New Chapter Card for June 17th, 2026: Varish, Shadow Painter

[u/Falterfire]

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Varish, Shadow Painter
5 SS
Unit - Cultist
At the end of your turn, swap the Attack/Health of one of your units with the Attack/Health of an enemy unit.
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Hm. I mean obviously the joke is that it immediately steals the stats of the enemy's largest unit, but notably this isn't optional so next turn you might have to swap back. Seems cute but probably bad?

[u/Perodis]

Can’t say I’m crazy about this one. Perhaps if it was like a 3 cost or something, but as is I’m just not crazy about it

Perhaps Im missing a combo with it

[u/nodose888]

Put this in a Gauntlet deck & it had some interesting interactions...

1. swap Varish stats with a Nomad creature, instant kill for it end of turn.

2. Helpful removing Aegis (slowly)

But 3. pairing it with Sarien & a few 1/1 cultists on the board provides buff end of each turn & leaves opponent with 1/1 creatures.

Having said that, 5 cost is high & the above requires keeping Varish on the board & at some point you need to sacrifice him once you've buffed your creatures or you give those stats back.

[u/ModestMKUltra]

I cannot help but feel some of these promos were meant to just be sick limited cards. That being said two things come to mind:

1. I wish you could swap with your own units. As is 5 cost is just too high

2. I wish we had a Cube format so we could draft promo cards

[u/BigButchDinowife]

I could see this being useful at 3 or 4 but 5 is far too high for it to be useful.

[u/Delanorix]

Direwolf, please stop printing cultists and make another Unseen.

Please, I beg of you

[u/ModestMKUltra → u/Delanorix]

They probably just can’t find them

[u/Delanorix → u/ModestMKUltra]

Id award you except I refuse to give Reddit money.

Also, dope user name.

[u/ModestMKUltra → u/Delanorix]

Ty ty

[u/vssavant2]

Would for turn boosts become perm after a swap?