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The Three Bells
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Darksbane
, Jul 22 2012 01:16 AM | Last updated Jul 22 2012 01:16 AM
The Three BellsThe Sound of the Dark Type: Support Faction: Shub-Niggurath Cost: 1 Game Text: Artifact. Action: Pay 1 and exhaust The Three Bells to have each player choose and sacrifice a character. Then, place a success token on The Three Bells. Action: When The Three Bells has 3 or more success tokens on it, exhaust and sacrifice The Three Bells to put into play under your control 1 character from any player's discard pile. Set: TUP Number: 92 Illustrator: Marco Caradonna |
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12 Comments
But here its more like Opening the Limbo Gate (Core) so i think all need someone to sacrifice.
Uroborus (WaB) likes going to discard pile, Serpents + shub with this, i wonder is there a good deck here
with Padma Amrita (TUP) it would have potential to have relatively fast Ancient ones... but might be too slow or require too many cards to work
Obtuse's Rebirth of the Cult makes good use of the Three Bells with a bevvy of cheap cultists to play off Gustaf Johansen, especially Initiate of Dagon, who recycles so nicely with Foul Induction.
A "School Bells" deck could use 0-cost Miskatonic weenies to power the Sound of the Dark, and Untimely Burial to make sure you have some desirable powerhouse to awaken.
What I like most about this is how for the second ability, it works on either player's discard pile, so if your opponent has discarded a useful character for any reason then you can hit them back with it.
Being an artifact means you can splash it in an ST deck and grab it with Josef too
Question:
Does the Bells-player have to be able to sacrifice a character in order to trigger the first action? It's not part of the cost (since it follows the "to"-clause) and doesn't follows a "then"-clause, which would necessitate a full resolution of the preceding effect.
All I'm pretty sure about is the fact that you wouldn't put a success token on the Bells *IF* you're able to trigger the Bells without having a character of your own to be sacrificed (since it depends on the full resolution of the preceding sentence).
The controller of the Three Bells has to sacrifice a character, too. It's noted on the last page of the FAQ.
I specifically remember searching (ctrl+f) the FAQ for this - guess I haven't done so with the newest iteration. Thanks!
It's a solid card. It's a bit slow for my taste, since you really only get to reap its benefits after three turns, but it's low-cost and Shub usually has an easier time getting more characters into play than other factions.
Indeed you can. If it couldn't, it would state a restriction of "Can only be triggered if it has less then 3 success tokens" or the like.
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