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Events / Re: The Arcane Duels League
« on: April 24, 2019, 11:41:53 AM »
There is no clarification on how the Embalmed will work in the tournament. The most important ruling is of course how it interacts with eternal servant.
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Spells / Re: The Embalmed
« on: April 11, 2019, 10:14:48 AM »
Arkdeniz, there are 2 things that I think you should understand.
Firstly The Embalmed copies a creature, this means that any previous info on the card is overwritten, which would mean that it's old effects will no longer trigger.
Secondly I do think it makes sense to have this as a creature spell. It has to do with consistency and future card interactions. To keep the game cleaner they probably did not want noncreature spells to summon creatures the instant they are played.
Firstly The Embalmed copies a creature, this means that any previous info on the card is overwritten, which would mean that it's old effects will no longer trigger.
Secondly I do think it makes sense to have this as a creature spell. It has to do with consistency and future card interactions. To keep the game cleaner they probably did not want noncreature spells to summon creatures the instant they are played.
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Strategy and Tactics / Current meta
« on: March 11, 2019, 09:12:13 AM »
What does the current metagame look like, which mages are the strongest and how are players trying to beat them?
I haven't been very active lately and the last time I felt like I had at least some understanding of the mage wars meta was probably rigth before the wizard nerf. There are not a ton of discussions about the metagame and the ones I have seen have been about the strenght of specific cards like the bees and not about builds or archetypes.
Also how are cards like the disciple and leviathan treated in competetive play? They really do change things.
The picture I am currently having in my mind is that you can run gate wizard, disciple priestess and rushes with big creatures. But that there should still be an endless amount of 40% winrate books. How wrong am I?
I haven't been very active lately and the last time I felt like I had at least some understanding of the mage wars meta was probably rigth before the wizard nerf. There are not a ton of discussions about the metagame and the ones I have seen have been about the strenght of specific cards like the bees and not about builds or archetypes.
Also how are cards like the disciple and leviathan treated in competetive play? They really do change things.
The picture I am currently having in my mind is that you can run gate wizard, disciple priestess and rushes with big creatures. But that there should still be an endless amount of 40% winrate books. How wrong am I?
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Player Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Halfing as Mages
« on: November 07, 2018, 06:05:00 AM »
I think we should have 8 halflings one for each major school of magic, one trained in earth and fire and one trained in air and water. When building books with them you pick 2 haflings as your mages. All should be level 3, have around 18 life, pest, lifebond 2 and a 2 dice melee attack. None of them need a quickcast marker since you get your 2 actions either way from having 2 mages, they should also share mana supply.
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Alternative Play / Re: Academy Druid and Elementalist Graduates
« on: October 31, 2018, 06:46:17 AM »
I like the idea for the druid, he would need something to do with vines of course. But if it is a buff that is given I think it would be cooler to turn vine markers into temporary growth markers onto vine creatures, and then have them go back to being vines at the end of the round or something. This would be a little stronger though since it would not kill the vines so it should probably cost mana.
I love the elemental charge ability.
The elemental emblems could give different bonuses in arena though, like changing the air glyph from adding to the effect dice it could give you fast for one round, for example. As it would make more sense (to me at least).
I love the elemental charge ability.
The elemental emblems could give different bonuses in arena though, like changing the air glyph from adding to the effect dice it could give you fast for one round, for example. As it would make more sense (to me at least).
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General Discussion / Re: Silence
« on: October 26, 2018, 11:51:56 AM »
On avrage we get around 1 card per week, I am ok with that. As long as it is content...
But waiting for four years does kill some archmage hype. (I really think they should do it soon since it would probably catch the attention from a lot of former players.)
Although I am still fine with academy cards (except forcemaster) as they do change the game. And the cards comming up now do make me excited as these sets are way better than the last ones.
To me it just feels like a lot of fans are trying to put the blame somewhere for the game not doing as well as it once did.
