It's a Wonderful World - Tier List of All The Base Game Cards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2023
- Ranking all 78 It's a Wonderful World cards (from the base game) in order of best to worst.
What a difficult task! Take this list with a large grain of salt. This is based on my intuition of how often I play these cards and how good I feel about playing them in general. You will undoubtedly have many situations each game where taking a "lower" ranked card is a much better move because it's what you need at the time.
Let us know which cards you think I overrate and underrate!
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Just beat Koobz (700 Elo player) in Arena thanks to your tierlist !
Hopefully it helps you stay #1 until the end, would be well deserved for all the content you give us :D
Glad it helped! Koobz is a great player, congrats on your win
A Tier list that works! went from hanging around in the 100 ELO range to 280 and earned the on fire trophy for TEN consecutive wins! An accurate tier list for sure!
Wow! Nicely done!
Great advice from the number 1 player in the world! Exactly what I needed. Next step I'll create a simple AI that selects a card based upon a formula of the current game state and THIS Tier list!
Haha, best of luck on that endeavour
My 10th consecutive win I built espionage because it would give me the blue I needed and I had extra black and yellow... naw I just did it for the memes
@@BoardInTheHouseBGAplayer Oh it's absolutely undeserving of F-tier, realistically it's probably low B-tier and Underwater City A-tier. The rating was more about sending a message!
@@NoWondersTV 😆
Hopping back in here to say that i've been studying iko's replays and think this list could see some changes down the line. What struck me the most is how well they can do with a blue -> yellow path - not to compete for financiers, but to go for those yellow cards you tend to malign here.
In particular, i think **Cities of Gold** will turn out to be easy S tier as that is basically the Transmutation for blue players. Generally produces more than King Solomon's Mines given the nature of black/blue setups, and even scores 1 more VP. i've seen iko take that as the first pick of the game and crush!
What i really like about this blue/yellow hybrid play is how it opens up a bunch of major scoring cards that can be hard if not impossible to build in a "pure" black/blue approach: Museum, Solar Cannon, Polar Base (which is another card i think deserves a significant bump if my hunch is right). Need to experiment with this myself...
I've been watching a few of his games too, it's very interesting the different playstyle. IMO two things he does very well is targeting the high production cards (Cities of Gold and Underwater City as an example), and focusing on green production.
Playing yellow/blue most of the time allows him to stay flexible and take high scoring point cards as they appear. This mitigates a lot of the risk of your certain colour scoring cards not showing up and you losing. The perfect strategy to not lose to 100-200 ELO players.
Yellow/blue builds certainly have their place, as do green builds, green/yellow, green/blue. I've been a bit too rigid in forcing either yellow or blue in every game, when maybe the 10% of games I lost should have been a different build. I'll improve on that!
Started to play this game yesterday and love it. Thanks for your cards analysis! Very useful
Also I think they need to bring the C&A expansion ASAP for Antoine to finally have a blast with yellow/blue builds. He'll be right in heaven.
Yellow/blue and green/blue being definitely my favourites in the expansion. 🥰
I will wait for it then 😉 Excellent video btw and thank you for the wink, Sam 😄 Now I know the potential of Underwater City and Espionnage Agency 😂
Great video! Thank you
Loved the rankings, solid analysis overall. And if I may be so bold, bro outkicked his coverage a bit.
Very helpful guide/list, I think the card i disagree with would be Ancient Astronauts. blue cards are generally expensive so likely this card will only produce a few green while only remaining 10 points. the crystelium is useful but the 1 general cost loses you a few points.
That's fair. The point scoring can be pretty average in blue builds. For me it's an ideal card to finish in round 3 to give you a nice burst of 3-4 green in the last round. That should help you win the last green production bonus as well finish any cards requiring green.
The fact that it's decent in yellow builds too puts it in S tier IMO. 9 points is pretty good if you already produce some blue and the extra 2 krystallium at the end of the game can be a life saver for cards like Secret Society, Lunar Base and Gravity Inverter.
Secret Society really surprised me, given what i said about it in the BGG thread, but i was likely underestimating the financier multipliers that also give production. Also, confession time: for a while i didn't know generals & financiers were worth 1VP each to start! i thought they only gave any points with the multipliers, so i definitely underestimated cards that give you financiers compared to Secret Society.
idk tho it's practically free aside from the krystallium, given how yellow production tends to snowball in the endgame, so i might still have it in S for 2-player games. It still feels better than Space Elevator to me since i tend to really struggle with black production in yellow builds, but maybe that's a weakness.
