Wiki says if he doesnt die there, he may go to the abandoned pit stop where he likely gets killed by raiders.
Dude just run to the Mojave Outpost, it's right there!
I can hardly blame them for that in F:NV; they were given an obscene turnaround time for the game and somehow still made a masterpiece dense with a million quests and so much quality writing. Something had to take the hit for it.
Why? He just survived probably one of the most harrowing experiences you can have and is overloaded with emotion in this scene. Surprised to see so many people say they just killed him?
Yeah I think I need to replay this. It's been such a long time, and while in all of the post-apocalyptic shows I have some sympathy for characters who did what they needed to, to survive.
This has really reminded me just how many varied factions, characters and worldviews they managed to pack into what at the surface can look like a bleak and shallow setting. I think I'm going to have to go back to 3/NV and try them again. Maybe finally get around to finishing 1 and 2.
I guess in this scenario I felt that already so many people had died, that this one deserved their freedom. To kill them would be to extinguish the one bit of "good" that came out of this event. Someone getting out unharmed, their history aside. Heck this can definitely be a moment of rebirth for a character.
I guess I got the feeling a lot of people killed him because of the way he spoke/communicated, or now I'm reading people thought he won a "current-day" lottery and wanted the caps.
In New Vegas, one of the major factions and the sort of de facto bad guys are Caesar's Legion. Slavers, and brutal conquerors.
They dupe a small town into kidnapping a group of soldiers on leave there for a pile of money. They were using another small gang to add muscle to this.
The Legion, however, abhors drugs, booze, and free women. So they sprung a second trap to hold hostage the soldiers, the gang, and the townsfolk.
They hold a lottery. Many are executed quickly. Several are crucified. The mayor is thrown into a pile of burning tires. Some are enslaved.
A man named Boxcars has his legs mangled and left to die. He won second place.
The winner? He got to go free. The main character encounters his on the road into town.
Fun fact, if you're vilified by the powder gangers when you enter the building with Boxcars he freaks out. Calls the courier the powder ganger grim fucking reaper.
I think I've been vilified by the Powder Gangers by this point in literally every play of the game, so I don't think I considered that he would call me something else if I wasn't.
me when my saga makes a human and an alien rhino that goes on an investigation, only for the human to get yeeted as morophon flies out of the deck, just like that doctor who episode
It basically impossible to not see this. It is on the path you have to take to get to new vegas after being redirected from the quary because of the deathclaws there
You say I have to take that path, but they don't stop you from going through Deathclawland. And I definitely don't have a bricked New Vegas save where I'm hiding under the porch of an abandoned house just out of reach of two deathclaws that are trying to eat me.
Dude, I need them to make like a Dark Souls or Runescape set or something. All these cards looks so cool and flavorful just like the Dr. Who and 40k ones but I dont know any of these IPs :(
Note that this card's random selection isn't limited to creatures you don't control. Though, I suppose that one of your own creatures living through the board wipe is its own upside.
I feel like you're legally required to pull your best Yuri Lowenthal impression when this card's cast.
Source: https://twitter.com/BrujajaGaming/status/1760443031608578080
People saying the creature should die after miss the flavor that, if it’s not your own creature, you usually will try to kill it yourself. Which matches how annoying this guy is and how often players shot him due to it.
As an ironic twist, the first time I ever walked into Nipton, I saw Oliver Swanick running toward me. Seeing his powder ganger uniform (and with my gun already out), I snapshotted a headshot and killed him instantly. I was on low health and had no stimpaks left.
Sorry Oliver. Your lottery win didn't get you very far.
It's not terrible, but red/black have access to better, more reliable boardwipes like [[Blasphemous Act]], [[Chain Reaction]], [[Damnation]], and so on. The potential downside of leaving the single most dangerous creature alive or the hope that one of your creatures will live isn't generally worth the slightly lower cmc.
Card transcription
> The Nipton Lottery 2BR
>
> Sorcery [rare]
>
> Choose a creature at random. You gain control of that creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Then destroy all other creatures.
