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For those of you still coming to this version of the Team Covenant website, we have moved all of our content to the new Team Covenant website, found here. You can see the various categories on the right side and click on your game to view all of your games content. We will be posting new content each week, so be sure and keep your eyes peeled!
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Today Michael from Arcane Tinman (new owners of The Spoils TCG) announced the two-player starter relaunch tournament! In the tournament players will bring a partner to the tournament, go in together to purchase the new two player starter, and play a tournament as a team. For more information and images, go here.
If you are interested in getting your hands all over some sweet Spoils singles, promo’s, etc. go here to view Covenant TCG’s online catalog.
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In Covenant TCG’s recent newsletter (sign up for an account on their store if you want to receive it), they announced a promotion for The Spoils TCG. The promotion offers players ordering other products (including Spoils singles) the chance to get a pre-con and 3 booster aboslutely free. If you are interested in reading more about the promotion, you can click The Spoils logo above.
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by Bernie Makino a.k.a. La_Sin_Grail of Team Strike
We all know heist planner is good. In fact, we all know he’s very good. But just how can you really get the maximum potential out of him? There are many ways you can choose to approach heist planner, and from many perspectives. First, I’ll explore limited.
by Will Morgan
The Spoils is a very symmetric game in terms of resources. One player starts with one more card than the other, but in everything else the players are on equal footing when the game starts. Furthermore, the ability to play any card face-down as a resource guarantees, at least in the early stages of the game, that either player can keep up with his opponent’s resource count. The same is true for cards in hand.
The below is directly from an article posted to the official ‘The Spoils‘ website:
The Spoils Rescue Mission is a success!
We have closed our deal with Tenacious Games and we are now the proud owners of all rights to The Spoils! It has been a long, long road to travel but now that we are successful, we are hitting the ground running to bring The Spoils back to life and give it a solid direction.
by Ryan Bushard
You’re facing down a 12/12 Covert Sneaky Mansion at 4 influence, what do you do? You have a lone Hidden Sniper to hold the fort, it is looking grim for you, you draw your card and lone behold, it is the one card that can save you, Poisoned Blade.
That 0/1 pinger just became a house able to destroy almost any character once a turn.
Poisoned Blade has the ability to wreck entire boards if left unchecked allowing high speed characters or pingers to run rampant. With all the synergy Poisoned Blade has with characters that can inflict damage it almost seems like an automatic inclusion in a Warlord/Rogue deck. Rogue can utilize Poisoned Blade with its various high speed characters while Warlord can take down opposing characters for a minimal cost turn after turn.
The first aspect when building a deck to utilize Poisoned Blade the most efficiently is to find a primary direction to steer the deck. For the theme of this deck a blend of high speed characters and low cost damage dealers will be used to keep your opponents board clean while swinging in with a few large characters for the win.
The first inclusion is obviously Poisoned Blade itself. Not only does the ability rock but you can move it around the field for free as well. The best form of removal this kind of deck could ask for. Once the core theme has been established I found that the secondary trade had to be Warlord for its obvious damage dealing capabilities. With a quick glance at the cards available to us we see that Warlord has a few cards that require a threshold of greater than two that are almost necessary for the deck such as Rudo Mangod and Menacing Mauler. This means that the best course of action would be to try and keep the Rogue cards to a threshold of two so we are not required to play extras in the deck which allows for more cards to make the cut.
by Thomas “King of Open Beta” Robinson a.k.a. Arzakon
An article on The Whatever Device may appear to be more of an article about every 
item card in the game, but the tricks you can pull with this card make normally worthless items useful. We will start with a brief overview of timing in The Spoils, especially when it comes to Combat and Responding to your opponent.
A major mistake I see and constant rules question I get as a judge is the timing difference in between cost and effect. No you cannot respond to Rapine by removing the sacrifical lamb, same for Schproingmajig, Ruthless Platoon, etc. etc. Yes you can do it in response to Unnatural Alteration, the destroy clause is in the effect. LL cannot disrupt Rapine, but it can Unnatural Alteration. The point is, you respond to your opponent after costs, but before effects. We will focus on that after we look at how your opponent can respond to The Whatever Device.
On The Whatever Device, you pick a number for X, Pay that much, and destroy The Whatever Device. You do not search your deck, and more importantly pick a card, till your opponent is finished responding to you. Your opponent does get a chance to respond to you playing the card for free however, as it is being played, not “put into play”.
Now that that is through, lets split up The Whatever Device tricks into categories. First we will start with “Attacking Tricks”.