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With a willpower of five, Donald can potentially quest for four lore by clinging to that last bit of health

EXCALIBUR, SWORD OF EDEN I mention at the beginning of the article that the equipment in this set is dumb, and I present Excalibur as its main example

This is particularly powerful because it is difficult to interact with and can seize games even from positions where a player is far behind (indeed, it can sometimes be actually easier to win from bad positions, as boards like multiple Unholy Annex es or an Abhorrent Oculus turn to your opponent's disadvantage against Excruciator)

You'll lose the ability to quest immediately with him, but the trade-off is being able to play an eight-Willpower Bodyguard (that heals itself) on turn four instead of turn five

Sure, all the standard artifact-sacrificing aristocrats strategies apply, but they'll rarely require the same spells to synergize