When I first saw this card, I immediately knew that he was gonna be great, but just how great came to a surprise to me. What went right over my head was the fact that his abilities' trigger is a combat action. I thought "oh, he's a way to save resources on beornings, cool" but there's more to it than that.

It lets you quest with him before bringing in an beast Giant Bear or Beorn. In , 1 is great, anything helps in that sphere. This let's you choose if you want to transform him this round or wait and quest with him for another round.

Another thing that is great about him is that his ability let's you put in beornings from your discard pile. It doesn't restrict you to just cards in your hand which combos well with other beornings like Beorning Guardian(I think).

Also, it's nice that they are adding more resource "generation" in the other card types besides leadership.

Way better than I expected.

The only card that really introduces a Beorning synergy and what a great job it does! Beorning Skin-changer's ability addresses exactly what the archetype's main problem was, having exclusively high-impact allies at almost unfeasible costs, reducing them greatly and even being able to pull them out of the discard pile. Furthermore, Beorning Skin-changer is no slouch itself, of course never being a card you will play solely for its stats but still contributing in that regard until you trigger its ability. Especially its 1 willpower and 3 hit points come in handy, meaning you can quest for 1, soak up 2 points of archery and can afterwards still pull out one of the solely combat-orientated Beorning allies like Beorn, Giant Bear or Beorning Guardian. Afterwards, this ally is even very easily recyclable with Stand and Fight.

Overall an ally that not only is very good itself, but also lifts the value of every other Beorning ally in the game considerably!

Rating: 7/10

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