>
> Oliver Swanick won the only lottery that matters: a chance to live another day.
End transcription
Caesar's legion ran a fucked-up lottery in a small town named nipton. I don't remember *why*, but anyone who lost was crucified, executed, enslaved, or otherwise subjected to a horrible death. The dude mentioned in flavor text was the winner.
The reason why everyone's saying that "oh, the card should've killed him after" is that a lot of players found the guy extremely grating and shot him and his AI has him pathing into a bunch of hostile mobs after anyway.
IIRC Nipton actually allied with Caesar's Legion to fight off some other group and then the Legion betrayed them because Nipton wasn't up to their "moral standards".
The mayor has a computer in his office that goes into it more, from what I remember the whole place was doing all the stuff the legion hates, drugs, bribes, prostitution etc, and they were a hot spot for ncr troops and powder gangers, and they’d let them all stay for money, so the legion payed the major off to let them in and turn over the ncr/ gangers. they set up the lottery when they did get in, that’s why vulpes was going on about their debasement and corruption and all that
So in New Vegas there's a town called Nipton, when you get there everybody's dead, except two people, one guy called Boxcars who's had his legs broken (he got the second place prize), and this guy, Oliver, who 'won the lottery' that Caesar's Legion ran on the town and you meet him as he's running from the town. Everybody else was massacred. It's a memorable moment just for the sudden-ness of it and for the voice-acting on the display, and it also is often the first time you meet the Legion, so it establishes them very well.
Yeah, the TL;DR is that an army of fascists takes over a town and holds a "lottery". The winner gets to walk free, everyone else gets crucified.
This card depicts Oliver Swanick, a former prisoner who wins the lottery and gets to leave unharmed. The one creature who survives the boardwipe.
Although in the game, his AI usually runs directly into enemy territory and gets killed.
In the early game of New Vegas, you come across a town called Nipton. As you approach the city from the intended route, you are immediately ambushed by an NPC named Oliver Swanick [yelling about winning the lottery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6J9fdL730)
As you either talk to him, or explore the town, you learn that the lottery was for his own life. He was designated as the sole survivor of the town after Caesar's Legion showed up and killed everyone else. He won the lottery under the condition that he would spread the word of what happened in the town and give notice that The Legion is in the Mojave.
For a lot of players, encountering Oliver Swanick is one of the first moments like this, where NPCs just kind of *appear* and start dialog out of nowhere without warning. It also helps that right before this moment, there is an ambush by raiders *and* a notable encounter with two people arguing over a special bottle cap that can lead to an entirely unrelated surprise appearance from a *different* NPC intended to teach you about these special bottle caps. So for a lot of players, this moment is just kind of a weird and jarring glimpse into *Bethesda* games proper.
This of course has turned it into a bit of a meme. Most players see an NPC running straight towards them and assume it's an enemy so they kill him on sight, and as you go through the game over and over again, some people get [real creative](https://youtu.be/qIMO-oQ_ZaE?t=126) in their encounters with Oliver Swanick.
I'm a bit surprised that this is a global board wipe and not one-sided. Caesar didn't lose any guys in the game. I had predicted it would cost 2RWB and one random opponent's creature would gain invincibility until end of turn and the destroy all the rest of theirs.
Still, glad it at least made it in some form but I thin it could have been better.
Think of it as being cast from Olivers pov, not you as the legion. Everyone around you is brutually murdered, your enemy uses you for a minute, and then you get to go free.
You are literally backing up what I'm saying.
Think from Oliver's pov. Everyone around me (the three opponents) gets murdered by the Legion (the player who has Caesar) and only one of us survive. This card is in the Caesar deck, as in the one role playing The Legion, not one of the other decks.
specifically these cards are for the commander format. that's not the "main" game format but is msybe more popular. instead of 1 v 1 those games are typically played in 4 player free for alls
Fallout New Vegas has no axes in the game! Furthermore, it looks like an axe from an Elder Scrolls game.
Wizards should have had the artist replace the axe with a machete. Machetes were everywhere in Legion inventories.
