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 * Blessed of December, Arcanist Minion[[image:p-16784.jpg width="221" height="477" align="right"]]**

=__Overview__= The Blessed of December is a woman, touched by December and transformed into a wild Beast. It is a Unique Hit-and-Run minion which trades off a bit of its offensive capabilities for more durability.

=__Mobility__= The Blessed of December has really good mobility. She has a decent walk and charge and has the 0 spell **Leap**, that needs a 10 and a mask in the flip.

Leap lets her move over impassible terrain with ease and helps her positioning herself.

To round it up she has the Talent **Stalker** which lets her, at the end of the End Closing Phase if she is not in the line of sight of an enemy model, move 6" further.

Her high mobility makes it easy for her to achieve Strategies like Destroy the Evidence, were you have to destroy markers that are scattered of the gaming table.

With the Ca 5 of hers, **Leap** will also be especially easy to cast.

=__Offense__= The Blessed has Melee Expert which gives her one additional attack and has two different weapons:

Is a 2" melee attack with an above average CB of 6 with a tome and a damage flip of 1/3/5. It also has a trigger that needs an additional ram in the flip, which gives the attack +2 cards on your damage flip. All in all the attack is pretty basic and reliable but now to the juicy part.
 * __Ragged Claws__**

This 1", Cb 5 attack is far more lethal then Ragged Claws if you have the right cards in your hand. It has a damage flip of 2/2/4 with a ram and the Blessed heals one wound every time she damages a non-construct model with it. Now to the Triggers:
 * __Feral Bite__**


 * Rip Throat** lets her deal additional 2 Dg to models without armor if you have a crow in your flip. Models without armor should generally die after 2 attacks with up to 6 Dg so this will help assassinating targets fast a lot easier.


 * Gorge on Flesh** is the second Trigger. If you damaged a living enemy model with the Bite and you had a Tome in your Cb flips, you make another Bite immediately after the first one. This lets you do a potential of 6 attacks and don't forget that you heal 1 Wd per successful attack.

Her only offensive Spell is **December's Gaze**, which needs a 14 and a tome. It forces an enemy model to perform a Wp 14 Morale Duel. This is really useful to scare of low Wp models that would otherwise cross your plans. It's always nice to shut down a combo of your opposing player in making his models run away.
 * __Willpower shenanigans:__**
 * Terrifying 11** doesn't sound like much but it can be useful. **Frozen Heart** makes her immune to Moral Duels, to make sure she never runs away screaming.

=__Resilience__= All Hit-and-Run minions are often extremely easy to kill but the Blessed is somewhat of an exception. It has only 7 Wd with **Hard to Wound 1**. Okay then, why is she more durable than, let's say, the Sabretooth Cerberus? The answer is her ability to regenerate.

As mentioned earlier she heals 1 Wd for every successful attack but that's just the tip of the iceberg. She has **Graverobber** and a 1 ability called **Ravenous**. So if you want to kill the Blessed you probably have to kill her in one turn because if she kills you she can just **Leap** out of danger, regenerate herself next turn and come back with full health. But beware even with this set of abilities, she shouldn't be positioned carelessly.
 * Ravenous** lets her discard any number of corpse counters and you make a healing flip for every corpse discarded.

Last but not least she is one of the only models which benefit from a Black Joker. The ability **December's Pawn** enables you to draw two cards when you flip or play a black joker. The "play" here is crucial: Let's say you have the Black Joker in your hand. Just try to **Leap** for 0 and cheat with the Card from your Hand. You just have exchanged the worst card in the game for two new ones. This is extremely situational but not an essential part if her play-style so it is a nice gimmick, not more.

=__Tips and Tricks__= For Rasputina the Blessed will be a nice addition because it adds a lot of mobility to her relatively slow lists.
 * Rasputina:**

I think The Blessed of December will replace the Sabretooth Cerberus in a lot of lists. There are some reasons for this: First of all the Cerberus dies really fast. You often come in situations with it were you maybe kill a model with it but lose it afterwards because it gets killed. The Blessed stays longer in play for reasons stated above. The Blessed is also, believe it or not, more mobile then the Sabretooth. She can leap easier because of her Ca of 5 compared to the cats Ca of 3. She also has a medium base which lets her stalk more efficiently. Even in melee I think the Blessed has the upper hand because her damage output isn't affected by her Wds like the Cerberus. And all that for the same Soulstone cost.
 * Markus:**

=__Master-Specific Tips__= (What it says on the can - any Synergies with other Masters worth mentioning) NOTE: There's no need to discuss every Master that can take him, just the ones worth mentioning

=Minion-Specific Tips= (Any synergies/tricks with other minions worth mentioning)

=__Playing Against a Blessed of December__= Threat level, how to kill/neutralize it, what to watch out for etc.

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