But waiting for four years does kill some archmage hype. (I really think they should do it soon since it would probably catch the attention from a lot of former players.)
Although I am still fine with academy cards (except forcemaster) as they do change the game. And the cards comming up now do make me excited as these sets are way better than the last ones.
To me it just feels like a lot of fans are trying to put the blame somewhere for the game not doing as well as it once did.
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General Discussion / Re: The current state of MW
« on: May 24, 2018, 11:16:06 AM »3. I'd like to know if a MW format of 60 SBP's instead of 120 SBP's would improve the game.If we were to have a simpler format I think i would prefer pre-built spellbooks rahter than building them with 60 points. This way they could have very simple strategies, be thematic and also we could build them to play well vs eachother. For example the Arraxian crown warlock could have a book with 60 points worth of curses and only the wizard would have any enchantment removal. That could be balanced since nobody would run cards like force crush and against other mages the warlock would also lack good anwsers.
This would make new entries easier imo - less new cards to digest at the outset.
Spellbooks would likely be much more focused on a certain strategy and less cookie cutter.
Games could be finished much faster, allowing you to play more games in the same time span and potentially opening the door to a real (Swiss) tournament format that can be played in 1 day without putting time restrictions on the games.
I have personally always felt that 120 SBP's were too much because nearly every book has counters to almost every possible threat. Make books focus more on their strategy by taking away all those bonus SBP's and hoser cards and you might be surprised how entertaining the format could be with all kinds of different strategies clashing with each other and not with a hoser card.
I think this could be good since:
The players don't need to worry about building books.
The books would be straightforward, thematic and easy to play.
Finally there would be no good or bad matchups.
The downside I can see is that it might be hard to build the books in a good way which would meet all the requirements.
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Events / Re: Gen Con 2018
« on: May 17, 2018, 11:57:35 AM »I promised a new scoring format and here it is. At Gen Con and Gen Con only this year matches that go to time are considered TIES. Not wins. Kill the other mage.
Will post more details when I have a better connection.
Even though I will neither play or follow the tournament this makes me quiet upset. The problems with these rules propably do not need to be explained and also it is understandable why making the tournament is difficult (due to limited time).
I would simply suggest that you use a timer during the planing phases (the players get x minutes to prepare their spells each round). And play with chess clocks during the action phases (which are paused when rolling dice).
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Mage Wars Academy / Re: Warlord expansion?
« on: July 17, 2017, 12:23:26 PM »
well, to make the veteran's more usefull they could just make more creatures like the bridge troll (high healt + strong traits) but are of a lower level. I would also like to se an unfairly strong way to get ahead on the board for the warlords but at some other cost like health, actions or sbp's. So that you always get vet tokens AND get to put them on creatures who will get the largest benefits from +1 armor and melee.
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Creative / Re: Mage ideas
« on: July 12, 2017, 11:46:24 AM »Time doesn't seem to fit the mind school. Probably better to leave it at arcane, or perhaps arcane plus water? Also, the time travel mechanics are kind of messy. Also, a quick action quadruple strike? That's a lot of strikes for only the cost of one quick action.When it comes the training arcane + mind just felt natural to me, i have no arguments why but it is probably because both our pictures of what the mage looks are different. Arcane only makes more sense though.
Personally, if I were to make a time mage, it would be more about changing how things move in relation to time. Make things faster or slower, use pseudo restraining effects (frozen in time) or pseudo-teleporting effects (moving so fast it's like everything else stands still) and maybe some kind of undo ability which has severe restrictions on it (like only being usable one or two times per game.)
Of course, irl time as we know it doesn't really exist, it's just another spatial dimension. In fact, you can even construct a map of four dimensional space inside your head just like 3d space. A growing or shrinking sphere, seen from a different angle, is a cone with a rounded tip and a rounded base. A sphere that is moving forwards in a straight line, seen from a different angle, is a cylinder with rounded ends. Etc.
