If this Moot fails, the Garou calling this Moot suffers the above effects.
| May 31, 1999 | |
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| Type: Moot | |
| Keywords: Penalty | |
| Requires: Shadow Lords or Ahroun | |
| Text: If this Moot passes, a target Garou cannot vote on Moots, call Moots, or play Moot Events for the rest of the game. If this Moot fails, the Garou calling this Moot suffers the above effects. | |
| Quote: "It was you! I dare you to prove me wrong!" - Clarissa | |
| Phase:5 | Artist: Brian LeBlanc |
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Power: 20
The moot that kills the mootability (?) of others. I love it. The recipient pretty much cannot do anything to affect a moot other than kill other voters. This card is great for both moot superiority (to pass other moots, like Silver Record), or to cripple a moot deck (wait until they have committed their moot votes, then nail the 10 Renown Garou with this card). This card is worth blowing your best moot effects to get passed. Used wisely, this single card can hamstring the moot abilities of any pack. Once you do that, move in with the moots that are harder to get through and wipe the floor.
Usability: 20
Well, this definitely fits a Shadow Lord deck, especially one geared toward moots. It also fits nicely into an Ahroun deck, especially one with Gillian Fangs-First. In any case, with the requirements, you can conspire to include this card with any tribe card. Just include a Lord or Ahroun.
Limitations: 18
Yikes. For all the power here, you're playing with fire. If you don't pass this moot, you get smacked yourself with the effects. The key to avoid getting hosed by your own card is to either pack one of the "My moot passes whether you like it or not" cards such as Defiance of Gaia, or have your lowest renown character call the moot (a Cub works nicely). The risk isn't as great if you're risking 1 renown of voting power against denying an opponent 10, so is probably a better choice. You never know when someone will be toting a moot-killer card like Influence of Fear. You've got another weakness in the limitations as to who can play this card, but as the usability rating shows, you can slip this into pretty much any deck you want. Considering the fact that this card lasts the whole game, the limitations aren't too harsh. The less than perfect score in this section reflects the fact that it's a little too easy to mitigate the effects if you plan accordingly.
Decks: 15
The only reason not to put this in a Moot deck is if you don't have a Shadow Lord or Ahroun in the deck. Since many of the moot abilities are Shadow Lord related, though, you've got a good chance of having someone. This card also rocks in a combat deck based on Ahrouns. It serves as a significant protection from Moot decks if you don't want to weigh down your deck with Renown boosters or similar defenses. Likewise, this card works well in a shutdown deck that removes your opponents' strengths. These styles of decks tend to be Ragabash in nature, so use Tara Spiritrunner, a low Renown Lord. Otherwise, try to fit this card into a deck when you know you'll be coming up against anyone that relies on any particularly nasty/annoying moots. Toss in a few of your own while you're at it, since you'll have the voting superiority.
Flavor: 19
Well, if you haven't noticed, Brian LeBlanc does some pretty fine work, especially Crinos form. And hey, he produced the art for Rronuhn, so he must be a pretty decent fellow. I find it somewhat amusing, though, that he painted much of the Black Fury stuff, considering his tendency to paint women with huge... er, tracts of land. This card is no exception, with the target of Clarissa's wrath being rather well endowed. However, the art does fit in rather nicely, and is well done. Speaking of Clarissa (Fillmore, by the way, not Smoothtongue), the quote fits perfectly into the storyline. With the Iron Riders trying to foist the burning of the Hotel onto the Furies (see Flames of Hestia - "It's obvious who set the hotel ablaze. Who summons fire more readily than the Furies?" - Arthur Getty), it's not surprising they would push back on the accusations. At first I though she was talking to the Iron Riders in general, but after some thought, it looks like she's talking to Kathy Williams, Ms Torch-Carrier herself. I place my suspicion on the color of dress, the poofy shoulders, and that the two are reasonably similar in appearance, considering that Brian didn't produce the art for Kathy's card. Makes me wonder if Kathy played a bigger part in the failure to contain the Storm Eater in the Old West and the resultant lack of Glasswalkers in Vegas, considering she also appears as a Past Life. Points for keeping me intrigued, folks.
At first, I was also sort of indecisive on the card name. But then I think some more storyline opened up to me, when taken into account with the other cards in the set. The Iron Riders are trying to blame the Black Furies, and the Furies are trying to point to the Riders. Neither side have spotless records, whether the Weaver tendencies of the Riders or the male-bashing of the Furies. So it comes down to a contest of convincing the rest of the tribes, a competition aptly named a force of wills. Taken in this light, the card title, text and quote match the effects perfectly. Bravo. This all meshes together nicely, I love it.
Sadly, I took off one point here. Glance over at the requirements. Neither Clarissa nor Kathy are Ahrouns or Shadow Lords. Uh... You know, it annoys me when none of the characters mentioned or depicted in the artwork can't use the card. Dagnabbit.