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There definitely isn't a single green/white Hero in Move Over Bacon.

I like the wording. could be interpreted a couple ways. lol

There definitely isn't a single green/white Hero in Move Over Bacon.

They're all married.

Quote from: jmhartz on March 08, 2017, 03:33:45 PM

Quote from: Master Q on March 08, 2017, 03:17:31 PM

Just two more would be great.

You just need to make your custom Nats winner card be "Isaiah's Lament" or "Song of Habakkuk" or something like that.  Make sure it is mono-white so that the prophet can only use it if they are reprinted Green/White   

Or just reprint an Isaiah in green/white right off the bat... Giving me an idea:



This would make my deck so much easier to run. Angel o' his Presence and Fearless Traveler? Yes.

Um... What is Reserve?

Well it looks like I'm bringing back musicians to the third nationals I will be attending  One day they will succeed!

Well it looks like I'm bringing back musicians to the third nationals I will be attending  One day they will succeed!

I'm fairly certain the Elders put Twenty-four musicians in Move over Bacon. Music enthusiast will be thrilled!

Quote from: PapaSmurf on March 12, 2017, 05:14:26 PM

Well it looks like I'm bringing back musicians to the third nationals I will be attending  One day they will succeed!

I'm fairly certain the Elders put Twenty-four musicians in Move over Bacon. Music enthusiast will be thrilled!

That's a whole lot of musicians! It will probably be helpful to divide them into some groups.

Some card name spoilers from today's Reserve article on LoR:

The Deceiver
One of Seven (Redemption's getting Borg?)

Quote from: megamanlan on March 12, 2017, 09:44:47 PM

Might those Musicians be Elders as well? *poke poke hint hint*

Maybe... 

I can't wait to see what they are.

Bravo to the playtesters for implementing a Middle Earth CCG style sideboard mechanic! That was by and far one of my favorite mechanics from the game!!!

Any particular reason the number 10 was chosen instead of 15 or 20, for example? And if you guys don't mind me asking... who was the one who brought forth the idea?

Bravo to the playtesters for implementing a Middle Earth CCG style sideboard mechanic! That was by and far one of my favorite mechanics from the game!!!

I've never played or even seen that CCG. It's cool that our Reserve matches their sideboard mechanic! Knowing that this has been used in another game and worked well gets me even more excited for what it will do for Redemption!

Any particular reason the number 10 was chosen instead of 15 or 20, for example? And if you guys don't mind me asking... who was the one who brought forth the idea?

We tossed around several numbers. We talked about 15 because that's the size of the MTG sideboard. We talked about using 14 and/or 21 because Redemption deck building rules use incriminates of 7.

The reserve has a lot of potential for future application but we're going to start small and slow. This year there will be around a couple dozen cards that encourage Reserve interaction. We will continue to build on that and probably even introduce new interactions with the Reserve over the years to come.

We decided on 10 because it's a small enough number to be easily managed, but large enough to allow a decent amount of strategy. We also chose it because in scripture 10 represents completeness. It's possible that some day we might increase the Reserve to a larger number. For the immediate future I've been very happen with using 10. It's possible to build a deck that accesses all 10 cards in a game but I have yet to find a situation where I need to do that.

A few questions about the reserve if you don't mind.

Most specifically about

"Your Deck + Reserve must be a legal deck (ignoring Lost Soul to Deck Ratio rule as it applies to cards in the Reserve)."

What does this mean, exactly?

I mean my main big assumption is that this means no more duplicates of cards than normally allowed. 

But...specifically for type 2:

Is it combined with your deck when determining good/evil balance?  Or must both be balance unto themselves? For example, could a t2 deck have 35 good cards, 45 evil cards, (20 neutral cards) and then 10 good cards in the reserve?  Or would the deck have to be legal on its own as well as in a 40/40 split?  And if so, could you still have 10 good cards in the reserve?  Or would it also have to be 5/5 or similar?

Updated with the new information about the set from today's announcement, which officially made today the best birthday in recent memory because yay new set announcement!!