Quote from: Wildhorn on January 31, 2016, 11:23:38 AM

1 Full action to prevent 2 attacks is too powerful.

You can achieve similar effects with a spawnpoint and a summon or the Beastmaster's double summon, given an Altar of the Iron Guard.  Is it just the mana efficiency of it that makes it overpowered?  Or are there actual rules inconsistencies that would result if allowed?

The examples you gave are all 2 actions. Not just 1.

No, you don't get to guard twice, or no you don't get two guard markers?  Reviewing the rules, I don't see where this would be against the rules.  I don't see a prohibition against having two guard markers and the rules say an attack removes "the" guard marker, as in singular.  Is there something I'm missing?

Because there was no way to get more than one guard marker before, so they wrote it to singular. But if you keep reading, it says: "Once the attack is resolved, the creature is no longer guarding [...]".

I agree with Moonglow on this.

Quote from: Wildhorn on January 27, 2016, 11:57:06 PM

Hmmm, my question in the geeklist comment got unanswered.

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Will they come with their spellbook or they gonna be just cards?
Spellbooks are cool, but just cards is also cool money-wise.

And since I discovered I prefer to play with the cards sleeved as a deck in my hand than in the spellbook, I would really not mind at all if they were just a pack of cards (and spellbook could be sold separately) with a small cardboard sheet for tokens that could be required for the cards. Btw, I am loving the new tokens production. They are more thick and punch out much more easier.

PVS comes with spellbooks. We're always evaluating the whole spellbook issue when we look at a new set. Right now it's our goal to have players able to grab PVS and take one of the mages and play their recommended spellbook straight out of the box.

That's understandable. But I hope next mages will be cards only because, if I am not mistaken, the box is like 30% of the cost of a game and a spellbook is like 7$.

Me and my friend like Domination mode, but found out 3 "problems".

Problem #1: Since most Domination spellbook are meant to gain and defend orbs, less points are allocated for the mage defense. So this mean a very aggresive mage get an advantage to simply rush the ennemy mage to try to kill him, which kinda defeat the purpose of Domination.

Problem #2: Needing a set amount of V'Tar to win means as soon as someone get a 1 V'Tar advantage over his opponent (which often happens to be whoever gain control first of an orb and drop Gallaxus), all he needs to do is to turtle up an even number of orbs than his opponent and wait for the win.

Problem #3: We bought Mage Wars playmat and Domination doesn't use them. So they are kinda wasted money for that purpose.

So we tried to come up with different ideas to fix these problems and I came up with this idea:

Dominate The Old Arena

Using the old 3x4 arena:

S1TO
2OO2
OT1S

S: Starting zones.
O: Orb zones. Usslak in corners and Sslak in middles.
T: Tunnel zones.
1 and 2: The player who lost initiative place the Spike Traps tokens in either zones 1 or 2.

The goal is not to score a certain amount of V’Tar, but to gain a certain amount of V’Tar over your opponent. Every round, for every extra V’Tar that you gain over your opponent, place a V’Tar token on your mage reference card. If you have 4 or more V’Tar token on your mage reference card, you win the game. The amount of V'Tar advantage needed to win can be adjusted depending of how long you want the game to last.

You can spend V’Tar during the deployment phase to summon a Sslak or an Usslak on a V’Tar Orb that you control. A Sslak cost 7 V’Tar and an Usslak cost 11 V’Tar. This is to give V'Tar a purpose and to help to secure your position when you push for the opponent orbs.


Now, how it solves the 3 problems?

Solution #1: By requiring a V'Tar advantage instead of a fixed amount, an opponent can't simply ignore them to rush you because the chance that they kill you within 4 turns once you control 1 orb are pretty slim. So they have to care about orbs too in the early game.

Solution #2: By requiring a V'Tar advantage instead of a fixed amount, this means you need to keep your advantage for several rounds instead to simply needing that single extra V'Tar to win.

Solution #3: It use the old arena, so we can use the MW playmats.


We didn't test it out yet, but once we do, I will give out the results. Just wanted to share in case someone wanted to try it and give me feedback about it.

In Germany some of the shops list dragon scales and tiger stripes (academy beastmaster) as new sleeves for preorder.

I went to ultra-pro website and saw them. They are gorgeous. Can't wait for them to be released!

I love the spellbooks but I discovered that since Academy spellbooks contain about 30 cards, it is easier to just have them sleeved and hold the deck in hand. I find it is easier and faster to fetch the cards I want.

I bought some Mage Wars sleeves (which I find gorgeous) and because you do not shuffle the cards, the sleeves won't break easy nor often.

But so far, there are only 2 models: The Eye and the Libro Mortis.

So I was wondering if any other models would get released any time soon? Would be nice to have a Beastmaster/animal themed one. And for the to be released priestess and warlock, an angel and demon themed one.