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Take Them by Surprise

Submitted Darksbane , Aug 17 2010 04:41 AM | Last updated Mar 01 2011 06:57 PM


Take Them by Surprise

Take Them by Surprise



Type: Plot House: Neutral
Income:5 Initiative: 11 Claim: 1
Game Text:

If you lose initiative, discard your hand.
Number: 52 Set: LoW
Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Banu Andaru
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8 Comments

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Reager
May 22 2012 11:37 AM
what card would prevent you from winning initiative with this plot?
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JCWamma
May 22 2012 11:54 AM
Another Take Them by Surprise, Ahead of the Tide, or a high-initiative plot (such as Retaliation, Rise of the Kraken, etc.) combined with initiative-boosting cards such as Knights of the Hollow Hill, Kingsroad Fiefdom and so on. Those are the only ones off the top of my head.
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Landjorden
May 22 2012 11:54 AM
Ahead of the Tide (WotN)
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14Shirt
Jan 31 2013 06:31 PM
Still waiting to play this plot at the same time as an opponent with less power. I think I might reserve a particularly profane exclamation for the moment . . .
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JCWamma
Jan 31 2013 07:13 PM
Played a Melee game where 2 people played it at once, and a third person waited a moment for them to check the power count they had across multiple characters and their house cards, then casually dropped Ahead of the Tide (WotN). Fun times.
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14Shirt
Jan 31 2013 07:20 PM
Man that's incredible! (assuming I'm not one of the two people playing the plot)
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hoobs
Apr 14 2013 05:05 PM
Me and my opponent both played this Plot on turn 1. Since neither of us had power, the decision was left to a coin toss....which I lost so I had to discard my hand and coincidentally also resulted in me losing the game. :(
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emptyrepublic
Apr 15 2013 03:46 AM

Me and my opponent both played this Plot on turn 1. Since neither of us had power, the decision was left to a coin toss....which I lost so I had to discard my hand and coincidentally also resulted in me losing the game. :(


I wouldn't call that a coincidence; seems to be to be a direct cause/effect. Anyway, that's part of the risk of playing that plot if you don't have some initiative boosters.

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