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Dante, Power Revealed

Reviewed:
March xx, 2007

Ratings
Constructed: 3.35
Limited: 1.82

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Crenshinibon

 

Dante, Power Revealed:

Dante is a very interesting leader. Although she comes from a very powerful faction, her leaders themselves typically have weaker effects. Power Revealed is really the exception that proves that rule.
Power Revealed has high attributes and a strong ability with a very accurate cost. In fact, she would be a perfectly amazing card if her ability didn't cost Stone Points.

As is, she is very strong. But better abilities come out of Stone points that Power Revealed's. In contrast, look at Hohenheim "7"
command, how becomes a nine-command at the cost of one Stone point. I really think that's more than a few power levels above canceling a main, react, or alchemy ability, although her picture is much, much cooler, on both the chase and normal. The thing Power Revealed does best is hose Elric, and she does it very well, except when she has to deal with PO'ed, where she becomes useless. She is also strong against military (most notably Master Manipulator) and a few Homunculus decks, but beyond that she's a bit unreliable. I think it has potential, especially to be used in an experiance-burning deck since both her level 3s are pretty bad, but it'll take more time to see.

In limited, she's a bit weaker because of a distinct lack of stones. I probably would avoid playing this at all costs in limited unless I already had several stones and a Gluttony starter.

Ratings:
Constructed: 3/5
Limited: 1.5/5

Darktaro

Today's card is Dante, Power Revealed. At level 2 it's the leader you'll probably spend the majority of the game on and is it worth it over her over level 2, 400 Years Old? Statwise she's got 400 Years Old beat at a 5/6/5, opening her up for alchemy events such as Quick Draw and Stonewall that normally you would never see in a Homonculus deck. She boasts a higher quick then 4YO and an ability that in my opinion is better as well as there are many good react abilities to cancel. (Custom Work anyone?) Of course the biggest thing that is probably holding many people back from this card is her 7 command.

At 7 command you're stuck with the downside of having 6 and 7 cost allies as your main attack force. Not to say Homonculus doesn't have a good 6-7 cost lineup. There's Caine, NWRT, Pride Commander in Chief, Lust Torturer, Envy True Face, Gluttony Big Fist, Sloth, Misunderstanding, Kimbly Lunatic Prisoner, and Lujon, Lust's Little Mistake. However all of those give you an average wits of 5-6 whereas going up against say a mirror match of Envy, Vicious, you're going to be facing average wits of 6-8.

Luckily, being Homonculus she has a natural way to help her get extra command through Slavering Beast. Start Slavering Beast to search out a Brigadier General first turn. Start a Rose, Blind Follower to check their hand to make sure you don't get Pressured and you could even start a Nina, Artificial Human to stop that Pressure if they have it. If you do this, just make sure you don't have soley 8 cost allies as a simple Betrayal could end the game for you.

Constructed: 3/5-I still think Reclusive Herbalist is the best Dante around.
lonedothacker Dante, Power Revealed Homonc
7 Command lvl 2
Human Villian
5/6/5

Quick Alchemy: 2
React 1 Stone: Cancel a react, main or alchemy event.

This is a pretty interesting level two. Her ability is nice being able to shut down some of the biggest events in the game, Main, at the single cost of a stone point. This is easily achieved if you use Moment of Hysteria, you can play a stone starting turn one. Her stats are also fairly balanced for a level 2. Her downside is the 7 command which holds her back from getting some of the larger Homonc allies at level 2, however shes a good intermediate if you choose to use Nurtured on Souls to minimize the time on level 2. In a Dante deck this would probably be my level 2 of choice for her disruption power.

Ratings:
Constructed: 4/5
Sealed: 2/5 -7 Command hurts here as you have alot of out of faction drops depending on how you choose to draft.

retched

Wednesday - Dante, Power Revealed

Welcome to today's card of the day. Once again as Sacrifice Leaders week continues... Now for those of you reading this... you probably done your homework on the FMA series storyline (second half) and now realize who Hohenheim is, how old he is, his ultimate fate, and how Dante plays in all this. Wait, you didn't? Best start googling and abusing that Wiki-pedia pages to find out. Nonetheless, here's Hohenheim's (former) partner in crime, Dante.

