 to wound.

An ST splash is attractive due to powerhouse cards like this, but many deck archetypes just don't have room for it. At the last official Australian nationals this card was barely played and I expect a majority of the decks there qualified as serious.

The other problem is you could probably make the same claim about San Marco Basilica, Y'Golonac, Faceless Abductor, Dutch Courage, and so on.  Can't splash them all.  I don't have any tournament experience - I've only watched some of the Championship matches on YouTube - but personally I'd seek to do as little splashing as possible.  I think a deck with a unified engine beats a toolbox deck 9 out of 10.  That said, if my deck engine featured a lot of self-wounding (Pervasive Toxemia, Baka, etc.), I just might see if I could sneak 12-15 ST cards in there because August Lindquist and B. Ramsdale Brown would be a great fit with what I'm already trying to do.

This card is strong enough. I think add it to your deck is worth if you want to play positional warfare. His value will be maximized when committed alone. And... the combo combined with Pervasive Toxemia or Baka is too dirty...

Fair point, Yes. And Tom Caopr's Y-Train 3.0 winning deck https://www.fantasyf...all-of-cthulhu/ didn't have ST characters. I still don't like this guy though. Thematically inexplicable and devastating against wounders. .