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Title: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: Noah on July 06, 2015, 10:30:50 PM
If I have Self Control on my hero and I use Sarah's Jealousy to make my opponent rescue with my The Generous Widow, what, if anything, happens?

Self Control: Place on your clay or teal Hero: Protect your hand and deck from opponents' cards.

Sarah's Jealousy: Holder may choose the Hero opponent uses to make a rescue attempt this turn.

The Generous Widow: All players discard two cards from hand and draw two cards. Cannot be negated.
Title: Re: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: The Guardian on July 06, 2015, 10:46:56 PM
Since TGW is not your opponents' card (he only controls it, he does not own it) Self-Control would not protect against it.
Title: Re: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: Noah on July 06, 2015, 10:53:57 PM
I thought that would be the case. Back to the drawing board . . .
Title: Re: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: The Guardian on July 06, 2015, 10:59:10 PM
Sarah's Jealousy+TGW+Rain Becomes Dust...it's been known to work pretty well...  ::)
Title: Re: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: Noah on July 06, 2015, 11:02:17 PM
Yeah, but RBD is countered by so many things nowadays. BTW, was that combo the basis of the defense, or just a cool combo splashed with something bigger like Babs or Heretics?
Title: Re: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: jbeers285 on July 06, 2015, 11:05:09 PM
That's was a t2 deck that justin used to smash lots of hopes and dreams the last couple years
Title: Re: Self Control and The Generous Widow
Post by: The Guardian on July 06, 2015, 11:12:50 PM
Yeah, but RBD is countered by so many things nowadays. BTW, was that combo the basis of the defense, or just a cool combo splashed with something bigger like Babs or Heretics?

It was actually Disuading Speech (though the original decklist was Babs w/ Sarah's Jealousy) that I ended up going with in a Judges/AssyrianMagician T2 deck. That combo wasn't the main focus, but if I was also able to combine it with a Words of Discouragement even just once, it typically put me at such a huge hand advantage that it was nearly impossible for my opponent to recover, especially if they had no way to get rid of RBD in order to catch up on drawing.
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