Ring of Sloth
Item | Ring | Fire
Strength +0 | Agility +0 | Magic +3 | Intelligence
+0
Bank: 0
“To
play this in a contest, you need a Fire Neopet. When
you bank this card with a Fire Neopet or Hero,
choose a card in your opponent’s bank and discard
it.”
-Holofoil
Would you look at that? Another card to add to the
growing power of that Fire deck I talked about last
time…
Stats:
Ring of Sloth is strictly something you will want to
bank, despite the nonexistent Bank stat. It gives a
small +3 to Magic, and no stats anywhere else. It is
an Item, meaning that you can play it during a
contest either on your turn or your opponent’s, but
obviously only in the Magic arena. I don’t know why
“Ring” is there, since it’s plain to see what it is.
As well, it’s Fire, so it works well with Draiks,
Scorchios, etc.
Effects:
You
can only use this if there is a Fire Neopet in play,
meaning you don’t need to tap anything. That’s
customary of Items. As well, you must win a contest
on your turn with a Fire Neopet or Hero to bank this
card. That won’t be terribly hard, if you correctly
build a deck.
Like I said before, this is strictly a card that you
will want to bank. Although its Bank is a pathetic
0, it is something you may want to try out. You get
to choose one card in your opponent’s Bank pile, and
discard it. How good is that, you may be asking.
Well picture using two of these to drop your
opponent’s near-complete Bank from 20 points to 12,
if they’re using 4-point Bank cards.
On
top of taking out the high-Bankers, you can discard
problematic cards whose effects activate as soon as
they hit the Bank pile. This also includes any
Neopets or Heroes whose stats increase depending on
how many of a certain card is in the Bank pile,
which you can regulate.
Combos:
Perhaps use it after Retribution to take a high-Bank
card out of your opponent’s Bank pile? Possibly use
it with Cooty, although adding extra cards to the
fray can become unreliable. I really can’t think of
anything else to use this card for that would be an
ultimate combo sort of thing. It’s use is quite
basic, really.
Rating:
3.5/5 – If it had a bank stat, it would be much,
much better. I think it would work great in a Fire
deck, or a hybrid Fire deck.
Closing:
Decreasing the amount of points in your opponent’s
Bank is great, but won’t win you the game
single-handedly. You need to increase your own Bank.
But still…who wouldn’t want to mess their opponent’s
strategy?
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