I just had a game with my friend and started thinking about this item and if it could be useful or not. There's two sides for this item that I find to be quite nice. Firstly I like the idea that I could set up my scouts first. For example in the game tonight my friend won the roll off and so set up his scouts first. This way he was able to block my vanguard move and my scouts that I would have liked to deploy as close as possible to his cannon. So in more general approach going first gives you the opportunity to deny your opponents deployment and/or vanguard. Second, if you have the same amount of scouts you get to deploy first and therefore receive the +1 to the roll who gets the first turn. I usually like to get the first turn with my lizards so I can either get better position to either set up charges or avoid cannonfire. Also with my light Slann I would prefer to have the Pha's Protection up. What is other peoples opinion on this particular item? I wrote the other topic how to equip my skink priest and I think this one could be viable choice. In friendly games I don't know if this helps so much but in the tournament environment you could benefit a lot. Ofcourse it is situational. BR Agrem