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Mont’ka Strike
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Mont’ka StrikeType: Event Faction: Tau Cost: 2 Shields: 1 Signature/Loyalty: Traits: Tactic. Combat Action: Exhaust each ready Soldier unit you control at a target planet to deal damage equal to their combined printed ATK value to a target enemy army unit at the targeted planet. Set: Deadly Salvage Number: 67 Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Mark Bulahao |
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15 Comments
Combo with "For the Tau Va" any good? it must be tested!
Hugely expensive combo, sure.
I'm not sold on this card, as it generates a big spike of damage, but it can't target a warlord with that spike. Its great tech for knocking down big threatening elites quickly, though, but that isn't something we need to do yet, save for the occasional Tyranid monstrosity. Backlash might change things, and the wording of backlash will prevent any pain going back to the exhausted army units, but they'll still stay exhausted.
Tau decks are pretty tightly filled anyway, and I'd take Deception or Tau'va over this easily.
Another opinion: you can kill off a unit on a planet which isnt fighting this round...and only using soldiers means that this trick is available for most SM decks, too.
I'd rather remove a future threat (command or fight) for 2R then waiting until the fights get to the planet.
Cato gets one resource back after montka strike triggers because you will be killing whatever you are attacking, Tauva can potentially also cost 1 or even less if you get your resources back mid fight.
Don't forget that Indomitable only protects against attacks.
Bare in mind that Shadowsun herself is a Soldier, so if you want to do such a combo you'll need her to be at a different planet, which then makes it harder to ensure that your units all have attachments on them
EDIT: Cato, Ragnar, Mavros, Aun'shi and Starblaze are all Soldiers as well. As it stands only the Eldar warlords would not exhaust from triggering this event
Also, for Shadowsun, PRINTED attack value generally means not much damage dealt.
(Marine Sentimentale) Nobody truly understood the importance of this card until North Korean leadership ordered 3633 copy of it (at which stage it became under CIA investigation). You fight in the first planet. BANG. Your Black Hawk in another planet is down without having the slightest chance to return fire. The assassins take their time to ready and reload while you bury your dead. Faithfully departed! Imagine yourself in a press meeting trying to explain the situation to the public! So embarrassing... ... that South Korea called an emergency UN Security Council meeting to restrict this card to "War zones" ! They also ordered 13633 copy of it. Just in case.
Coming back to this card, which I have never played in any setup, I've been wondering if it might be a viable answer to the emerging Elite presence in many games. Not to be played in Tau, but from a Space Marine point of view..
It's stil a tad expensive, sure, but it might be a viable solution to an Elite problem, i.e. to kill an enemy Elite unit at actionspeed.
Lol Backlash
Sure, but if one dismisses any targeting trick immediately by assuming the opponent per default always has a backlash in hand and the resource to play it you end up with little room to maneuver and little room for surprises, let alone deck creativity Kaloo
And notice that Backlash wouldn't destroy any of the units exhausted if you were unfortunate enough to have one counter-played at you.
Not to mention that this card doesn't actually target an enemy unit at all, so no Backlash for your opponent.
True, I hadn't spotted the error in this card's text on cgdb compared to the actual card text. Good call