ERRATA: Steve from Ravensburger confirmed that abilities referring to a single player can only be applied to the owner - so we were a bit naughty by using the Lantern to lower the cost of Matheus’s characters. At least we know for next time! We will include this confirmation in our "HOW TO PLAY" video, coming out later today! ;)
Picking up my Quest tomorrow. I been so excited for this product. I love PvE things in TCGs. Thank you for posting! Now to grab some food and watch what unfolds.
Hope you enjoy the video! We had such an AMAZING TIME playing this together. Can’t wait to try with four players in total and with Ursula in the hardest difficulty. I hope you enjoy the game as well. Thanks!
This game scenario is definitely a fun idea for people who want to play the game for fun, like a self contain board game. I hope we see more of this in the future.
I think the Fortunate Hit card meant you got to destroy one of her items. Also when you were playing each round with Ursula's Contract, I don't think that card abilities should have been used, but we need to know what "Battleground Abilties" mean, we need that clarified.
The rules are very clear in the game. Battleground Abilities are the abilities that you can get from the Battleground Oversized card (the difficulty settings one). With that card, you can "pay" lore to activate individual abilities, once per turn. So, all "Ursula's Contract" does is NOT allow the player to activate those. In our game, we only activate that ONCE, and it was when we have removed the contract from Ursula's board. So it was correct! ;) Regarding "Fortunate Hit", you are right: it was Ursula's items that was in stake, and not ours. We missread it! ^^
Hey there! Yes, we realized that the second time we played the game mode. We did a very comprehensive and complete video showing all the rules of how to play the game. Check it out if you are interested on it. Thanks! :)
Yes, we always use the app to track our lore in regular matches. But for the sake of this video, we wanted to fully rely on the products out of the box! ^^ The good news is that with the release of the updated version of the app, there will always be a new lore tracker dedicated to Illumineer’s quest. And it looks AWESOME! Can’t wait to be available so we can all use it!
I bought the Quest yesterday and have played several solo games with each preconstructed deck. My feedback/impressions: 1/ Impossible to win with the Amethyst/Steel deck, but I managed to win a few times with the Amber/Ruby one. There are clearly synergies between the decks but the Broom one is more of a supporting one, only good in a 2 player setup IMO 2/ In the dozen games Ive played, Ive never used the battleground abilities. Thats a bit sad. 3/ No character in Ursula's deck has reckless so they'll never attack your characters. A bit sad too.
We haven’t tried solo, but may give it a whirl to see how it plays. Which difficulty level did you try on? On paper I thought the Steel Amethyst deck would be stronger, but Amber Ruby definitely felt better when playing. 100% agreed about the Battleground Abilities. We always felt so under pressure to just be controlling Ursula’s board, we never really had lore to sacrifice (we also misunderstood how Ursula’s Contract worked too, so maybe that played a part, lol) And yes, the whole game we were expecting a reckless character to come out so played quite cautiously. It feels like such a missed opportunity not to have some in her deck. Especially since the rules mentions that specifically! I guess they’re “future proofing” the rules a bit.
Hey guys, very nice video but i think you missplayed the item ursulas contract. I think it goes like this. At the turn ursula played the item "ursulas contract" you as her opponents canˋt use the battleground abilities. At ursulas next turn, this item will bei banished and ursula will get 3 lore. Otherwise it wouldnˋt make sense when more copies of "ursulas contract" are in play.. Thank for all the work you put in your videos.
Haha, thanks so much ❤️ You’re totally right, we misunderstood how the item works. It was one of many, many misplays we made 😅 We did better in our second attempt
@@InkbornHeroes I believe this rule is also intended to be interpreted as (make the decision as if Ursula was making the decision, or as stated in other games as "least beneficial to the players") : "If any effect requires Ursula to make a choice, players make that choice together and resolve it as though she had done it." So in several places you should have used the Ursula's Contract much sooner to allow her more card draw earlier. Allowing the card to just sit in her play area when she only needed 3 lore to get to 10, or 30 benefitted you two more than Ursula. I do not believe this is how it is intended to be used.
@@mtggamingbob2822 Hey there, thanks for the comment! As we mentioned above, we missplayed during our first round of the game and missunderstood the "Ursula's Contract" card. The intended behavior is that both conditions are triggered. We don't get to pick which one. AND, once back to Ursula's turn, the "Minor Stipulation" ability is triggered, banishing the card and giving Ursula 3 lore. Our mistake in the video was to think that every turn we could pick one OR another ability. But in this case, its both. :) We explain that on our detailed "How to play" video. Check it out!
