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Zigil Miner
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Darksbane
, Jan 06 2012 03:56 PM | Last updated Jan 07 2012 05:58 AM
- klaymen and Thror like this
Type: Ally Sphere: Spirit Cost: 2 Willpower: 1 Attack: 1 Defense: 1 Hit Points: 1 Dwarf. Action: Exhaust Zigil Miner and name a number to discard the top 2 cards of your deck. If at least one of those cards has a cost equal to the named number, choose a hero you control. That hero adds resources to his resource pool equal to the named number. Set: KD Number: 9 Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Magali Villeneuve |
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23 Comments
“Action: Exhaust Zigil Miner and name
a number to discard the top 2 cards of your deck. If at
least one of those cards has cost equal to the named
number, choose a hero you control. For each card that
matches the named number, add 1 resource to that
hero’s resource pool.â€
My favourite card from Khazad Dum, then i got Imladris Stargazer...oh boy i have fallen love with him
To me this card would be 5/5 because resource generation is really important to me, but he only have 1hp what i don´t like. So 4/5.
Just wish it did not say "hero you control"
Cant pump resources to other players.
3 of those and you can generate 6 ressources each round
Yeah...but you're dropping six cards from the top of your deck each turn. And it's cost you six resources to get them out on the board after you've managed to draw into all three of them.
Even with Gandalf or Gildor helping you hit more reliably...you probably won't be able to hit for more than 3-4 resources each turn and you will be losing 6 cards. And sure, occasionally you'll hit a Hidden Cache and you can always Will of the West but...that's a hard act to manage.
Tell you what, though: despite being horrendously un-Nedly, Zigil Miner is a fantastic fit in a Noldor-discard deck that is swimming in card draw, in need of resource acceleration and generally doesn't mind ditching cards to the discard pile.
For a sphere that has no other way of generating resources, he becomes an all-star simply by lack of other options. Pair him with a star-gazer and you can cherry-pick what you discard for resources and what you will draw. He's also good in a Caldara deck since you need things in the discard pile anyways for her ability - though his errata does slow that deck down considerably.
100% correct. The proper way to judge whether a card is strong or not is not just by looking at its stats and text, but by looking at its stats and text in the context of the sphere it represents. As a resource generator, the post-errata Miner is laughable for a sphere such as Leadership. In Spirit however, it's almighty.
I actually just remember Arwen came out - so he's back to being a moderate card unless you are prepared to dedicate 4-6 cards to making it reliable (2-3x each of the miner and star gazer).
Unless one doesn't want to invest a hero slot in Arwen, of course. Or finds it hard to leave her ally version out of his deck.
Edit:
Thinking more about it, I'd still consider him better at resource gathering than Arwen. Her ability cannot grant more than one resource per round, benefits a limited range of heroes and comes at the cost of card advantage. All the above are minor issues of course (for this particular game) and some of them can be mitigated. To her credit, Arwen may potentially aid another player in multi. In a strict comparison in the economic department however, the Miner remains the superior choice, I believe. Still, it's always good to be presented with more than one choice during deck building.
The trouble with him is without careful deck building or use of Gandalf or Stargazer, you may just be milling your deck for no resources. the 1 hp also gets him nuked pretty handily. But i'm still on board with him being good - especially considering the alternatives and operating costs of using (or not using) Arwen.
He's a dwarf with a pickaxe. He digs through your deck and finds resources. Honestly I don't see the unnedlyness apart from his sphere.
I still use him 3 times in my doublefist dwarf decks, if only because there's no other dwarfs who fit the slot.
the un-Nedly comment was when he suggested pairing it with Noldor. Not the card itself is un-Nedly.
What he said ^. I was thinking about the little dwarves running after a caravan of gracefully, noble Noldor on his little stubby legs.
In general, you guys make a very fair point. In Spirit, he is certainly better than he would be in another sphere. And for the record, I do run a couple copies of him in my Leadership/Spirit dwarf deck (though more for his dwarf trait than his ability).
My original comment was more geared towards the idea of using 3 of these guys to generate 6 resources per turn...which, while possible, isn't likely to even approach that on most turns even after spending a lot of time and effort setting it up. Plus it does have some significant downside with that kind of card discard. But of course, if you are only really counting on using the ability once a turn then Gildor and Gandalf certainly help him run much more efficiently. And of course Stargazer can help out even more.