by stybba00
Ritual attack does seem pretty weak, you need to have have another card of the specific color that you need it for depending on whether you need ranged or seige. The base effect seems really weak and the powered effect seems to only be good if you draw concentration as well.Both the other throw away AA seem better, Maximal effect is much more versatile, often powering large turns of move or influence and decompose usually gets played as soon as you draw it, whereas I can see this card clogging up your hand if you have nothing to kill or nothing that you want to or nothing of the right color to throw away. I cant see taking this AA too often.
Temporal portal seems pretty situational, it can be used to skip a dragon, move through swamps or over a lake/mountain like space bending, and allows you to draw some more cards next turn. However, it also takes up your action to do so. The extra 2 cards may not even be useful if your deck is empty. Unlike motivation that you can use to always draw 2 extra cards when you need it, you may draw this card near the bottom of the deck when it is empty. Also, on many of the tiles, moving 2 spaces may be just as useful as having stamina but without having to use up your action. I can see some situations where I would take this but I probably wont take it too often.
Dodge and weave seems pretty sweet, as attack reduction is much stronger than block. It allows you to essentially partially block some attacks if you wish and take less wounds, reduce attacks allowing your units to fully absorb some of the attacks with their resistances (Im looking at you fire resist units!), essentially counts as efficient block against any element and more if the unit has swiftness. The extra attack you get after if you fully block is just a nice little bonus.
Force of nature is probably the easiest to evaluate of the 4 and it seems quite strong. The basic effect effect works well if you have more units but with even a single basic unit it will often absorb 4 physical, although with the new assassination ability will be a weaker effect. Seige 3 or block 6 are quite strong and I will probably take this card over crushing bolt most of the time and crushing bolt is already one of the stronger AA's.