Very cool video ! The PvE seem very nice to play it. I know what I'm gonna try first when i received all my products !! 🤩 (The donald playmat is AMAZING 😍 i want it too !!!)
This game is AWESOME! We super recommend it! If you have the chance, grab it and play with your friends. We can't wait to try the other difficulties level. :)
Maybe rather than attacking her characters you should be questing more, I mean she does have to get to 40. Thanks for showing the gameplay, and I get the concept of slowing down her quest gain, but I would be questing a lot more often.
Yes! Charlie and I were actually going through the gameplay again today and he said the same thing. That we should have likely just focused on questing more, but at the same time it was so fun to experiment and take the risk! XD
Battleground abilities are the ones printed on the Battleground card. I think we used them once the whole game, hehe. I think you’re just referring to the regular character abilities maybe? 🤔
Hey there! Unfortunately, we can't sell these, as the original art doesn't belong to us. But stay tuned to our channel, as we plan future giveaways and subscriber's prizes going forward including playmats. Thanks!
Thank you SO MUCH! Honestly? Out of all videos we made so far, this is the one we enjoyed the most. This game is SUPER FUN! Enjoy your own playthrough once you get the product.
@@christopherunderwood3434 Unfortunately, we can't sell these, as the original art doesn't belong to us. But stay tuned to our channel, as we plan future giveaways and subscriber's prizes going forward including playmats. Thanks!
We designed the playmats ourselves and had them printed locally here in Canada 😊 Because the art is owned by Ravensburger, they can’t be sold. But we’re investigating doing some giveaways in future, so watch this space 🤩
That’s correct. They’re specially built decks for this game mode. From what we played so far, we found them to be much more well-rounded than the starter decks by quite a lot. Plus they include some amazing legendary and super rare cards too!
Hahahah thank you so much! Most of the time we have no idea of what we are talking about! Just chaotic non sense! 🤣🤣 For the playmats, we custom made it ourselves. Every set we make two new ones, based on some of our favourite cards from that set. ^^
It’s a very common misunderstanding, but Ursula starts with the number of cards defined by the difficulty and number of players. This has been confirmed by the team on Discord.
At 22:13, can you really exert the lantern for your teammate? The card says "you" pay for the next character "you" play. Or is that a special rule for this coop mode?
I believe all cards can be played/used for teammates and yourself. I know I'm attempting to play this for the first time with 4 players, using these 2 decks and the 2 starter decks. Blue steel Anna gives hero characters +1 lore, which should effect all players characters. The piglet here gained the bonus lore from the combined total of characters on the board. I think for your question, the owner of the item has to choose and approve of it's usage. So I can't say my partners mouse armor targets my character this turn, they would have to choose and use it. Lantern can be exactly that, owner allows usage to the other player for their card play that turn
The more we think about it, the more unsure we are! We’ve posted in the Lorcana Discord to see if we can get some clarification. EDIT: Steve from Ravensburger confirmed that abilities referring to a single player can only be applied to the owner - so we were a bit naughty by using the Lantern to lower the cost of Matheus’s characters. At least we know for next time!
Yes! Whenever a shifted card moves to another zone on the board (hand, discard, inkwell etc) both cards go there. Check out our video on Shifting for the full rules 😊
Right!? 😂 I guess it was a case of future proofing the mode and handling cases where they’re given it by the player. But it had us confused for a hot minute
@@InkbornHeroes True plus your own cards can technically make Ursula's characters go reckless too. Do yall have a good contact a Ravensburger I feel like I have some ideas that could quickly balance the gameplay out.
Hey there! Yes, these playmats are custom made by us. Every new set, we try making two new playmats using our favourite card of that set. :) Unfortunately, we can't sell these, as the original art doesn't belong to us. But stay tuned to our channel, as we plan future giveaways and subscriber's prizes going forward. Thanks!
That’s a great question. I was wondering the same earlier today, as I am still unsure on how I will be storing these. I will research and get back to you on that. Thanks!
Look for "oversized" sleeves. I only found two manufacturers for those though, one being Ultra Pro (Ultra Pro Oversized Deck Protector Sleeves (40pcs.)) and Ultimate Guard (Ultimate Guard Precise Fit Oversized Card Sleeves (40 Piece)).
