Duelists of Darkwana: Callisto's character board

(art work coming soon)

This Event doesn't start in Callisto's deck (note that Callisto's name and pic doesn't appear on its upper-right corner).

Instead, all 6 Daggers sits to the side in a stack ("stacks" are not "decks.")

Callisto's ability allows him to add these Daggers into his deck over the course of the game.

Once added, a Dagger (which are Events) becomes part of Callisto's deck.

When played, Daggers deal a point of damage to another player.

Then, they gain you an action.

This might not seem like any big deal at first.

Hell, you're basically going down a card (even after getting your action back) when you play a Dagger.

However, Callisto's deck gives you nasty advantages when you use these things.

If you can flood your deck with these babies, you can eventually create nearly endless loops of mayhem!

Callisto's deck allows him to act like a speed demon, & here's an example of how.

While this Support is on your side of the field, you may, once during your turn, activate 1 of the following 2 effects:

1) Add a Dagger from a discard pile to your hand, OR

2) Discard a Dagger from your hand to gain 2 actions.

The flexibility here is great.

Depending on circumstances, either of these effects, even just once per turn, can allow Callisto to continue (or start) a death-by-a-thousand-cuts against your opponents.

Typically, half of every deck (2 cards for every attribute) deal damage.

However, Tengu proves such an effective source of damage that it counts towards this fulfillment (otherwise, Callisto's Influence cards would stand too consistent at damage-dealing).

While this Support is on your side of the field, whenever you play a Dagger, you may draw a card.

Playing a Dagger on its own deals a point of damage and gains you an action, basically putting you down a card.

Bunyan allows you to draw (assuming you have cards to draw) when you do this, resulting in you simply netting a point of damage (plus whichever other effects you manage to trigger along the way).

After you play an Event, and AFTER that Event's effects finish resolving, and this Support is on your side of the field, you'll gain an attribute.

You can trigger this Support's effect up to twice during each of your turns.

By using Callisto's ability to load your deck with Daggers (which are Events), you can use this Support to rapid-fire ramp your stats into the stratosphere.

When you activate this Event:

You'll target an opponent who will afterwards lose hit points equal to your Influence.

Afterwards, you'll reveal (for everyone to see) the top card of your deck.

You may immediately play that card.

Otherwise, return it to the top of your deck.

Note that when a card tells you to play another card as part of its effect, you do not have to pay an action for that "other" card.

Note also that you still must meet Item requirements to play Items (having the correct amount of Knowledge).

When a Dagger enters your discard pile for ANY reason (even the middle of reloading), and you have this level 3 Item on your side of the field, you'll fling 1 point of damage at an opponent.

Remember that an Event, when played, will remain "in the aether" until its effects resolve, at which point it enters its discard pile.

At  the end of your turn, if this Level 4 Item is on your side of the field, you can deal damage, equal to the number of cars you played that turn, to another player's hit points.

Yes, Key counts itself on the turn you played it from your hand.

Typically, this couldn't be more than 2 points of damage, which still isn't half bad.

However, since Callisto's Daggers and Supports can help you draw and "throw" more Daggers, this can turn into a monstrous amount of damage.

Combined with the damage the Daggers, themselves, deal, this can often swing for a finishing blow.

While this Item is on your side of the field, none of your opponents' abilities work.

This is a great way to end a lot of otherwise disastrous combos with which you'd rather not deal.

But wait! There's more!

Your opponents also cannot make tokens while Bad Meal is on your side of the field.

This means they cannot make Bleed, Relic, or Shield tokens.

In fact, they cannot make tokens of any kind.

That includes Stamina, which means any Support they put into play hits the field with no Stamina tokens, meaning that Support get immediately destroyed before it can accomplish anything.

Bad Meal does not destroy tokens already in play.

When you play this Event, add a number of Daggers from your discard pile (up to as many as point you have in Knowledge) to your hand.

Combined with cards like Tengu, this can ensure you always have some blades to toss.

When you play this Event, deal damage equal to your Combat.

Afterwards, you MAY reload.

Note! When a card tells you to reload, you don't have to spend any actions to do so, as reloading is part of that card's effects.

Note Some More!!! This Event will not enter its discard pile until after its effects resolve, so it won't enter its discard pile until AFTER you finish all the steps of reloading.

When you play this Event, you'll swing at your opponent's hit points with damage equal to your Combat plus the number of Daggers in your discard pile.

Straightforward and potentially nasty.

Considering Frat House and countless other cards in Callisto's deck, it pays to keep a close eye on his discard pile while playing against him.

If you're playing against him as Adiba, banishing becomes that much more important.

While this card being played (NOT while it's in you discard pile or sitting quietly, unused, in your hand), you can treat Where House as if it were a copy of the last Event you played.

Most often, you'll use this to double-up on the last punch you threw at your opponent.

Yes, you still have to spend an action to actually play this card, but its flexibility makes it well worth it.

This is the only card in its set asking you to lower your stats, which, admittedly, might cause some confusion if it's the first card in the game to which you're ever exposed.

When you play this Event (which of course costs an action), you'll also lower your Combat by any number of points (it still can't go below 1, so you can't spend all of them).

For every point by which you lower it, you may take control of an Item on the field, switching it to your side of the field.

While expensive, this can wreck your opponents' plans.

Remember that if those stolen Items get destroyed, they'll still go to their own discard piles.

What if your opponent somehow negates the effects of Vasuki's Castle?

Answer: You don't lose the point in Combat you were trying to spend (but you DO lose the action).

Also, you DON'T have to meet an Item's requirement (the otherwise required number of points in Knowledge) to use steal it with Vasuki's Castle.