Free Bird Question
 

Can anyone explain to me the benefit of this card? It says that it has no hiring cost, and yet all committed gold is moved to your purse. As far as I understand, you can't fight monsters with monsters, so. How is this card used?

Thanks!

Re: Free Bird Question
 

You can overpay for it to try to get your opponent to commit weapons and/or allies to the fight. And then you get your gold back to spend on other monsters now that your opponent's defenses have already been used.

You can also put it out as a zero-cost Monster, let your opponent decide to take the hit, and then use a Mischief to increase its power.

I'm sure there are other uses I'm not thinking of at the moment.

Re: Free Bird Question
 

basically lets you cheat without actually cheating.

so the strategy is to overpay for him and if your target calls your bluff you take no damage.

Re: Free Bird Question
 

If you successfully hire a monster (and it would hard NOT to hire Freebird!), you aren't cheating, by definition. I don't understand your comment.

Re: Free Bird Question
 

I understand what the intent of the comment was, even though, since "cheat" is a defined game term, it isn't really accurate.

It basically lets you try to get the benefits of "cheating" (bluffing your opponent into committing resources) without any of the risks of ACTUALLY cheating. If your bluff is called you take no damage and you still get all your gold back like you would with an actual cheating situation. My son HATED this card when I played the Bard starter against him.