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Mage Wars => General Discussion => Topic started by: Reakon on July 26, 2013, 01:08:44 PM
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Hey there folks!
First post on the forum, feels good, aha.
Fell in love with the game, ordered my first lot (core set, spellbook pack and forcemaster v warlord), and through luck I've been able to get my hands on (well they're on the way) seasons 1, 2 and 3 of the organized play.
But anyway, my question here is does anyone have a full list of all promo cards that have been released? I know all three seasons have their own promos, and the dice tower (I want to say kickstarter?) has a promo card back of 10. Other than that, I'm not aware of any promos, but I thought I'd ask around and see if there are.
I have a ocd completionist mentality when it comes to board games. When I get into one, I try to hunt down every single product for it. Which I don't know if I'll do for mage wars, since they have the most epic policy of "eventually all promos will be printed in expansions", but if it turns out the list of current promos is small enough, I might track down a copy of each just to have in my books.
Thanks in advance, can't wait to have many a conversation about this game!
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Aside from the dice tower promo set- which you can get via donation to Dicetower.com , there have been other promo's given out at cons. Aside from ridiculous prices on ebay- I am not aware of another means of getting them.
Now for the good news- all promo's are supposed to eventually get published in future releases.
AW does not have a set release schedule- but so far a couple have been printed in sets.
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You can use promo's in friendly games but not official tournaments - so while they are nice have - they are not chase items in my opinion.
Enjoy and welcome to Mage Wars!
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Oh wow, I did not know that!
Thanks for the heads up. I think I will not try to track down the promos I wolnt already be getting ahold of if they wolnt be legal in tounrys anyway. I very much appreciate that!
Also, thanks a hell of a lot too for the info about the dicetower pack still being available. Since I saw people asking like 30$ for it, I assumed it wasn't in print anymore.
Thanks a lot for all the information!
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The OCTGN deck builder has all of the known Promo's at this time. I am sure there are more that have not seen the light of day yet just by looking at the numbering on the current crop of cards.
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OP Kit 1
Dispel
Galador
Minor Heal
OP Kit 2
Asyran Defender
Sersiryx
Stumble
Wand of Healing
OP Kit 3
Oscuda
Mordok's Tome
Clear Mind
Altar of Peace
Bashcon 2013
Summoning Circle
Origins 2013
Life Ring
Med Amulet
Hurl Rock
Sandstorm
Dice Tower 2013
Akiro's Favor
Hurl Meteorite
Lion Savagery
Temple High Guard
Vorpal Blade
Ballista
Bloodcrag Minotaur
Critical Strike
Morning Star
Gravikor
Gen Con 2013
Bloodcrag Minotaur
Vorpal Blade
Spiked Buckler
Akiro's Favor
Though I wish they would stop with the promo cards, its a real unbalance in the game. You can hardly ask a friend to not play with the cards if he got them and love them, but you dont have an answer for them. It makes from this game more a collectable card game atm, then a real game.
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You can absolutely ask to play tournament legal games.
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Though I wish they would stop with the promo cards, its a real unbalance in the game. You can hardly ask a friend to not play with the cards if he got them and love them, but you dont have an answer for them. It makes from this game more a collectable card game atm, then a real game.
I keep getting further and further amazed/stunned with this topic. We are talking non-tourney Friendly games. It is very simple to say lets play (with/without) promos. Now I understand someone might have books built already. So the next time we play we (should/should not) use promos or bring one spellbook with and one without. If I cant get my friend to go along with that, then I will not be playing Mage Wars with him. You can proxy promos and use them that way.
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Seconded. Unless there are shadow games where souls are on the line and all cards are legal, i don't understand why promo cards are having such a huge impact on casual play. If i had a friend that told me if i don't let him play with promo cards he wouldn't play, I'd call him replaceable and teach someone new.
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Though I wish they would stop with the promo cards, its a real unbalance in the game. You can hardly ask a friend to not play with the cards if he got them and love them, but you dont have an answer for them. It makes from this game more a collectable card game atm, then a real game.
I keep getting further and further amazed/stunned with this topic. We are talking non-tourney Friendly games. It is very simple to say lets play (with/without) promos. Now I understand someone might have books built already. So the next time we play we (should/should not) use promos or bring one spellbook with and one without. If I cant get my friend to go along with that, then I will not be playing Mage Wars with him. You can proxy promos and use them that way.
Proxy them with what? Is there even a place on the AW website that shows all the promos? Let alone files large enough to print.
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If there is a card i need, i just write on a piece of paper, put a card in a sleeve backwards, and stick the makeshift card in that.
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Though I wish they would stop with the promo cards, its a real unbalance in the game. You can hardly ask a friend to not play with the cards if he got them and love them, but you dont have an answer for them. It makes from this game more a collectable card game atm, then a real game.
I keep getting further and further amazed/stunned with this topic. We are talking non-tourney Friendly games. It is very simple to say lets play (with/without) promos. Now I understand someone might have books built already. So the next time we play we (should/should not) use promos or bring one spellbook with and one without. If I cant get my friend to go along with that, then I will not be playing Mage Wars with him. You can proxy promos and use them that way.
Proxy them with what? Is there even a place on the AW website that shows all the promos? Let alone files large enough to print.
