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Pojo's Harry Potter Card of the Day
Riding the Centaur - Adventures
at Hogwarts
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Riding the Centaur |
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Card Type:
Adventure |
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Effect:
Prevent all damage done to you by your opponent's Creatures. |
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To Solve:
Your opponent chooses 4 of his or her cards in play
(other than his or her starting Character) and returns
them to his or her hand. |
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Opponent's Reward: Your opponent may draw
a card.
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Card No:
25 |
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Rarity:
Rare/Foil |
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Set:
Adventures at Hogwarts |
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Average Rating: 4.54
(based on 6 reviews) |
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Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
5 is the highest rating. |
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Aardvark
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This card seems to have supplanted
In the Stands as the adventure of choice to use in stopping creatures.
Both offer the same tiny reward for solving. In the Stands keeps
critters from getting into play, but is helpless to stop ones that
have previously sneaked out already. This card fixes that problem,
and also provides the advantage of forcing your opponent to remove
cards that are in play, instead of just in hand. That's important
because the cards in play are the ones that are hurting you right
now. However, there are compensating drawbacks. For one, the removed
cards are merely bounced back to their hand instead of being sent
to their discard pile. Using cards such as Charms Exam or Peeves
will still be needed to more permanently remove such threats. The
other negative is that this card allows your opponent to continue
to build up their army of creatures without interruption. They could
then choose to solve this adventure on their turn by bouncing non-creatures
to their hand, and then have their creatures deal their damage in
one big hit on you. To reduce this risk, it's best to use this card
coupled with mass creature removal (Transfiguration Test, for example).
You can also fit Riding the Centaur into a denial deck that leaves
your opponent few choices as to what four cards they'll have to
return to their hand.
Rating: 4 |
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Crusader
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I love this card. You stall your opponent
from their creatures attacking, and how do they solve? They have
to return 4 cards in play to their hand! Use this with End of Year
Feast and you can keep this card alive for a LONG time, and annoy
your opponent a lot! The reward, draw one card, also doesn't hurt
you, and doesn't give your opponent a lot to go on. Overall, this
card, imo, is WAY better then In the Stands, and you should throw
2-3 in any deck you can ;)
Rating: 5 |
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Enraged
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Ooooooooooh I was so happy when I
saw this card for the new set. The ability to keep creatures from
damaging you is one thing that almost every deck needs even other
creature decks. Solving can be done in a turn which is kind of a
bummer but people don't want to return of four of their cards so
chances are it will stay out for a couple of turns before they decide
to solve. There are no draw backs to this card and I play it in
quite a few of my best decks, so if you wanna play this card or
are having creature troubles play it and play it often.
Rating: 5 |
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Lockhart
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This card is just way too cool. There
isn't anything bad to say about it. Get two of them in your hand,
and watch while they solve with Minerva, you still prevented that
damage and then you smack another one down. Play a Transfig Test
and then maybe a Stream of Flames, and your opponent has no cards
in play. The possibilities are endless. This card is almost as good
looking as me. What am I saying, NOTHING is as good looking as me.
Rating: 4.25 |
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MadEye
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There is no adventure more feared
by any creature deck than this one. Who cares if they have Minerva,
play it and play another one. It has definitely made a difference
in how anti-creature decks have approached creature decks. This
is as good as it gets. It is nice to see an anti-creature adventure
that compliments the anti-spell Through the Arch adventure. Play
it and play it often.
Rating: 5 |
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Snuffles
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I really like Riding the Centaur.
In a lot of ways it is like a Wingardium Leviosa with a price. It
costs you two actions to play, but your opponent has to return four
of their cards to their hand to make their creatures do damage.
Thus it slows down your opponent. If you couple this with some denial
you can really hurt your opponent. Plus if they use their McGonagall's
ability on this adventure it leaves them open to the next adventure
you play. And most likely if they are playing McG, they will use
her ability here. No matter what though, it stops their damage for
a turn and sometimes that is all that you need to make the difference
in a game.
Rating: 4 |
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Guest
Reviewer
HoneyDuke
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A worthy back-up for when you can't
get In the Stands out before your opponent begins playing creatures.
Solving this one manually, though, may be a bit too easy, and sometimes
dangerous. For some, picking up four cards in play may be a welcome
move if it means they can resume doing 5 damage or more with their
creatures. A Hermione deck would recover the quickest, since all
a player would need to do is pick up four lessons and play them
immediately. An opponent with Black Bat or Moonseed Poison in play
would relish the opportunity to pick those cards up again to lay
them down again for more points. Thus, if it's a toss-up between
this card and another creature removal spell of some sort, go for
the latter.
Rating: 2 (Guest Reviewer's ratings are not added into the average.) |
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