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Armello Strategy & Tactics Card Review: Malice Rising

1,539 views · Published 2 June 2015 · 2:43 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Pinstar · 2015 · Gaming

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Today's card is Malice Rising. Rot Cards are always a tricky choice and not always a desirable draw, but there is more to this than meets the eye. 

To understand the usefulness of this card is to understand Banes and their role in the game of Armello. Whenever a player slays a bane, they gain one prestige. This fact is important to both the game of Armello as a whole, as well as understanding how best to use this card. 

This card hails from the magic deck, and can be burned for a worm result. Playing it will cause you to gain a rot but spawn a bane on a free tile within range. 

The first thing most people see is the “Gain 1 rot” cost and instantly discount the card if they’re trying to stay rot-free. Don’t be so quick to dismiss this card, as it is one of the more useful of the rot cards. 

If you are confident in your ability slay banes (and not be slain in return) then this card has a golden use for you. On a turn when you have enough AP to enter a settlement you can use this card to your benefit. Playing this card ON a settlement will cause the bane to spawn there and immediately terrorize the settlement. You can then attack the bane yourself on the same turn. Not only do you gain 1 prestige from slaying the bane, you gain one more from saving a terrorized town, allowing you to gain 2 prestige from a single AP. Giving yourself a rot right before a bane fight might seem unintuitive, but if you’re going from 0-1 rot, one dice for the bane is unlikely to change the battle’s outcome. If you are already corrupt, you can use this tactic to prestige farm very efficiently. 

Another use is to pen in and harass another player. This can be dangerous, as a player who is able to slay banes effectively is essentially being handed a free prestige. However a player who is NOT suited to fight banes...such as someone with poor equipment and/or 3-4 rot, will find themselves wasting AP to avoid your Bane, and may die to it anyway if attacked. Keep in mind that players inside the palace will not be attacked by banes outside the palace, so don’t expect to use it to eject players from the palace. 

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Keep your eyes peeled for more Armello Card Reviews, and let me know what YOU think about Malice Rising  in the comments below! Pinstar out!

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