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In this video series I go through all the base-game cards and rate them based on their strength and combo potential. Do you agree with my ratings? If not, let me know in the comments!
Rating Scheme:
S: gamebreakingly strong in most situations or never pass
A: gamebreakingly strong in some situations, very strong otherwise or cannot be passed sometimes
B: very strong in some situations, strong otherwise or avoid passing
C: strong in some situations, mediocre otherwise or avoid passing in some situations
D: mediocre in some situations, weak otherwise
F: complete garbage
All ratings so far can be found in this Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gzE-QwRTxsyb8T-B_y-VHu677-_wFnBUcYHz7I1k3cs/edit?usp=sharing
Intro: (0:00)
Power Plant – C: (0:16)
Power Supply Consortium – B: (1:45)
Predators – B: (3:05)
Protected Habs – A: (4:25)
Protected Valley – B: (6:15)
Outro: (7:58)
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In the timeline protected valley said to be F tier. Mistake. Great video thanks
PSC, Tapping amd Preds fit into their own subclass of cards that are incredibly important to know where they are at any given time as that knowledge alone affects your play patterns and decisions.
Information is a valuable resource and those cards are even more valuable informal than most.
If you know you've passed Preds, then picking up animals is less safe and the 11% O2 step is suddenly very relevant. Whereas if you kept, but didn't buy the card to hand, you know that you can safely invest in animals.
Power plant in C tier is way too low mate. It’s one of the best power tags in the game due to being cheap, providing relevant tags toward Milestones at such a low cost, and fitting well into almost every strategic archetype (where a card like lunar beam is less flexible and really wants to be played in more specific archetypes), and being an excellent low cost enabler of city cards and cards with power prod requirements.
Probably belongs somewhere in B tier and likely toward the upper end.
Preds is awkward to evaluate as it tends to be either S tier or F tier depending on the situation and game state.
Pro Valley I’m higher on than most as it’s an excellent teleport, NRA enabler, early prod piece and can be played with steel. Dunno what Anthracite would put it at but I like it toward the bottom of A tier in general as it really only is a bad play towards the ends of games where it’s scoring can be more marginal than competing steel dumps.