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Pojo's Harry Potter Card of the Day
Mandrake - Chamber of Secrets
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Mandrake |
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Power Needed:
5 CoMC |
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Card Type:
Creature - Plant |
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Ability:
You may use an Action and discard Mandrake from play to put a non-Healing Character card from your discard pile into your hand.
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Damage each turn:
3 |
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Health:
1 |
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Card No:
34 |
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Rarity:
Rare/Foil |
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Set:
Chamber of Secrets |
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Average Rating: 3.53
(based on 6 reviews) |
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Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
5 is the highest rating. |
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Aardvark
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This is a tricky card. Many people will look at this and won't be able to fathom
why they would use an action and discard a creature doing three damage a turn
to their opponent, just to get a non-healing character into their hand. Personally,
I can't think of any character that I'd want to pay such a dear price for. This is
especially true when you note that the action expended to do this would normally
mean you can't play the character you retrieved that turn. But don't let all of this
distract you from the true point of this card. The Mandrake is actually another
Cunning Fox, and if you have Sprout in play, it becomes a cheap Vicious Wolf.
This card is the largest self-contained threat in standard builds of plant decks.
Once you realize that even when ignoring the character fetching ability, this is
still a quality card, then you'll understand it's actual worth.
Rating: 4 |
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Crusader
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1 health? Won’t withstand any anti-creature ;/ 3 damage? That’s ok…same as
Cunning Fox. But, with Sprout, this card gets a boost…sorta ;x 3 health
still won’t withstand any anti-creature still except Doxy. It’s effect is
good in decks that run characters…but what kind of creature deck does that?
=/ Not that good of a card, and easily countered.
Rating: 3 |
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Enraged
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A Cunning Fox with a separate ability! Where do I sign up? Cunning
Fox is a great creature and the ability that this guy adds makes him that
much better. It is often useful to get your Hannah Abbot or your Argus
Filch from your graveyard. Did I mention it is like a Cunning Fox only better?!
Gotta Love this card.
Rating: 4.5 |
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Lockhart
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They way it boils down is the Mandrake is a Cunning Fox with an ability.
Combo'd with Sprout, its a viscious wolf, a lesson sooner. So just how good
is this cards ability? Depends on if you're playing characters or not.
Overall I think this card is as least as good as the cunning fox and because
it can get you a character like Griphook or maybe Filch or say Hannah, it
could come in handy if your characters go bye bye. So I would suggest this
card as an extra bunch of foxes as the very least.
Rating: 3.5 |
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profpoke
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Cunning Fox? No, it's Mandrake! This doesn't require any discarding of CoMC lessons
and is a plant, so it is IDEAL for a Sprout deck that splashes CoMC. And when you're
using it with Sprout, it becomes a cheaper Vicious Wolf. It's also got a last resort
ability that most of the time you would never use, but it's nice to know you've got
the option if you're in dire need of a fallen ally.
Rating: 4.5 |
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Snuffles
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Well if your deck revolves around a certain character being in play, this is
a nice way to get them back. This could also be used with those one time
use characters. You play Forbidden Corridor and uhm... I dunno... Griphook
maybe? Use your Griphook and then sack him to the Corridor... use your
Mandrake to get him back and then use him again. Pretty slow combo, that,
but you could prolly make it work. I am not overly fond of the ability here
as Characters take 2 actions to play most times, but if you really need
someone out, this would be the way to ensure it.
Rating: 1.7 |
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Guest
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SoSlow |
"No Professor Sprout, he's fainted"- Seamus; "Oh well, just leave him there"- Prof Sprout
Hehe..anyways... I like this card not for its ability, but because of the fact that its a Plant. CoS has so many
combos with plants now...Sprout (If you're not playing her, don't use this card), Dragon Dung, Greenhouse3,
etc... Now if you're playing with supporting characters (unfortunately Pomfrey can't be retrieved) you can
go ahead and use the ability. But doing 3 a turn, its not really worth it. So basically, this card is Cunning
Fox's replacement. Unless you don't have 4 or these, or just wanan go overkill on cheap creatures like these,
don't use Fox, use this!!
Rating: 3.5 (Guest Reviewer's ratings are not added into the average.) |
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