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Dreamer: The Nightmare Keyword

This is the first crew I ever built and learned in Malifaux back in 2E, and its gone through a lot of iterations. Back in the day, you could swap Dreamer and Chompy back and forth. Earlier in 3E, Dreamer felt dirty to play: his Lucid Dreaming would add up to the point where in turn 3, you'd have most of your weaks pulled out, and you'd tend to win strictly off of your strong deck alone. The errata has brought the crew back to a normal level, and I'm overall happy with the changes. I have a personal connection with Dreamer as well. When I was a kid, I had terrible vivid nightmares for many years, mostly of hordes of giant rats coming out of the dark to eat me alive. After a long time, I eventually learned about lucid dreaming and slowly gained control over my nightmares, and now I have a semi-recurring dream world I visit every night where I have full-on anime protagonist powers. ANYWAY, onto the content. tldr: Strengths: Tarpit, healing, willpower attacks, ignore armor/inco...