And the crowd roars "ARENA, ARENA, ARENA, ARENA"

Definitely. For about a second I was excited about the news, then I realized it's only about Academy...

As far as I know none of the promo's are quote illegal unquote. They are not eligible to be included in sanctioned tournament spellbooks.

As far as I am converned, they might as well be. I refuse to play against anyone using promo cards in their spellbook. I'm just not interested in games that could never happen in a tournament environment; I consider it a waste of my precious time.

I _hate_ the very concept of promo cards (excepting tournament-legal cards with alternate artwork).

The only 'excuse' for their existence in Mage Wars, is imho, that they allow the game designers to gather better feedback and analyze the impact of more 'daring' designs in order to release a more balanced, official version of the card later or discard the idea.

Still, I'd astly prefer something like a public beta playtest program for anyone who's interested in this kind of thing.

Quote from: Wildhorn on October 25, 2015, 12:34:32 PM

- Galaxxus is "mandatory". This thing will gives you 40-50% of your V'Tar.

I love domination...this is my one beef with it.  I just don't understand why this card was created.

+1. Creating cards that are effectively mandatory is never a good idea.

Quote from: fas723 on October 14, 2015, 10:40:30 AM

Quote from: wtcannonjr on October 13, 2015, 05:37:55 PM

But why would a dark undead creature have nightmares? I don't think we need to design this specific creature to solve the psychic gap. It doesn't feel like a nightmare should counter a psychic immunity creature.

Oh, I agree to this so much!
Why do we try to fill a gap for a specific Mage? Isn't it obvious now when we choose the nightmare that it should have some psychic effect? I think we fool ourselves if don't do this thematically. We had the option to do something else, but nightmare it is.

That's par for the course....The Warlock has a thousand creatures and the FM 3 with none being really useful. With that said, I am done here, have fun with this thematic but not very useable (i.e. playable for FM) creature.

Yeah, well, that's the problem when you start with the "fluff" although you want to have a certain kind of "crunch", IOW: If the goal of this creature is to fill a currently existing "design hole" by having a certain kind of game mechanics or stats, you should have started by defining it's purpose/role.

At least that's what the D&D designers did when they started working on follow-ups to their monster manuals.

If you want to keep the Nightmare fluff despite that, how about the following:
Give it an attack that will transport itself and the attacked creature into a "nightmare realm" and a second (Force?) attack that it can only use while in that "nightmare realm" and only against the creature it affected with its forst attack.

I'd imagine that this first attack should work similar to [mwcard=MW1I01]Banish[/mwcard].

To return, the affected creature would either have to kill the Nightmare creature or ... something.

What I'm not sure about is the power level of such an attack. would this really be appropriate for a level 4 creature?

The translated German version is hopefully available this week in Essen. If not,it will probably be released in November.

There's a thread about the FiF release date at the German Publisher's site. It hasn't been stated explicitly, but the last official comment was that it will be delayed, again. The reason given was that for cost reasons they cannot print the game on their own. They always have to wait until there's a printing slot available along with the international releases, and pointed out that there's sometimes only a single slot in a given year.

So, I consider November 2015 a very optimistic guess.

They are? I thought they were just the online version of shouting.

They are. Xilos is just over-excited. IIRC, he's like twelve years old, so I'm somewhat sympathetic.

I would like to add a new mechanic called sustainment. Its like upkeep, except optional.

If there's something I don't like to see in Mage Wars, it's new mechanics, followed closely by new keywords.

The game needs some streamlining, not increasing it's complexity even further, YMMV.