Fresh Tracks

Event. Cost:1.

Response: After an enemy is added to the staging area, deal 1 damage to that enemy. Players ignore that enemy while making engagement checks this round.

Garret DeChellis

The Long Dark #78Leadership.

Fresh Tracks
Reviews

Fresh Tracks, much like Hail of Stones, is surprisingly not a bad card. You may be looking at me funny, but the ability to keep an enemy in the staging area that one extra round can make a big difference. But don't expect the damage to kill the enemy as much as possibly help next round when the enemy does come down. Who knows? Maybe you could fit it into staging area attack deck.

Wandalf the Gizzard 2735
Since it's a response, does this allow you to dispatch some Mirkwood type bats that have 1 HP and surge (like a questing Thalin) and prevent the surge effect? — Quetzal513 100
Ah, I think I answered by own question; the timing would make the difference. Thalin says to apply the damage "as it is revealed by the encounter deck" where Fresh Tracks states "AFTER an enemy is added to the staging area" — Quetzal513 100
Correct. Effects work in this order: passive, forced (when revealed, surge, doomed), response, action (only in an action window). — Wandalf the Gizzard 2735

I like Fresh Tracks quite a bit! Especially in higher player counts, where direct damage becomes much more viable as a strategy, this is a useful way to protect you from enemies that might take a couple of rounds before you can kill them. Its sphere is sometimes problematic, since most direct damage cards tend to be in lore or tactics, however due to the prevalence of allies like Gandalf and Descendant of Thorondor in the archetype, leadership is often attractive to gain access to Sneak Attack and Horns! Horns! Horns!. The effect will not tear up any trees, however Fresh Tracks often proves quite a nice fixer card for a sometimes very vulnerable archetype.

Rating: 5/10

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