Feature Article: Control in The Spoils Part 1

If you play The Spoils and someone asks what type has the most control oriented cards, you'll probably answer Arcanist or Rogue, but underneath it all, there are many more control cards that don't come from these two types. Here I'll show some of the best control for each type and make a control deck at the end.

Let's start with Rogue, the easiest:

ROGUE -

1. Heist Planner
This card is literally the best card in The Spoils at the moment, at least to most people who have played competitively. It not only allows you to look at your opponent's entire DECK, seeing every tech, every beatstick, tactic, resource, anything they own that isn't in their hand or on the field. It also lets you pick 3 of different names and discard them. This requires quite alot of skill of knowing what to pick, but many will know what to piuck and you'll be devastated by a few of these hitting the board.

2. Pluck
Another one of the best cards, combos oh so nicely with Heist Planner, discard a beefy character and get it on your side for 5 resources. You get more characters, they get less, you have a whole new arsenal of warriors at your side now. Hehe.

3. Rapine
I kill my small guy, take your big guy, I'm happy, your happy... wait, your NOT happy, I swing for 10+ damage, I win. Yay?

ARCANIST -

1. Quotidian Ejector
I honestly don't know if this can be stopped in a token deck, but even alone, it's a cheap cost bounce removal.

2. Quotidian Assassination
Anither Quotidian family member, these guys just love to bounce stuff back, and when they do, you won't like it.

3. Swarm of Gnats
He takes out 2 cards from your opponent's hand, with bounce removal, that's huge, and I don't know if he was right, but a little birdy told me it's extremely hard to win with no hand.

BANKER -

1. Brummagem Jewelery
This is basically a card that you slap on your opponent's cards, and it reads "This character becomes useless" Insane.

2. The Ministery of other Smaller Ministeries
They now have to pay to attack, with disabling stuff, this becomes pretty hard to deal with unless they just make a huge party to attack with...

3. Pettifogger
...Then you Pettifogger the huge party to a pile of dead stuff. Yay. This is never worse than a 1-1 character tradeoff which is good for 3 resources.

The rest are coming in part 2, which will come out during the next Feature Spoils Article (check schedule for day)