My First Somer Tournament

[magicpockets]

Your pigs are just SPAs that haven't been summoned yet.

Not when they're raining down on you....

[Oshova]

But Somer is the worst master in the game. Why would you want to take him?

In fairness though, good luck at the weekend. It will be interesting to see how many turns Levi can survive. And whether I will be able to do anything with Zoraida other than lose. =p

[CunningStunt]

You're due a win against me Timmy.
You can do it. I believe in you!

[Omenbringer]

Two Pigapults? Hmm. Interesting.

I had the same thought when I read that.

Majority of Players: But Somer is the worst master in the game. Why would you want to take him?

You cant hold being uneducated against a person.

[Oshova]

You cant hold being uneducated against a person.

Well you can, but they won't like you for it.

Also, am I missing something with the pigapults, seeing as both Dumb Luck and Omenbringer find it interesting that there's 2 in there. Where you expecting more? less? none? . . . give me some hints, and stop being so cryptic. =p

[CunningStunt]

I think they're expecting less. Most people dont use the 'pult gunline.

[magicpockets]

First game with pig lists last night -

Somer
aSomer
Skeeter
Rat
Bayou Gremlin
Pigapult
Hog Whisperer
4x Piglets

vs Oshova playing Zoraida with Von Schill (filth list)

I wanted to try Sooey! with pigs and also to see how it went only starting with one Bayou and summoning off that (terrible btw). Ended me winning 6-2, but was a lot closer than that in game.

Some things I found -

1. Zoraida and Hex on a Pigapult is a pain in the ass
2. Sooey! is actually quite good but needs a lot of thinking (or practice to get it second nature)
3. Don't start with one Gremlin, it's way too slow for Somer lol
4. Piglets just running amok on your opponents half of the board are hilarious

Also, question to check I didn't cheat, when your Piglets are stampeding, can you still us eReckless for an extra pig charge?

--- On a side, why the surprise over two Pigapults? They're so versatile for 4AP I think in most schemes I'd take them. I'll post how my idea for using them works out after the weekend.

[Dumb Luck]

It makes sense now that I see there's a Brawl on the Sunday. Just seeing two on a list is a bit of a taker backer.

How do you find turning Gremlins into Piglets, Pockets? With Somer needing three cards to do it, aswell as manifesting for the Avatar I find it awfully slow. In my opinion, I'd much rather start with more Piglets and enough Gremlins to bag me the early Manifest. This typically only nets me four Piglets, which I feel isn't really enough.

And Somer is the worst master in the game. But only I'm allowed to say it.

[magicpockets]

It makes sense now that I see there's a Brawl on the Sunday. Just seeing two on a list is a bit of a taker backer.

I'll be taking two in some of my scraps

How do you find turning Gremlins into Piglets, Pockets? With Somer needing three cards to do it, aswell as manifesting for the Avatar I find it awfully slow. In my opinion, I'd much rather start with more Piglets and enough Gremlins to bag me the early Manifest. This typically only nets me four Piglets, which I feel isn't really enough.

And Somer is the worst master in the game. But only I'm allowed to say it.

Not sure what you mean by three cards tbh - he just needs a crow iirc?

As far as summoning pigs, I tend to only turn the rat into a pig after summoning all my skeeters as it has to die anyway and that way all skeeter heal up. Plus I get a model back for the dead rat

Also, I'm thinking aSomer is a turn 4/5 manifest to give me time to build a gunline etc - do you find he works better manifested early?

[Dumb Luck]

His trigger needs a Crow for the Cb and a further two cards dropped to get the Piglet.

When running the Pig Boomerang, I find I spent so much effort trying to get more Piglets or heal up Gremlins to manifest I would generally rather take the extra Piglets in my list to begin with and pop Avatar ASAP.

Building up a gunline seems (to me anyway, I'm not the greatest Pig player) to take away from valuable Pig flying around time. The gunline is more likely to shoot itself than your targets. But I tend to use the Pig list as a very avoidance heavy/hit and run type of list. I leave the gunline spawning tricks for an Ophelia centric list as she handles it much better.