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Layra Chronical is better....440...on the right Terrain it can bring you Forward and block the other side...also with hatters anchored it is a 4 strengh. ....for 3 mana she will win in most cases in non start Terrain and bring you Forward in start Terrain (but with zero she can mostly not block

How many cards does the deck wallet hold?

The big issue I have with the discussion about the marketplace’s influence on the availability of uniques is that eBay and Facebook already exist with a large access to uniques

Cool stuff I did and saw in draft : Subash with the draw power from Yzmir and Ordis. Fen with Haven bravos bastion. Lyra festival with Muna and Ordis for extra anchored / sleep effects. The format has SO much potential, it is crazy fun to explore.

Would like to try an Oops! All Rares format. No Rare Limit 15 Unique Limit 3 Common Limit

I've also been cooking up a strategy with Kaibara and other big cards in pink. Though I took the Auraq and Kibble with Mind Apotheosis approach instead of using Nevenka to hopefully anchor. It's so fun to cheat out a hydracaena or a small step giant leap!

Thanks for covering limited formats, I did ask for that so although you said there's been no mailbag submissions you kind of did mine :D Too broke to go to my LGS this week, so it's BGA for my Altered fix, but I'm definitely thinking of talking everyone into some sealed this month.

I think altered is just the perfect game for cube building because the physical cards will hold so little value once pnp is a thing. it'll be so cheap and easy to have a single physical copy of every common and rare in the game.

Auraq I think is better for the big monster deck. The bastion always seems to break tempo when I play it so I dropped it.

I think I have an interesting topic. Let me move the game a few expansions in the future: would you rather the game have a standard rotation like Magic: the Gathering, have the core set always in standard and rotating expansions like in Hearthstone or have all cards available in standard like in Flesh and Blood? I love the podcast, please keep doing more episodes!

And there is the problem: Unofficial/Suggested/fun formats -No Uniques (15 or 18 rares) The only real competitive format that Equinox will never make. Its disgusting how you all still defend this decision and pretend like you all were champs and winners of big tournaments while playing with Hearthstone Crap Cards aka Uniques. If any of you would really care about the game or uniques you would stand united and force this to be the only real competitive format! Despite the fact that Equinox wants to scam money from TCG newbies by telling them that Uniques are their "chance" to win competitive tournaments.

Yay so excited to listen to this 🎉

I think going forward if uniques get out of hand they can always put some type of retirement system in play. Whether that is simply if it wins X amount of tournaments it's retired. Or Unique cards get some kind of points system and gain points for being in winning decks. ( every time you win in a tournament that card gets X points and is retired at x points. Like FaB Heros) I think they have a few cogs to play with within their creation of unique cards. So I don't think it should be a real problem within the game if they manage it correctly.

I don't think that some uniques can just automatically win you the game, they can be strong but i think that it's part of the game to stay prepared for the opponent's uniques since they are the most unpredictable and potentially powerful cards. I think it's really cool.

Great discourse re: the main topic--in particular, noting the scarcity of named cards atm and how chase values may shoot up higher than we've ever seen for such a young card game, as well as how current cards that may seem unbroken may turn out to be in future seem worth bearing in mind; but then Trickster is right that, fundamentally, the issue is that Uniques atm are being overstatted (rather than just providing the possibility of unique deck construction for potential archetypes)

Just getting into the game and have been loving the content you guys are pulling out, but please Trickster, put some of your tournament winnings towards a poster for your wall!! 😅

the easy and hardest way to balance Unique Cards is to ban them from high level competitive tournaments :D

I definitely think there's a bit of a potential for uniques to be "bad" for the game, but I really doubt they're going to have a negative effect on the average player. The way I figure it is that grinders, the highly competitive players will accept and pay the cost to get their 3 perfect uniques. For everyone else you'll play what you have and be fine playing at locals. I do have a question for @TricksterCG. Do you believe you had the strongest uniques at the Phoenix event? A more narrow ask would be: Do you think you still would have won the event with other uniques? I think uniques definitely can matter, but I do think overall that they won't be the definitive value in winning or losing.

I tried playing with Afanas without much success until I played vs someone on BGA with a unique that returns spells on dusk. I deleted my deck and gave up on Afanas forever at that point. I can't compete with those uniques. And look at some of the winning decks, like that one 4th place Lyra deck. He had 3 uniques with removal spells stapled on them. I've also played someone with a similar unique, like a 4/4 kappa with 3/2/4 stats with arrow - discard a guy with cost 3 or less. I lost the game so very bad. 2 days in a row were easy double moves for my opponent and there was nothing I could do. I have no idea how much a unique like this would cost since I have never, ever seen something like these for sale in the past month of checking multiple sites/discords every day. 800 dollar each is probably right.

There are a small number of uniques that are super powerful and mostly obvious so. However there are also some that are more subtly powerful (like the Yzmir uniques that pull back spell cards to hand). I think there's also a bunch of uniques that will get better over time. I guess we;ll see but it will be exciting to find out.

The game is 45 days old. I think that it is normal if the average player doesn't have three perfect uniques for their deck yet ! Personnaly I have one very good unique that will be hard to upgrade and two other that are just fine. And that's good, I know I will eventually get better ones one day. That's the thrill :) PS : You are right, Afanas is the best

It is a tough spot to be in when it comes to getting another box. I need more rares and would like new uniques. Do i drop $150 on a box to get a bunch of throwaway commons, not all the rares i need, and possibly pull no uniques i want or can trade? Or use the $150 to complete my rare playset and get a unique or two that i can use? Or spend the $150 on one or two uniques to greatly increase the strength of my deck?

