Havent tried but my opinion about him are fairly bad. He also has a bad design for its effect.

Why not making him courtier?

Why give him 2 glory if it doesnt count?

Why such low stats?

Why the art is so ugly?

Why so serious?

But then very much in last place, we got the Scorpion one. Being a Unique character is probably more bane than boon here, as having 2 of Haughty or Implacable magistrate can give you two auto-successful attacks in a turn. Then, there is the fact that he doesn't actually exclude characters, he excludes status tokens, and mash that onto the fact that mostly what Scorpion does is put dishonor on opponent's characters. On the upside, he works in attack AND defence - the only one who does that. He's not terrible, per se, but he's not as good as some other clan magistrates, and he's not as good as most existing Scorpion characters, so I'm not expecting he'll make many decks for long.

 

Asklepios, I think you forgot about the existence of the Cunning Magistrate, who is the "real" scorpion magistrate for the 3-cost 2/2 cycle. That magistrate is probably second best (after implacable).

When a god and a philosopher analyze the meta, one has nothing to do, but listen :-)

Asklepios, I think you forgot about the existence of the Cunning Magistrate, who is the "real" scorpion magistrate for the 3-cost 2/2 cycle. That magistrate is probably second best (after implacable).

*headscratch* Is that a future one?

Ah yes, found it. I did forget that one, was just going by the cardgamedb listings.

Yes, I agree, that one is pretty solid. Works in attack or defence, I see, and synergises with Scorpion-based dishonouring.

I'd say it's not as good as Implacable or Haughty though, as those two are essentially unblockable barring effort on the part of the defender, while Cunning is only unblockable with effort from the Scorpion player.

Being able to defend is handy too, but it's still a tighter condition set, so I'd put it in that middle tier, equal to Stoic and Swift, and above Enigmatic.

If only Enigmatic worked on defence too, it'd have been as good as all the others!

Also note Cunning Magistrate (the new Scorpion one) is a Conflict character, which earns him bonus points - possibly enough to put him up there with Implacable, Enigmatic and Swift in my view

Damn, yes, that does swing it. I do love Scorpion's preponderance of from-hand characters.

The Scorpion dynasty immediate-pass opening seems to be getting more and more common these days.

The Scorpion dynasty immediate-pass opening seems to be getting more and more common these days.

 

Which is precisely why Back-Alley Hideaway was the best Scorpion card of the cycle along with Kachiko. Between the Hideaway, Charge, Ambush perhaps and the Conflict characters, there's absolutely no reason for the Scorps not to pass asap in Dynasty. Pretty conveniently, the first two were included in the same pack, along with other Scorpion-friendly cards, such as the Skirmisher.