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.. but I'm getting tired of hearing about the Wizard as having an advantage and needing to be fixed.Yup, and I'm tired of nothing being done to fix the Wizard.
I have to disagree with you here. This is not the first "persona" based card game to hit the market. Both Highlander TCG and Raw Deal CCG came before Mage Wars and both used a a face card and/or abilities card.Does it matter that I never heard of either game?
This didnt lead to a more complex game as the person who builds that particular deck/book will only focus on that character and the allowed cards in that book.You still need to define the interaction between cards from different decks, leading to an exponential growth of new rules.
"Without strategic movement it completely loses what mage wars is all about."Huh?Well, that's at least half-true. Imho, there's two things that Mage Wars is about:
I think the focus on Acedemy and Battlegrounds were business mistakes.Not really. The idea behind these new game modes was/is solid. Unfortunately, for my taste Academy is too different from Arena to serve as a useful introduction. I still have high hopes for Battlegrounds to replace the standard Arena mode, though.
I only have feedback from about a handful of players, but it always is along the lines that Academy is too similar (or familiar) to other games.I'm not surprised. Having more feedback would be good, though.
I don't think I'm overstepping any playtester bounds here...at one point Academy was planned to have 3 zones. Turns out moving was the worst action you could take. Strategies were "Stand there and guard" or "Pepper with ranged". Pepper with ranged being preferred. I'm not going to tell you 'no', but Academy was supposed to have some rudimentary movement in it and it was cut in favor of an actually fun game.That's an interesting bit of information. Thanks for that! It won't make me like Academy any better, but at least it gives some clue how the game became what it is.
So if you are taunted by one creature and a second creature is guarding, you are unable to attack the taunted creature because only the guard is a valid target. Thus you are free of your mandatory action and may make any action you wish. If you choose to attack with a sweeping attack, you would have to attack the guard first, assuming it's not a pest. After attacking the guard, you still are under no obligation to attack the taunting creature because mandatory actions are checked for before you take your action, not in the middle of it.Ah, excellent explanation!
Part of it is that in typical card battling games you only have a hand of about 5-7 cards and in Mage Wars Academy you have a hand of maybe about 30 cards typically.Granted. Unfortunately, Mage Wars introduces dice, countering the advantage of always having access to all cards to a degree. I'm not sure if the end-result is more tactical depth.
In Mage Wars Academy it seems to be first player skill, then how well-built your deck is, followed by card access and then luck, just like it is for Arena.I'm not an experienced MtG player, but I've read about how the 'deck plays you' rather than the other way around. However, I've played all of FFGs LCGs, especially Call of Cthulhu. I daresay for these games, player skill is definitely more important than the deck-building, too.
Compared to other more typical card-battling games, such as Magic the Gathering, Yugioh, etc. Mage Wars Academy offers more tactical depth, albeit a smaller space of possible strategies so far.Interesting. How does it achieve more tactical depth?
So I feel it is a disadvantage to play Domination in Domination if one player is not playing it.If that is truly the case, then you are right, and the Domination format, as it's currently designed doesn't work.
Its not Dungeons and Dragons for sure....unfortunately...