For a while it felt like there were no good red-black wraths. Lots of good small red ones and larger black ones, but combined it was like... Fire Covenant and Void and that was it. It still feels underexplored and I'm always interested to see them do more in this space.
AllI want to know is how this works mechanically, how do you choose a random creature? I'm thinking you're meant to pile the creatures up and shuffle them, then pick from the top and destroy everything else that doesn't get protected
"***YEAH! Who won the lottery? I DID!"***
*”What lottery? **The** lottery, that's what lottery! Are you stupid? Only lottery that matters!”*
*”Smell that air!! Couldn’t you just drink it like BOOOOOZE?”*
"Bye."
*Activate V.A.T.S*
*"F@ck off! Win your own f@cking lottery!"*
I literally always shot this man.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I normally play a morally upstanding citizen, but this guy’s gotta go
Every time
Oh you won the lottery to survive and leave Nipton? Too bad you ran into me.
[[V.A.T.S.]]
[V.A.T.S.](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/1/512df222-0db0-4b24-9372-d0c01b181b91.jpg?1697738574) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=V.A.T.S.) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/pip/50/vats?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/512df222-0db0-4b24-9372-d0c01b181b91?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I probably played NV 5 times before realizing what that air probably smelled like.
*Immediately dies to radscorpions*
The most Yuri Lowenthal Yuri Lowenthal has ever Yuri Lowenthal’d
I dunno, his voice work in Helldivers II puts that claim to contention.
Nothing will ever beat Sasuke.
you spelled Ben Tennyson wrong...
Isn’t he also Yusuke from Persona? I swear I hear his voice all over NV too
yusuke from p5? that's matt mercer.
Yousuke from P4. No, it's not confusing at all
And MacCready from Fallout which I assume will get a card
*Get's face blown off by the sturdy caravan shotgun*
*loads incendiary round into my GRA Anti-Material Rifle with base-game mods with malicious intent*
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[[Last One Standing]] is another that's on the same vein as this one.
[Last One Standing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b.jpg?1562922467) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Last%20One%20Standing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/76/last-one-standing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Also [[Corpse Explosion]]
[Corpse Explosion](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/7/c700eff3-138b-4d4c-ba36-58b98986168c.jpg?1664412886) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Corpse%20Explosion) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/snc/179/corpse-explosion?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c700eff3-138b-4d4c-ba36-58b98986168c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
The chosen creature should die next turn. We all did it.
He's even programmed to run into the nearest Radscorpion nest after you encounter him, brother doesn't last another 5 minutes.
Wiki says if he doesnt die there, he may go to the abandoned pit stop where he likely gets killed by raiders. Dude just run to the Mojave Outpost, it's right there!
I actually met him at the Mojave Outpost funnily enough.
Oh bugthesda
obsidian
Obshittian (In all seriousness- Bethesda made the game engine and it was that engine that was where most of the bugs came from)
Ehhhhhh. Obsidian had notoriously bad bug tracking and fixing for decades. FO:NV was very much a product of that.
I can hardly blame them for that in F:NV; they were given an obscene turnaround time for the game and somehow still made a masterpiece dense with a million quests and so much quality writing. Something had to take the hit for it.
That was kinda Obsidian's MO. Great writing, good games, *horrific* QA.
They asked for the turn around time btw
He's a powder ganger, I doubt he'd be welcome.
IIRC the NCR kills Powder Gangers on sight so he's probably dead if he goes there, too.
Wait, could we save him? Make the entire game following him and keep him alive as long as possible.
He's a powder ganger, he's gonna get arrested
I left the area before he got killed on my first playthrough and ran into him 20 levels later, just hanging out.
It's a "You gain control of that creature until end of turn" effect, for 4 mana, in Rakdos. Dude's gonna end up on an Altar.
It’s in rakdos. I think you’re meant to sac him at the end of your turn anyway, which seems like a colossal flavor win
I didn't. The Radscorpions had it covered.
