Quote from: "Klaxas" post=9857

i would also like to add that if you want an 8 die fire attack on a wand, use the fireshaper ring and add a hawkeye enchantment to yourself.  the fireball counts as a ranged attack giving you the extra die for hawkeye and an extra die for the fireshaper ring.

Actually we are debating the Hawkeye thing on another thread at the moment, so the jury is still out on that one. I'm in agreement with you but we'll have to wait and see how it turns out.

Here is the link.

http://magewars.com/jsite/forum/strategy-and-tactics/9640-using-attack-spells-as-the-warlord

this shouldnt even be a question.  attack spells are ranged attacks (as denoted by the ranged attack symbol on the card) the strategy of combining fireshaper ring and hawkeye (or at the time it was lightning ring and hawkeye and thunderbolt) this was first brought to my attention at gen con while playing with one of the original playtesters (shadow to be exact) i will be very surprised if i have been playing this incorrectly.

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Quote from: "DarthDadaD20" post=9570

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3. A flavor question that has been bothering me. Earth Elemental's quake stomp. It is indicated as a 0-0 ranged attack, but can it really hit flying creatures?

For Elemental Creature - the stomp must be so strong that rocks or stones from the ground actually flew that high to hit the flying creatures

I read this as: "A range is range.  And a range can hit flying creature. Except that a 0 zone 0 range mean that it only hits people in the same zone."

The Psylok of the Forcemaster is a 0-0 range flyer (critical hit).  <-- cool flying creature who never gets grounded because he always does a range attack. Only melee gets grounded.

im not sure what you mean by never gets grounded. a normal flying creature is only considered on the ground for the durration of the attack at which point he returns to flight, this is so things like counterstrikes can hit it.  it does not remain "grounded" simply from making a melee attack.  the only thing that really "grounds" a flyer is when it guards or when it is incapacited (knockdown, slam and such)  having said that i do love the psylock lol

lots of interesting speculation here! I love reading it.  I wish I knew more than I did, us playtesters don't have a whole lot of information yet (at least I don't!) and what I do know i cant share but i love reading this stuff.  and who knows it might give us designers/playtesters some ideas!

yes you can cast other conjurations as long as only one zone exclusive conjuration is in each zone.  this makes it possible to cast a poison gas cloud over someone else's spawnpoint to damage the creatures spawned during the upkeep and such tricks like that.

I actually playtested many of these cards with an earth wizard, and yes sniper shot plus hurl boulder is great.

my build focused more with 6 mana crystals gate to voltari and 3 earth elementals, 3 iron golems, along with some arcane creatures with the gate, hydra, moonglow fairy and blue gremlin.  (2 very under rated cards IMO) the blue gremlin can get past walls and hindering with his teleport and the moonglows are to take out any ethereal annoyances.

the idea was to get out 2 or 3 earth elementals, or failing that 1 earth elemental and 2 iron golems.  it was almost a swarm deck with large creatures, with a channeling between 13-15 the earth elementals got out faster than you would think.

I did also include the quickstand etc and a few other things.....

point taken, I have an original printing one and it says other creatures, so the correct wording should be all creatures, with it being poison damage and he is immune to poison.  and also immune to the idol which is also poison damage

and the playtesters!

forcefield is one of those cards that had tons of discussion and was changing constantly.  im very happy with where it ended up