Update History[]
- 2014-06-26: All of the Daramek Herd cards have been revised
- 2014-06-26: Name changed from Herd of Pigs
The Herd of Boars serve as meat with a nominal threat in the Daramek arsenal - at max upgrades, they're twice as expensive as Lepers, but provide an attack along with a random resource on death. Combined with the fact that Boar Unguent both stocks a Herd and causes them to attack, Boars are often the win conditions for magic-based Daramek decks: they're too meaty for enemies to kill efficiently, and you can eventually produce an overwhelming number of them. That said, their slow speed (a Herd of Boars, on its first turn, does nothing if not sacrificed) and cost means they only fit into those decks. It's also a poor fit for Slave decks, because the Overseer can't squeeze any meaningful benefit out of it.
Herd of Boars, naturally, synergizes with Boar Unguent, and the two of them in unison (whether you start with Boars in your deck or not) is a decent win condition. They're also the most efficient target for Ritual Slaughter, and Mogesh in particular loves sacrificing them for damage and resources. Getting extra fuel out of burning Boars with a Sacrificial Dais is also good play.
Boars, peculiarly among Daramek allies, don't really benefit from being played repeatedly - they serve best sitting on the board, serving as ablative health and dishing out undirected attacks. As a result, quicker ritual decks that want to play out their hands multiple times a turn don't get good mileage out of them and they can clog your hand with allies that don't immediately change the board position. A Daramek player will want board control from some other source if he intends to use Boars as a win condition, because their offense and defense lacks direction.