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The Pariah Nexus Mission Deck is currently rarer than Kroots teeth.

EvenIdont have a deck yet Im borrowing this one from a buddy who had the foresight to pre-order one.

The Pariah Nexus Mission Deck pack on a grassy mat

This app lets you score your games and has all the up-to-date missions and objectives youll need.

You also draw cards from the Secondary mission deck throughout the game.

There have been some notable changes though, starting with the return of Actions.

Pariah Nexus Mission Deck box and cards laid out on a grassy mat

Anyone who played during 9th Edition 40K will recognise the return of Actions as a formalized rule.

Units can perform Actions to score points at the cost of forgoing their option to shoot or charge.

These pseudo-actions caused all sorts of headaches for the rules team.

A group of Vespid Stingwing models on a battlefield strewn with model ruins, a themed ruler, and cards

In their place we have Secret Missions.

With Secret Missions, you dont have to rest your fate on a card draw.

Then, you get another 20 points if you complete your Secret Mission.

Pariah Nexus Mission Deck deployment cards laid out in a grid on a grassy mat

Secret Missions are a massive improvement over Gambits, in that people actually use them.

Secondary missions received the same treatment too, with a load of the old cards getting dumped and replaced.

One of the other big changes in the Pariah Nexus Mission deck is with the deployment maps.

Pariah Nexus mission cards seen close up, laid out on a grassy mat

This version of 40K has always felt like a big swing for GW.

Im a big fan of these new layouts, and the 40K community at large seems to agree.

Overall, Pariah Nexus feels more tightly designed than the Leviathan deck that preceded it.

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As a result, almost all of the rough edges have now been sanded off the game.

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