Nug

FAQ 3.3

 

Nug’s ability should read “Forced Response: After you play Nug from your hand, attach 1 card from the top of your deck to each of your domains as a resource.”

Since I kinda always *have* to put Nug into anything Shubby I throw together, I have to keep thinking about him and about possibilities to cheat him out on turn 1.

The easiest (all?) ways I've found (I'm not sure, there might be some more especially outside of Mono-Shub)

Priestess of Bubastis into Arthur Todd into Nug

or

Ambush into Arthur Todd into Nug

Fiddling around with it, I wasn't sure about another combo, if it's allowed (or not for some reason): Priestess of Bubastis*2 into Ambush into Nug? Can I chain the cost reduction of the Priestess to lower the cost of my Nug in Hand to three and then play Nug from Hand via Ambush? Sure, he's getting sacrificed thereafter, but it would be worth it for the resource acceleration alone, I guess (and you could even do it in your opponents story phase for a tiny surprise defender).

Any reason why this wouldn't work?

(This reduction chaining would allow for the *slightly* clunky combo of Ambush into Priestess of Bubastis, play 2 Priestesses, exhaust the three of them, last domain open for Nug at 2. This way you wouldn't have to throw him in the bin at the end of the phase, but the chances of having all three is hardly higher than just having Arthur Todd.)

I know that Ambush doesn't let you "put in to play" a character - Nug wouldn't even work with it then. Thing is, Ambush explicitly allows you to *play* a character (outside your Operation phase if needed, sure, of course you'd normally want to use the card this way, but that's besides the point of my question) and if Priestess of Bubastis and One of the Thousand lower the cost of the next character you *play* - where's the catch?

Does the cost reduction "lose track" or something, when you play the event in between using the Priestess/One and playing Nug?

You have to activate your Priestess(es) before playing Ambush, and you have to do it all in one phase, but Ambush can only play a character of cost 3 or less - so you can't use it to play Nug.  You can use it to play Arthur Todd, and then use his ability to play Nug, but only if all of this happens in the Operations phase, because if it doesn't then you can't "play" Nug.

Even though you're playing Nug for X amount less, his cost is still 5 at the point that Ambush checks for eligibility.  He hasn't been played yet, so the discount doesn't apply yet.

Since I kinda always *have* to put Nug into anything Shubby I throw together, I have to keep thinking about him and about possibilities to cheat him out on turn 1.
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Ambush into Arthur Todd into Nug

I know that Ambush doesn't let you "put in to play" a character - Nug wouldn't even work with it then. Thing is, Ambush explicitly allows you to *play* a character (outside your Operation phase if needed, sure, of course you'd normally want to use the card this way, but that's besides the point of my question)...

Nug is notable for Destroying all Day Cards without itself being a Night Card.

Is there a non-Day Card that Destroys all Night Cards?

Nope, none like Nug and Yeb.

The Gold Pocket Watch would be the closest thing, I guess, but it gains Day at least temporary upon activation.

"Well, it doesn't really destroy all day cards, since most of them are immune to non-Night cards..."

I'd missed that. And the "On playing Nug Errata". So Nug is not the permanent Day Card basher I thought.

Old thread but my reading of it is:

Day cards can only be targeted by night cards.  Nug does not target any specific card.  Its a shotgun blast at all Day cards.  Otherwise, its effect makes no sense.