Still easily S tier for 2 players games, as all character multipliers are. Can even be easier to build than the multipliers that need huge amounts of green or black. Depends entirely on your production situation. Not giving a Financier is the only reason it's behind the other multipliers, but all the multipliers are still ahead of most (all) other cards to pick late :)
In my opinion, Parallel Dimension is the best green multiplier card IF players choose to go with green and gold path. It's much easier to build than Unknown Technology and don't need financiers trade-off like Universal Exposition. 4 blue cubes needed might be challenging but it won't be a problem if either Underwater City or Espionage Agency is built within round 3.
Also, 3 red cubes bonus are quite helpful, player can use it to finish any remaining projects, particularly Time Travel.
Long story short, I mean it should be the top of F tier.
Very situational for sure. But the great thing about IAWW is that all cards can be useful, I have played them all many times! In the Corruption & Ascension expansion Parallel Dimension is actually quite a decent card :)
I know it's a stretch, but I just got and played Colors of Paris, and it made me think of It's a Wonderful World. It's not in the same class, but you might want to give it a look. From one IAWW fan to another.
Oh my god, I think you just lit up something at the back of my memory from so long ago lol! I actually did watch a full playthrough of that game a few years ago ( th-cam.com/video/5KwQQO4Xeo0/w-d-xo.html ) and thought it looked pretty good but totally forgot about it after a while. I'm definitely super interested! 😁
Thanks for this video. Not sure I agree with everything but it is mainly situational.
Off course if you have blue strategy, most of the yellow cards strategy are more useless and vice versa.
I would have put Recycling plant in S+ or top of S anyway. The fact thaht you want to have built one in your game... and super easy to build even at the end and help for tie breaker (cf. your video against the second player ;) )
Giant dam, not sure it is a good card to build in fourth round (except if you really need more black).
Would have good to know the repartition of cards... i will do this for myself i think.
But quickly, i can see there is 7 cards with general multiplier (for a total of *8) and 5 cards with financier multiplier.
Will search on BGG if i can find the percent of white/black/green/yellow/blue card.
Knowing in a 2 players game, you see 80 cards in total (on 150 in total)
A card like Giant Tower is great and easy to build in a blue build with the right cards, same can be said for Centre of the Earth in a yellow build. These cards are relatively cheap so they're good points for the opposite build too and the cost of people tokens is not as big as if you had big multipliers on them. But even in their respective builds, they're good cards, probs not as good as people might think though.
To see how many of each card there are, you can look in the top right corner of a card like Recycling Plant says 7 cause there's 7 in the deck. I did, a long time ago compare financiers and generals and there's more cards that give generals than there are cards that give financiers cause there's random cards like Bionic Grafts, Propaganda Centre, Satellites, Polar Base, all the Military Bases, etc, but these are cards that don't always work well in blue builds, or not easy to build, there are more cards that give double generals as opposed to cards giving double financiers and yes, the total of general multipliers is greater than financier multipliers. All cards giving financiers seem to work well in a yellow build which makes them easier to get if needed.
The greater multiplier possible in the game is green with 11X science (Universal Expo, Parallel Dimension, Unknown Tech, Secret Lab x2), followed by 10X yellow (World Congress, National Monument, Hesperides, Gravity Inverter, Universal Vaccine), then 8X blue (Mu, Museumx2, Polar Base) and finally black (Transportation Network X2, Super Computer, Quantum Generator, Juggernaut) so overall, general wise and colour wise, blue always seems to have the most option (cause black belongs to blue builds too). It's not to say that yellow is less strong at all. I think most yellow cards combine better together than some of the cards for blue which are harder to build for the "same" result.
Only one that really surprised me was Juggernaut. I've always kind of hated that one, but maybe I should give it more of a chance!
Yeah, i felt early on that it's great at what it does. Can even be worth building in round 3 sometimes since blue builds often give you extra krystallium. Aircraft Carrier being crazy powerful is an indirect buff for Juggernaut as well!
Nice, this video comes at a perfect time after this game finally entered my collection for saturday nights :) Interesting take on the green card multipliers, definitely my least favorite win condition is greens, but put them all F seems harsh. Also can you do a rearrangement of your tier list for 4-5 player games? Maby lots of people are like me and playing with friends rather than try hard on BGA doing duos only.
