We'll be releasing the story online as it comes out in stores. This kit is going to be a little weird timing wise because of the holidays and our delays from the printers. You do not need to make up a week. I'll get back to you guys on officially when the next pack will be coming out.

Does the next kit have 3 different promo cards?

i've played MW 5 times, 3 times i've played  WIzard and always won, then last 2 games i;ve played Beastmaster and lost both of them. After those 2 games as a BM I'm also not convinced to use  swarm attack with many 1lvl creatures because they die before they do any harm. Probably I played them wrong :/Also unfortunatelly i don't have card Galalador which could change MUCH MUCH my situation. I realized that i have no creature with ranged attack  and only on weak with Ethreal attack which is very bad. Galador will be very useful, but i cannot get it :/ frustrating....

I should have left Cervere on the list instead of Galador since I've never actually played it with Galador, but I don't remember what other card I took out for the exchange since Galador is more expensive than Cervere.

That is pretty lame that you can't get it early. Are you overseas? I had to call my local store and ask them to order the OP kit. He wasn't going to order it because he didn't think there was much interest in the game, but now we're going to start a weekly game this week. Try any store you can, you might be able to find someone who can get a retailer's account.

Ok, the title was misleading: thunderift falcon is level 1.

Yes, I learned the hard way that a myopic spell book is trouble.

Another card that changed a game I had recently is banish. My priestess and Valshalla were beating up a wizard until he banished Valshalla. It gave him enough time to get a couple new creatures on the board catch up. It ended with my attack roll missing the kill by 1 damage and him rolling  something huge and killing me with exactly enough damage.

There are four of us who regularly play with each other and two more I've played with. I know the stores around here have sold more copies than that, and some of us ordered online, so who are the rest of you and are you interested in setting up OP somewhere?

Have there been games where one or two cards have turned the tide for one Mage? What cards? I think this could be helpful info for those of us (probably everyone) who haven't settled on a specific build for our mages yet.

Here's my example from a recent game. My buddy's priestess survived my warlock's main onslaught and prolonged the game until I was out of usable cards in my spell book. It was by far the longest game I've played: over 4 hrs.

I had a well-equipped Mage and a beefy Adramelech with bearstrength, vampirism, mongoose, and rhino hide. Fairly early into the game she had taken high twenties of damage and I was around 8-9, and Adramelech was at 2. The cards that turned it around were: the circle of lightning because the stun knocked Adramelech out of the sky and allowed her to attack them (I brought a second in after losing the first), and he bound minor heal to a Mage wand--whenever she healed she also gained a life from her special ability. At the end of the game when I was out of creatures I couldn't get my 7 dice melee roll past her dodge/temple of the dawnbringer combo (I forgot the name of the equip that gives the dodge). I learned that I need more dissolves. And I shouldn't have ignored he circle of lightning with my dispels. I should probably have more creatures then Adramelech and an army of bats, too.

It almost feels like the Decoy is more useful for getting rid of Nullify and Reverse Magic than it is for bluffing. (although it is good for that too)

After seeing some devastating reverse magics in play, I am sometimes afraid to cast a strong Enchantment or Incantation at an enemy player (with a face-down enchant) without first throwing a Decoy at him.

I just want to confirm this because I understood it differently.  Do reverse magic and nullify have to be revealed with the casting of an enchantment, or is it at the revealing of the enchantment. I assumed it is at the revealing, because on pg. 22 in the rulebook it says "Important: Hidden Enchantments have no effect as long as they are hidden!" If decoy has no effect when it is revealed, then does it affect a nullify or reverse magic?