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I don't see mention of this elsewhere, to my surprise. Academy Druid and Elementalist are coming this year. I noticed them as pre-orders on Miniature Market. I assumed they were announced at Origins? No mention on here or BGG though...

Well, now we will have the first Mage to appear in Academy before Arena. Interesting.

Yes please! WHERE?

It may be possible if they're non-staggered releases. Perhaps they'll do the vs sets like in Arena or as originally planned for Priestess/Warlock in Academy. I really hope that happens, but I don't necessarily think it will.

Also, they could be keeping the announcement back until copies are at port or even in their warehouse(s). Imagine an announcement just before, or even at GenCon. First mage out in September, one to follow each month thereafter. All out before 2019 (or close enough).

Not saying this will happen or that I think it will. Just saying its way too early to say it's no longer possible for 2018.

Not a playtester or anything, but my take on the Mage Wars situation is that with the four Academy releases this year, there will then be 10 Academy mages just like there are 10 Arena Mages (without variants as noted above). based on the illustrations on this website, I'd say we have an Academy Necromancer, Druid and Paladin coming this year. Siren is likely but perhaps the illustration is not visible (or maybe it is...)

Once all Arena Mages got their Academy boost, the Arena playing field will be more level and then the Arena expansion floodgates will open. Perhaps AW and/or playtesters want to even everyone out with Academy expansions as much as possible for the full-on Arena onslaught. So far the Arena boosts have been very good for lesser-used mages like Warlord.

bitva on everything, everywhere, ever. If you ever run into a bitva and it isn't me, they're lying.

Thanks for the clarification guys! The wording itself doesn't say target, so that's that!

Anyone know or remember about how long it takes for new Mage Wars sets to show up in OCTGN? Looking forward to Academy FM and WD showing up there!

So what happens when Harshforge Knight walks into a zone with an enemy's face down trap enchantment? Doesn't the trap enchantment target Harshforge Knight with its attack? Or is the intent that Harshforge Knight just can't have enchantments attached to him but the wording didn't exist to express this? I have to imagine he wasn't meant to work as a "minesweepeer" in arena.

Quote from: silverclawgrizzly on September 05, 2017, 06:37:30 PM
I am indeed referring to the academy set.

Certainly, but shoring up that prediction with another dose of mind school cards plus another set of forcemaster abilities doesn't hurt. Add my wishful thinking too.

I hope that was a soft announcement that the Spell Tome Expansion for Wizard and Forcemaster is (finally!!!) coming soon (Essen?).

I myself believe people will buy anything that says Force on it this holiday season because... Disney.