TIME TRAVELERS

Time Walk causes so much distortion in Time Travelers' power balance that factions that help play it tend to fit well. Other good partners play extra minions to help replay Jumpers. Still others have good on-play abilities for Time Travelers to replay. *Aliens: Replay those Invaders! Doctor When returns and replays them, Repeater Perfect helps you get back actions like Abduction, Beam Up, Do Over!, and Into the Time Slip, and returning him to hand lets you replay him and re-use his ability in turn, and It's Astounding lets you play the aforementioned actions directly from your discard pile. *Wizards: Blaze through and stack your deck to unleash Time Walk. In addition, Wizards' card draws are all the effects of on-play abilities, which Time Travelers are especially adept at replaying. *Innsmouth: Play The Locals, replay Mysteries of the Deep, and its Madness cards to sweep out your deck. Jumpers are great substitutes for The Locals, since they always stick around for the next job. *Super Spies: Draw extra cards with From Q With Love, execute elaborate attacks on your opponents, and stack your deck ever more thoroughly by sending cards to the bottom of your deck to push the rest higher up. *Grannies: Want to get that Time Walk back quickly? Just move it from the bottom of your deck to the top!

Time Travelers are a somewhat complicated faction. In this case, timing is everything, and knowing when the time is right to do things mostly comes from experience. When should you delay a base from scoring with Stasis Field, or execute a Bait and Switch with Doctor When? Which cards should you choose to replay later in the game? The future is difficult to predict, but some things are more likely to happen than others. Undoubtedly one of Time Travelers' best actions, Time Walk lends itself towards getting played more often the smaller your deck becomes. Even though you put it on the bottom of your deck, you can shuffle your deck to put it closer to the top, and pad it up from below with Time Raider. Every time you empty your deck, you will have Time Walk in your hand. So it follows that if you empty your deck every turn, you can play Time Walk every turn. Time Raider and Repeater Perfect make maintaining this feat simple. Just send 2 minions and 1 action back into your deck every turn, timed so you never draw cards from your empty deck. You get to pick exactly the cards you want, so your deck is no longer random. The implications are immense; the Time Travelers are basically a ticking time bomb waiting to explode on your enemies. The difficulty lies in getting to that point before the game ends, so you have to rely on your partner faction to help draw cards and/or slow down the game.