ERRATA: Steve from Ravensburger confirmed that abilities referring to a single player can only be applied to the owner - so we were a bit naughty by using the Lantern to lower the cost of Matheus’s characters. At least we know for next time! We will include this confirmation in our "HOW TO PLAY" video, coming out later today! ;)
So you didnt beat Ursula :p
@@troywilliams8811 We will never know what would have happened! :P Maybe next time!! 💪
Picking up my Quest tomorrow. I been so excited for this product. I love PvE things in TCGs. Thank you for posting! Now to grab some food and watch what unfolds.
Hope you enjoy the video! We had such an AMAZING TIME playing this together. Can’t wait to try with four players in total and with Ursula in the hardest difficulty. I hope you enjoy the game as well. Thanks!
This was a perfect introduction to the same. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! We apologize in advance for all exciting screams! 😅
This game scenario is definitely a fun idea for people who want to play the game for fun, like a self contain board game. I hope we see more of this in the future.
Us too! It’s super fun to play, and the replayability is great too
I think the Fortunate Hit card meant you got to destroy one of her items. Also when you were playing each round with Ursula's Contract, I don't think that card abilities should have been used, but we need to know what "Battleground Abilties" mean, we need that clarified.
The rules are very clear in the game. Battleground Abilities are the abilities that you can get from the Battleground Oversized card (the difficulty settings one). With that card, you can "pay" lore to activate individual abilities, once per turn. So, all "Ursula's Contract" does is NOT allow the player to activate those.
In our game, we only activate that ONCE, and it was when we have removed the contract from Ursula's board. So it was correct! ;)
Regarding "Fortunate Hit", you are right: it was Ursula's items that was in stake, and not ours. We missread it! ^^
24:58 lol that was amazing.
Every time I re-watch it, a tear rolls down my eyes. 😂😂
I love the custom card giveaways, thank you for the opportunity
We are so happy that you enjoy them! Good luck for the win! ^^
With ursulas contract, you actually dont get to choose, both things apply
Hey there! Yes, we realized that the second time we played the game mode. We did a very comprehensive and complete video showing all the rules of how to play the game. Check it out if you are interested on it. Thanks! :)
This looks like a lot of fun, thank you
It was! We were so much more surprised than we initially thought we would be. We had a blast playing it and can’t wait to play it again.
Helpful Hint - you can use the lore counter on the app to keep track of lore easily. Just a suggestion.
Yes, we always use the app to track our lore in regular matches. But for the sake of this video, we wanted to fully rely on the products out of the box! ^^
The good news is that with the release of the updated version of the app, there will always be a new lore tracker dedicated to Illumineer’s quest. And it looks AWESOME! Can’t wait to be available so we can all use it!
This video made me order the game.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! 😊
I bought the Quest yesterday and have played several solo games with each preconstructed deck. My feedback/impressions:
1/ Impossible to win with the Amethyst/Steel deck, but I managed to win a few times with the Amber/Ruby one. There are clearly synergies between the decks but the Broom one is more of a supporting one, only good in a 2 player setup IMO
2/ In the dozen games Ive played, Ive never used the battleground abilities. Thats a bit sad.
3/ No character in Ursula's deck has reckless so they'll never attack your characters. A bit sad too.
We haven’t tried solo, but may give it a whirl to see how it plays. Which difficulty level did you try on? On paper I thought the Steel Amethyst deck would be stronger, but Amber Ruby definitely felt better when playing.
100% agreed about the Battleground Abilities. We always felt so under pressure to just be controlling Ursula’s board, we never really had lore to sacrifice (we also misunderstood how Ursula’s Contract worked too, so maybe that played a part, lol)
And yes, the whole game we were expecting a reckless character to come out so played quite cautiously. It feels like such a missed opportunity not to have some in her deck. Especially since the rules mentions that specifically! I guess they’re “future proofing” the rules a bit.
Hey guys, very nice video but i think you missplayed the item ursulas contract. I think it goes like this. At the turn ursula played the item "ursulas contract" you as her opponents canˋt use the battleground abilities. At ursulas next turn, this item will bei banished and ursula will get 3 lore. Otherwise it wouldnˋt make sense when more copies of "ursulas contract" are in play.. Thank for all the work you put in your videos.
