Set 14 theme spotlight: how to play Coco, with songs and a full discard
Set 14, Hyperia City, has 27 Coco cards built around two things: Miguel and Héctor get stronger while you have a song in your discard, and Dante, Pepita and others gain extra lore once you have 10 or more cards in your discard. Here is each plan, step by step.
Most effects come with a condition, and the card gets stronger once it is met. There are only two conditions: you have a song card in your discard, or you have 10 or more cards in your discard. Here is each one.
See them all on InkLora: Set 14’s Coco cards.
Plan one: a song in your discard
It’s simple:
- Play or sing a song first. Songs are actions, so they go to your discard once used.
- From then on, while you have at least one song card in your discard, these characters keep their extra effects.
Miguel Rivera – Street Musician
An extra +1 lore and Singer 3, so he can sing songs of cost 3 or less for free.
Héctor Rivera – Gone to Pieces
An extra +1 lore and Evasive, so only characters with Evasive can challenge him.
These two find songs and put cards into your discard at the same time:
Héctor Rivera – Worldwide Sensation
Whenever he quests, and the first time he sings a song each turn, look at the top 3 cards of your deck, put a song card into your hand and the rest into your discard. He finds songs and fills your discard for plan two.
Though I Have to Say Goodbye
Put the top 3 cards of your deck into your discard first, then a chosen character gets +1 strength this turn for each song card in your discard. The more songs there, the bigger the boost.
Plan two: 10 or more cards in your discard
Your discard is where used actions, banished characters and other cards go. It grows slowly in a normal game; Coco cards put cards from the top of your deck there to get you to 10 sooner.
Two steps:
- Use the “fill your discard” cards to reach 10 cards as soon as you can.
- Once you have 10, the cards in step two below get their extra effects.
Step one: fill your discard
Héctor Rivera – Street Musician
When played, you may put the top card of your deck into your discard.
Rivera Family Photo
Each turn you can exert it and pay 1 ink to put the top 2 cards of your deck into your discard. Once you have 10 cards there, you can gain 1 lore instead.
Mamá Coco – Visiting the Park
Whenever you put cards into your discard from your deck, she gets an extra +1 lore this turn. With the cards above, you fill your discard and score at the same time.
The Torn Corner
Draws a card while you have 10 or more cards in your discard. If it is put into your discard from your deck while you have a Rivera Family Photo in play, you may play it for free.
Step two: with 10 or more cards in your discard
Watch out
Mamá Imelda – No-Nonsense Ancestor
When you play her, put 3 cards from your discard on the bottom of your deck, or banish her. She shrinks your discard, so think before playing her in a deck that wants 10 cards there.
Back from the discard: Remember Me
Remember Me
After you sing it, you may play characters from your discard for the rest of the turn. They enter play exerted, and you can’t play characters with the same names as them this turn. The characters you put into your discard for plan two can come back all at once.
Which inks?
Ruby has cards for both plans (Héctor, Pepita, Rivera Family Photo, The Torn Corner, Marigold Bridge), so it can be the core:
- Ruby + Amethyst: the 10-card discard plan, with Dante, Mamá Coco and Everyone Knows Juanita.
- Ruby + Amber: the song plan, with Miguel, Remember Me and Aurora – Delightful Musician, who also likes songs.
Alternate art
Coco has 9 alternate-art cards in Set 14: Enchanted versions of Héctor Rivera – Worldwide Sensation, Miguel Rivera – Street Musician, Pepita – Imelda’s Right Hand, Remember Me and Un Poco Loco, and Epic versions of Héctor Rivera – Street Musician, Though I Have to Say Goodbye, Dante – Enthusiastic Stray and Ancestral Guitar.
To try a Coco deck, open InkLora’s Deck Builder, pick Ruby with Amethyst or Amber, and filter by the franchise Coco.
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