Spending an action to play a decoy doesn't seem like a good idea.  Outside of that legendary fairy, I don't see much of a point in actually using them other than to break suspected nullifies...and you can do that with any enchantment with little risk as long as you have more than 1 copy.

Idk, I've never found myself using Decoy.  There's plenty of other cards that actually do things, like the super-cheap commands or just basic melee.

Quote from: Wildhorn on April 08, 2014, 10:04:38 AM

Using all your mana every turn is a very bad way to play. It makes you mana starved and predictable. Opponent know you can't cast a spell that is over your channeling. That is why I prefer to do some big casting in first few turns then cast low mana cost spells to get in the 15-20 mana range at beginning of my turn. Always have 1 spell you want to cast and 1 spell to counter the thing you fear most your opponent would cast that turn. That way you build up a mana pool, allowing you to drop the bomb at the right time.

I rarely use all of my mana for a given round, but I do often spend most of it. 2-4 left over unless I'm going melee with my mage.

There's nothing wrong with spending all your mana, as long as your opponent is doing the same.  If you don't spend enough mana, you risk getting behind in board position and actions.  I.e., if your opponent plays a large creature, you need to play one of similar strength that ideally counters their creature, or some cost-efficient removal that takes it out of the fight for a while (sleep, turn to stone, etc).  It's more about reacting properly to the current situation than trying to hoard your mana.

Generally, I don't usually want to be the first player to make a big play because it leaves you open to getting countered in the next round, but depending on how your dice rolls go and the creatures you have left, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and make the play so you dont get too far behind.

Thanks for super-quick reply ,  I'll just use those then.  Kind of disappointed to see that MW still doesn't have set tournament rules yet, but I suppose that's the nature of things if all the tournaments are at cons.

Idk if Charm is still around.  I'm just getting back into the game after a half-year hiatus, so I have no idea what the online presence is like or who is active...

So, who's around? 

Right, which is why I said the example isn't correct; my example doesn't use two of the same enchantment, just one.  And as long as the end result is 1 Eagle Wings, I'm not breaking any rule.

Why isn't it a legal target for Eagle Wings?  Re-moving the Eagle Wings back onto the Gorilla from that same Gorilla doesn't break the "only 1" rule for enchantments.

Also, the FAQ specifies...

2.The caster or target of the spell moves (e.g. by being Pushed or Teleported away), even if the move was to a location where the spell was still in range. (In the case of a Teleport, this applies even if the teleport was into the same zone)."

So even if it's to the same target in the same zone and in-range, it still has the desired effect I want, because it moved, even if it moved to the same zone.

Though it would be nice if Shadow or someone from the rules team clarified this.

How/when/etc do you guys use walls?  We are more familiar with the walls with the Passage Attacks trait and Pushing creatures through them, but I'm more concerned about the Passage Blocked/Blocked LoS walls like Wall of Stone/Steel, which seem to be largely ignored at the moment.

Do you use these walls to section off parts of the arena?  Maybe even an entire half of it?  What kind of success have you had or not had? 

For example, I've been struggling with playing the Warlord, so I'm looking at all the cards he has access to and his abilities, and thinking about using a strategy that may heavily section off parts of the arena and use Royal Archers/Slingers/Sniper in combination with Archer's Towers to harass my opponent, with Mountain Gorillas or creatures with the flying trait.  Or maybe to leave only 1 zone open to pass through, but use a Wall of Pikes so that it's harder to get into my side rather than my opponent's side.  It would look something like this:

X XW X X
X XW X X
X XP  X X

X = Zone
W = Wall of Steel/Stone
P = Wall of Pikes 


Perhaps I could incorporate some traps, like Spiked Pit, to compliment this strategy.

Basically, I'm asking, while I test this myself, whether you guys have experience using walls in this way or any way that is beyond simply pushing a creature multiple times through a wall with the Passage Attack trait.  The Warlord (and I suppose the Priestess as well) in particular seem well-suited to doing this sort of thing, with their easy access to ranged Soldiers and fortification-style enchantments, so any thoughts/experience about those two would be especially welcome.

Thanks!