New Redemption Grab Bag now includes an assortment of 500 cards from five (5) different expansion sets. Available at Cactus website.
Negating protect abilities is what Coliseum is for...but if you want to negate protect abilities without running Coliseum, you can still use the old Michael's Sword. We felt that one of Michael's "weaknesses" (especially if he's not holding Angel's Sword) is that he will typically give up initiative. Angels have plenty of interrupts/negates (Flaming Sword, Striking Herod, Walking on Water, Protection of Angels, Swift Beings), but what a Hero like Michael might struggle against is the "chump" blocks of DoU, SSS and Bel's Banquet. This new Michael's Sword gives the player a way to combat that.
For Words of the Accuser, should it have "You may" at the beginning or is it supposed to always immediately discard itself if it's not prevented?
About Famine, its ability is Discard the top card of each other player's deck. Decrease a hero X/X. X = Strength of discarded card.Two questions.1) Was it intended to discard from a teammate's deck? (If so, awesome)2) If multiple cards are discarded, how do you determine X? Do you pick?
Now, I am really disappointed with The First Seal. (Not Conquerer, just the Enhancement.) Is it possible to add something like: "If a Warrior Class Human was discarded: Negate Characters" or "Protect your Heroes from the Discarded Character's brigade" or something? Because there is a fair amount of Silver "Discard an EC" and they just land as meh or terrible (see Eaten by Worms (I) ) and I'd like to see First Seal do a little bit more for me losing a very useful EC.
And I still feel as if the Sixth Seal should at be an ItB... to make it playable... and can we be honest? Silver really has very few Good ItB's that are not just "Negate Enhancement/Negate last" and that's really just Striking Herod and Protection of Angels (which are both great) and Swift Beings (which I still feel that Silver got short changed there)
In regards to the Sixth Seal (Terror), what would it be classified as (besides symbolic) in regards to targeting--only an evil character? This could apply to all of the seals but mainly this one since there is no picture of a character of some sort on it. I'm thinking about cards that target male evil characters, demons, beasts, animals, etc. and how those types of cards target these evil character seals.
Doesn't the sixth seal return all evil characters in battle to hand? How can it also be played preblock with Ethiopian treasurer because isn't it silver?
Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 05:34:40 AMAnd I still feel as if the Sixth Seal should at be an ItB... to make it playable... and can we be honest? Silver really has very few Good ItB's that are not just "Negate Enhancement/Negate last" and that's really just Striking Herod and Protection of Angels (which are both great) and Swift Beings (which I still feel that Silver got short changed there)How many ItB enhancements does Blue have? Since you probably don't know, there are 2. Only one is even halfway playable (Eve's Descendant), and even then it is almost never used in competitive decks. Silver could have it worse.
Love The Haunting Spirits! It will be great with Tartaros!
Seems like there's still going to be 3 cards that are unknown after the player cards and URs are revealed later... unless the set isn't 129 cards after all...
Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 05:34:40 AMNow, I am really disappointed with The First Seal. (Not Conquerer, just the Enhancement.) Is it possible to add something like: "If a Warrior Class Human was discarded: Negate Characters" or "Protect your Heroes from the Discarded Character's brigade" or something? Because there is a fair amount of Silver "Discard an EC" and they just land as meh or terrible (see Eaten by Worms (I) ) and I'd like to see First Seal do a little bit more for me losing a very useful EC.First, not all Silver cards printed in RoJ are expected to be auto-adds to Silver decks. Second, the playtesters have spacial limitations to deal with for every card ability. Third, I think you are seriously underestimating the value of Dual Alignment cards in decks that can utilize both sides of the card. Improving deck consistency at the cost of sacrificing just a bit of power almost always makes decks better in CCGs.Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 05:34:40 AMAnd I still feel as if the Sixth Seal should at be an ItB... to make it playable... and can we be honest? Silver really has very few Good ItB's that are not just "Negate Enhancement/Negate last" and that's really just Striking Herod and Protection of Angels (which are both great) and Swift Beings (which I still feel that Silver got short changed there)How many ItB enhancements does Blue have? Since you probably don't know, there are 2. Only one is even halfway playable (Eve's Descendant), and even then it is almost never used in competitive decks. Silver could have it worse.
Long rant about why the new seals are bad...
Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 12:27:11 PMLong rant about why the new seals are bad...You're thinking from a strictly mono-silver offense perspective. Even then several of your points are debatable. The versatility that the new seals offer goes a long way towards the overall power level of the card.I agree that the new seals won't always be the best choice. When an old card is playable we try to make a reprint that is strictly better. The fact that people will still use the old ones sometimes, but also use the new ones sometimes is a win for both new players and veterans alike.P.S. - Silver has a large selection of negate Enhancements available to choose from.
Quote from: jmhartz on April 12, 2017, 08:45:55 AMQuote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 05:34:40 AMAnd I still feel as if the Sixth Seal should at be an ItB... to make it playable... and can we be honest? Silver really has very few Good ItB's that are not just "Negate Enhancement/Negate last" and that's really just Striking Herod and Protection of Angels (which are both great) and Swift Beings (which I still feel that Silver got short changed there)How many ItB enhancements does Blue have? Since you probably don't know, there are 2. Only one is even halfway playable (Eve's Descendant), and even then it is almost never used in competitive decks. Silver could have it worse.Swift beings is a daniel enhancement, which makes it more useful than if it was another book. it is recurable with the new daniel and can be used with the foretelling angel to speed through your deck. sure it's not the best silver card, but I don't think you are giving it enough credit.
They won't be fooled again Gabe...