Welcome back to another episode of Across the Byprost.

I am doctor Norbritt visiting Limbo on holiday.

Oh nice, Yeah, I thought i'd take it a little further than normal sometime.

Yeah.

Yeah, you know, by by Limbo, I mean Norfolk.

Oh right, fair enough, okay, cool?

Hello everyone, I'm Jamie coming at you from the doc dimension.

That figures yeah that rest in peace Ozzie Osbourne.

Ah, yeah, he'd be in the doc dimension and yeah, yeah, he's on his throne there right now.

Rest in power, Rest and power.

You know, people are telling all their stories about how Ozzie it meant a lot to them and everything, and you know what, I realized I didn't have an actual story because his music was just so pervasive around me all the time.

It was just like breathing air.

I mean there was always Aussie there, you know what I mean.

Yeah.

Well, I was been to a few, like you know, of the younger generation the other day about it, and they were like, I don't real care.

I didn't released the Black Sabbath, and that is true, but they did basically create a genre of of like rock mutica.

Every every rock band you listened to now was probably into black Sabbath.

So there's gotta be some respect for that, why black Sabbath.

Well, I told you this is about MCP and MCP.

Well, but we're trying to pay respect, sir, Fine, fine, fair enough.

But yes, we are doing the second half of our Convocation episodes the first and that's because the affiliation box is coming out.

That is, oh what boxes at CP two two one is coming out soon and we already did half the box in a previous episode that would be Baron, Murto and Clear.

Today we'll be looking at Ancient one and Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, along with four of the Taxis carbs that we didn't cover last time.

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All right, should we move on to Ancient One, Let's do it?

Okay, She's also known to her friends as Ancient One.

There you go, Well, come on, Laura Masters, Yeah, you got to give us a little more than that.

I mean, does she did you date her?

And theyll what was her name back then?

Well?

One an One actually in the comics is a guy.

I think the female Ancient One is a newer thing, which is pretty cool because you know, they got Tilda Swinton to play her in the film, and I love Tilda Swinton, so.

She her kind of let's face it, weird kind of faces.

She has a character, let's got some character.

It definitely suits that character and the fictional character perfectly.

It was great, great casting.

There you go.

So we meet her at Carmitage, which is the place where all the you know, the sorcerers go to learn magic and stuff.

Also a pretty cool scene.

I was reminded of recently of Carmitage in Multiverse and Madness when Scott Witch goes there and like breaks in.

Oh yes, I do remember.

Oh yes, she was insane.

It was that was really fun seeing her blown.

Up actually doing stuff.

Yeah, so yeah, pretty great.

I didn't know this, but Carmitage is a hidden village obviously, but it's in the Himalayas.

That that makes perfect sense.

I mean that's where Batman went to learn from Rah.

Yeah right, it's all it's a very busy place.

There you go.

So is she is she a wizard I mean, like of a special plane or is she just like the headmaster of that place?

Like so yeah, the oh hang on, that's a good point there.

At one point they were a source of supreme for Earth and they obviously trained baramorder and got the Strange, which we know, and then chose Strange to be their successor.

So I guess there was a source of Supreme.

Okay, that's what happens.

I'm very confused because the origin story I have up says he everywhere.

So I don't know if, like if there is a female ancient one in the comics or is that just you know, the film and MCP version.

I'm not sure, all right, but yeah, basically a warrior who turned to mysticism.

So there there, just like you, just like you, just like me.

Yeah, your southern London roots there.

Now, I use like healing gems, spacely the same thing.

I'm basically agent one with.

Okay, she is affiliated with Convocation and Defenders.

Okay, we have to keep that in mind.

She's also found on a thirty five millimeters small base.

Her stats she is a four threat this time.

So we're getting into the Chonkier character Unky.

Yeah, Chunky Wizards, Chunky Wizards.

So what does the Chunky Wizard's stat line look like.

Well, she's got two physical defense, three energy, five mystic.

She's got six hit points on her healthy side.

She's got six on the back side.

She sized two and moves medium.

So a couple of differences that we saw from the previous Wizard stats.

First of all, the same two physical defense, but we know that with the Ironbound books that often will be her mystic defense, which is quite strong at five, stronger than the threes.

Yeah, three threats.

Yeah, and she's got you know, average energy defense at three.

But she's got six hit points on both sides, which is kind of nice.

It's pretty good though, as you take i'm mount books into account, right, So she's kind of a five to three five with six on both sides.

We'd be really impressed with that, right right.

Oh yeah, there's going to be like a couple of rounds in the game where she's not rolling five for her physical defense, so she's a two three five, So I think, yeah, probably on the on the tankier.

Side for sure.

Yep.

And I just feelocation sorry in Commocation yea when they can play Ironbound books.

But also I think that the bumps are appropriate for having an extra threat as well, so ye just perfectly inlign nothing crazy, okay, cool, three attacks this time, all mystic.

The first one is called Shards of the Seraphim, it is ranged two five dice and costs nothing.

It is her builder where she gets power equal to the damaged delt and it's a wild pierce.

This is great, This is fantastic, this is awesome.

It's uh, this is X twenty three's attack.

I was just gonna say that, Yeah, exactly, so just mystic.

Ye.

Also sometimes that helps you, Yeah, for sure.

So I find I played a lot of oh this is also Magic's attack, exactly the same, okay, And I find that it being mystic feels good at first, and then you realize that there's a bunch of random characters in this game that have four mystic defense.

So yeah, but this into like a bunch of Wolverines.

You're just going to chop through them because they've got two mistic defense and it's going to be real great, so yeah, be careful with that.

But it's still five dots with a piss is great.

Yep.