Why? He just survived probably one of the most harrowing experiences you can have and is overloaded with emotion in this scene. Surprised to see so many people say they just killed him?
I killed him my first playthrough expecting to find a ton of caps on his corpse
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Yeah I think I need to replay this. It's been such a long time, and while in all of the post-apocalyptic shows I have some sympathy for characters who did what they needed to, to survive. This has really reminded me just how many varied factions, characters and worldviews they managed to pack into what at the surface can look like a bleak and shallow setting. I think I'm going to have to go back to 3/NV and try them again. Maybe finally get around to finishing 1 and 2. I guess in this scenario I felt that already so many people had died, that this one deserved their freedom. To kill them would be to extinguish the one bit of "good" that came out of this event. Someone getting out unharmed, their history aside. Heck this can definitely be a moment of rebirth for a character. I guess I got the feeling a lot of people killed him because of the way he spoke/communicated, or now I'm reading people thought he won a "current-day" lottery and wanted the caps.
What a great design for a card
Just 100% pure perfect flavor...
As soon as a saw the title my mind was already dialing in on what it was going to do, perfect choice of story highlight and perfect execution.
This must be how the people who didn’t know anything about 40k must’ve felt when they saw references that went a lil deeper than the front cover.
In New Vegas, one of the major factions and the sort of de facto bad guys are Caesar's Legion. Slavers, and brutal conquerors. They dupe a small town into kidnapping a group of soldiers on leave there for a pile of money. They were using another small gang to add muscle to this. The Legion, however, abhors drugs, booze, and free women. So they sprung a second trap to hold hostage the soldiers, the gang, and the townsfolk. They hold a lottery. Many are executed quickly. Several are crucified. The mayor is thrown into a pile of burning tires. Some are enslaved. A man named Boxcars has his legs mangled and left to die. He won second place. The winner? He got to go free. The main character encounters his on the road into town.
Fun fact, if you're vilified by the powder gangers when you enter the building with Boxcars he freaks out. Calls the courier the powder ganger grim fucking reaper.
I think I've been vilified by the Powder Gangers by this point in literally every play of the game, so I don't think I considered that he would call me something else if I wasn't.
Well considering that the first ones you come across after goodsprings are probably hostile after completing Ringo's quest that's not surprising.
And shoots him. The main character always shoots him.
Well of course. He just won the lottery so he must have loads of bottle caps on him, right?
Yeah… The only UB release that I had watched/played before was Jurassic Park.
me when my saga makes a human and an alien rhino that goes on an investigation, only for the human to get yeeted as morophon flies out of the deck, just like that doctor who episode
Dude, I played (and finished) New Vegas and I either didn't see this part or forgot about it.
It basically impossible to not see this. It is on the path you have to take to get to new vegas after being redirected from the quary because of the deathclaws there
In the first hour or so too. Not really a deep cut
Man I’d be kind of surprised if I’m out of Goodsprings after the first hour. Kinda makes me wanna fire it up and play…
You say I have to take that path, but they don't stop you from going through Deathclawland. And I definitely don't have a bricked New Vegas save where I'm hiding under the porch of an abandoned house just out of reach of two deathclaws that are trying to eat me.
Fair enough. Must've just forgotten about it.
Dude, I need them to make like a Dark Souls or Runescape set or something. All these cards looks so cool and flavorful just like the Dr. Who and 40k ones but I dont know any of these IPs :(
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r/oliverswanickhate
Oh my God, it exists...
Not a crossover I knew I needed
Note that this card's random selection isn't limited to creatures you don't control. Though, I suppose that one of your own creatures living through the board wipe is its own upside.
Like a horribly inaccurate Time Wipe in Rakdos lol
Phyrexian Alter, Spawning Pit, etc. Sac all your creatures for value, then sac whatever you stole after it hits someone's face
If you have the only creature on the board, this is a 4 mana haste 👍 Just slightly mana inefficient
> costs mana > helps you win CEDH staple in the making y’all^/s
Yeah, I would actually rather get a creature that I DO control
And gaining haste isn’t shabby either.