And if you're treating time as just another spatial dimension, time-related abilities could be more fitting for a sorcerer, since it's been said that that mage will be focused on portal magic and teleporting and stuff like that.
The abilities are not that complex i think but i wasn't able to explain them very well. Like one leaves a track behind you and lets you go back to where you where previously. The second makes it possible to save a quick cast action for another round. Also the melee attack is worse than the 4 dice attacks from a few other mages.
Thematicaly it could be different and i sort of like what you metioned with slowing or speeding things up. Although i did touch upon that with the quadrastrike.
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Creative / Re: Mage ideas
« on: July 10, 2017, 02:46:12 PM »
Chronovator
Life 32 Chanel 10
Trained in arcane level 3 and mind level 2. Earth and nature cost tripple.
Manipulate time
When you are going to use your qucik cast marker you may instead pay 1 mana and put a amount of your choice countdown markers to a maximum of 4 on your mage stat card. Remove one marker during each upkeep phase when all of them are removed you get to prepare an extra spell that round and get an extra quick cast action. While there are still countdown markers on your mage stats card you may not use this ability once again.
Fourth dimension
At the end of your mage's action phase place the third time marker in the same zone as the second time marker. Then the second marker in the first markers zone and after that the first time marker in the zone that you started in during that activation. When you make a move action you have the option to pay mana equal to one of the markers number time 2 and move to that zone insted. Doing this will take that marker of the board.
Quick punch: quick action, melee, 1 dice, quadrastrike.
Life 32 Chanel 10
Trained in arcane level 3 and mind level 2. Earth and nature cost tripple.
Manipulate time
When you are going to use your qucik cast marker you may instead pay 1 mana and put a amount of your choice countdown markers to a maximum of 4 on your mage stat card. Remove one marker during each upkeep phase when all of them are removed you get to prepare an extra spell that round and get an extra quick cast action. While there are still countdown markers on your mage stats card you may not use this ability once again.
Fourth dimension
At the end of your mage's action phase place the third time marker in the same zone as the second time marker. Then the second marker in the first markers zone and after that the first time marker in the zone that you started in during that activation. When you make a move action you have the option to pay mana equal to one of the markers number time 2 and move to that zone insted. Doing this will take that marker of the board.
Quick punch: quick action, melee, 1 dice, quadrastrike.
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Creative / Re: Mage ideas
« on: July 08, 2017, 11:23:24 AM »
Prophet
life 34 chanel 10
Training: Dark level 3 and holy level 3. Nature spells cost tripple.
Unholy chains
As a quick spell for 3 mana you may place a chain marker on a creature in or adjacent to your zone. The creature cannot have the uncontainalbe trait. The chain markers are incorporeal cunjurations with 1 life, can not be targeted by ranged attacks and combine the healt of them while on the same creature. For each damage they take remove one marker. If a creature has a number of chain markers equal or higher to it's level it can't attack, move or guard.
Reward faith
while guarding in your mages zone friendly creatures gain the warded trait.
Basic melee attack: 3 dice
life 34 chanel 10
Training: Dark level 3 and holy level 3. Nature spells cost tripple.
Unholy chains
As a quick spell for 3 mana you may place a chain marker on a creature in or adjacent to your zone. The creature cannot have the uncontainalbe trait. The chain markers are incorporeal cunjurations with 1 life, can not be targeted by ranged attacks and combine the healt of them while on the same creature. For each damage they take remove one marker. If a creature has a number of chain markers equal or higher to it's level it can't attack, move or guard.
Reward faith
while guarding in your mages zone friendly creatures gain the warded trait.
