Time Management
A Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game spotlight by guest writer Marius Hartland
One man with Oriental eyes has stated that all time and space are relative, and men have laughed. But even that man with Oriental eyes has done no much more than suspect. I had wished and tried to do a lot more than suspect, and my friend had tried and partly succeeded. Then we each tried together, and with exotic drugs courted terrible and forbidden dreams in the tower studio chamber of the old manor-home in hoary Kent.
- H.P Lovecraft, Hypnos
What would you like to get from a 4-cost, loyal Order of the Silver Twilight card? How about an additional refresh phase?
An added refresh phase may well appear pointless at very first, but think about it: You can bring an insane character completely back into action, restore an additional insane character, exhaust some characters and support cards to make use of their abilities, and they all get to refresh once again, right after. Even the domain you drained to acquire your extra refresh phase is once again open to use once the effect is total.
With a good setup, you may even get a small loop out of this, if you can manage to get the event out of your discard pile. Will it take too long to set up and do some thing meaningful? Perhaps you would like an additional card, then?
Keep The Fires Burning
Would you prefer to draw two cards? Card draw is often a excellent thing. Extra cards mean additional choices, and when you want to create a combo like the 1 above, you want to dig deep and quick. The Order of the Silver Twilight is rather combo-oriented, so additional card draw is usually a plus. A lot of Silver Twilight effects hinge around discard and sacrifice, generating card draw doubly important to maintain their fires burning.
In addition, though in the end they could not hold humanity’s best interests at heart, the Silver Twilight consists largely of humans. So they’re amongst the factions that favor Investigation over Terror, and they are able to quickly acquire achievement tokens through the Investigation struggle.
What if your characters could just burn the midnight oil and send in a second wave of people to speedily finish their research? By gaining an additional story phase, and by winning a couple of Arcane struggles, they would be able to actually take benefit of an opponent’s moment of weakness. It’s not above the Order to send in the acolytes to draw in (and exhaust) any opposition, then let the rest mop up the pieces – the old bait and switch routine.
So&hellip what would you like most from your 4-expense Silver Twilight card? What if you want to have all of the above?
You are in luck! The Order of the Silver Twilight has been busy in Curse of the Jade Emperor, the second Asylum Pack from the Ancient Relics cycle for Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game. Their members have been hard at work, forwarding their Hidden Agenda (Curse of the Jade Emperor, F41) which enables you to repeat any phase.
In the finish, it’s up to you to find the most insidious way to take advantage of such an apparently innocuous card with a deceptively open-ended impact!