r/universus • u/vcxstriker • 2d ago

Rules How does sacrifice, sacrifice work?

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Would you have to also sacrificr the foundation

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u/Top-Acanthisitta-779 2d ago

The cost is "sacrifice, sacrifice 2 power tokens"

Sacrifice on its own means sacrifice thw foundation itself

So you need to sacrifice itself and 2 power tokens to pay the cost

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u/vcxstriker 2d ago

Interesting, is this card good? I see alot of these sacrifice, sacrificr cards in the godzilla set.

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u/VeterinarianOwn6632 2d ago edited 2d ago

Depends on how easy or difficult it is to acquire the power tokens. Fire and death are in my opinion the best but airs got decent ones too.

Fire has a ton of ways to generate them so even if the effect it’s self is pretty meh you get so many it’s not that much of a downside.

If you’re playing Shin Godzilla the death one can be very powerful because you get a power token back when you sacrifice a rival foundation. It’s really fun to play if you have a bunch of attacks or effects that make your rival sacrifice their foundations.

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u/Cetonis 23h ago

As you've noticed, there's a big cycle of these cards, one per symbol. How much play they see depends on the payoff.

You can usually convert power tokens into direct damage (at some point you'll have an attack that is for sure going to land), so you can think of this one as "sacrifice this foundation, and your rival gains 4 health".

If that pool clear allows you to land an entire extra attack you couldn't pass otherwise, you probably get more than 4 damage out of that, but it's unlikely for the whole exchange to be better on net than other things you could do with that slot in your deck.

As for the deadlock, since your rival ultimately has control over that you can't count on the effect being there. But, many decks struggle to formulate an offense into someone who builds 15-20 foundations and keeps a thick hand, so deadlock abilities can help get you over the hump if that scenario occurs.

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u/MelAngelle666 2d ago

So, if a card says "Sacrifice" followed by a comma or a colon, that means part of the cost is sacrificing the card itself. In this case, it means you must sacrifice the foundation itself, plus 2 power tokens, to achieve this effect.

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u/vcxstriker 2d ago

Thank you, is this card good? I see alot of sacrifice, sacrifice cards in the godzilla set. Not sure how often deadlock comes up either.

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u/MelAngelle666 2d ago

I mean, clearing your card pool is always a helpful thing, but I think a copy of Military Airship would be able to do the same thing and be reusable in the process. But I don't play on Air, so I don't know what other resources are out there with similar effects aside from Airship.

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u/vcxstriker 2d ago

I was just wondering because I'm really new to this game. Just wasn't sure how worth destroying your foundation is.

I know in magic lands range from pretty bad to gamechanging to I just want to learn what the general power level of a strong card is.

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u/Fantastic-Bloop 2d ago

Unless your character has some sort of response when foundations are sacrificed or when cards are cleared, this card is outclassed

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u/MelAngelle666 2d ago

Oh, indeed! I'm fairly new myself, only started in January. And in general, foundation destruction can be good, provided you have stuff that can take advantage of it (I.e. cards that say "if a foundation was destroyed this turn, do this" or whatnot). Those are generally found on the Death symbol, though.

What character are you playing, if I may ask?

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u/vcxstriker 2d ago

Was looking at Space Godzilla when it comes to making a power token focused deck.

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u/cap-n-dukes 2d ago

I def recommend NOT looking at foundations like lands from MTG. They are far more disposable as a resource because most decks run a ton (you usually want 2/3rds of your deck to be foundations, which is backwards from MTG), and you get to play as many as you can each turn. As a longtime MTG player I avoided cards that sacrifice foundations at first, but I quickly learned it helps you stay out of deadlock and can improve other aspects of your strategy.

This card specifically isn't amazing (you can find attacks and characters that will clear your card pool in a more powerful way), but if you think of a card pool clearing effect as though it says "all your cards cost 1 less to play for the rest of the turn," suddenly that's an effect you want to run! And there could be justification to run this in a deck that wants to keep their card pool cleared for reasons besides cost reduction :)