Basic melee attack: 3 dice
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Creative / Re: Mage ideas
« on: July 06, 2017, 01:07:38 PM »Yeah i think you right it would probably need to cost around 12 mana (3 dissipates=2 activatons= roughly 10 dice with piercing) or more. And should have limited uses (like 2 or 3 tokens) so that one dosen't have infinite damage in the spellbook.Dragon's call
If you have prepared a creature with the dragon subtype. You may pay 8 mana instead of the normal casting cost and place 3 dissipate tokens on it after it has been summoned. If that creature is still alive when the last dissipate token is removed place the card back into your spellbook and not the discard pile.
Totally OP!
And i also realise now that the other mages on this page are busted as power level is concerned.
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Creative / Re: Mage ideas
« on: July 06, 2017, 05:11:24 AM »
Dragonspeaker
33 life 9 chanel
Training: Nature and fire schools and as well as all creatures with the Dragon subtype. Mind spells cost tripple.
Dragon's call
If you have prepared a creature with the dragon subtype. You may pay 12 mana instead of the normal casting cost. If you do place the card face down in your zone. Next deployment phase it gets summoned with 3 dissipate tokens on it. If that creature is still alive when the last dissipate token is removed place the card back into your spellbook and not the discard pile. Dragon's call can only be used twice per game.
Source of life
Energy brings life.
Whenever this mage makes a fire attack against a living creature you can declare to use this ability before rolling the dice. The same amount of attack dice are used but instead of dealing damage remove a damage from the creature for each damage rolled and ignore the effect die.
Basic melee attack: 3 dice
(Edit: i changed Dragon's call to be weaker.)
33 life 9 chanel
Training: Nature and fire schools and as well as all creatures with the Dragon subtype. Mind spells cost tripple.
Dragon's call
If you have prepared a creature with the dragon subtype. You may pay 12 mana instead of the normal casting cost. If you do place the card face down in your zone. Next deployment phase it gets summoned with 3 dissipate tokens on it. If that creature is still alive when the last dissipate token is removed place the card back into your spellbook and not the discard pile. Dragon's call can only be used twice per game.
Source of life
Energy brings life.
Whenever this mage makes a fire attack against a living creature you can declare to use this ability before rolling the dice. The same amount of attack dice are used but instead of dealing damage remove a damage from the creature for each damage rolled and ignore the effect die.
Basic melee attack: 3 dice
(Edit: i changed Dragon's call to be weaker.)
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Creative / Re: Mage ideas
« on: July 05, 2017, 06:23:26 AM »Yeah i'm not to happy with the block ability either. I'll change it so you spend the action before, (called Anticipation) only works vs melee and change the mana costs to 3 and 2 for minor. Now opponents can attack other things when you try to dodge but it still serves a purpose to protect the mage. Also now it feels like it will not be broken either against swarm nor solo mages.MonkHuh. Reusable block ability seems kind of clunky. I would say you should make it cost 2 Mana as well, but I'm not entirely sure. if you want a holy/mind mage it's probably going to be REALLY tanky. All those defenses and healing and protection. You need some way to balance that.
32 life chanel 10
Traning: holy level 2 and mind level 2. War and dark spells cost tripple.
Peaceful mind.
During each upkeep phase you gain one aura token for every 10 mana in your supply. At the end of each round all aura tokes get discarded. When you have priority however you may spend any number of them to: gain 1 mana for each you spent, +1 melee until the end of the round or heal 1 damage.
Anticipation.
When an enemy attacks your mage you can spend mana equal to the attackers level and flip your mages action marker to dodge the attack.
Basic attack: quick, melee, 2 dice 7+ daze.
Edit: NVM I see the mage is only trained in minor spells. It will probably have to get up close to attack the enemy or spend more spell points on a bigger creature or bigger attack spells. Maybe it would work as is?
Edit 2: what about mind's eye and thoughtspores? It seems like this mage would be much better at using them than the forcemaster.
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Peaceful mind might make him a bit to powerful with as you said trained in holy, mind and now also 1-2 additional passive heal. Not sure of a good way to solve that at the moment.
And btw war and dark cost tripple. It was the other mage that only could cast level 1 spells.
