oh, how the tables have turned! the curser is military equipment and the other thing is a lady moving magicks around with her fingers.
these two are new and exciting in different ways. as the other pairings have been. enchantress is a totally new thing, the attack variant that people have been thinking about from the start but hasn't had much of a method of implementation. well, this one is kinda hard, and for several reasons wouldn't want to be in the first few expansions, but we're all good at rules now. there's a whole subforum for it! anyway, enchantress really smacks down rebuild and simple money strategies pretty hard, maybe counter-intuitively. it seems like a good attack, and it more or less completely stacks with most of the other ones! good luck if you get hit by a discard and an enchantress every turn.
catapult is another thing that's sorta been looming around but hasn't happened. theoretically we would want to gate some of the more powerful attacks behind trashing expensive cards, and cursing is, well, up there. too bad it hasn't been gated yet though. and it's neat thematically! the rocks will rouse an indian burial ground behind the opponent's kingdom if they're expensive enough (like a particularly neat seal on an envelope, for example) and you can then fling that indian burial back at your opponent's kingdom but it won't do anything. catapult is a bit of an oddity besides that thing; you cast a knights on yourself to cast a witch on them but knights are bad this game and witches are p good. also rocks is probably the worst bottom pile without its upstairs neighbor, which is interesting since it is one of two that don't mention each other at all.
-how different and revolutionary are these attacks? and perhaps empires as a whole, considering things like delve?
-how often do you completely forget to enforce the enchantress attack?
-what else does catapult want to throw? thematically and otherwise (rats!)
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