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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.

First strike doesn't really fight that narrative but its nice on captain and tsa so I guess 

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?

You are correct--that will be fixed. 

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.

Well I was thinking for Protects outside of battle (Sites/Forts/etc) but now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it should be more of "Protect holder from being Underdecked or Withdrawn."

Before I start... I'll say this: I LOVE THE NEW FIFTH SEAL. I can tutor any of my Silver Enhancements from Deck? Yes please!

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... it needs to do more especially when all other cards like this are typically a Draw then play). I feel that Sixth Seal would benefit more from being an ItB even if you have to combine the other effects to make it be balanced. (Like: Interrupt the Battle, Discard a Site to Return all Human Evil Characters to the Owner's Hand.)

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?

Maybe the identifier is hard to read in that image but it reads slightly different than what you wrote. It says "X = strength of a discarded card"

The extra letter is important because it clarifies that when multiple cards are discarded only one counts. As the controller of the ability you get to choose which one you want to count.

Thank you for bringing up the teams interaction. We sometimes overlook those things, but in this case we are aware. That's an unfortunate consequence of the language we had to use to make this ability fit on the card. We originally tried to use "opponent's" in stead of "other players" but it pushes the ability past the two rows we have to work with. If you want to use famine in teams your partner will want to use something like Widows of Jappa or an ability that sets up the top of deck.

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.

Excellent question. The first four seals obviously depict a male character so they will all be considered male. Terror on the other hand should have the "Genderless" identifier. I've added that to our master graphic (the LoR image won't update). That makes him more difficult to target but still leaves a lot of options.

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?

Whoops, I'm thinking of 6th Bowl of Wrath.  Never mind, carry on   

Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 05:34:40 AM

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)

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.

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...

That would be silly...spoilers incoming!!! 

Long 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 not 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.

They won't be fooled again Gabe...

Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 12:27:11 PM

Long 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.

My point on the negate cards is that War in Heaven/Live Coal makes me question why anyone would play any others (besides Gloria, but I usually don't put that into that category because Gloria works best outside of Battle, which I'm happy with.)

I will say that yea I am coming at this looking at it from a lens of a player that prefers mono-Silver. But that is also why I get confused with some of these cards. Although for me this is kinda coming from that I'd like to see more of an identity for something like Revelation Angels which I see hints of, but not a ton of. (Although that can be just me being greedy... and not liking when multiple cards have basically the same effect.)

Quote from: jmhartz on April 12, 2017, 08:45:55 AM

Quote from: megamanlan on April 12, 2017, 05:34:40 AM

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)

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.

True, although that doesn't help if your trying to play a Revelation only deck. (To get Legion of Angels effect and others.) Although until then I might try something with it. (I keep dropping it from my deck due to having about 2-3 Daniel cards...

I will say this: I love 2nd Seal and I'm gonna have a hard time choosing which 3rd Seal to play. Because the original is the only natural CBN card we have... but the new one devastates the Opponent's hand... and I'm not sure if deck building rules will let me play both.