Yeah, I mean small, you know, short range, but it's pretty typical, so no problems here, let's carry on.

Then she's got another zero power attack called the Fangs of Ferala, So Farrala's that thing.

Can remember the Master Jay where Farrala's the plan the name of the protein shake you invented last episode.

Yes, yes, how are you enjoying it?

Are you feeling stronger?

Yeah?

Pretty Farana doubt, there's just too much farralla.

I'm to have a sleep.

Okay.

So this one is a range three attack four dice.

It's a gainer where she gets one power after the attack has resolved.

But if this attack deals damage after the attackers resolved, the defender gains the poison special conditions.

So I mean, you know, okay, I mean it'd be nicer if this were arranged four.

I think this would make it really solid.

Then this is only range three, But what do you feel about it?

Yeah, I think this might be a contender.

You know, gainers.

We love gainers.

By the way, gainers are greatly.

Gaining one is fantastic because you know what you getting out of it.

This might be a contender for the most pointless trigger in the game, because poison only you know, it stops you getting one.

You get one less power in the power phase.

The problem we've given out poison when you're hurting someone is you're giving them power.

Yeah, so if this does a damage, which it has to to give the poison You've given them the power that they would have lost from poison, and you know, you potentially give them more if you hit them harder.

If this attack randomly spikes and there's like two three damage, the poison is going to be basically pointless.

So yeah, don't even worry about it.

Yeah, yeah, that's so sure.

And like I said, it's not that long of a range that you're really that excited about it.

So I guess it's obviously nice to have in case you're not within range two.

You just need to pop somebody to win a game or something.

But her, okay, let's look get her spender.

It is called astral strike.

It is Rachel is right.

Sorry.

The theme behind this, you know this is when she punches the soul out of someone.

Oh yeah, she keeps doing that.

I saw that, see you.

Now.

We talked about the other day about the inception type effects not being so impressive to me, although they were nice to look at, but it was just not But when I saw this ad, when it showed her knocking Stoctor Strange out of his own body, just the the the way that the special effects were done, which just was so powerful.

It's just like, whoa when they leveled it up.

They leveled it up in Infinity War because they punched.

She punched a banner out of Hulk, so cool.

I need to talk to the smart one.

I'm going to It was around Sorry, she punched the whole cow of banner.

Something happened she separated them and that was super cool.

Yeah, I did like that effect.

What film was that one in?

I want to to Infinity No, no, no, no, the original original one is the first strange Okay, yeah, look into that.

That sounds cool.

Okay, okay.

The Astral Strike is only range two again eight dice, though costs four power, so expensive for a spender.

The defender does not add crit results to his defense role and cannot add additional dice to defense as a result of crits.

Fantastic.

If this attack deals damage after the attackers results, the defender gains the stagger condition.

This is not right.

This is a spender that is like, you know, I hate to jinx it.

That's nearly guaranteed stagger, right, Yeah, for sure, it's super lightly you're going to get off eight dice and they don't get crits or explode crits.

You've got a very good chance of hurting someone with this.

Yeah, this is like shadow cattle show cats got this one.

But yeah, they've established that, you know the art of going through someone's body and you know, hitting them from the inside.

That means no crits.

That's the theme there.

So yeah, it's pretty cool.

You're in enough shock as it is.

There's no way here you're not getting any crits on that one.

There's someone inside of you.

You're not getting any crits.

Yeah, so it's just a question if she can generate enough power to do this attack.

But otherwise I think it's fantastic.

Yeah, this is really cool, so really really good attack.

But so far the cool attacks like the Builder and the Spender means she's got to be close in that.

That's something why they consider.

All right, so let's see she's got some superpowers to help her out in that regard.

She's got one active one called Mists of ho Goth.

It is two power places this character within two of its current position.

It can only be used once per turn.

Well that's really handy.

Oh look at that and that and that's nice little place m Yeah, so you get small base though small base so a little bit a little bit limited, but yeah, definitely helps.

Yeah, I mean, like I said, you're really just trying to make sure you stay within two of some target, and so this is so you can do those attacks.

So yeah, handy, she's got one reactive superpower called winds of what tomb I think that's what what's the B then be silent Tom like a tomb.

I'll get thrown up by the double O winds of what tomb three power.

When this character is targeted by an attack, it could use the superpower push the attacker towards this character short.

Now see, there you go.

There's another way to get people with the Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, it is pretty fun that she's just messing with you.

She's either going towards you or being pulled towards you.

Yeah.

Well I love about this as well.

Is most people will look at this card if you don't know Ancient one, and you know, I think I've played against Ancient one maybe once.

Ever, like if you don't know the character most characters, most players are going to look at that card and go, right, what I need to know?

Okay two physical defense?

Cool, I'll just shoot her and then do you get shot and you push them towards you.

So that now I arranged two of you and just start punching them with her amazing attacks.

That's that's pretty great.

Connor in the Linen Matter is a big fan of her.

I played against him, but yeah a lot with this character.

Yeah, and he uses her really well.

It's really pain in the butt.

And part of it is because of this next superpower.

It's an innate.

Sorry sorry, sorry quickly, Yeah, winds of the two.

We should mention remember that you can push through yourself.

So if you're on a point with someone and they attack you, you can pay three for windsor with two and push them through you off the point, through through ancient one.

No she you Oh yeah, you push the attacker towards this character, gotcha?

Gotcha?

Yes?

Yes?

Yes?

Interesting So that will throw That will catch some people out for sure.

Yeah.

Oh I love it.

So she's got really two really important and eight superpowers that make all of her other things that we just talked about sing.

The first one is called Keeper of the Eye of Agamoto.

