Mot's Useless Card Review #83: 1962 Roger Maris Baseball Card

This "useless" card seemed highly topical this week...

The Roger Maris Baseball Card is one of the great equalizers of the game. Rather than stock The Devil to nullify a Horga’hn, or Disruptor Overload to stop the many artifacts that play as equipment, just use Roger Maris to level the playing field. (Pun definitely intended.)

While the Roger Maris Card can't actually nullify any artifact, it can for all intents and purposes nullify any advantage gained by most artifacts. If your opponent has a Horga'hn, you can just trade them the Baseball Card for it on your turn and take a double turn yourself. Naturally, your opponent can also trade the Card back to you for their Horga'hn on their turn - but so long as you are both taking double turns, you've essentially cancelled the Horga'hn.

Advantages your opponent gains from Alien Gambling Device, the Orb of Prophecy and Change, Data’s Head, Varon-T Disruptor, Iconian Gateway, Zefram Cochrane’s Telescope, and many more are yours to share with the Baseball Card. In essence, you can take your opponent's strategy and turn it against them.

The collector himself, Kivas Fajo (the personnel card) makes a great combination for the Roger Maris Baseball Card. Many artifacts that were worth special abilities to your opponent can also be worth 5 extra points to you on the turn you trade for them. If you can get to 100 points and victory before your opponent can trade back for them on their turn, well, then who did that artifact really help more?

Not bad for the card from '62. Of course, 62 also proved to be a rather significant number for another baseball player, but we won't go into that...