Card Highlight - Advance Scouting Party

 Hello all and welcome to another instalment of my Card Highlight series.

With a more competitive perspective in mind I thought I’d focus on a card that can often slip under the radar to newer players from the realm of Spirata; Advance Scouting Party.

This 5 cost action is on the brink of being something of a staple in any Spirata palette for a very big reason - card draw. In Achroma, as with most card games, card draw is an incredibly powerful ability; seeing more cards than your opponent means more opportunity to progress your own plan or find responses to their plays sooner. Combine this with Advance Scouting Party’s ability to reduce it’s own cost, or potentially even gain you a shard if you choose to trade a 6 cost card from it, and you can see why it’s such a powerful card; at the absolute worst it plays out as a draw 2 for 4 shards which is still worth the cost in my opinion. 

Spirata palettes also have access to a great variety of higher costing key cards and staples, many of which allow this card to effectively be free to deploy, which can fit into any palette build and don’t even use any rare or legendary slots to boot!


Essentially this card lets you see your next 3 cards and keep the 2 strongest ones based on the current situation. With it being an action this can also include being able to do it at ant point in your turn including before your initial draw or trade step which can be hugely powerful in the right instances as you’re able to then get a great amount of card selection whilst still trading in this step to keep your shard count high. On top of all of that, in the worst situations where you’re struggling for shards, it can still be traded for an impressive 5 shards itself making it arguably one of the strongest cards, in terms of versatility. So next time you’re building a new Spirata palette and feel like it’s missing something, but you’re not quite sure what, try putting in a couple of copies of this and see what a difference it can make to your consistency. 

You’ll find Advance Scouting Party in Chroma Squadron palettes from The Fall of Flutterby which are available from their Unlimited Faction Box or their Collector’s Edition as well as the Fall of Flutterby Deluxe Realm Box.

That's all from me for now guys - just a short and sweet one this week!

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See ya real soon folks! 





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