When this character is making a defense or dodge roll, it can reroll up to two of its dice, and additionally, it gains an extra power in the power phase boom spot of sense.

It's so good just and no range on this it just happens all the time.

That's great.

So, like you know, if you're doing the Ironbound Books, turn you're rolling five dice, rerolling two, you've got seven defense dice.

Yeah, I mean crazy.

So now we can understand why she has such short range attacks because she wants to be in the mix.

Yeah for sure.

Also having addition power in the power phase means she can place herself with immediately straight away.

So I think that's a move at a place.

We'll get you onto the midline and then you can punch someone that's on that point.

So that's actually great.

It's fantastic.

And then the other one that she has in eight Superpowers called martial Artists.

Martial artist that Yeah, when this character is defending against a physical or energy attack, if the attackers within two, this character adds blanks to its defense role.

So the tankiness goes up and makes that wins of what two even more important because if they were trying to attack her from outside of two, okay, that attack will not have martial Artists online, but the next one that they do will see right now, that's great.

So she just constantly wants to be within two.

Yes, she definitely wants to be within two.

That's great for all kinds of reasons.

Yeah, I mean I think this is kind of switching here in your mind.

Maybe you can work her into your WEAPONEX plan.

Now I'm into it.

I think it's pretty cool.

She's very self sufficient as well, right because turn means she could place herself, doesn't need me help, Nope, And she's going around doing great attacks as long as you can stay in arranged two.

And like you say, if she isn't with arrange two, if she's been displaced and someone hits her, she can win and withoob them towards her.

Yeah, I think she's great.

This is a very self sufficient, self contained character.

Now let's let's think about this, because she can be in defenders as well.

Right now, when she's in defenders or if you splash her somewhere else, she can't use her ironbound books card.

Okay, so she's only got two physical defense, but you're rerolling two of those days all the time.

So those two dice are being rerolled and you're going to count blanks so many instances.

Do you think that's enough for her to survive on a regular basis, I think, So, what do you think?

Possibly she's deceptively tanky, especially on ironbound books.

Turn right, she's never forgetting five defense dice rerolling two and banks.

That's ridiculous.

Yeah, there's a lot of defense, yeah, and then nice but martial artists is okay, it doesn't work against mystic attacks.

But then she has an innate five defense against mystic attacks anyway, So yeah, so still not bad, you know.

Yeah, there's no clear weakness here, right, Yeah, it's definitely a problem.

You know, if you roll a skull on one of those physical defense dice or yeah, you know you're really hoping for a crit and then have that crit roll into something.

Yeah, or if you get targeted by a physical attack without having three power, because you'll then get hit and that physical attack could spike and you are rolling two defense dice and sure you're rerolling too, but as soon as you get a skull, you know, like you say it kind of yeah, outside arrange too, it's quite that could be quite bad.

So yeah, one lucky gun shot will take out into one I think.

But yes, but yeah, like she's got tricks to try and mitigate that, but yeah, seems really fun and deceptively tanky.

And as we said, you know, certainly when she gets a lot of power that astral strike comes online.

That's really scary.

In fact, that astral strike could happen round two, round two, Oh my god.

Yeah, because you can just double move her around one and then have full power for it.

Yep.

Wow, yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool, pretty good against I know, I keep bring him up, I'm sorry, but in Mortal Hulk because he has to be with the arrange two right to hit.

Yes, so you know she has.

An okay chance of surviving, not great, but if she can get off the national strike onto him, that's you know, nearly a guaranteed stagger.

Yep, it's pretty great, right, Okay, cool, Let us go on to doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme.

Okay, same same alias, Stephen Vincent Strange.

Any lore about why he's It's just that he's turned from a normal sort of sorcerer to the sorcer of Supreme.

That's what's happened.

I think that's all it is.

Yeah.

I feel like the outfit may be reference in a certain comic book that I don't know, so's known the discord.

This outfit seems like it's from a special run.

So tell us what this character is representing.

Yeah, as far as I know, this is the source of supreme versions.

This is doctor Strange, who's like fully in control of all the spells.

He's been a lot of time hitting the books.

Oh sorry, can we quickly go back to Ancient One to talk about her in Defenders?

I think she could be a daredevil leadership.

My god, she'd be great with that level.

Yeah, because they want to be surrounded by people, so something she can place herself in amongst a bunch of people and then do a massive you know, her builder shahs of the seraphim.

It goes up to like you know, five dice with like one, two, three re rolls and appears like that's really really good.

I'm doing it a lot with X thwenty three at the moment, giving her extra dice on builders and it's nuts.

X twenty three took out on Apocalypse at the weekend with two hammers, so you know, Ancient One in dead level, placed in the right position, can do attacks similar to that.

Yeah, it's it's great.

I think she's really good there.

I'm just looking through the affiliation list for other fours that she could be in contest with Shang Chi of course, you know, uh and maybe Wolverine.

So I mean she may have actually not moder competition in defenders in terms of, you know, whether you take her or somebody else.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, yeah, how many other four threat you know fighters?

Are there?

Not many?

Right?

You know?

People don't like her too much else, but Stone is a arranged character.

Yeah, Shang Chian Wolvern have charge, which angel One does miss, but she also has the place, so she's not too far behind him, you know, so I think pretty great.

I'm currently looking for this box told ancient one.

Cool.

Okay, good view.

All right.

Back to doctor Strange.

It's Sorcer of Supreme, also known as Sexy Strange.

On the interwebs.

Yes, and in person as well.

People reference to him with a complete straight face of sexy Strange, and I see new players getting extremely confused.

So yes, we call him sexy Strange just because he's like the fancier version.

Is he a higher threat than the other one?

