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Are Inca still bad/good?

Coming in as a new player, and I have a personal fascination with the Inca. However, a lot of the online discourse regarding them seems to be both negative, very old, and possibly outdated. So I guess this is a question for the community: How well do the Inca fare today? What is good/fun about them?

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u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 2 days ago

Turn every creature in the game into Crab for 5RWUUU

  1. Play Arcane Adaptation, naming "Crab"

  2. Play Court of Crab Vantress.

  3. Play Iron, Tea Master. Create a Crab cake food token.

  4. At the start of each turn, create a token copy of Arcane Adaptation, also naming "Crab". Then during your combat step, donate the token to one of your opponents. Repeat until everyone has a copy of your Arcane Adaptation.

  5. Everything is now Crab. All creatures in libraries are now Crab. All hands, graveyards, and sideboards are Crab.

  6. Defeat your opponents with the power of Crab 🦀

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 days ago

Create the Crabpocalypse for 10RRRUUU

  1. Play Arcane Adaptation naming "Crab".

  2. Play Mirror form turning all your crabs into Arcane Adaptation. (It also transforms your non-crab permanents, if you somehow have any). The more permanents you have, the better chance you have of achieving total carcinization.

  3. Play Thieves Auction and start grabbing things. Eventually players will be forced to take one or more of your Arcane Adaptations, including you.

  4. Everything is now Crab. Everyone's deck is now crab. Everyone's hand, graveyard, and sideboard are now crab. All your opponents creatures are now crab, and you have a lot of them.

  5. Win with the power of crab 🦀.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 days ago

Shuffle every opponent off this mortal coil for 11UBB(U/B)(U/B)

  1. Play Immortal Coil. Make sure you have a card in your graveyard or you will immediately die.

  2. Animate the Coil with Ensoul Artifact.

  3. Play and equip the Coil with Assault Suit.

  4. Play and use Ashiok to exile each opponent's graveyard.

  5. Pass the turn to your opponent. At the start of each person's turn, hand them the Sinister Iron Man Suit Immortal Coil, which immediately kills them. Pass the turn to the next opponent, and repeat the process.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 6 days ago

Go Gambling for 4GWWW

  1. Play Selvala and enchant her with Gauntlets of light.
  2. Play False Dawn to turn all your mana production into white mana.
  3. Pull the slot lever Tap Selvala to have everyone draw a card and gain W for each nonland permanent. Collect your payout, and hopefully score three or more mana. (Note: you will need 3+ players to have a chance of breaking even)
  4. Pay three mana from your earnings to untap Selvala, and repeat the cycle.
  5. Keep gambling until If you get enough good pulls, use the winnings to cast something expensive. But if your pulls aren't great, you can always keep it going by pulling mana from your savings account.

Remember that if you don't win on this turn with your gambling money, you will pass the turn having drawn each of your opponents a bunch of cards, so you have to double down.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 7 days ago
▲ 21 r/aoe3

Most unusual or unique strategies?

I just got back into this game after seeing the announcement, and convinced my buddy to join me. We're having a lot of fun, and are trying all the different city cards out to see what is most effective, and I'm curious just how deep this game can go (For reference, he's been playing Russians, and I've been enjoying Haude, French, and ranged cavalry).

Given the immense number of civ exclusive cards, units, team cards, and more, there's got to be some builds that are extremely unique or special. What are some of the most unorthodox plays you've seen/done? I don't care if they're good, I just want unique.

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u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 13 days ago

What happens when Butcher Orgg blocks?

[[Butcher Orgg]] has a cool ability that lets it reassign damage to things controlled by the defending player. Does this ability work while it is blocking? There is definitely a defending player, but that might just be semantics. Can you deal combat damage to yourself?

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u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 15 days ago

Gain islandwalk by sinking your boat for 6R

  1. Play War Barge and Slobad.

  2. Activate War Barge's ability. Pay for it by tapping Slobad, sacrificing War Barge to produce four red mana.

  3. Enjoy your islandwalk in comfort, knowing that your barge can't leave play if it's already sunk.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 28 days ago

Give a creature islandwalk with no downside for 10

  1. Play War Barge and Radiant Lotus

  2. Activate War Barge's ability. Use the Lotus to sacrifice the War Barge in order to get the mana to pay for it.

  3. Enjoy your islandwalk in complete confidence, knowing that War Barge can't leave play if it's already sunk.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 29 days ago

Burn all creatures (and all your permanents) for 7UBBB

  1. Play Dralnu and Last Laugh.

  2. Play Blazing Torch and equip it to Dralnu. Have Dralnu light himself on fire, dealing 2 damage to himself.

  3. Sacrifice two permanents instead of dealing damage to Dralnu, then have Last Laugh deal 1 damage to each creature and player in response to the first sac. This causes Dralnu to sacrifice another permanent, and repeat the loop again.

  4. Repeat until you have destroyed every creature other than Dralnu. Then keep going because this is a mandatory loop.

  5. Continue burning your permanents until you run out of things to sacrifice, players to burn, or you sacrifice either Last Laugh or Dralnu (which will probably also sacrifice Last Laugh).

  6. Deal 1 extra point of damage to everyone in response to that second sac way from when this all started, just for good measure.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 2 months ago

Recreate the Kool-Aid incident for 5WB

  1. Gather a Crowd of True Believers willing to drink anything.

  2. Unalive them in a Grisly Ritual to create Kool-Aid.

  3. Drink the Kool-Aid.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 2 months ago

Seal your opponents legendary permanents for 7UUUUUU

  1. Play Empress Galina.

  2. Use your discerning eye to find your opponents best legendary. Pay UU to seal— I mean, steal it.

  3. Play Patriar's seal and use it to untap Empress Galina to seal another legendary.

  4. Tell your opponent that you approve of their permanents, and stamp your new cards with the seal of approval.

  5. Get kicked out for defacing your opponent's cards (and making bad puns).

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago

Does Aura Swap trigger ETBs?

Suppose I play [[Arcanum Wings]], and use its aura swap ability to exchange it with an aura with an ETB effect, such as [[Flight of Fancy]]. Would I draw the cards? How exactly does an 'exchange' work?

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u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago

How did Douglas MacArthur and President FDR interact with each other?

Did they agree on certain points of doctrine, or did they despise each other? I also heard that there was an incident where MacArthur vomited on the stairs of the White House after a meeting with FDR. Is that true? What actually happened?

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u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago

Surprise flying for 3UU

  1. Play Arcanum Wings

  2. Aura swap into Stratum Walk to give the creature high flying at instant speed. They'll never see it coming now!

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago

Pun-ish your opponents for 2UUUUU

  1. Play Declaration of Naught, and say "Declare a knot? What are knots?"
  2. Play Waterknot and counter your own spell for the punchline.
u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago

Create Hundreds of Beavers for 6UGGG

  1. Play Ivy Lane Denizen.
  2. Play Herd Baloth.
  3. Place a counter on the Baloth with the Ivy Lane Denizen, then respond to the ability by casting Artificial Evolution, changing the word "Baloth" to "Beaver".
  4. The Baloth creates a 4/4 green beaver, triggering the Ivy Lane Citizen again. Repeat the process for a while.
  5. You opponent must now face Hundreds of Beavers
u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago

Burn a player with a mana engine for 7UU

  1. Play Guilded Lotus, and cast Bring to Life to turn it into a creature.

  2. Play Crab Umbra on the Guilded Lotus.

  3. Repeatedly tap and untap your Guilded Lotus as quickly as possible using a stick to start a friction fire.

  4. Destroy the board with your new conflagration. Go to the hospital to treat your rope burns.

u/Desperate-Abalone954 — 3 months ago