Haha, thanks so much ❤️ You’re totally right, we misunderstood how the item works. It was one of many, many misplays we made 😅 We did better in our second attempt
@@InkbornHeroes looking forward for your next attempt 👍
It’s already up 😁 We did a live so you can is struggle against her unedited, hehe
@@InkbornHeroes I believe this rule is also intended to be interpreted as (make the decision as if Ursula was making the decision, or as stated in other games as "least beneficial to the players") : "If any effect requires Ursula to make a choice, players make that choice together and resolve it as though she had done it." So in several places you should have used the Ursula's Contract much sooner to allow her more card draw earlier. Allowing the card to just sit in her play area when she only needed 3 lore to get to 10, or 30 benefitted you two more than Ursula. I do not believe this is how it is intended to be used.
@@mtggamingbob2822 Hey there, thanks for the comment! As we mentioned above, we missplayed during our first round of the game and missunderstood the "Ursula's Contract" card.
The intended behavior is that both conditions are triggered. We don't get to pick which one. AND, once back to Ursula's turn, the "Minor Stipulation" ability is triggered, banishing the card and giving Ursula 3 lore. Our mistake in the video was to think that every turn we could pick one OR another ability. But in this case, its both. :) We explain that on our detailed "How to play" video. Check it out!
Very cool video ! The PvE seem very nice to play it. I know what I'm gonna try first when i received all my products !! 🤩
(The donald playmat is AMAZING 😍 i want it too !!!)
This game is AWESOME! We super recommend it! If you have the chance, grab it and play with your friends. We can't wait to try the other difficulties level. :)
Maybe rather than attacking her characters you should be questing more, I mean she does have to get to 40. Thanks for showing the gameplay, and I get the concept of slowing down her quest gain, but I would be questing a lot more often.
Yes! Charlie and I were actually going through the gameplay again today and he said the same thing. That we should have likely just focused on questing more, but at the same time it was so fun to experiment and take the risk! XD
I just received mine and have been playing all afternoon!! So fun!!
That’s awesome! I hope you were able to show Ursula the business 😤
@@InkbornHeroes she's definitely a formidable foe!! But I'll get her💪🏻💪🏻
They keep ignoring Ursula's contract every round, by using their battleground abilities. What am I missing?
Battleground abilities are the ones printed on the Battleground card. I think we used them once the whole game, hehe. I think you’re just referring to the regular character abilities maybe? 🤔
Can we buy the Mickey playmat you have? I love it sooo much.
LOL i am glad someone else ask, I was gonna ask the same thing :)
Hey there! Unfortunately, we can't sell these, as the original art doesn't belong to us. But stay tuned to our channel, as we plan future giveaways and subscriber's prizes going forward including playmats. Thanks!
Whaaaaaat? You just said Uruguay!!!? I didn't expect it haha ❤ Greetings from Uruguay
Hahaha, that’s amazing! 😝 I hope you have a chance to enter the contest because I’d get a massive kick out of mailing the pieces to you 🇺🇾
No esperaba encontrar a alguien de Uruguay acá, bo! Saludos desde Montevideo
Can you play against Ursula with a different 60 card deck, i.e. one of the starter decks?
Yes, absolutely! You can use any legal deck to play. For the highest difficulties, they recommend you use a deck build specifically to take on Ursula.
I'm going to skip this vid for now as I want to not spoil things, but man you guys have got a great production and vibe going on !!
Thank you SO MUCH! Honestly? Out of all videos we made so far, this is the one we enjoyed the most. This game is SUPER FUN! Enjoy your own playthrough once you get the product.
How in the world did you get those playmats?????
These playmats are custom made by us. Every new set, we try making two new playmats using our favourite card of that set. :)
@@InkbornHeroes do yall sell the ones you make by chance?
@@christopherunderwood3434 Unfortunately, we can't sell these, as the original art doesn't belong to us. But stay tuned to our channel, as we plan future giveaways and subscriber's prizes going forward including playmats. Thanks!
Where did you get those awesome play mats!?!
We designed the playmats ourselves and had them printed locally here in Canada 😊 Because the art is owned by Ravensburger, they can’t be sold. But we’re investigating doing some giveaways in future, so watch this space 🤩
23:34 Let's make it a little bit harder - Famous last words... 🤣
Hahahahah! I know, right?! 🥲🤣
Not a win but nice video! Play on harder difficulties with your own decks. I wanna see it
We definitely made a lot of misplays 😅 We actually played on Extreme and Hard this evening! Check out our video on the Live tab 😉
So the decks in this game are not the same as the starter decks?
