A Card Spotlight/Review #1: "A Morbid Obsession"

**Cyph3rX83** · 04-28-2013, 03:46 AM

Dark Prophecies Card Spotlight #1:
"A Morbid Obsession" By Cyph3r.

So with DP live for 2 weeks now,I'm sure most of you have your favorites,likes,dislikes of the set like me and in my first of many card spotlights,I will review why I either love,like or dislike a card from the much anticipated and much loved Dark Prophecies expansion. So, I'm sure by the title of the this article, you know what card I'm talking about, yes you guessed it, Morbid Acolyte! To sum it up best, this card is freaking sweet. If your not familiar with this card, here's a little refresher and for any NEW PLAYERS who still don't understand what "Passive Abilities" are, here's a simple and easy way to understand passive abilities;
Passive Abilities are abilities that ally's have that don't cost anything to trigger(in terms of Shadow Energy or Resources) and can only be triggered by either an action like what Tainted Oracles ability is "Draw 2 cards when T.O is Killed. Or another example of passive ability are Gargoyle's, Sandworm

's and Ironhide Karash's Reduced damage ability. Also keep in mind abilities that allies have that trigger when played(Belladonna

's, death Mage's etc) are not considered passive and Morbid will not be able to stop those abilities since they trigger during opponents turn and because you can't target a ally that hasn't been played that may or may not be in you're opponents hand.

1. Card: Morbid Acolyte

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2. 2/5 Ally
3. Ability : Pay 2; Target ally losses passive abilities until the end of your turn.
So why is this card so freaking sweet. Well chumps I'm sure we've all had games where you wished you could kill Gargoyles with a single fireball, or didn't have to gamble by killing a opponents Tainted Oracle

because your only play is a supernova, or how about those annoying Moonstalker

's decks that uses ally's and you have no way of killing newly dropped ally's your opponent played just before he used Moonstalker

's ability. In a nut shell, Morbid Acolyte

allows you to deal with these types of issues, and you don't have to be committed resource wise since Morbid's ability cost just 2 resource's and depending who you're playing, a 2/5 ally going to be around for an average of 2 turns minimum. Of course this card has its draw backs and for now, it's played in very specific Archetypes which is one reason why this card isn't noticed or seen widespread in the QM lobby as much as one would think. Keep in mind what the favorable match ups are when thinking of building your next deck with this guy.
1. Great against shadow mages:
Gargoyles
Deathbone

Cobra demon (also dark flayer)
Wulven tracker etc.

2.Human Mages also,
Tainted Oracles
Erika

shadowhunter
Ravens etc,

3. Rogues
Any ally with stealth(which also includes Lance

's ability when played).

Some bad match ups would really be against Hunters and Priest. I say Priest for the simple fact that they have great resource denial type of cards and its not hard to keep opponents at 2 for most if not all of the match when played correctly, but also cause they have the best board sweep that doesn't really hurt them one bit in Tidal wave. Hunters oppose another problem. Hunter's and their traps (both new and old) can really force you to play other 3cc ally's first and really negate Morbid's threat early in game to the point where they won't need to worry mid to late game because by then you really won't be playing to many 3cc ally's on turn 8,9,10 and depending what hero your up against it could be all but over by then anyways.

For now I see this card only becoming more and more popular in QM but should see extensive play in the tournament scene since this type of card fits perfectly in a control based build. After all of this consideration that I've laid out I would rate this card a solid 7 out of 10 where 1 being one the most poorly designed cards and 10 being one the
most unique cards designed.

Hope you guys/girls like.....
In a few days I should have another card spotlight and have a couple ideas but until then,
Good Luck & Have Fun!
K4H Cyph3rX83