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Pojo's FMA Card of the Day
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Crenshinibon
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Envy, Copycat
Historically, Copycat was probably in the top
three most powerful allies in the game. He
efficiently reused some of the most powerful
cards in the game, many of which provided
incredible amounts of card advantage on their
own. This strategy of recurring cards like Iron
Maiden, Exposed, Persuasion, and their friends
has been one of the, if not the most powerful,
decks in the game, and Copycat was one of its
main power sources.
Envy has probably been hit the hardest overall
by the errata.
Researcher was barely even phased, Gluttony can
still help out rebel decks, and there are a
variety of ways Challenge the Sun can be used.
Envy's main power now has to come from cards
like Gone Fishing, which although is decent
(especially in a Lust deck), is not anywhere
near the power that Copycat used to retain.
Envy now has several other options for allies
that are still powerful.
My personal favorite is Envy, Just a Rumor,
which can even harm Izumi's card draw, the
drawback being that it can trigger Plan B.
Envy, Doppelganger is still powerful, and when
it is used in conjunction with Foolish Pawns, it
can be greater in at least one attribute than
all of the opposing characters in the search
party. The new Envy, Shadow is also a strong
card, but it can only be used in Shadow decks
effectively.
Ratings:
Limited: 4/5 (If you have the command, it's
worth it.)
Constructed: 2/5. (Some power still remains, but
there are other, stronger Envy allies.)
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Darktaro |
We continue
this week with a look at Envy, Copycat.
Pre-errata this ally was one of the most brutal
allies you could play essentially turning 3
copies of a wits event in your deck into 6
copies of wits events. With it you could do such
versatiles things, you could draw 4 cards in
your turn with More. You could force your
opponent to discard 4 cards with Nightmares. You
could even win 3 locations in one turn with
Catch the Train. Now that the wits events you
can pull out have been limited to Battle and
Search events only does that make this card
unplayable?
It definitely does look a lot of versatility
since Homonculus usually thrives on Main Phase
control. By limiting it to only Battle and
Search events it makes it more of an offensive
card by being able to pull back your
pumps/anti-pumps and battle changers. Depending
on your deck you may not run many of these at
all so Envy may be dead weight as far as his
ability is concerned. One great combo he still
works off of though is A Job Well Done. With the
Seven Deadly Sins Advantage seeing more play now
location control is getting harder to pull off
and A Job Well Done gets around that.
So where is life without Copycat? One card that
may see a rise is Envy, Just a Rumor, with more
card draw with cards such as Pomato and Rock
Throwers anti-card draw may be essential to
ensure your opponent does not end up with hand
advantage. Another old favorite, Envy,
Doppelganger is also great kung-fu as it allows
you to copy the highest attribute for the
location battle.
Sealed:2/5-Being able to pull an 8 command
Homonculus leader may be a bit hard to do
Constructed:3/5-Still has uses, but loses a lot
of versatility.
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MILLER |
Envy is the
shape-shifting sin of the Fullmetal Alchemist
show, he can take the shape of anyone that he's
seen, hence the name Copycat. Envy is one of the
only sins to make it to the movie.
Copycat was the ally of choice in most, if not
all, homunculus decks before the errata, but the
errata has caused somewhat of a power shift.
This ally is still great, but nowhere near as
powerful as before, as it could reuse More,
Nightmares, Exposed, and other ridiculously good
main wits events. Now it simply able to reuse
battle events and A Job Well Done. In my
opinion, that makes this Envy second to Just a
Rumor, with all the cool draw going around now.
In sealed, this ally could still be useful,
because of the high stats and ability to reuse
battle events can help in this format. In
constructed, it takes more finesse to make this
card work now.
Sealed 5/5: Reusing events can be huge.
Constructed 3/5: Took a power hit with the
errata.
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