The devs seem to have put certain restrictions on uniques of a particular character as well. For example, all Kraken uniques appear to lack gigantic.

Im glad that trickster points out that Ordis cards are just flat out better than other factions. Ozma was a good example.

Sadly the uniques are being a gamebrake, It's cool but players are monopolyzing that, if you have money you can get the good uniques :/

Cool revieW ! Need the other factions now please 😁

Uniques can work depending on the limiters set into place but given some of the UNQ I saw, the competitive balancing is going to be a nightmare. I saw UNQ that allows for an EASY DRAW 3 (at dusk draw 3) and that is a mind blowing mistake. Why is there a draw 3 effect in the algorithm so early in the game? Draw 1 is already strong and draw 2 VERY strong, but draw 3 is ridiculous in a game where card management is much more important than other tcgs. Yes, only 3 UNQ in a deck, but they should never be super swingy on their own.

Great conversation, and I think you're generally correct about the potential impact of uniques. However, the impact on being able to build and play with many different decks is a problem in any game as the chase cards are always expensive.

Uniques are the worst thing for competitive. And the fact that the Designers are Not doing a Format without Uniques on purpose tells you everything as a comp Player. Wasted opportunity but be Happy with your shitty Hearthstone Clown cards Equinox.

2 podcasts one day, Alex! Nice!

Going this weekend to the first tournament in my city (Concepción, Chile) and finding this video really helpfull to choose my starter deck. Thanks a lot mr Coccia.

Enter Sandman starts playing.

I think the big problem with Robin Hood is that it’s forced the meta to focus on developing board states with anchoring/sleep/landmarks. If you can’t do that and you have to pay the Robin Hood tax on all your cards 4 turns in a row you can’t compete and you just lose. The card itself limits deck diversity and makes a lot of heroes and entire factions almost unplayable(at least in a tournament or ranked bga sense) So while it might be annoying to decks able to play around it, it’s backbreaking for the ones that can’t. The meta in the here and now is heavily waru dominated, and the other decks that are successful are all decks built to be able to be able to play around a Robin Hood tax. Which in my opinion is a sign that the meta now isn’t healthy, and while an errata right this moment may be too soon, telling players they have to wait until the start of next year may be too late, and if the momentum and hype around the game dies then a new set likely won’t bring it back.

Congrats Trickster on the win, even if you did turn to the dark (Waru) side

Love the callout on people not running more sabotage action! Ive been running Fen & Crowbar and ive been preaching how effective resupply/sabotage can be at my LGS. Theres one guy who runs Treyst and it always gets under his skin when i sabotage his plays away 🤷‍♂️

Great to hear some more details on that report, enjoyed this video as well as the deck coverage on Trickster's site (I need to finish watching the commentaries). Did Trickster say one of his top 8 opponents also has a TH-cam, can we get a link to their channel too?

I attended the tournament in Arizona. Lost to the one Teija player that only lost to top 8 players, and then to a top 8 player myself. Tied for 12th Brought Sigismar. Definitely looking to attend more tournaments (need good Afanas uniques though)

its really saddening that we need a 58min video to conclude that is waru all day everyday. Amazingly enough waru players insist there is nothing to balance.

"Oh, no, you can play a lot of heroes, yeah, go play something else, nothing to see in this waru here, definitely not the clear winner everytime." "Yeah, and I ended up winning, so nice to do that with these Waru list, really nothing out of the ordinary"

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Did you win without stupid Uniques in your deck or having played one Unique the whole tournament? No? Then you achieved nothing and you are just another shitty player needing P2W Hearthstone cards *clap*

just attended the tournament in phoenix myself. left before top 8, so idk who won. tied for 12th though, went 4-2

Can anyone post the link to the recordings of the games?

Was so excited to see such a large event take place already, and for it to be streamed and casted - my word what a good start to the competitive scene for Altered. Great breakdown of the event, Waru clearly seems to be the villain of the game right now but I agree, no need to pull the trigger on them or Robin Hood so fast - if the next set doesn't change things then I also agree, Altered is in an especially unique position to fix things in a much smoother and more player friendly way than other paper TCGs. Good work Kawa, absolute shift you put in my man.

A couple thoughts. Currently I don't think they should do anything about waru and Robinhood Because it's just too early to make that determination. We've only had One large tournament so far and that's not nearly enough data to determine one thing or the other yet. However, if they do decide to make a change, Just getting rid of bureaucrat off of Robinhood. Seems like a good start to keep him off the board for four turns in a row. Secondly, I think it was a huge mistake that they didn't get the marketplace up and running at the same time as the launch of the game. I'm having a hard time finding uniques that work for my deck and that I like. I'm stuck looking on eBay and the altered Facebook page and everyone should just be able to use the app's marketplace rather than have to struggle to try to find cards for your deck. Finding rare cards seems to be even more difficult than finding uniques without just buying more booster boxes or packs

Interesting thought. If they just change sleep to also negate abilities it would nerf waru but also kinda buff cards like sandman and twinkle twinkle. Better than an errata that everyone would need to order.

The one big thing also. Altered is not locked into contracts like Lorcana, that makes them more Flexible. That is huge to find their spot in the space.

Great episode, can’t wait for Trickster to speak about his experience. Side event becoming a 1000 person event is insane!

Kawa did a fantastic job!

And congrats to Trickster on winning the tourny in the US!