Such a situational tool box card, just like Ecstatic Seizures. And like ES, it may be the MVP of the deck in a random game or three. More likely than not, it won't.

No decks currently use this card (at time of writing) says it all.

Point taken. To be fair, almost no cards in this pack appear in any deck at the time of this writing. The cards in this pack just became available within the past day or less.

A jank too far.

This wouldn't even be playable at 0 cost.

Did someone rate this higher than 1 star?  What the?

It's a silver bullet against a deck-type that is possible, but hasn't made a huge splash in the wider meta. But if there is a Ranged deck cleaning up somewhere locally that the wider community isn't talking about, this card probably looks like a gift from the gods there.

Didn't Brad mention there was an "undiscovered, broken" deck on FFG's watch list on one of the podcasts? Are you sure it isn't, say, a Coteaz Ranged deck?

ktom might be on track. With the current cardpool a Coteaz ranged-styled setup could be a very frightening possibility. There are some here in Copenhagen who are looking into that discretely and I dread the prospect of running into such a deck during our next tournament..

Ratlings and Preemptive would provide the basics.

The Rokkit Launcha can go on all manner of good units nowadays, cf. the Finests or the Vanguards.

The Lazgun might also be a key-card here. It's a much better card than most people realise I think. (And it works extremely well with Coteaz' cybork eagle by the way)

And, of course, the Cadians with the Huge Chain Choppa is just scary.

I play Chaos at the moment so I might (reluctantly) be compelled to make room for Killing Field in the near future, something that would be very annoying indeed. But if ktom's hint is even remotely right, not having this card in existence could turn out to be worse still..

When I go to the regionals and every Tom, **** and Harry turns up with a Worr deck and that horrible event giving 3 units ranged, I will be sticking at least 2 of these in my chaos deck.

Just so I can shout "IT SERVES YOU RIGHT!" in my opponent's face.

And you will realize that it still isn't worth playing.

That's the point of silver bullets, though. Whether or not they are worth playing tends to be a toss up, and often, their existence tends to change the meta more than their actual use.

That said, Ranged is a heck of a lot more devastating than most people give it credit, particularly if it is concentrated. As worthless as this card is against the majority of decks that I see regularly, if there is a meta out there that does regularly see Ranged in concentrated form, I can understand someone giving this card something higher than a failing grade.

+1

It's not much use on Zarathur, he already is plety of direct damage. But warlords like Ba'arzul, who rely on simple but effective fist fighting, may depend on this card to protect themsleves. Last games against Worr lost twice due to a couple of very well placed Preemtive Barrages. If not, the game would probably be mine.

But, I find particulalry difficult to choose something to swap it with. I'll have to test it. Autoinclude versus AM and Tau. Nice situational protection against some Eldar/DEldar builds and Rocket Launcher.

But, I find particulalry difficult to choose something to swap it with. I'll have to test it. Autoinclude versus AM and Tau. Nice situational protection against some Eldar/DEldar builds and Rocket Launcher.

How strong is Worr?

Strong enough that this card and Calculated Strike are getting put in decks.

The problem with this as as silver bullet for Ranged is a) it's not worth running in multiples, and b ) it's vulnerable to support destruction. I'd say the vast majority of games you're either not going to need it, not going to draw it, or not going to get to use it. Well, unless Ranged becomes so dominant that you HAVE to take multiple copies, but that's just terrible design for Ranged, not this card being good.

Realistically if they wanted a Ranged hate card, they should have either made it an event (so it could have shields), or given it a secondary effect as well.

I'm completely on board with having this card just for preemptive barrage. Worr is very popular and although he is still great, preemptive barrage is a huge tool in hit tool belt

Realistically if they wanted a Ranged hate card, they should have either made it an event (so it could have shields), or given it a secondary effect as well.

People seem to be forgetting the Holy Fusillade that this and multiples of would be a nice counter too, and like it's been said, players who regularly come across ranged decks like me see this as a gift from the dark gods!

I have come across a ranged coteaz deck before and the thing was an absolute monster, so would have loved one of these at the time, I would definitely be including two of these.

Certainly helps ba'arzul as a ranged burst against him on his bloodied side can be devastating (speaking from experience)