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Doc charges into battle against a Earth Grue–his plan is to use a swift action to cast Shield of Faith on Cat the Ranger and then cast Spiritual Weapon.
DM Alan rules that I can only cast once per round.
I admit that I have not read the D&D Next rules and that DM Alan is right, but I cannot find the ruling.
Can someone point me to this rule in the current D&D Next rules?
Preston has a lot of cards & is really playing well. Cassidy did well this morning as well–won twice, I think.
Matt is still building new decks–this morning he had a five dollar blue deck which was just awesome!
Derek is bring three color control to the table.
Andrew was late because he had to finish watching Pokemon movies.
Table is starting to look like a game store.
I attempted to end Dylan’s Sliver Domination!
Matt blocks with Young Pyromancer:
I pay the two to pump the Human Insect Wizard and hit for four taking none.
Matt argues that I can pump after blocks are announced; however, the flying effect does not override the fact that I was already in blocked state.
Jack went undefeated again. He is really playing well.
Evan went 1-1, he is using his little brothers deck & when he goes big he goes VERY BIG!
Alexander has not worked much on his deck & really needs to lower the mana curve of his RW Aggro deck. Liam is playing Esper and having fun, but needs better cards to really make the deck work.
Dylan is playing Dimir and loosing everytime–at this point I think he may be just sandbagging until Prerelease where he kills everyone.
Dylan also laid out the worlds greatest card of all time
I can think of no time in which this would be a useful play–am I missing something?
I have a player at my table who is playing a death cleric. He is using a scythe as a polearm which we have agreed is doing a d10. He has some class feature that allows him to do an extra d8 three times a day for the entire combat. When he hits a target he is able to make a second swift attack. Finally, he has some kind of polearm feat that gives him threatening reach.
So while my other players are doing like a d6 per round this guy is often doing 2d10+2d8+2 which just seems completely broken.
My first question is am I missing something–I am fairly new to D&D Next and some of this character optimization may not be legal–can anyone validate that what this player is doing is actually possible RAW?
My second question is, does D&D Next support ‘system mastery’ in the same was a 3.0? Do ‘advanced’ players have significantly more powerful PC’s simply because of rule mastery?
I remember in 3.0 building encounters to just shut down certain PC’s & prevent them from doing their ‘tricks’, I did not find I had to do that as much in 4.0 and I am curious if we are returning to those types of encounters?
Here is video of Thor’s PC in action
Derek [who cracked a fantastic Planeswalker], Matt, and Jack did not fair as well–actually, I think Jack was undefeated–but Derek struggled and Matt got crushed.
We had more questions on Double Strike and blocking–still something that confuses the boys–we think Double Strike deals damage two times [once during first strike, once during normal combat], even when it is blocking.
The First Strike vs Deathtouch also came up again–we think First Strike damage is applied before Deathtouch & if the creature dies during First Strike Phase Deathtouch does not come into play.
And finally we had a question about the Grull Keyrune
can the Rug Cutter be summoned and turned into a creature in one turn for 3RG? We voted that it could–Artifacts do not have summoning sickness.
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