All great answers thanks folks - the 'try it in Domination' one probably was the best prompt to recheck assumptions.

PS definately not a criticism of the playtesters either, I think that mage wars pumps out amazing set after amazing set.  Was just curious about how a card might come through when the play testers find it really weak.

Picking up on the 'just cause its weak now doesn't mean it will always be' theme, It would be awesome to see some way of picking up the super cool but seldom played cards (like invisible stalker) and see if there is a companion card that could be introduced to make them more viable than they have been.

Just a hater of unused cards

Thanks for the considered replies.

As you mentioned, the Crusader Griffin's main weaknesses are his health total and enemy flying creatures.  Your Priest's Holy Avenger ability actually fixes one of those weaknesses for only 4 mana and no additional actions.

Another option for running the Griffin in a Priest book would be to focus on Archers.  Artemis, Royal Archer and Temple Sharpshooter can all deal with the flying creautres that would hinder your griffin and are tempting targets for your enemy to try and eliminate.  However, if he does try without dealing with the Avenger Griffin then he's in for a 7-dice reprisal attack that can hit almost anywhere in the arena.

Just food for thought.

Doesn't mongoose agility cover the other weakness?  Its an old card that seems to be under appreciated.  Running a charge focus, or any strategy where mobility is a major tactic is where it comes into its own. 

Admitedly as a group we're a bit slack with remembering to apply hindering, but when we do, we appreciate the value of this card.  I remember trying one of the white sphere/spire spellbooks one time and seeing how fast, charge and ellusive all combined to make a really solid repeatable attack that was hard to defend against.  Then the angel book (or falcon?) showed how you could do a similar effect using inate flying as a default elusive against most opposing books (Griffin really just seems to add one of of the inate effects to a required card). 

Having a mongoose ability handy just in case your op wiz has some thoughts about you having free reign in the skies doesn't seem a bad price to pay... you can always use it on ground troops with a lion savagery and cheetah speed to get the same effect on the ground.

This is great thanks, really like using it.

Didn't have much time so I only did what I could do easily.

Uploaded a new version, changes:
 - added more slots (@Donovan: not adding more slots this month )
 - moved spellbook up, just below mage/slot selection (@Moonglow: should work for you now)

@Donovan: searching for Corrode works as expected and finds Goblin Alchemist, can you please recheck this?

Next step is to get the code cleaned up and publish the code on GitHub.

Cheers

What ever happened to answer this?  Was it addressed somewhere else and I missed it?

I mean come on, there's even a promise on this!

This is really nice.  I did find that the spellbook points keep getting covered by the card art on my screen.  It would be very helpful if this could be moved to the top or bottom bar to be permanently visible.

Thanks for your great work on this.

There was something in the description of the first song card that made me worry the Paladin would be using songs too...which feels more bard like than Paladin like...

and a mage nearby to adjudicate and in case of a failed snatch, cry foul and force push through anyway.

Quote from: Ravepig on April 10, 2016, 02:27:24 PM

I'm assuming it's perfectly legal to use the Thornslasher to snatch an enemy from one zone away through a bloodspine wall without taking damage?

i love this!
i do it every time i can! (with a lasher on each side of the wall, they play tennis!)

Exid, you know its meant to be bad to die right?  If you've got a mage heavily built up in terms of enchantments and buffs, then the solution is to not let him die.... rather than tweaking the rules so that he can die without penalty.

A player who choses not to buff to avoid the death penalty is conversely not as strong individually and probably less likely to be a target.