Hope you and your friends enjoy playing it IRL! Green is my favourite colour to play, but by far the least successful. It has many issues in the base game at all player counts. The Corruption & Ascension expansion gives it a lot of help which is what I prefer to play (and hope it comes to BGA soon!)
4-5 player games will have a few changes to the list. All production cards stay exactly where they are. Financier and General multipliers all go down to C/F. Colour multipliers all go up a tier (yes, even the green ones). Scoring cards that cost Financiers or Generals go up a tier (like Center of the Earth, Giant Tower). In fact most scoring cards probably go up a tier, it's very important to secure a few so you have something to work towards. 4-5 player games are less about trying to produce 20 yellow and more about trying to build the best cards you can from any colour.
@@NoWondersTV thanks for the information. Just hope the game will take with my frieds, because they dropped Res Arcana which was my previous favorite game before IWW. So far Cascadia and Azul are their favorites.
@@yordankrushkov8488 Res used to be our most played game for a while with one of our friends and I introduced Sam and him to IAWW and it instantly became our most played game together so I think you have good chances of it to be a hit in your group! I'm crossing my fingers for you!
Green bad I get it. 👍
Overall agreeing but justice for creepy baby, it's as good as Mega-Bomb to me. 💔
I probably didn't explain it well enough in the video, but I much prefer it for 2 main reasons. Mega-Bomb is easier to build. 2 black vs 2 extra green is a pretty big difference. Yellow builds (the ones that want the Financiers) have more competition for green cubes. The 2 green Financier cards, Gravity Inverter, Universal Vaccine, not to mention the green needed for cards like Space Elevator and Magnetic Train. Blue builds really only have the 2 green General cards.
@@NoWondersTV yes I know but in blue builds, my black will go on black cards so this costing black is eh. In a yellow build too, I'll have my black on Casino Cities, Space Elevator, Gravity Inverter or white cards like Industrial Complex, Research Centre... I don't think it's that hard to build creepy in a yellow build with the affluence of green production (Secret Lab x2, University, Research Centres easy to build too cause we have white prod).
Coming back to this yet again, my new single biggest point of disagreement by far is "I would not go for Underwater City in a blue build." The more i experiment with both "pure" blue and blue/yellow strategies, i think it might actually be the 3rd-best production card for blue players. It's directly comparable to Giant Dam re: how easy it is to build in round 1, and the green production is especially important since that's so hard to come by for blue players; you want to get all the green production you need from blue cards or cards that also produce blue. If you don't have the Dam or Nuclear Plant available in Round 1, Underwater City is something of a "hidden shortcut" to make a blue build viable anyway.
Granted, i'm not sure i could justify placing it above Nuclear Plant...but i'd have both of them in S. Think i'd also rate Offshore Oil Rig above the other two yellow-producing white cards because that one can be sneaky good for blue players!
I agree Underwater City is a great card for a yellow/blue build (a build I still believe to be overrated by nearly everyone). Offshore Oil Rig into Underwater City is a really strong opening.
I also still believe it's an average card for a straight blue build. If you're using 3 cards to build it in rd 1 (Underwater City + 2 yellow discards) it means you won't have black production other than maybe a Wind Turbine. Then the following round you have to spend another 4 cards to build either a Nuclear Plant or Giant Dam. It's a really slow start. Then when you want to catch up from your slow start with cards like Aircraft Carrier or Super Sonar, Underwater City doesn't scale with them.
If there's not much else in round 1 then fine, but that's what I consider average. It would probably be my 4th or 5th option as opposed to Nuclear Plant which is my 1st option.
Do you have the final tier list as a link ?
Good point! I forgot to include that in the description. Here you go - tiermaker.com/list/board-games/its-a-wonderful-world-cards-1537316/2708486
Just as a side note, F tier cards still have their uses. The frequency is lower, but all cards are still playable. Don't feel bad about building them, it might be the right move for your game!
Hi you too,
je vous écrit mon message en français pour plus de facilité. Quel beau travail, fastidieux mais intéressant pour discuter stratégie :)
Je suis d'accord avec vous sur 95,5% (170/178 cartes) pour être précis. En apparté ce classement ne tient pas compte de la fréquence des cartes, il est probable que je prenne plus souvent une carte qui n'est qu'en un seul exemplaire sachant que je ne la reverrai de la partie, mais cette notion peut difficilement être quantifiable.