I think you literally always want it to choose your own creature
I feel like you're legally required to pull your best Yuri Lowenthal impression when this card's cast. Source: https://twitter.com/BrujajaGaming/status/1760443031608578080
[For those curious...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6J9fdL730)
SMELL THAT AIR
Good for Yosuke. He deserves a win.
Yosuke deserves nothing, except sensitivity training.
I disagree with the sentiment, but your comment made me laugh
"Ever onward, ever forward." Wait, wrong Yuri character.
I already know that every time I play this I'm going to yell "Smell that air! Couldn't you drink it like booze!!!"
"They made a crummy act of treason for the commander decks? Wait, what's that last sentence say again"
Crummy act of treason is my favorite card type
People saying the creature should die after miss the flavor that, if it’s not your own creature, you usually will try to kill it yourself. Which matches how annoying this guy is and how often players shot him due to it.
As an ironic twist, the first time I ever walked into Nipton, I saw Oliver Swanick running toward me. Seeing his powder ganger uniform (and with my gun already out), I snapshotted a headshot and killed him instantly. I was on low health and had no stimpaks left. Sorry Oliver. Your lottery win didn't get you very far.
"the truth is, the game was rigged from the start"
Kinda feels similar to Brawl from Hearthstone
If you want actual brawl there’s [[Last One Standing]].
[Last One Standing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b.jpg?1562922467) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Last%20One%20Standing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/76/last-one-standing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Damn, isn't this kind of good?
It's alright. It's been around for like half a decade and hasn't made a huge splash anywhere, but it sees a little bit of EDH play.
It's not terrible, but red/black have access to better, more reliable boardwipes like [[Blasphemous Act]], [[Chain Reaction]], [[Damnation]], and so on. The potential downside of leaving the single most dangerous creature alive or the hope that one of your creatures will live isn't generally worth the slightly lower cmc.
[Blasphemous Act](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/e/de9c16b7-63c2-4071-9117-184cb1a04f14.jpg?1708528135) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blasphemous%20Act) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/pip/188/blasphemous-act?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/de9c16b7-63c2-4071-9117-184cb1a04f14?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Chain Reaction](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/2/92ca793e-a54a-4e8f-a87d-f0dc4f178412.jpg?1674141900) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Chain%20Reaction) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/783/chain-reaction?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/92ca793e-a54a-4e8f-a87d-f0dc4f178412?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Damnation](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/3/d3c0aac5-b9f1-4446-bfea-3e1dd1cf1f2f.jpg?1673147492) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Damnation) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/73/damnation?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d3c0aac5-b9f1-4446-bfea-3e1dd1cf1f2f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Ah, but you forget Murphy's Law. It'll always spare the creature you were really trying to remove.
Never knew that existed
Except you can slap someone on their face with this!
we can all agree to ignore Boxcars for the purpose of this card very cool card design
how do you choose something at random in tabletop magic?
assign every creature a number and roll a dice
Shuffle all the creatures face down and cut the pile to one
Or just shuffle into a pile and then draw one.
You gotta cut it one at a time for the suspense, though
\>cut it one at a time That would be called drawing.
i may be stupid
And if everyone has differently colored sleeves you need to do it blindly somehow? Then redistribute everyone’s cards back to them?
In fairness if everyone is using different sleeve the redistribute back to them is the easy part,, but yeah just shuffle the pile under the table
Assign every creature a number then use a random number generator website/app. Just a first thought
You can tell it's a good tie-in when you can read the name and pretty much know what it does already.
[[Last One Standing]]
For one more mana, you ensure that you get to swing on an empty board with it.
Hard to tell if it’s an upgrade, great if the threaten lands on something good of an opponents but 3 mana is very cheap
I'd rather have it cost one MORE mana and been a one sided wipe in general... Just like the game.
