Endurance is Eternal's vigilance, and stun is its super-tap, but their implementation and relationship are worth talking about.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Eternal Analysis 015—Endurance & Stun
Endurance is Eternal's vigilance, and stun is its super-tap, but their implementation and relationship are worth talking about.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Eternal Analysis 014—Ambush and fast spells
Eternal avoided making Magic's mistake of taxonomically dividing sorceries and instants: They're all spells, but some are fast and some aren't. Then they dropped the ball.
Friday, January 4, 2019
The Emperor's New Clothes & Activity Analysis
Years ago, just as KickStarter was realizing its potential in the board games market, a concept game full of blank components funded and I thought it was all a big joke. At XOXO 2018, I got to play it with its author, Jonathan H. Liu, a gamer so generous and trusting he lent out his game collection for the hundreds of strangers at the conference to borrow and play, unsupervised. Jonathan reviews game at GeekDad and, I now understand, is brilliant. As is the delightful Emperor's New Clothes.The game comes with a scoring marker for each player and a score track, 10 cubes for each of the three resource types (dignity, gold, and gullibility), 13 role cards, a deck of action cards, three normal resource dice, and a fourth special resource die. Except they're all completely blank.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
What I've Learned from Guilds of Ravnica's Mechanics (Part 5)
Please enjoy the third in a series of five guest posts from Larcent about the mechanics of Guilds of Ravnica. —Jay Treat
Lesson Five: Undergrowth and identity vs. gameplay
Green and black decks are doing quite well in Standard right now and are even seeing high-end competitive Magic play. This makes it all the more interesting that the undergrowth mechanic landed with such a thud with players. There's very little of it to be found in these decks. There are cards from Guilds of Ravnica in these successful decks, though, and there's a lot to learn about why those made the cut and cards with undergrowth did not.
Lesson Five: Undergrowth and identity vs. gameplay
Green and black decks are doing quite well in Standard right now and are even seeing high-end competitive Magic play. This makes it all the more interesting that the undergrowth mechanic landed with such a thud with players. There's very little of it to be found in these decks. There are cards from Guilds of Ravnica in these successful decks, though, and there's a lot to learn about why those made the cut and cards with undergrowth did not.