What to do with Rama Tut
In the time before Rama Tut there have been so many On Reveals. Now, this new Series 5 card lets you harvest (almost) all of them for your own selfish benefit! Rama Tut uses 3 On Reveals at once, which is going to lead to some crazy output. Here is everything I'm excited to try with Rama Tut!
How Does He Actually Work?
What are we doing with Rama Tut? What aren't we doing? Ok, so true to the lore, there’s a lie right in Rama Tut’s text. He won’t actually pull from every On Reveal that is on a card from before his release, and he won’t even draw from them in equal proportions. He’ll choose from a hard-coded set list and that list is weighted! We don’t know exactly what is on that list and we have no idea of the probability weights. We won’t know for certain until he releases. Snap.Fan was able to datamine a list of the abilities, but it’s entirely possible it’s changed or will change in the future. It seems like a pretty good bet that highly detrimental On Reveals like M.O.D.O.K.’s will be relatively rarer, but we just don’t know prior to release. I expect it to be somewhat similar to X-Mansion, which chooses from a restricted set that has been deliberately curated and weighted by the dev team for a balance of fun and drama.
He’ll choose three different On Reveals and he’ll choose new ones if you re-trigger him (though he can duplicate abilities from the first time).
Could He Actually Be Good?
There will undoubtedly be games Rama Tut wins and, just like his counterpart, the redesigned Kang, you’re going to see plenty of game-winning clips and hype for him in his first 48 hours. But just as happened with Kang, players are going to figure out exactly how often he loses you the game or does something useless compared to doing something beneficial. Rama Tut has a higher ceiling than new Kang, but he’s also going to have more hype in his first few days than he will afterwards. However, there is one specific way in which Rama Tut will truly be good and I think it’s being overlooked: repeat him.
Because of the way doubling works there are some pretty interesting play lines with Rama Tut and extra On Reveals.
How Many On Reveals Happen?
| The Set-Up | # of On Reveals |
|---|---|
| Rama Tut + Grandmaster | 6 (3 in each lane) |
| Rama Tut + Prodigy or Absorbing Man | 6 (3 from each card) |
| Wong + Tut | 12 (6, twice each) |
| Wong + Mystque + Tut | 48 (12, 4 times each) |
If you get more instances of Kang, you’re going to end up with a crazy amount of Power from your 4-drop a lot of the time. Will repeating him once be enough to make him feel powerful? Maybe not, but I’m confident he’ll feel pretty wacky when you repeat him 6 or 12 times. Such an all-in strategy is unlikely to survive the tech wars of high-infinite ladder, but it will still be a fun strategy that can be used to win and climb to some degree.
Subtle Tut
Multi-Tut
Uber-Tut
Boom Tut
Is He Worth It?
If you’re tight on resources and your primary goal is winning, you can go ahead and skip him. However, if you’re basically any other type of player on either axis, you’re going to want Rama Tut. You don’t want to miss out on the first couple of days of fun. He’s going to delight and troll and boom and bust. That’s easily going to be worth my 5000 or 6000 Tokens.
