Better to have it than not, at least for those who are into the Draft game. It's pot luck at any other time of the week, at least on Sunday you know someone (rekirtS ) will be out there.
Not sure that's a bug. I think it's just one of a lot of situations that just never got fully described in the cards. I'd vote for this. Hells, I'd vote twice for this.
Supra Sorry Supra, I was dealt the most awesome cards. Amazing that the game went that long. I don't think you had a chance. Not often you see a Lava Spider with 12 strength.
This is precisely why I'm so for asynchronous multiplayer. Just hit "play" and automatically connect with someone who did the same. (think words with friends) get push notifications and do your moves. And yea yea for the argument that it wouldnt work b/c you wouldnt know what has happened. Make a better log, or some type of graveyard type stuff. fixed.
Anyone from TA up for a game? Tired of beating up the noobs I don't know . To keep this game related I wanted to mention in draft mode Scylla isn't entirely useless! if you can draft any big guys/spells from your opponent you can really spam the Scylla's. Net cost of 3 water, 5 atk 18 hp with 5 regen is really, really beefy and hard to get rid. Just don't leave your opponent Water Troll/Leviathan/Elemental/maybe Kracken/A-rain? and you're okay. I had a duel where I realized the opponent had no strong water threat so with the last pick I got the Scylla and it worked out really, really well. He couldn't kill them off reliably. Gave him free rusts but I didn't mind. In blind pick on the other hand, hands are made up of 6 cards and you don't know what your opponent has so you might just give him the chance to mass Water Trolls (which are a bitch to get rid of) or Leviathans (them too.)
Well, maybe my boardgamegeek review had an impact! The review appeared on June 4th and O2 had a decent upwards spike from about 90 to 50 at the very same time. Cool. We need more coverage! Chillingo, where are you?! Found three matches last night, which is ample for me. Between all the other goodies out there, that's pretty much all the time I can usually spare. Even when I get bad cards, the game is still awesome. It's far more challenging to try and figure out ways to match up against a better deck. One of the matches went down to the bitter end, me at 6 and him at 7, when I shot a Lightning Bolt. Sweet.
Quesitons: 1) What do you think is the strongest color? 2) What do you think is the weakest color? 3) What's your favorite card (or two) to open with when going first?
Answers: 1) Green - has great low, medium and high cost creatures. Healing, creature removal, creature boost, and mana generation spells. 2) Blue - not a lot of good low to medium creatures - mainly top heavy. Spells aren't that great, also generally expensive. 3) Scareling, Satyr, or Blood Ritual
1. Death (many great combos + Lich & Enslave) or Fire (Diablos, Vulcan, Red Drake, etc..) 2. Life (Knight is overpriced, the only useful is Chimera, but it's lvl13) 3. It depends on the other cards May be it's Apostate. If I don't have Manticore it's Wings of Wisdom.
1) Not Life or Air, since neither has as many creature spells as they should. Both are kind of light on creatures. Earth excels for its diversity. Satyr and Spider are awesome and there are other great creatures as well. Plus, Force of Nature cuts down on opposing armies as does Earthquake. Plus, life gaining cards, health gaining cards, Earth has it all. Fire has great combos and the ability to bring in big stuff early with Ritual is outstanding. Water has a couple of great creatures but Acid Storm is probably the best card. Overall, though, I'd have to say Death. Lich is a mass murderer. Banshee for direct damage plus Enslave ftw. 2) Life or Air, simply because they offer too few creatures. 3) Satyr, Ritual, Wings, Skeleton. Re Life and Water, not that much to choose from.
Mojo That was probably the best (smartest) game I have ever played. I knew you knew the Vortex was coming and it was going to be the only way to deal with your cards. Whet did I have after that, like 75 mana? Ironic. I had just played three duels earlier in which I was a total idiot, even casting the wrong cards. Meanwhile, on another note, I have played Kard Combat. Interesting, many similarities to O2, including look, feel and sounds. Seems to be sync and async multiplayer (are you listening Izzy?), but not sure since a game I am in may be hung up. Seems to be a smaller deck, maybe 65-70 cards, again not sure. The Tower challenges are fun and give you a good idea what cards are available. I'll buy it when it comes to the US store but it's nowhere near the fun and excitement of O2.
My answers pretty much same as Nik. 1) Death easy. 2) Life easy. 3) Apostate easy. Get rid of your worst element for your best. Pretty bulky and strong. Otherwise Satyr is good. I like Nymph too. The sooner you learn death is OP and abuse it the sooner you become a better player. My favorite element on the otherhand is Air. So many goodies in there fun to play with .
Life only contains one less creature than Earth and Fire. I agree that Air could use a creature boost, though. (The artwork in Kard Combat is incredible. Completely different style to O2 but just as appealing).
I could swear I have seen some of those illustrations before. I don't think they're superior to O2 at all, though. I like the fact that you can see your whole deck at a glance. And it IS async. Izzy will be happy. Although I have to tell you, async is defintely not for me. Takes all the excitement away. Hells, I played two matches with Mojoman0 last night and my heart was pumping and I was even nervous. I just can't imagine casting a Beserker, killing off a Spider and then signing off. Meh.
I suspect the card illustrations in KC are not original to the game, but I could be wrong. If it reaches the UK App Store, I will certainly try it out. I love the artwork in O2 but I also really like the art in KC. They are just very different; I don't think one is better than the other. I don't think the lack of asynchronous MP in O2 is a deal-breaker; far from it, I think the current system has its advantages and, like you say, can add to the gameplay experience.
I think you're right about the art. I could swear I have seen the exact same Monk/Friar in one of the Life cards before. I don't think there's anything in either game that's a dealbreaker and if you have one, you're likely to get the other, just for variation's sake. So far, Kyle's model has been best business wise and I wonder how KC will do with the IAP approach. I really wish that O2 would go that route. I'd be buying more cards, challenges or whatever as quickly as they brought them out. And what is it with Chillingo? Omg, are they useless or what? O2 has dipped below the #100 rank.
For me, Life is all about support spells. Purify (damage + heal), Blessing, Rejuvenate, Pure Heart, Cure Wounds, Eternal Light. A couple of the creatures are good too, mainly Pegasus, Apostate, Ethereal, but most of the other come in useful in different situations (Hermit to kill 3 cost and below along with +2 Life a turn, Healer to prevent big damage like Steal Life). Water has a lot less useful, lower cost utility spells, and overall only 3 cards I'd consider very good: Acid Storm, Water Troll and Ocean Lord. Spells like Tsunami, Rust, Sea Monster, Wall of Ice are overcosted (Wall is 5 mana and then 1 more to use the same turn). Death is very powerful, but I declined to make it my #1 because of how you generally play it. Almost all of Death's best spells are high cost, which means if you want to use those spells you have to forsake many of the lower costing ones. Skeleton (and Ghost) are really the only low cost spells you can cast where it won't slow you down. Enslave, Chaos Vortex, Lich, Steal Life, Dark Druid are all high cost. Often I see people (including myself) casting Skeletons (if they have that card) and then building up their Death mana to cast a biggie. Fire and Air both have nice diversity and creatures. Both can do lots of direct damage, have good medium and high cost creatures and spells, and can be played by saving up your mana for the big spells or using your mana as you get it for the lower cost stuff.
I've said it before and I shall say it again: hell will freeze over before Chillingo make any sort of effort to promote this game! Synozeer, that's a great post. I think it will help newcomers in particular.
