Claudia

**Claudia** is a breach mage from The New Age.

## Mage Overview

Claudia has a unique connection with aether and gems, stronger than that of the other mages. Claudia's ability, which may only be activated during an ally's turn, grants that ally up to 5 , enough to help cover the costs of very high valued cards or **TO DISCARD** power effects. If Claudia chooses to give only 2  instead, then she gains a card that the ally gains, compensating her for focusing on giving allies . Claudia's unique starter, , helps her charge up quickly, and other player's are incentivized to lose charges, as they will benefit once Claudia uses her ability.

Claudia's IV breach is notable as well, starting in the furthest focused position. This allows Claudia to open her IV breach on her very first turn if she wishes, which will be important as she does not start with any open breaches, and only one .

### Ability

You may spend 5 charges during an ally's main phase to use this ability. You may not use this ability during your own turn unless playing true solo, where you are your own ally. When you activate this ability, choose to resolve one of the following effects:

* The next time the chosen ally gains a card from a supply pile (whether by buying the card or gaining it through another effect), you gain a copy of that card from the same supply pile, if possible. If there are no cards remaining in the supply pile, you do not gain anything.

**OR**

* The chosen ally gains 5 .

### Breach Setup

Claudia starts with no open breaches and three closed breaches in the following orientations.

## Strategy

*This page is lacking strategy tips right now*

## Lore

> "*I was born with the mind of an artist and the spirit of an inventor. Or maybe the mind of a genius and the spirit of an even better genius! Not to brag, but I was only three years old when I shattered my first gem. All planned, of course. I wandered into my mom's workshop and banged into the leg of her work table. Dad made a fancy new lock for the door after that, probably to try and test my ingenuity. My dad's really smart like that. Must be where I get it from. Well, I solved his lock puzzle, I wiggled aether around inside until I cracked it. Dad kept making harder locks and I kept figuring them out, getting into mom's lab, and breaking things! I really owe it all to my parents. If they hadn't kept trying to stop me from getting places, I never would have gotten anywhere. Just like refining a diamond. My parents taught me to always seek to learn and to grow and evolve! Right now, we are standing on the shoulders of our foremothers and they are saying we're heavy and need to get off and walk on our own two feet! Everyone is so limited in imagination, our exploration of aether is held back only by our unwillingness to seek it out. We all know that aether is in gems, but it's also in EVERYTHING. This world IS aether! I am aether! Some people say I'm crazy, but I say this WORLD is crazy! It's time to start fighting fire with fire. Since I can feel my own aether, and everybody else's aether, I can control it with a level of detail no one has ever dreamed of before! So yeah, I'm a genius. My mom might be pretty proud of her emerald, but I'm the best gem she ever created.*"
> ― Claudia
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