Average user rating1.7out of 5 Lollipop. Kula Diamond's character only asset. Hoo boy. Where do I begin? When I first took on this assignment (or rather, when I came to UFSCards's maintainer and all around awesome person even though I've barely talked to him and asked if I could do this thang), I knew that I would eventually have to tackle on cards that I simply can't see a very good use to. Ironic that I chose one of these as my first ones to cover. So, come with me on a fantastical adventure and let's see what flavor that lollipop has to offer.
Again, we'll start with the stats : 4/4 No Block, with the second Kula's symbol spread. For a 4/4, it better have an awesome effect, and, well, it kind of. sort of does. It reads : " First F Destroy this asset: Either your control checks to play attacks this turn gets +2 or your Stun attacks played this turn get +2 speed (your choice). " Unlike most cards I intend to cover on this Card of the Day feature, there's only one real good way to use it, and that's helping you pass checks. Since it's a First Form, you cannot really stack the +2 to checks (even though that's a pretty strong ability outright), and the other ability is... erm... situational, if not outright useless. Fortunately, the card is Kula Only, so it remains an afterthought unless you want to play Kula (who can be quite strong if in the right hands), at which point it depends on whether you really love character only cards or not.
Still, there is one way to use this card, and it's by causing a Final Confrontation. While Kula can blow up foundations to help with checks, for the cost of a so-so asset, your attacks get an auto +2 to help you pass attacks without having to blow up everything in your staging area. Either a low difficulty Absurd Strength build or a weenie rush deck will benefit greatly from this, and if you simply blow up a foundation to help you pass that Final Confrontation, you can effectively force the opponent to nuke their staging area every single turn. It gets worse if they're momentum builders and you have one or none at all, as they are forced to discard it completely.
So, place Lollipop in play, a couple of foundations (using Kula's R to blow anything you may have on the board) and finish with a Final Confrontation. The turn after, you blow up Lollipop and proceed to rip your opponent's face off, if you can. However, that's the only way I can see the card being useful, the other ability being laughable at best. Not only do you get a better speed buff in Feelings of Friendship and various other cards that are far better at it than Lollipop, most of them don't have a destroy cost, and the few that do have a better speed buff than +2 speed to Stun attacks only.
Final judgment on the card? As far as I'm concerned, LOLlipop definitely deserves it's name, because it sucks. Not only that, but it's a Super Rare, and for a Super Rare, it does pretty much nothing. In fact, there is a good chance that, by the end of the year, more people will know of the Shane(th) Duckworth and Chubbs "Lollipop" greeting than what the actual card does.
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If you are playing Kula however, I still would think twice before running this, as for those stats you could be running Pieces of Eight, or something with a 5 Check. I personally would rather run more attacks than Lollipop, as it's more inclined toward what Kula's actually meant to do
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