A rhyton was a drinking vessel, usually implying libations and the pouring thereof.
Card Text
(3) Rhyton
Persian • Special • Item
Meygosari: Once each round, before you are attacked, you may give the attacker the choice to make the attack roll at +0. If they do not, gain 1 life.
"...The fruit bubbled out red juice with white foam. They scooped it up with oxhorns, instead of cups, which had not yet been seen, so that ever after the cup of mixed wine took this divine name of rhyton." - Dionysiaca, XII 361-362
Illus.: Michel Koch • Set 4 • 75/100
Warrior Pack
Rhyton comes with the Shapur I warrior pack.
Rulings
From the FAQ
Gutal + Rhyton:
If a warrior uses these or other cards to move before the attack begins, and moves to a space that is not in the attacker's attack grid, what happens?
•In this case, the defender is moving 'before the attack'. This means that the position after the movement will be used to determine the attack grid bonus and attack validity. The attacker would have to be in position before the move (in order to attack at all), but if the defender moves, the attack will use the new position. If this means that an attack is not legal, no attack occurs. The attacker will still have used an action.
History in Brief
Satyrs, Wine, and Oxhorns
{coming eventually}
Trivia
- As the flavor text hints at, the rhyton had connections with Greece, wine, and satyrs... and therefore, with the party-goer of the gods, Dionysus.
Links
- Rhyton on Wikipedia
- Rhyton in the Encyclopædia Anachronistica
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