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Murderous
Widow
Passion
Reviewed March 22, 2007
Constructed: 2.00
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
5 is the highest rating
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Chen Wan Lee |
Murderous Widow
Today’s review is the Murderous Widow, an
uncommon Passion figure from Chrysotic Plague.
This figure adds to a rather short list of
6-drop Passion figures pre-CP, but that doesn’t
necessarily mean she is good. Looking at her
stats, she is extremely vulnerable even by
Passion standards, and has the lowest
survivability of her cost. Her power, however,
is off the charts, topping the Skeever
Hatchling.
So far so good; she is effectively a glass
cannon, like a Bloodthristy Redcap holding an
even bigger cleaver. Then you look at her
abilities.
Blade: Crit 1. Good. Deathblow resistance. Good.
Loner. Oh my goodness…..
Yes, like several other Passion figures like
Lone Wolf, Dreamreef Marauder and the like, she
is a Loner. And we all know what that means.
Loners traditionally have above-average stats in
exchange for one of the most self-crippling
effects in the game. In this case, her 6 attack
still means she can probably kill Scarab
Warcharms on a slightly above average roll, but
that’s about it. Anything tougher than that
becomes significantly hard to kill, making her a
weenie/medium creature hunter. Not that Passion
needs one, considering how Passion figures
usually allow the player to roll an insane
number of dice, utterly wiping the cell out
anyway.
To make matters worse, she comes in the same set
as the Crazed Maenad, another 6-cost Passion
miniature. While both of them are difficult to
compare pound for pound considering the fact
that the Maenad needs support unlike the Widow,
the Maenad has Mutation 10, which is downright
insane when pulled off with some movement
tricks. Change her into something bigger (say,
Bloodcut Behemoth, another Loner but with good
stats and a nice passive ability to back it up),
move that into the next cell, and get ready to
fight in that cell after that. The fact is in
most cases if I really wanted a 6-cost Passion
figure, I’d pick the Maenad over this.
Still, some may believe that she is great tech
as a solo piece that can run around killing a
huge selection of commonly played miniatures
(basically, everything more vulnerable or equal
to Scarab Warcharm) and is potentially difficult
to kill due to her immunity to deathblows; if
you go first, something will probably die. Your
opponent will then have to move something into
her cell to kill her, effectively biding you
some time. Usually, opponents move something big
or multiple weenies in to kill her, for fear of
failing, in which case you are totally exposed
to her striking back on the next turn. This in
itself is pretty good. Some would ignore her
though, but you can always use that to your
advantage and move her around to occupy cells.
Plus, there is always a chance you may get lucky
– I’ve disrupted a Dreadmorph Ogre with my
4-attack Redcap before, so this might just kill
it.
Constructed: 2/5. She didn’t get the 1/5 because
she is still fairly usable, but Loner really,
really hurts.
Art: 5/5. A girl in a wedding dress with a mask
and an axe. Whoever did the concept of this
miniature is seriously demented, but heck, its
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