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I wish there were more powerful doms or arts in this set, also the ec are weak!

Erm...if you are looking for powerful EC, there are Hellenistic Jews, Emperor Caius Caligula, and Simon the Magician.  If you want great ability EC that won't get used much in T1 added in, there are also Judaizers, The Sanhedrin, Imposters, and Herod Agrippa I.

There are seriously scary EC in this set, even if you are only looking at it from a T1 perspective.  In T2...

Quote from: LukeChips on August 13, 2014, 03:43:19 PM

I wish there were more powerful doms or arts in this set, also the ec are weak!

Erm...if you are looking for powerful EC, there are Hellenistic Jews, Emperor Caius Caligula, and Simon the Magician.  If you want great ability EC that won't get used much in T1 added in, there are also Judaizers, The Sanhedrin, Imposters, and Herod Agrippa I.

There are seriously scary EC in this set, even if you are only looking at it from a T1 perspective.  In T2...

Sanhedrin are amazing?

Clayciples looks really good. Also Widows Tables + Faithful Priest looks pretty shweet.

Sanhedrin is the best card in this set, and it's not even close.

Nicanor's ability works if another decon or widow's table is in play, but widow's table is played to set-aside and is never in play

Good catch guys. We also caught that and fixed it, as well as the infinite loop that's caused by two players controlling Nicanor.

I appreciate the input the community has given on the first phase 1 card release. Rob finalized the list of cards for the second release of phase one. I feel really good about where it's at now. I'll post a complete list of significant changes soon.

I had a thought the other day, has Rob considered doing a "beta phase" where the full image set is released prior to any printing? Maybe give the community 1 or 2 weeks to look over and catch the last few ability changes, identifiers, etc, and then print the end result?

That seems to be somewhat the approach he took this time, with the "beta" being the small print run released at Nationals. While the initial card list for Early Church has been together for some time, the official decision to move forward with it came only a couple months before Nationals causing the phase 1 release to go through testing much faster than usual. Normally, myself and other play testers have time to scrutinize many of the things that slipped through on the "beta" release, but that was not the case this time.