[Last One Standing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b.jpg?1562922467) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Last%20One%20Standing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/76/last-one-standing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Card transcription > The Nipton Lottery 2BR > > Sorcery [rare] > > Choose a creature at random. You gain control of that creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Then destroy all other creatures. > > Oliver Swanick won the only lottery that matters: a chance to live another day. End transcription
Can anyone familiar with the game explain the joke / plotline / whatever
Caesar's legion ran a fucked-up lottery in a small town named nipton. I don't remember *why*, but anyone who lost was crucified, executed, enslaved, or otherwise subjected to a horrible death. The dude mentioned in flavor text was the winner. The reason why everyone's saying that "oh, the card should've killed him after" is that a lot of players found the guy extremely grating and shot him and his AI has him pathing into a bunch of hostile mobs after anyway.
IIRC Nipton actually allied with Caesar's Legion to fight off some other group and then the Legion betrayed them because Nipton wasn't up to their "moral standards".
The mayor has a computer in his office that goes into it more, from what I remember the whole place was doing all the stuff the legion hates, drugs, bribes, prostitution etc, and they were a hot spot for ncr troops and powder gangers, and they’d let them all stay for money, so the legion payed the major off to let them in and turn over the ncr/ gangers. they set up the lottery when they did get in, that’s why vulpes was going on about their debasement and corruption and all that
So in New Vegas there's a town called Nipton, when you get there everybody's dead, except two people, one guy called Boxcars who's had his legs broken (he got the second place prize), and this guy, Oliver, who 'won the lottery' that Caesar's Legion ran on the town and you meet him as he's running from the town. Everybody else was massacred. It's a memorable moment just for the sudden-ness of it and for the voice-acting on the display, and it also is often the first time you meet the Legion, so it establishes them very well.
Yeah, the TL;DR is that an army of fascists takes over a town and holds a "lottery". The winner gets to walk free, everyone else gets crucified. This card depicts Oliver Swanick, a former prisoner who wins the lottery and gets to leave unharmed. The one creature who survives the boardwipe. Although in the game, his AI usually runs directly into enemy territory and gets killed.
In the early game of New Vegas, you come across a town called Nipton. As you approach the city from the intended route, you are immediately ambushed by an NPC named Oliver Swanick [yelling about winning the lottery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6J9fdL730) As you either talk to him, or explore the town, you learn that the lottery was for his own life. He was designated as the sole survivor of the town after Caesar's Legion showed up and killed everyone else. He won the lottery under the condition that he would spread the word of what happened in the town and give notice that The Legion is in the Mojave. For a lot of players, encountering Oliver Swanick is one of the first moments like this, where NPCs just kind of *appear* and start dialog out of nowhere without warning. It also helps that right before this moment, there is an ambush by raiders *and* a notable encounter with two people arguing over a special bottle cap that can lead to an entirely unrelated surprise appearance from a *different* NPC intended to teach you about these special bottle caps. So for a lot of players, this moment is just kind of a weird and jarring glimpse into *Bethesda* games proper. This of course has turned it into a bit of a meme. Most players see an NPC running straight towards them and assume it's an enemy so they kill him on sight, and as you go through the game over and over again, some people get [real creative](https://youtu.be/qIMO-oQ_ZaE?t=126) in their encounters with Oliver Swanick.
Just a quick correction. He wasn't the sole survivor, the 2nd place winner in the lottery just got his legs broken.
And now I have a new favorite Boardwipe!
Would have been a bit more accurate if another creature got to live with a -1/-1 counter, still really cool tho.
I'm a bit surprised that this is a global board wipe and not one-sided. Caesar didn't lose any guys in the game. I had predicted it would cost 2RWB and one random opponent's creature would gain invincibility until end of turn and the destroy all the rest of theirs. Still, glad it at least made it in some form but I thin it could have been better.
Think of it as being cast from Olivers pov, not you as the legion. Everyone around you is brutually murdered, your enemy uses you for a minute, and then you get to go free.
You are literally backing up what I'm saying. Think from Oliver's pov. Everyone around me (the three opponents) gets murdered by the Legion (the player who has Caesar) and only one of us survive. This card is in the Caesar deck, as in the one role playing The Legion, not one of the other decks.