Je sous estime "aircraft carrier" le cout en blanc qui est compliqué à payer dans un jeu noir/bleu en fait une carte difficile à poser avant le tour 3 ou 4, à grand prix, elle n'est rentable que si beaucoup de bleu sortent (à 2 joueurs on ne voie que la moitié du deck et 30 à 50% des parties jouées sont pauvres en grosses cartes bleues). Je la mettrai en fin de "S"
Je sous estime "harbor zone" pourtant j'adore cette carte, elle est parfois difficile à jouer avant le tour 2 s'il n'y a pas de carte de prod jaune ou de recyclage en masse (et dans ce cas ça implique de laisser passer à l'adversaire de bonnes cartes et réduit le contre draft). Je la mettrai en fin de "S"
Je sur estime "transmutation", elle m'a souvent été utile et construite sans beaucoup de difficulté avant le tour 2, surtout quand le jeu est pauvre en recyclage blanc dans le tour 1. Je la mettrai en milieu de "S"
Je sous estime "ancient astronauts", comme je ne joue qu'à 2 joueurs si je joue noir/bleu je ne sacrifierai pas 2 généraux et ne gagner que 5 points (les crystalium sont précieux mais il y d'autres moyens de les obtenir en jouant bleu). je la mettrai en "A" ou "B" (en "A" si je joue jaune car elle gagne en valeur les généraux ont moins d’intérêt)
Je sur estime "quantum générator", une carte qui m'a souvent aidé pour un jeu noir/bleu lorsqu'il n'y a pas de barrage ou de centrale nucléaire aux tours 1 et 2. Plutôt une carte opportuniste mais le recyclage noir lui donne de la flexibilité en début de draft. Je la mettrai en top du "B".
Je sur estime "super sonar", je le trouve plus facile à construire que "aircraft carrier" et je le place juste devant en "S".
Je sur estime "king's salomon mine", finalement c'est à peine plus compliqué à construire que le magnétic train pour un jeu blanc/jaune (mais sans les 2 financiers), les recyclage bleus sont souvent délaissés (même s'ils sont plus rares). Je la mettrai en top du "A" en jeu bleu et en fin de "S" en jeu jaune.
Je sur estime "espionage agency", moins bien que underwater cities, c'est une carte ressource dans un draft médiocre (2 jaunes et un noir et c'est construit au premier tour, pour un lancement bleu, un bonus suprématie bleu et quelques points). je la mettrai en fin de "B".
Merci à tous les 2 pour ce débat analytique, de nouveaux joueurs très forts ont intégrés le classement, les parties vont devenir très difficiles ... et tant mieux :)
Fab
Coucou Fabrice !
Perso je suis d'accord sur la majorité des trucs avec Sam. Je mettrais sûrement Genetic Upgrades au même rang que Mega-Bomb, mais cette carte c'est une de mes chouchous donc bon, et je descendrais d'un cran pour Ancient Astronauts. C'est une carte que j'aime beaucoup mais je la trouve vraiment pas aussi bonne que Alexandre's Tomb par exemple. J'essaie personnellement de toujours la construire, que ce soit une build bleue ou jaune, mais je la sous-estime peut-être un peu par rapport à Sam qui lui la met direct en S. Je trouve que les Krystalliums et points qu'elle donne sont fantastiques mais niveau production, c'est pas tip top parce que si c'est une build jaune, bah elle produira 1 vert et si c'est une build bleue, elle produira peut-être 3-4 verts au dernier tour (ce qui, je ne le cache pas, reste super utile!!).
Oui Super Sonar est super mais Aircraft Carrier est tellement mieux (bien que plus difficile à construire quoique?). En réalité, la plupart du temps, Aircraft est construite au dernier tour quand tu as déjà pleins de cartes noires moins chères créées et tu utilises juste 1 recyclage de blanc (le noir ne devrait pas être un pb à la dernière manche) ou un krystallium. Le fait qu'Aircraft soit noire en plus ET qu'elle donne 2 généraux, c'est juste le jackpot. Ça peut paraître bête mais parfois je galère plus à construire Super Sonar qu'Aircraft Carrier car je ne trouve pas du tout de production de science (genre Airborne Lab) ou que ma science est dédiée à genre des cartes style Icebreaker ou Saucer Squadron.
