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Elspeth Baudin



Elspeth Baudin

Elspeth Baudin


Discerning and Discriminating
Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 3 Skill: 3 Icons: (T) (T)
Game Text:
Independent.
Characters with a printed cost of 3 or lower cost 3 to play.
Flavor Text: She had wanted power, seeking to free herself from her father's house. She got that power, but now she was forced to serve a new master, one far more frightening.
Set: The Thousand Young
Number: 11
Illustrator:


6 Comments

From http://www.cardgamed...ew-part-1-r1364

 

BanalityBob - 3/5 - If your meta is is overrun with rush decks, Elspeth, Iod, and Negotium are going to be besties. She puts the brakes on a lot of deck archetypes, but other than that, her icons aren’t great. She’s a meta call, but a strong speedbump if your deck needs one.
Danigral - 3/5 - She doesn’t have great icons or any trait synergy with Shub, so I see her really in some sort of choke control deck such as Agency. Ultimately, I don’t see her having much impact on the meta since it already centers on 3-cost characters.
dboeren - 4/5 - Puts the brakes on rush decks hard and Shub can still ramp or discount to work around her themselves. She should be quite interesting but watch out because a character is easier to remove than Negotium.
Kamacausey - 4/5 - Another character that is all about the ability instead of the icons but this ability really sets this lady apart. She will put the brakes on rush in a hurry. The only thing keeping her from a 5 is her icons, or lack of them.
mnBroncos - 4/5 - Rating this lady high because of my own personal preference. I am kinda sad with how little characters of cost 3 and higher see play and this girl can really push the meta in a way to have players play a few more of those costed characters.
Reckoner - 4/5 - I think that she is going to come to define a deck archetype. If a choke/prison deck is your thing then you are going to want to brew with this lady.
Love this card! If your opponent doesn't have an answer for her then they may end up resourcing cards that they might not have otherwise resourced.

She's a sweet way to

s l o w 

t  h  i  n  g  s

d   o   w   n   !

Synergizes pretty well with Shub resource ramping.

As she lacks Arcane, I wonder if she is failing to understand that glowing book....
 
Otherwise, potentially getting her turn 1 with a Priestess, if you go first it can act as a massive speed bump and help secure that early victory.
 
I'd look at using her with characters who cheat in along with minimum 3 cost characters. So cards such as Ambushing Ghoul, Naaginn, Rich Widow, Yithian Scout, Hall of Champions, Ultima Thule.

    • Carthoris likes this
Elspeth plus Dikes of Ys. No longer will your opponent be able to play a chump first in order to save his Ancient One from entering play insane.

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