2488084:Why lose the synergy between Deadliness and Blackout Truncheon for another weapon?
Also it seems to me that you got unlucky against the lock matchup where EotS is critical, and you have more ways to deal with EotS (Bladehands + Deadliness).
What's your thoughts on Woodsie? (from the other article) I think it is a better answer to Backlash than Pappy.
My problem with woodsie is that its not reliable enough. It is better against backlash than pappy is, i'll agree on that. I just don't think that the way to beat backlash is to try and kill it, because it will already have gained significant value (1-2 cards) by the time you have an opportunity to kill it. I would rather fight it with something like ice barbs, or just not allow it to become active until its time for them to die.
The reason i don't like truncheon isn't that i don't like the hoj effect, obviously thats awesome. the problem i have is that i rarely have two spare resources to actually strike with it, making it less like a weapon than the zero strike cost weapons like hope ender or bonecracker. There are a ton of expensive effects packed into that gyro deck, and often i wouldn't be able to swing my truncheon for a few turns after i played it -- which makes it much like hope ender, except by the time i get around to swinging hope ender it's matured in value to be the equivalent of a six or seven (or sometimes more) cost weapon.
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