You know that is quite easy. You know those cards on e-bay? They have everything you need to write up a proxy....if you were to download Octgn for just the Deck Builder piece all of the proxies are their also and written up. The ones from Gencon should be up soon...even...then I have sleeve it.
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Ok, but that doesn't exactly seem legitimate. If AW is really cool with this idea they should at least provide a list of promos with low-rez images. I've even gone searching for promos before I hadn't found all of the one's listed in this thread.
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Just found this link with images. http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/992092/current-promo-list
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A proxy doesn't really need to be legitimate, it just has to work as a stand in. When i used to play magic, i could often get away with just writing the card name down and going from there. I mean, you can't do that here, but the point stands. You can use proxies for testing, and if you get the ok, casual games. It detracts from the visual appeal, but i feel the people that want the promos early want them for competitive testing or 'beta' testing, which a written piece works just as well for.
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A proxy doesn't really need to be legitimate, it just has to work as a stand in. When i used to play magic, i could often get away with just writing the card name down and going from there. I mean, you can't do that here, but the point stands. You can use proxies for testing, and if you get the ok, casual games. It detracts from the visual appeal, but i feel the people that want the promos early want them for competitive testing or 'beta' testing, which a written piece works just as well for.
I proxy promos all the time because even I do not have full sets of everything. I always state a week before we play if we will use promos or not and no body seem to have a issue with that. Like Doma I proxy MTG cards when testing decks.
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A proxy doesn't really need to be legitimate, it just has to work as a stand in. When i used to play magic, i could often get away with just writing the card name down and going from there. I mean, you can't do that here, but the point stands. You can use proxies for testing, and if you get the ok, casual games. It detracts from the visual appeal, but i feel the people that want the promos early want them for competitive testing or 'beta' testing, which a written piece works just as well for.
I proxy promos all the time because even I do not have full sets of everything. I always state a week before we play if we will use promos or not and no body seem to have a issue with that. Like Doma I proxy MTG cards when testing decks.
I do the same, for example I might have 1 copy of Sandstorm. If I want to run two copies in my book. I make a proxy for the second one. When I play Sandstorm, I play the real card and when I discard the proxy comes out of the book and the real one goes back in.
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The promos from Gencon this year were actually...
Altar of the Iron Guard
Holy Strike
Debilitate
Plagued
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The promos from Gencon this year were actually...
Altar of the Iron Guard
Holy Strike
Debilitate
Plagued
You forgot Selsius and storm drake armor... ;)
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True, but I was listing the new cards at Gen Con. Besides all my time in the AW booth has my brains mush right now.
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So here's what I have compiled. f=foil version and nf=non-foil version
Anyone know what the 4 missing Promos are (if they exist) and if any of my foil/non-foil data needs updated.
MWPRO1 Dispel (f)
MWPRO2 Minor Heal (f)
MWPRO3 Galador (f)
MWPROMO1 Akiro's Favor (f and nf)
MWPROMO2 Altar of Peace (f)
MWPROMO3 Asyran Defender (f)
MWPROMO4 Ballista (f and nf)
MWPROMO5 Bloodcrag Minotaur (f and nf)
MWPROMO6 Clear Mind (f)
MWPROMO7 Elfric's Life Ring (f and nf)
MWPROMO8 Gravikor (f and nf)
MWPROMO9 Hurl Meteorite (f and nf)
MWPROMO10 Hurl Rock (f and nf)
MWPROMO11 ??
MWPROMO12 Lion Savagery (f and nf)
MWPROMO13 ??
MWPROMO14 Meditation AMulet (f and nf)
MWPROMO15 Morning Star (f and nf)
MWPROMO16 Oscuda (f)
MWPROMO17 Critical Strike (f and nf)
MWPROMO18 Sersiryx (f)
MWPROMO19 Summoning Circle (f and nf)
MWPROMO20 Temple High Guard (f and nf)
MWPRoMO21 Vorpal Blade (f and nf)
MWPROMO22 Wand of Healing (f)
MWPROMO23 Stumble (f)
MWPROMO24 ??
MWPROMO25 Sandstorm (f and nf)
MWPROMO26 Spiked Buckler (f and nf)
MWPROMO27 Mordok's Tome (f)
MWPROMO28 ??
MWPROMO29 Debilitate (nf)
MWPROMO30 Plagued (nf)
MWPROMO31 Altar of the Iron Guard (nf)
MWPROMO32 Holy Strike (nf)
MWPROMO33 Storm Drake Hide (nf)
MWPROMO34 Selesius (nf)
Edit, almost forgot : 6 alternate art mage cards
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Is it still a promo if its been released in an expansion?
i.e. dispell and minor heal?
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Is it still a promo if its been released in an expansion?
i.e. dispell and minor heal?
Sure, why wouldn't it be? Gold stamp, different card number, different artwork (although the promo minor heal artwork has been used as a regular card I believe and the same artwork was used for Galador). The rarity of a card may mean something completely apart from the fact that the exact same card is readily available (see Summer Magic for MTG).
As an aside I greatly prefer the FFG method of Promos. They release either alternate artwork (full bleed) of already existing cards or counters/tokens. All stuff that is highly sought after, can be used, but gives no competitive edge.
It's worth noting that in the secondary market, the Mage Wars alternate art promos sell for more than just about any other Mage Wars promo released and a Mage Wars playmat just sold for $100 on eBay.