No, he's five threats so no, but yeah, he's just I guess his outfit is sexier.

Maybe that's why we say it.

Yeah, the models a little sexy or two.

So there you go.

Okay, what's exciting about him?

Like I said, he's affiliated with complication and defenders, so we'll come back to that.

But he's also on a fifty millimeters base the medium sized base, so he's on a big base, medium base.

Sorry, five threat as we mentioned, and here are his stats.

He is three physical, three energy, five mystic.

He's got six hit points on both sides of his car.

He is size two and moves medium.

So what do you get for going up a threat?

Seems like a bit more mystic defense, but certainly better physical defense, which is great.

Yeah for sure.

And also have mentioned that he's on a medium base, so he works really well with the communication leadership with the bump the bump, yeah, because he's going.

A little bit further when he gets attacked.

Yeah.

So yeah, I mean maybe we should jump ahead to mystic armor of strange while we're talking about the stats.

Yeah, okay, good idea.

So this is an innate superpower when this character is defending against energy or mystic attacks.

For each wild in the defense role, it may change one of the attackers crit wild or hits to a blank, this character gains one power for each die change.

This way, this is colloquially known as a reverse Pierce kind of role, whereas it's not the attacker piercing your defense, it's the defense sort of piercing the attacker's days.

Yeah, it's super strong because of the timing chart when it happens, so you basically wait for the attacker does all of their dice and modifications, so all of their tricks, all their ear rolls, all their fancy stuff happens, and then the defender modifies theirs and then skip a few steps.

I don't ball you, but then the defender modifies the attacker's dice pool right at the end.

And this basically means that, you know, if you're coming up against oh, I don't know, Immortal Hulk who really needs to get a wild and you've rolled a wild, you can turn that wild to a blank to turn off the trigger that they have.

So this is great, This is fantastic.

I think you need to be rolling good dice for it, you know.

And strange having five mistic defense and then access to ironbound books means he's rolling five defense quite often, so lots of to get wilds and it really really cuts the attack you know, in half a lot.

I agree, But it doesn't include physical attacks, which are the most common.

So that's a problem.

Yeah, yes, that is a problem.

Yeah, okay, all right, but it's helple.

But he has another innate superpower we should mention at the same time, now called I of Agamoto, where this character can modify and reroll skull results.

And when this character is attacking, defending, or dodging, it may reroll all of its days, which is just so good.

Yeah, you know what I mean.

It's just like a complete do over because the skulls even get rerolled when you do this.

Yeah, for sure, I would say as well.

I've seen a lot of new people playing Doctor Stranger recently.

Remember that when you roll your dice, you can look at your opponent's results before you decide to do this or not.

And I see a lot of people being like, oh, my roll is bad, I'm going to roll the whole thing when it was actually quite good.

But also you can see your attackers, so if they're going for energy or mystic attack, so not in more Hulk doesn't work on him, I was wrong.

If they're doing one of those and they really they're relying on a trigger.

You know, say Clear has just gone her stagger trigger into you and you have one wild but the rest of it isn't a very good block.

You might want to consider keeping it and not re rouding everything because your reverse pier stuff will happen.

Yeah, it is a great ability, like you say, though you have to be careful about re rolling it because you have to roll all so it could roll into something worse.

But if it's if you've taken the time to look and realize it's bad and you need to do something about it, then you always get to do this and it's it's great.

We'll come on to how it helps during the attacking part.

But defending and dodging with this guy's stats plus themistic armor in many situations, this guy looks tanky, Yeah, for sure, but it's quite unreliable.

I yeah, Chao do doctor strange.

The other day he didn't block anything, yea that for days and Ko's so yeah, it's it's kind of a nice bonus, but not reliable.

So don't be throwing this guy in, you know, against in my case, expecting him to survive everything because he has only six six on the health.

So that's traple unlucky defense dodge rolls.

He's down.

Still a wizard, yeah, still, all things considered.

Okay, let's get to his attacks he's got.

Oh, this guy's got a physical one amongst his mystic ones.

It's a little different.

Okay.

The first one is a mystic attack called belle Full Bolts of baal thack Balfac.

That is range three five dice, doesn't cost anything.

It is his builder where he gains power equal to the damaged delt and it's a wild pierce.

So really good.

I mean, this is basically the same attack we just saw on Incent one, but it's a longer range three range.

Yeah, very very good.

Everything we said about Ancient one plus is the three range and you can reroll all the attack dice if you really want to.

Oh my god can he?

Oh my god he can?

Wow?

Yeah, just like that skulls.

Yeah, yeah, that seems good.

All right.

Now it's the physical attack deadly Daggers of Dabbaroth range five Hello, hello six dice, that's even greater.

Does cost you one power though, but that seems one yeah, one power for that seems okay.

Before choosing a target, you oh, my goodness, you could choose whether the attack type is physical, energy or mystic.

That's really good.

I really wish AMG would just put all these symbols into the stat line because I personally forget all the time.

Well, so you forget.

You can change the effect, yeah, or make it instead of being the typical symbols, make it some other symbol or just like like see below or something you know should be your face.

Oh, thank you.

It's like an asterisk, you know.

Yeah, Doctor Norbert says reminder.

Yeah, all right, so far, so good.

If this attack deals damage after the attackers result, the defender gains the poison special condition, that's okay, game, Yeah, forget it, don't worry about it.

I don't worry.

Don't worry about that bit.

But man, the rest of it seems fantastic.

Yeah.

Being able to hit someone from range five is no joke.

It costs one power, that's nothing.

It's basically free.

Yeah, and he gets powered quite quite well as well.

He gets he but he gets a ton of power every time.

