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Temporal Shifting

    Temporal Shifting

    Time Travel can affort the user certain abilities that might not be available to those native to the current time.

    Event Event
    Special icons: Alternate Universe Preview

    Plays on any player. The player must choose to either discard three cards from hand or discard one Alternate Universe card. If that player discards a Alternate Universe card, he / she may draw up to four cards. Discard event.

    Characteristics: Temporal event.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    Temporal Shifting

    This Card-Review article was written by openCards user tksolway at May 15th, 2009.

    Temporal Shifting combined with Revisionist History is a draw engine that nets you two cards for a card play.  You draw four cards, but must discard two of them, one for Revisionist History to retrieve Temporal Shifting, and the second to the Temporal shifting to draw two cards.  Obviously you would want to play some sort of retrieval with this deck as well.  We can compare this draw engine to the default draw engine in Trek, Kivas Fajo-Collector.  Kivas nets 2 cards at the cost of a card play.  Since drawing it cost you a card.  Meanwhile Temporal Shifting nets you 2 cards for a card play.  So they seem even.  However, TS has one advantage over Kivas, you don’t have to draw it after it’s in your discard pile.  So conceptually you could get away with playing only a single TS in your deck.  However, you still have to draw it for the first time.   There are couple good options for this.  Q’s tent is a good one, put TS in your tent, and GASP use the tent to retrieve a card of your choice.  There is also a Starfleet options as well.  A 2e backwards compatible card Garrid downloads an event when he is stopped by a dilemma, it should be easy enough to set that up.

    All in all I like this combo, it isn’t really any more powerful than Kivas, other than the fact you don’t have to fill your deck with them.  I think it is well balanced.  Just remember play with some retrieval.