That’s correct. They’re specially built decks for this game mode. From what we played so far, we found them to be much more well-rounded than the starter decks by quite a lot. Plus they include some amazing legendary and super rare cards too!
@@InkbornHeroes So i guess this decks would also work well to play against each other?
@@rasec46 Yes, I think they probably would :)
Is there anyway to just order a set of the puzzle pieces? Like an Etsy shop or something?
Because we don’t own the art, we really can’t sell these. But we will make the digital file freely available soon.
Omg you both are so fun!!!!!
Where are your mats from?
Hahahah thank you so much! Most of the time we have no idea of what we are talking about! Just chaotic non sense! 🤣🤣
For the playmats, we custom made it ourselves. Every set we make two new ones, based on some of our favourite cards from that set. ^^
I thought ursula started with 7 cards in her hand
It’s a very common misunderstanding, but Ursula starts with the number of cards defined by the difficulty and number of players. This has been confirmed by the team on Discord.
At 22:13, can you really exert the lantern for your teammate? The card says "you" pay for the next character "you" play. Or is that a special rule for this coop mode?
I believe all cards can be played/used for teammates and yourself.
I know I'm attempting to play this for the first time with 4 players, using these 2 decks and the 2 starter decks. Blue steel Anna gives hero characters +1 lore, which should effect all players characters. The piglet here gained the bonus lore from the combined total of characters on the board.
I think for your question, the owner of the item has to choose and approve of it's usage. So I can't say my partners mouse armor targets my character this turn, they would have to choose and use it. Lantern can be exactly that, owner allows usage to the other player for their card play that turn
The more we think about it, the more unsure we are! We’ve posted in the Lorcana Discord to see if we can get some clarification.
EDIT: Steve from Ravensburger confirmed that abilities referring to a single player can only be applied to the owner - so we were a bit naughty by using the Lantern to lower the cost of Matheus’s characters. At least we know for next time!
25:06 well guys, it was the top card. You would draw it anyway 😂
That makes me feel less bad 😂
if you shift mulan and it gets sent back to hand, you are allowed to take both copies back?
Yes! Whenever a shifted card moves to another zone on the board (hand, discard, inkwell etc) both cards go there. Check out our video on Shifting for the full rules 😊
Right at the end, shouldn't Magica stay exerted because of the broom ability?
You are totally correct! We should have paid more attention to some of these cards we're less familiar with 🙈
Didn’t affect the final result though. Well done guys! Out of interest, how many different cards are there in the Ursula game deck (gold backs)?
@@melaniegeddes4539 Thank you! ^^ There are 31 unique cards for Deep Trouble, with a total of 50 cards in her deck.
Thanks for your gameplay of agro deck building simulator.
I do wish Ursula had some Rush/Reckless characters in her deck to mix it up a bit.
@@InkbornHeroes Yeah im glad they specifically mentioned the Reckless condition in the rules to include zero cards with Reckless in Ursula's deck lol.
Right!? 😂 I guess it was a case of future proofing the mode and handling cases where they’re given it by the player. But it had us confused for a hot minute
@@InkbornHeroes True plus your own cards can technically make Ursula's characters go reckless too. Do yall have a good contact a Ravensburger I feel like I have some ideas that could quickly balance the gameplay out.
We have zero contacts at Ravensburger 😂
Are those mats custom made also and can the be purchased?
Hey there! Yes, these playmats are custom made by us. Every new set, we try making two new playmats using our favourite card of that set. :) Unfortunately, we can't sell these, as the original art doesn't belong to us. But stay tuned to our channel, as we plan future giveaways and subscriber's prizes going forward. Thanks!
What size sleeves are required for the larger Ursula cards?
That’s a great question. I was wondering the same earlier today, as I am still unsure on how I will be storing these. I will research and get back to you on that. Thanks!
Look for "oversized" sleeves. I only found two manufacturers for those though, one being Ultra Pro (Ultra Pro Oversized Deck Protector Sleeves (40pcs.)) and Ultimate Guard (Ultimate Guard Precise Fit Oversized Card Sleeves (40 Piece)).
@@Gammelboy29 Thank you! We really appreciate the tip! ^^
ez gg record time boys *draws tsunami ...
Ursula punished our cockiness for sure 🥲
we marvel united/champions now
Honestly, give us more PvE! This was so much fun