And then every time he rolls a wild in his defense role and changes and opponent's die to a blanket, gains a power for that too.

So this guy will be swimming in power.

Okay, cool, Oh I can tell I can skip ahead to an innate super power cal chosen of the Vishanti.

During the power phase, this character gains two additional powers.

Additional power.

Yeah, so he's as strong as Jane Gray.

That's three power three power turns.

So he could shoot these straight away both times.

Fantastic.

Oh yeah, Hang on a minute, Yeah, so is there something there?

So if someone's on the midline and you have Clear and Strange sort of supreme, Clear could place him up too, and I bet he'd being arranged five of the midline easily.

I bet you get him twice.

That's pretty cool because he's on a medium base.

Dude.

Yeah, exactly, So it's great for placing.

Yeah, oh pretty cool.

This is crazy, No wonder, he's got sexy strange.

This is great.

Okay, he's got oh I'm just going to say this.

Now he's got to react.

He's going to act a superpower called scalpel of range.

It's for power.

Okay, expensive, But choose this character or another character within two which could be an enemy character by the way, it doesn't have to be a friend, and then place that character or yourself within three of your current position.

It can only a character can only be placed within three.

Yeah, that's huge, Oh my god, no it's three.

Yeah, I mean so the clear thing I just said, you could do it a Wong instead, if you prefer Wong, and then Wong just gives this stranger power.

Yes, Strange can place himself three.

Yes, he won't be able to do the daggers then, but he still got that bailful bolts range three In range three though, who can do that?

And that's what appears.

And it's the big part here, right, is a character can be placed by the superwer once pertent.

Yeah, so you can do an enemy towards you if you want to.

Is for whatever reason, this is why people use him as an assassin.

They think of him as an assassin.

No one's safe from him and when he if he touches you, it's a good chance of deleting you.

Yeah.

Yeah, this Strange is terrifying.

I've always hated playing against him most for so many words on the card and I caundn't understand what's what's possible.

But yeah, I mean, you can theoretically get this scalpel off like what four times if you're lucky, right, you place yourself, then you're within two of an enemy hit two bowlful bolts of balfac do a ton of damage, which you're likely to do because of the piercing and the rear roles everything we mentioned, and then you can place them place an ally within three.

This is yeah, this is crazy.

Yeah, so I guess it also compounds why it's hard to play convocation.

This ability is so flexible.

You have to really think about how are you going to use it?

Yeah.

I bet you mess this up a lot.

I bet it's like, you know, I could have done that.

I could have done this because it's so flexible.

Yeah, exactly, exactly wild.

Yeah, so I think all the other times when I mentioned if you like playing with, you know, a big main character piece, I was thinking about this doctor Strange.

But also this Doctor Strange can enable another piece.

Right, you're playing him under Dormamu.

You'll play a lot of Dollamu.

He's going to get that full powering round one, so he can replace Dormammy range three straight away, and then Dormoma can place himself two.

That's crazy.

Yeah, So there's a lot of stuff you can do here.

I guess under Steve one Cats in America, he can afford this round one as well.

Yeah.

Yeah, crazy stuff, lots of crazy stuff that you can do.

So, I mean what's holding him back is appropriately so is his threat value?

Five threat?

So should we talk about his last attack, which is his spender.

Yeah, this is okay, this is nuts.

Okay, Shining Circle of the seraphim it's expensive.

Six power for a spender.

That's expensive, but it's area effect two a range.

It's got seven dice that's respectable.

Alley characters in the range of this attack do not suffer damage from it.

Oh, that's always nice.

Then it's got two triggers.

One is a wild cleanse after each attack is resolved, remove one special condition from this character and each alley character within two of it it and the other one is wild and shield trigger called solve for each after each attack is resolved, removed one damage from this character in each allied character within two of it.

Wow, that seems great.

It's pretty good, right, expensive though, and so you really need to have a lot of characters in that area two effect, which is not so easy to do.

Yeah, I mean a scalpel of strange helps, right, because you can place yourself to the place Stenson for this or place them bring them in.

Yeah, but that's costing four and then this attack sixty six.

So ye with ten power as you can do both of those things.

So yeah, I think this doesn't come out too often.

The reason I'm scared this attack is because I usually think, right, I'm going to take down Strange and I daze him and then he flips with ten power and get do that combo of scalped himself exactly where he wants them do his massive attack.

But I say massive attack, it is only seven dice actually, right, and the only reales he has is the iagam where he has to rear the whole thing.

So it's kind of tame on the damage side.

This is more of a healing effect, right.

Yeah, but with a park running around the cleanses that nice too, That's true.

That's a good point.

Yeah, so interesting.

You know, this seems like one of those things that just seems really dramatic when it's going to pop off, and it's certainly a late game kind of a thing, but I just don't see it happening often.

Yeah, I agree.

I I'm reminded of cables spender here Askani Sun And this weekend I took all my cards are in like hard sleeves, and I took a pen and crossed that attack out because every time I did it, I should have spent my power and other things instead.

It would be more effective, and I think Strange probably suffers from that.

Yeah, instead of paying six, you could just pay four and scalpel someone anyone, yourself or anyone to do something inter range and then do a bunch of baleful bolts or deadly daggers and then scalpel, you know, generates power, scalpel someone else.

Like, there's just way better way to spend his power.

I think, yeah, yeah, I have I agree with you on that.

It's tempting.

Probably in the recro circumstance is really great, but it's not something that I think he aimed for.

Yeah, I like your cool for it against apocalypse.

That's very interesting.

That could be quite big.

But yeah, I think, yeah, this isn't the main thing of his card.

Scabello Strange is the main reason he's here.