Je crois que je suis comme Sam vis-à-vis de Underground City. Je pense sous-estimer cette carte énormément. C'est vraiment très rare les fois où je la construis tôt. En général, c'est une carte que je construis tard dans une build jaune pour les 3 pts et le krystallium qu'elle donne mais je trouve que la construire tôt me ralentit plus qu'autre chose. C'est qqch sur lequel je dois travailler et garder l'esprit ouvert. D'ailleurs mon meilleur score solo récemment était avec un départ de double Underground City donc faut que je donne sa chance à cette carte lol
Je suis d'accord avec King Solomon's mais je me retrouve en général, si je n'ai pas de Espionage/Underwater City à recycler mes bleus plus pour des Offshore Oil Rig mais je pense que cette carte a un bon potentiel. Je pense qu'elle est pas aussi facile à construire que le train... Et elle donne pas les financiers (pourquoi Magnetic Train donne 2 financiers ET 2 VP et en plus est une carte jaune??).
Et oui tu as raison, beaucoup de bons joueurs ont débarqué, y a même un type qui a gagné toutes ses parties qui est en train de grimper les échelons. Ça sera bientôt the final boss lol
Oh et yes je suis d'accord avec toi, je surestime Transmutation peut être un peu aussi. J'adore cette carte. Je la trouve fantastique. Elle peut produire direct 3 jaunes et en plus elle donne un krystallium ? C'est juste fou. C'est le genre de carte qui peut te faire snowball tellement vite avec un Harbour Zone ou Propaganda Centre ou dans le genre. Je l'adore !
Ça me fend le cœur à chaque fois que je me dois de la recycler, cette carte. Mais je pense que Sam l'a bien placée à la fin de S. Je trouve qu'elle est bien là où elle est ! 😁
Apologies for breaking up the French conversation here, but i've generally found Aircraft Carrier pretty easy to build because even in a black/blue strategy i will usually have at least 4 white production. Fighting for a Recycling Plant and white discards is something you almost always want to do at the start just to deny your opponent, and that makes it likely you'll end up building it early yourself. This is a huge advantage if you want to start with Nuclear Plant, for example!
This is also why i might put Submarine in B tier instead of C, by the way - i only find its cost troublesome if i got both Aircraft Carrier & Juggernaut.
@@joshthefunkdoc no worries you can speack in english :) . In fact I love Aircraft carrier too, IF I play blues I take it at 100% ... but early in the game it's possible if I have to chose I prefer the auther
@@joshthefunkdoc Fabrice agrees on Aircraft Carrier but was saying that it's usually built around Round 3 or 4 (which is true) because of the cost in white and that's why he thinks he underrates it a bit. It's true, usually, your early white production will go to other things that focusing on Aircraft Carrier Round 1 would just grief your own game by producing only 1 blue. If you don't find any good profitable black cards, I suppose you can always dedicate your early white to a second Nuclear Plant, a Research Centre or cheap Tank Division/Mega-Drill cards.
And I was saying that both Aircraft Carrier and Super Sonar are good but that sometimes, I find Super Sonar harder to build because
1) I don't find good green production
2) The green goes to other cards (Icrebreaker/Saucer Squadron) and I don't produce enough green yet to put it on Super Sonar.
Very often, I find myself building Super Sonar in Round 3 or 4, just like Aircraft Carrier, even though it requires only 4 cubes.
In a 4 or 5 player game, is Green build a thing if you are the only one on it?
Definitely! More recently i'm finding it can sorta work in 2P even, but it has to be a "modified" green build - basically green with a couple big yellow or blue cards. One of my last games had me breaking 80 points going mainly green but with Atlantis and i think another general multiplier as my 2 blue cards to go with it.
Absolutely. Even in 3 player games it's not that bad.
The hardest thing about it is producing a large amount of green in the late game. With yellow builds you have Magentic Train / King Solomons which produce yellow scaling off white cards (very common). Blue builds have Aircraft Carrier and Super Sonar which produce blue scaling off black cards (very common). Green only has Neuroscience and University which scale off green cards and yellow cards. It's really hard to have ~8 green cards already built by round 4 unlike white or black cards.
The key would be finding Neuroscience early as well as other cheap green cards, then finding the multipliers later.
is there a Google sheet with this info?
Didn't write any of it down, so sadly not. This is a link to the end result of the tier list - tiermaker.com/list/board-games/its-a-wonderful-world-cards-1537316/2708486
You can print off a nice high quality pic and tape it somewhere in the car :P
You have the same face as the financier guy on the thumbnail.
Hmmmmmm
@@NoWondersTV 🤔
Sounds like a missed thumbnail opportunity. Next Wonderful World Tier list you all should be the General dressed in red and the Financier dressed in blue. You all could totally be the characters on the front cover.
Maybe Tier list for 2 players or Tier list for Blue or Yellow builds