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lolzy card, but it breaks game rule.

I can only imagine the evil you could do with this card

Is it three side battles, each Hero vs EC?

I agree on "card can break game rule"

Certain game rules > cards > rest of game rules.  What was the side battles thing all about?

And it was awesome

Certain game rules > cards > rest of game rules.  What was the side battles thing all about?

Basically, the concept was called a devastator deck. To begin, a person has to have a Sword of the Lord or two, a couple False Peace's, Momentum Change, and a way to CtB. It worked as follows: Provisioned Hero attacks, chooses immune character of a color not used by opponent. Hero plays Search(es) if possible to get a few cards he needs. Then he plays Sword of the Lord, and forces a small Crimson/Gold character to fight a bigger character (Crimson/Gold were the two brigades that could play any color enhancement with Mask of Worldliness or Moral Decline before Lying Unto God was introduced). Alternatively, Messenger of Satan and a small gray character may have been used. The side battler plays False Peace x8 (these decks were also before the 5x max of cards was introduced for T2. The rule used to be 1 per 20, so devastator decks were 160+ cards) each False Peace searching for another one if necessary. Finally, they play Momentum Change, and any copies of Confusion they may already have. The side battle ends, all the EE's go back, and the Hero plays another Sword of the Lord. This time, all 8 False Peaces can search for something else the side battler needs, so usually 8 copies of Confusion are ready to go. Thus, the side battler uses all the Confusions to discard all of your Heroes and good doms in deck. This process is repeated up to 8 times (8x Sword of the Lord) and in case the opponent somehow had a way to still win, the side battler would typically use Visions of Iddo the Seer or similar to get all the good enhancements back. They can only do it one more time at most, since they run out of Momentum Changes after that, but if you can still honestly win a game after having 50-60 cards discarded from your deck, then you deserve to win.

There were of course quite a few counters back then, but there were also ways to get around them, and in a 160 card deck, a devastator player had room for them. The only recourse for an opponent was to win quickly with big FBTN characters, or to get counters early (once when I played the Guardian's version of the deck, I had 3x Hezekiah's Signet Rings, and kept them active the whole game (which was about 7 turns of my Strong Angel walking in for a freebie against a defense that was not at all set up for him).

The concept was developed by Ron Sias in 2004, and a few months of State and Regional tournies later, it was effectively nixed by the one side battle per turn rule. Both Ron and the Guardian tried to make do with modified versions of the deck for Nats, but neither were very successful.

Hand limit takes care of that problem now, plus this would only allow three side battles.