I think, Yeah, I see him playing a big role in normal communication lists because of all this ability is he's one of their big hitters.

Essentially, But I see him in Daredevil Defenders as well.

I think that's great.

Yeah, he can, you know, pull people into where he needs them for the leadership, put himself into places where they when it was to be.

Yeah, I think he's great in Dead Level.

He is competing with Naymar though in Defenders, so that's a little rough.

Yeah, I think.

I guess if you're expecting a fight, right name or isn't very good in a fight?

Yeah, he falls over quite easily Doctor Strange, So Supreme can maybe you know, affect.

More in the fight.

Yes, I agree, So yeah, something to think about there anyway.

Uh, what about with Doctor Strange is, oh, he can't be it his own to Stephen Strangers, can I Yeah?

Yeah, so it only be Daredevil that would be the leader.

Okay, okay, cool, wild, all right?

Anything else on Doctor Strange, Sexy Strange?

So many words here come more touches, cards with more words.

Okay, we're gonna do four cards or but Agamoto is the next one we're going to talk about.

It is a convocation that is an active card.

Any number of convocation characters not holding an objective.

Miss Bay spend three power each to play this card.

Characters that spent the power are placed within three of their current location.

Huh.

This is like Rainbow Bridge, isn't it.

Yes, Okay, thank you same.

I think, uh yeah, I'm thinking about the power costs, but I believe it is also three interesting, so that seems great.

Yeah.

I've been quo out by this with a from Charlie playing he's that kind of he's our new local comvoication player playing this round one with Sexy Strange because he has three power at start, so if I have some people on the midline, he can place himself up three and do two builders will piers, which makes it quite likely that he'll then generate four power for scalpel of Strange to do other stuff as well.

So quite scary for that.

You know, that is just one character moving though, so you might get more use out of it later when there's more characters that have three power to move around.

But I think this is a really, really really strong card.

Yeah, we've seen Rainbow Bridge, right.

Yeah, exactly.

You know there's a lot of teleports in the in complication though, so you know, maybe this is superfluous if you've got those support characters here.

He got Sexy strange, maybe not clear.

It is more of a thing.

Yeah, less needed exactly.

So, and again, this is one of those affiliations that have lots of good cards, so it's hard to see where you might be able to squeeze this into your five.

So something to think about.

It's not a bad card.

It's just a question of with all the other things that the characters are doing, is this still necessary in your five?

You know?

Yeah for sure?

Okay, all right, next card is playing a pole Dank pole Doc Pole Doc.

It's an active card for commoication characters.

Any Comvocation character may spend three power to play this card, choose an enemy character.

ALA characters may reroll any number of attack dice.

We're making mystic attacks that target chosen character in this round.

This seems like a staple card to be Yeah, if you want to play Punchy Wizards, this is the one.

Yeah, holy moly, that sounds good.

No range on this card either.

It could be anywhere on the board, and you don't have to be the activated character to play it either, because you just have some random character in the back who's got three power to spare.

It's a real ambush, right because you just be like, right, I need that character to digne now, so Sorcer of Supreme is going to activate and like one way back over there is going to pay three polldock and then give Strange all the reroles.

It's great, it's really cool.

By the way, I really like this theme in commocation, by the way that all the cards can be played by all the characters.

Me too.

It's really it shows that they've all studied the same they've all gone to commentitage, you know, they post grad and they don't know what they're doing.

Yeah, I love this and I would, and so you have to be doing mystic attacks.

But in communication that's not hard to do.

You know, even as we saw those dagger the daggers of Sexy Strange could become mystic attacks if he wants to exactly.

This is a great cause.

Yep.

Also, again, it's any of the attack dice, so you could pick the ones that you don't want and re roll those ones.

That's the best kind of best kind.

Okay, just one last card because I did screw up from the previous episode.

I did five cards instead of four.

Sorry, everybody, I promise you I can't count.

Mostly this is the wand of wam Oh, this is one of these special attack types cards.

Let's see if it's worth it, ladies and gentlemen.

It's an active card.

A Convocation character can spend two power during its activation.

To play this card, choose one of the following effects.

This character may use the elemental Blast attack listed above once this activation.

Okay, again, this would cost you an action though.

This is why these cards are not so exciting because it's not an extra attack.

It just gives you this attack you can use as one of your different attack yeah, or you could reroll two of your defense roles.

And lastly, this character could use a superpower that is normally limited to once per turn a second time this activation, paying all costs as normal.

Ooh, that sounds sexy.

I like that last one, don't you.

That's a very cool unique, really unique.

Uh that's an interesting additional effect, right, Gods, so convocation.

The reason I've pause is I've never seen that before, which is the Evert's.

Let's do the attack at the top first and get that out of the way and then talk about what characters have superpowers You may want to use more than once.

Okay, so what is that if you use this car.

Do you get this to use this attack?

It's called elemental Blast is energy.

It's range five.

That's cool, it doesn't cost anything, that's cool.

It's raised seven dice.

That's great.

It's got a wild trigger called elemental Blast.

After this attack has resolved, the target character gains the incinerate shock and slow special conditions.

Actually, this tax seems pretty good.

I'd pay for this one maybe.

Yeah, you are begging for a whild is the problem?

Yeah, seven dis is not guaranteed.

That'd be real sad if you don't get the wild Yeah, but like Wang could be just blowing people up with the stink.

Yeah.

Well yeah two power one can just meditate and then wonderful two just hilarious out of nowhere, a big old attack from Wang from the back.

Yeah, I mean, I feel like that's where you'd want to use it, whereas somebody's But I guess this thing card suffers again from the too many good cards problem.

