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The Thing in the Yellow Mask



The Thing in the Yellow Mask

The Thing in the Yellow Mask


The High Priest not to be Named
Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 4 Skill: 4 Icons: (T) (T) (A)
Game Text:
Avatar.
Villainous. Resilient.
Each character committed to the same story as The Thing in the Yellow Mask loses
Willpower and a (T) icon, if able.
Set: The Thousand Young
Number: 42
Illustrator:


3 Comments

Does "Each character committed to the same story as The Thing in the Yellow Mask loses Willpower and a (T) icon, if able." mean that only characters with both Willpower AND (T) are effected?

The "if able"-section in the FAQ doesn't indicate the necessity of a complete resolve of the preceding clause if I'm not mistaken.

 

That aside: There are literally *no* characters that come naturally (i.e. without any additional effects) with Terror *and* Willpower on the single card.

From http://www.cardgamed...ew-part-3-r1375
 

BanalityBob - 3/5 - After the Hastur box comes out, this will probably get a lot better, and as one of the better ways of removing Willpower and terror icons, this is already a step in the right direction for Hastur cards. It still suffers from high cost and Hastur’s lack of combat and investigation icons, but it has potential to be a strong finisher for insanity heavy yellow decks.
Danigral - 3/5 - A solid character for Hastur I guess, even though Hastur doesn’t have a great character base to compare it to. I can see this in a slower, defensive Hastur deck building up to playing Broken Space or maybe up to 6 for Hastur. But even with a bit of combat, he is making one dude insane before he eats it, perhaps necessitating adding some combat somehow...Tommygun(?!). Still it’s a step in the right direction for Hastur.
dboeren - 4/5 - I’m being a little optimistic on this one but I think once the Hastur box is out he’s going to be pretty sweet. Even now, he’s reasonable for your insanity-causing decks or Lunatic builds but look for him to be popular in a few months.
Kamacausey - 3/5 - A very nice ability on a mediocre body. At least he's an avatar with resilient. Time will tell if this guy will see any play or not.
mnBroncos - 3/5 - the only thing I don’t like about this guy is the loss of A terror icon, meaning characters with two or more terror are still immune. However, is a solid card and would probably go in a significant amount of Hastur decks focused on terror.
Reckoner - 3/5 - Hastur being a faction all about insanity has always struggled with the fact that there are two things Willpower and a Terror icon that can wreck your plans. Well this Avatar takes care of both of those things. He doesn’t have the best icons, but his ability, for this faction, is something that was missing. Still, Hastur normally doesn’t want to ramp to 4, so the rating is a bit low. He may also see much more play after the Hastur box is released.


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