Quick Alchemy 2

React [1]: Cancel a main, react, or alchemy ability.

Ok... Here's some real help for the ailing Homunculus decks. And this one's a doozy! Give a homunculus alchemy, what do you get? Wraith. Give a Homunculus a serious amount of intelligence and what do you get? Basically all of them but Gluttony. Give a Homunculus wits, an alchemy attributes, AND (when you have a stone in play or a spare card to toss) the ability to cancel any react, main, or alchemy ability and what do you get? Serious problems to any alchemy-based Elric deck, problems for users of Antique Armor, and serious problems for Winry's attachment abusing abilities. Long and short run, if you're running Lust or Envy as your Homunculus deck's leader... Bench them and run the Dante series of cards. Be sure to throw Stone points cards in there just to be sure. Add in Frank Archer just for the heck of it as well as King Bradley too. Now unlike Hohenheim, this ability is worth throwing a card off your deck for and the Quick Alchemy ability is an added bonus.

Time for the stats:

Constructed: 3.75/5. Slightly better than Hohenheim's reset ability and can cause a lot pain and problems to all decks all around. Just be sure to run multiple copies of stone cards to play this easier.

Limited: 1.75/5. Still a bit too hard to play this card in limited for throwing cards off. Best option is to run her with caution and the realization that you can only activate this ONCE per turn.

State
Alchemist
Evan

Here we have the 7 command Dante: Power Revealed.

Essentially, what you want to decide here is whether to run this or the
8 command as your level 2. The main differences between the two are that the 7 command has one higher stat in each category (including quick
alchemy) and a more versatile stone ability. As far as the stats go, the difference is not mind-boggling enough to affect the difference between the two very much. Also, the stone ability on Power Revealed is indeed pretty sweet (canceling a wide variety of abilities can be crucial), but it does of course require that you have a stone out in play.

When looking at a level 2, just as with level 1's, command is probably the most crucial thing to consider. Unless you're running an ally base that doesn't feature a lot of 8 costs, you're going to want to think carefully before using this over 400 Years Old, her 8 command leader.
When you're running a Homunculus leader, I think it's always best to use an 8-command. Just think of all the allies you will miss out on, barring some kind of command boosting card: Sloth - Miss Director, Number 48 - Younger Brother, Lust - Cloaked Stranger AND Lust - Artificial Human, Lujon - Locally Famous, and of course Sacrifice's favorite new ballistic weapon of death, Wrath - Overkill. If your deck-type does not need any of those guys then by all means, run this Dante. If it were me, however, I'd go with the slightly weaker 400 YO for the extra command, since it opens up so many possibilities.

Constructed 3/5: The 8 command will probably be better for most decks.
You may be able to run brig. general to make up for it, but there are no guarantees it will be out by level 2 anyway, especially if you're running policeman.
Sealed 2/5: Any level 2 is a welcome relief in a sealed game, but the fact that this is a rare will mean that it's actually less likely to come up than 400YO anyway. Also, having less command is even more of a detriment in a sealed game where you may have quite a few allies out of faction. If you have a choice, go for the other one.

The “Steel Talon” Alchemist

 

Today it’s Dante: Power Revealed.

 

At first glance we have a 7 command level 2 leader with a solid set of stats and Quick Alchemy 2. What potentially brings this card to the front row is its Stone ability to cancel any main, react or alchemy ability that is played. Combine this card with the level one Moment of Hysteria and you’ve got the potential to ensure that what stones you have can be played at level 1 and then used at level 2. This particular leader has some decent chances of being competitive in just about any environment even with so few stones available. Couple it with some solid Homunculus allies and events and you’ll have a very solid build in constructed play.

 

In Limited play stones are still fairly hard to pull enough of to make a solid deck with. However with Moment of Hysteria being a common you’ve got a solid chance of getting your level one for this stack. If you are lucky enough to get the rare for this stack then no matter what stone you pull you’ll be able to use some decent abilities with them.

 

So final call

 

Constructed: 4/5

With a good set-up a Dante deck with this card could be hard to stop.

Limited: 3/5

It’s still a rare and any rare in Limited is tough to build a deck around.

 

The “Steel Talon” Alchemist

 

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