Yeah, you know who do you squeeze this in for?

But there's got to be some fun characters that don't have these crazy attacks that you can give this to.

And it actually is a pretty good one.

Yeah, for sure.

I'm currently scanning all the convo characters to see who has a super power that could be abused if it was more than one's Yes, tell me, I mean it's clear.

Clear's place is a very good place, and it's once.

Oh no, sorry, that's a character, so no, it doesn't matter in mind.

Okay, Well let's look at them one by one.

Ancient one has the mists of Hulgarth where she could place herself within two, so she could do that twice.

That's cool.

Hold on, think about the play pattern for that, Like, we want ancient one to be in close range, right right, So ancient one if they're completely out of the fight, right, I mean, let's say an one just kao the person they were fighting and they need to get on to another point.

They can miss the hog off themselves, then play this card attack from range five, and then miss the hog off again after the card.

Because are you because you have to pick one of those three effects, you can't do all three?

Oh really?

Yeah?

Yeah, don't get the attack.

Oh it's commocation, man, choose one of the three things.

That crazy.

Oh so it's not always the attack, No, you could be.

It could be the attack.

It could be real two defense dice, or it could use a superpower again.

Okay, right right, I understand that.

So basically this card could say, may spend two and then use a superpower again.

Yeah.

Basically, so the six power Ancient one could place themselves twice.

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, then let's see who else.

Baron Morto, he could use his soul barb no way each you know that one you can use more.

He could he could do his Master of Occult and gain extra power twice.

That doesn't make much sense.

Yeah, okay, yeah, I don't.

Think he could meditate, gain two power, spend two power on the card so that he can meditate again.

He's just showing off at that one.

Clear Clear, she could do her throw.

That's not that's no joke to be fair.

Yeah, you know, and I say, say Clear is activated late, and there's two characters on the point that have activated.

You could spend three power to throw one off two powers of the card three power to throw the other one off.

Yeah, she could do her place twice per around.

That's not bad either.

She could place already.

Oh on the same No, hang on with that son be replaced by the superwer only one's Paturn So it wouldn't affect vapors.

Oh, I see, because it's not saying you can you use it the character.

It adds more language that the Taxis card doesn't overcome.

Okay, sad okay, So two throws from her regular Doctor Strange the damage.

He can remove the damage twice with Ostro's refuge.

That's actually quite a big deal.

Yep.

And he has a lot of power typically, so that's okay.

Yeah, I mean that's going to cost you five, six and eight power.

That's pretty god jah, especially if you're playing a car.

I mean that's that's like mega patch up right, Yeah, six damage you could be patching up and not Strange.

That's that's original Doctor Strange.

He gains power real easy because he gets a power with timey rolls a shield.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

Sexy Strange could be using his place twice, but that's super expensive.

I doubt that's going to happen very old places already.

It's the same as clear, so it would work, oh, rat okay.

So yeah, he has nothing that can be helpful.

Uh oh, Doctor Voodoo's in convocation.

Doctor Voodoo.

Somehow, somehow, his superpowers can already be used as many times as he wants.

Yeah, no, one believes that when you do it, and that, unfortunately is how it works.

Magic and the step the most step double STEP's pretty cool.

We've seen it in Apocalypse where famine.

Magic can place twice is very very effective.

Yeah, I don't hate it.

Yeah, I could see that being pretty cool.

Actually, yeah, especially if if the place like let's say, magic starts the time with two power, she could place herself too with the most step, be within two of a character and then do a soul sword, which is a good attacks.

Got a piers generates some more power if she let's say its spikes she gets four.

She can then pay two for the taxes card and pay two to play against up again.

It's pretty great.

That's very situational, but pretty great.

So so far.

Okay, this is the last character.

It's just one nothing no way.

Yeah.

Correct, So it seems like it's all the placementabilities that you could use twice in these faction when you place yourself.

Yes, right, thank you.

This is the most confused we've ever sounded on this podcast.

Compsation with complications.

This is the perfect example of commlication everyone in this game.

So so is it only Ancient One and Magic then that this is helping Ancient One and Magic to play themselves.

And Clear's terrain throw yes, thank you so yes, so super super niche Yeah, it could be cool.

I mean clear Clear getting two size two throws.

That's actually no joke.

That's that's okay, right, if you suddenly need to displace, you know, if the game's closing out, need to swing some vps, that could come in handy.

Yeah, Ancient One being able to place twice is pretty good wild So yeah, maybe people would be taking this for the attack instead.

I don't know.

Lots of thinking, there go lots of wizardy time.

You can all spend time in your magical libraryes figuring out how you want to play this card.

Well, Jamie, where could people tell us what they've just studied and learned in their in their libraries?

Oh my god, they can tell us on discord.

Yeah, I would love them to tell us about this card.

Tell me about this card, about as affiliation.

I would love to be smart enough to play Commocation, and I hope there are people out there that are and they can tell me what's what's going on the discord.

There's a link between this play bar and the description part pressure need more and you'll see a link to the discord.

You can jump in there and tell us about all the rules we got wrong.

This might be a record for the amount of rules we got wrong, because these are some confusing cards.

Next week, can we just do like Luke Cage or something, something that's simple.

Now we earned this one.

I think we're going to get the rest of the summer off.

Yeah, gets nice.

And we also have a Patreon you so to our Patreon.

Maybe we'll have to find ourselves a convocation.

Experts come on and talk about how good the affiliation is, and you know, all their little tricks that.

Could be quite good.

That would be fun.

Actually, yeah, we should probably do that.

So for just a handful of pounds a month, you can become a Patreon and help us keep the lights on, help us stay motivated and keep pumping out episodes for everyone.

