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Mask of the Many
By Darwin Kastle - Feb 17, 2009

Mask of the Many is a perfect card for people that like to get into an opponent’s head. That’s everybody right? Like most games, knowledge is power in Epic. Having more information helps you make the right decisions to achieve victory.

Each time your opponent plays a champion you make a series of decisions or evaluations. Do I want to stop it while it’s on the line? Do I want to break it? Banish it? Take control of it? Can it block my champion? How big is it? Can I ignore it? This is a vital part of an Epic game.

Mask of the Many prevents your opponent from having any of the crucial information needed to make these decisions. Now you can play your champions as if they were veiled. This means when you spend an action to play a champion during your Build Step you can put it into play face-down without showing the face of it to your opponent(s).

This gives you the freedom to mess with your opponent in all sorts of cool ways. Does your opponent like to use individual removal cards to break and or banish your champions? Try mixing in some champions that are untargetable, unbreakable and/or unbanishable. Concerned about stop cards? Try some unstoppable champions, then savor the look on your opponent’s face when they play a stop card on a veiled champion that turns out to be unstoppable.

Personally I find it vexing when my opponent plays one veiled champion (I hate not knowing!), when all of my opponent’s champions are veiled, it’s really hard for me to deal with. This is especially true when the veiled card could be any champion in the whole set, not just the champions that would normally have veiled.

Information war aside, Mask of Many is a fantastic card for sealed or draft play because it gives you something for nothing. It’s free, so it doesn’t cost you an action to play it, and it draws you a card, thus keeping the number of cards in your hand the same. In addition to the Mask’s ability, you are getting one card closer to any bombs in your deck and one card closer to winning by having no cards left in your deck.

Like all free card drawers, Mask of the Many is a Gift. While you are still allowed to play up to 3 copies of any individual gift card in a designed deck, you may not have more than 9 gifts in total. Deciding which 9 gift cards to run is one of the most interesting and challenging decisions when designing a deck. Given the fits Mask of the Many can cause your opponent, I’m sure this gift will be on many players’ short list.
 
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