Ritual of Power

I do not think this card's full power has been realized yet. The domain refresh is not particularly useful for playing out characters, as they can only be played out during the friendly turn - but it can be used for abilities and events. As such, a deck that is built around abilities and events - e.g., an event recursion deck - would get kicked into high gear by this card. Yes, the other player benefits as well, but given that most decks are character-based, the other player would not get the same level of benefit.

i guess it would benefit the most decks with triggerable abilities you have to pay for. Maybe MU with their
The Necronomicon (SoA) that is really expensive to use, or sindicate with
Clover Club Torch Singer (Core) and Eldritch Nexus (Core).
Lodge Barkeep (TOotST) is also not bad. Maybe it would work, especially with
Mr. David Pan (CotJE), Parallel Universe (TTftS) and bouncing opponents hi skill.Hmm when to test all those ideas?

I was watching one of the last batch of videos that Tom Capor posted to YouTube and noticed his opponent was playing with this card. I don't think Tom was refreshing his domains at the start of his opponents turn.

So, was Tom playing this wrong, or is this card more powerful than I at first thought?

As far as I know Tom was just missing it, the Ritual should affect all players. 

 

Watching online videos of other people playing is good for both learning new and interesting things that you can do with cards, as well as driving home the realization that there are so many things going on at the same time in an LCG that everybody makes mistakes from time to time.

It affects all players, but the general idea is that YOUR deck knows the card is in there so it's chock-full of repeatable "pay 1" effects to leverage the extra domains.  Your opponent's deck is not, so they will usually get much more limited mileage out of the unexpected extra domains.

 

Tom probably just forgot.  It's also possible that he didn't have any effects to use so it didn't matter, but you should at least PRETEND you might have a nasty Event in hand

 

I also used this card in a version of my Gencon 2014 deck, I feel like it's been overlooked for a long time and just now people are starting to look at it more.

Thanks for the answers guys.  I agree with you dboeren.  I think this card has a lot of potential value for certain decks built to take advantage of it.

 

I'm going to try and craft a deck with this, Carl Stanford and a bunch of cool spells.  It sounds like a lot of fun pulling Pushed into the Beyond or Unspeakable Resurrection out of the discard each turn.

 

I really like the videos that Tom has put out there for a couple of reasons.  First, he posts several games with the same deck, giving you the opportunity to see the different cards played in different situations against different types of decks which I find very useful for understanding how cards you think you know, can be used in ways that you haven't thought of.  Second, he is posting videos of decks that have interesting constraints put on them through the "Build Tom's Deck" threads (ST No Hand, 1 card from each of the 50 Cthulhu products, etc) meaning that he is using a lot of the overlooked/less popular cards.

This is my take on that tdnordine - http://www.cardgamed...k_54dbedad17b5a Untested, but the root of what I want to try for SC season.

I concur that the card is interesting, and begging to be abused in some way.

NuFenix, I would consider adding Blood Magician to have a Pay-1 effect which can be repeated.  Might as well use all your domains.  Not a lot of repeatable pay-1's in these factions but he's a pretty good one.

Sadly I don't own him

Daughter of Atlach-Nacha is a good choice. Repeatable effect that's ordinarily cost prohibitive. With the Ritual of Power feeding her however, you get a sublimely powerful effect that will probably win you the game.