Yeah, indeed, they can also chat to us at the special Patreon channel where they can we'll do the Patreon challenge.

But whether I should be playing a complication for six months after the WDC God, I love that.

I love that.

I'll try you got okay, different specialty not magic no, was it magic, although these days I'm sure people think what I studied is magic.

But there you are.

So yeah, it's a great thing to be a Patreon and we really appreciate it.

We've got loads of new people coming in onto the Patreon and it's been really fantastic.

Suggest to us some topics.

If we don't have more boxes coming out, we need some topics and and we did a series on crises that was a suggestion from a Patreon, So give us some more suggestions in there.

Yeah, please do.

Turns out people quite like those crisis episodes.

So yeah, we're going to think about what other kind of strategic you know, I guess learning the game kind of episodes we can do.

We probably need to get good at the game ourselves first, but we'll work on that.

So yeah, if you have any idea, any ideas of what kind of episodes you want to see, let us know.

Otherwise we're just going to keep them cracking on with the characters, isn't we.

Yeah, but you know, I've got to say, your idea to get all those different affiliation channels going in our discord has totally paid off.

They are buzzing with ideas and really off the wall stuff.

In addition to traditional tech advice.

It's been fantastic seeing everybody contributing and across the different types of factions, not just the most popular ones of the moment.

Yeah, it's great.

It's my favorite way to kind of talk about MCP because I find that if you're just in like a general channel and you're like, oh, I'm playing you know, I'm playing this faction.

I need some help, anybody got any advice, then inevitably Connor shows up and starts all my web warriors.

So I quite like having the specific channel to be like, oh, let's let's all the X Men players talk about you know, what we're going to do in X Men, you know, stuff like that.

So it's really cool, and it's fantastic if you're starting out on an affiliation, you can pose your list in there and everyone can kind of tell you, you know, which parts are a bit odd, and you can really, you know, get off to a better start than you would without it.

Yeah, okay, cool.

One last thing is, of course events.

Going to events is one of our favorite things to do, and we highly encourage people to do that, and we put our money where our mouth is.

Hey, and what would that be?

Wait for you, we decided to host an event to encourage people.

I was so throw We host events all the time, but this is a big event.

This is a big mega event.

It's probably this is our big biggest event so far.

It is I'm the cut the number now.

This is our biggest event so far that we've run.

This is the Across the by Frost Team Championship.

It's on January tenth and eleven.

If we managed to find a weird loophole in London where the hotel are quite cheap because it's right after Christmas, so hopefully you'll be SICKI of families and your wives will tell you to go to a gaming weekend and it should be nice and easy to get the weekend off.

So yes, come and join us.

It's a five persand team tournament is by far the best way to play MCP in our opinion, which is why we decided to do it.

And yeah, we currently at a time recording have no space but on one space left one team, one team, but we are looking to expand it and we need to get an idea of how many teams are interested.

So don't let the fact that it's sold out.

Put you off, Let us know that you have a team ready to go, and we will try our best to open up more spots.

Yeah, we want everyone to come down.

It's gonna be great.

Yeah.

There's also a team finder channel in the discord right, there is, yes, a handy team finder tool.

Yeah, so you can look.

If you're just you don't have a team, but you want to be on a team, just post in there.

And in fact one team has been made based on those posts in there, so it works.

I can I quickly point out all the different countries coming to this exciting event.

We have one Swedish team, We've got one Dutch team.

They're back.

The Dutch are back in the game.

We have two Irish teams we have we have a French team coming, we have two Belgian teams, we have two Scottish teams, we have a Polish team, uh and a Finnish team that are coming along, plus all the English teams alongside all that.

Isn't that crazy?

It's so good, it's insane.

This is as much variety as WTC.

I agree, it's the World Team Championship and you get and all that just in London.

It's like a European Team Championship, right, we're I messaged to Mike de Luca.

I told him to come.

He needs to come.

I don't think they will, but yeah, I'm trying to get the Americans down.

Americans.

All Americans do is you know, they call their events like the World Series and all this stuff, and like, you know, you know you're the best in the world if you win a Depticon and then no Europeans, go, I'm done with it.

I'm stuff.

This is the World Championship.

It's just not cooled that yet.

Okay, it's across the bip US World Championship.

Yeah, go for Americans if you want to prove your bear MCP and kots Well and London's a great play to visit.

It's the world.

Yeah, so we encourage you to come fill up that last team if it hasn't been done already, or message us if it is full, and we will see how we can squeeze in two teams and pairs at this point we want that's a good idea.

Actually, yeah, pairs of teams so that stays even so uh yeah, cool, excellent.

Uh.

If you can't make this event and you want to see where else in Europe there are two or three day events.

You can use this handy database that we put together.

It is at TinyURL dot com slash MCP events Europe.

You just type that in.

It's a spreadsheet and if you don't see your event there, that falls into that category message B and we will add it straight away.

Cool.

There you go.

Right now, I'm off to glue together a sanctum for tables.

I've got a sanctum sigtorum, sanctums tanktrum.

I've got to get together something like twenty five tables for January, so I'm starting now.

It's currently July a time recording, so I am doing that now.

I've given myself six months to sort that out, so I have facing you complete completely.

I can do it, brilliant.

All right, let's close the spell books and put complication to the side until the Patreons otherwise, also just breathe.

That was a hard episode.

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We did part one and part two together.

That was a little words.

I think even just throw us like a single episode Patreon.

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Should we do that?

Next character is probably like Crossbones one, Yeah, lizard, it's lizard.

No, Lien's got some you know he's got some.

Yeah, he's probably cross Bones one.

Anyway, until next time, cheers and happy gaming.

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