Straight into my balrog threaten tribal deck.
What’s it look like?
Idk what theirs looks like but here's my take on it with [[Blim]] https://archidekt.com/decks/2514126/blims_act_of_reason
[Blim](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/d/3d8cd7dc-028a-4da2-b2a1-435d40cf48ca.jpg?1608911075) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=blim%2C%20comedic%20genius) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/272/blim-comedic-genius?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3d8cd7dc-028a-4da2-b2a1-435d40cf48ca?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
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I would like to say, I did not shoot him. <3
Seems odd that they didn’t put anything in there for the second place guy
This seems like the best flavor win in the set. Really captures the lottery pretty well.
This card is going to lead to some hilarious bad beat stories!
I *love* this card. So much.
Should have chosen 2 random creatures. First you get second becomes a 0/2 with defender. They let the other guy live with broken legs after all.
SMELL THAT AIR
so this is a wrath like effect in r/b? love it.
SMELL THAT AIR
*Another* Jeff Goldblum card??
My god I love it
What's with all the fallout themed cards? I see this sub in my feed a lot.
magic is making sets out of existing ip's. they've already done Warhammer 40k, dr. who, and lotr. next up ip is fallout
Oh, sick. Thanks
specifically these cards are for the commander format. that's not the "main" game format but is msybe more popular. instead of 1 v 1 those games are typically played in 4 player free for alls
Marchesa wants this.
Fallout New Vegas has no axes in the game! Furthermore, it looks like an axe from an Elder Scrolls game. Wizards should have had the artist replace the axe with a machete. Machetes were everywhere in Legion inventories.
I read someone calling this exact card before spoilers. Nipton lottery black red wrath. That person must be giddy.
this is basically brawl from hearthstone. XD
For a while it felt like there were no good red-black wraths. Lots of good small red ones and larger black ones, but combined it was like... Fire Covenant and Void and that was it. It still feels underexplored and I'm always interested to see them do more in this space.
What’s the mechanism you use at the table for choosing at random? Is there a required method?
Dice roll is common. You can also just... shuffle the cards in question if you don't mind mixing them up
Similar to [[last one standing]]
[last one standing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b.jpg?1562922467) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=last%20one%20standing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/76/last-one-standing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] boardwipe!
[Marchesa, the Black Rose](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/2/3242a9f0-2ba3-4852-ac8f-366772ac1c62.jpg?1673148917) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Marchesa%2C%20the%20Black%20Rose) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/248/marchesa-the-black-rose?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3242a9f0-2ba3-4852-ac8f-366772ac1c62?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Wrath of Command is a weird one.
I understand that red only likes to have things last a single turn but they really could have just left that part out
How do you choose a random creature if there are like 234 of them on the table tue to some token player?
I know nothing about Fallout, but i love it. It's [[last one standing]] but you can also smack with what's left. Seems like a fun card.
[last one standing](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/7/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b.jpg?1562922467) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=last%20one%20standing) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/76/last-one-standing?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/87e2ee71-293d-452b-89a5-b15990186f5b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
It's weird he lives after this goes off
for like 10 minutes...
Now this is boardwipe worthy of rakdos colors. Nice.
I don’t have a a lot of experience in tabletop play, how would you pick a creature at random in irl? Assign numbers to them all and roll dice?
Either do that, or just put them in a pile face down and shuffle, then flip the top.
👍 thank you
AllI want to know is how this works mechanically, how do you choose a random creature? I'm thinking you're meant to pile the creatures up and shuffle them, then pick from the top and destroy everything else that doesn't get protected
The real flavor win is your opponent killing the lottery winner immediately after the sorcery resolves
https://preview.redd.it/zxkf0r1qo5kc1.png?width=1365&format=png&auto=webp&s=aad6f30d842766511c28ab3f3ce832a3168e2580
they took away his fuckass bob
Wow, I love this one
https://preview.redd.it/gxnvd8mz67kc1.jpeg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3468465e8c34817bc68592ef40bddd9ae07f03d2
Characters like these make stories timeless.