It's been a while since anyone posted here. To keep things alive despite the lack of activity in our small community, I've decided to update this blog and post an article or two. Well, let's get it on then...
Finally Tzumainn updated his website! He's posted the complete list of cards for all the chapter packs under the A Time of Ravens chapter. He's also posted updates on the recent chapters of King's Landing and Kings of the Sea. You can check them out at http://www.tzumainn.com/agot/cards/. I must say that the new cards are quite intruiging to say the least. Each house gets something good though I have to say that Stark got most of it. They got another slew of cheap but fairly large characters. Anyways, I'll go into some of the cards that piqued my attention shortly.
A new mechanic was introduced by FFG called Shadow. For anyone who's played Magic: The Gathering, this mechanic has some similarities to the Morph keyword where you pay a default 3 generic mana cost to put a 2/2 creature into play "morphed" (face down). And in order to "morph" the creature at any time as a fast effect to what it really is, you need to pay the morph cost and flip the creature over.
Basically, the Shadow mechanic is similar in that you pay 2 gold to put a card with the Shadow icon face down on your playing field. You can do this as part of the 5-gold setup flop or during the Marshalling phase ignoring the card's out-of-house gold penalty if any; do note that these cards can't be flopped and/or marshalled face up in that they have to be "in Shadow" when they played. Furthermore, these cards when initially played are considered neither "in play" nor "in hand" and are considered to be "in Shadows" instead.
Then it gets fairly tricky after given that this is a mechanic that needs a little practice and getting used to. In order flip the card up and have the card considered to be "in play", you can pay the gold cost indicated. From my understanding, you can only bring only one card from the shadows at the beginning of each phase and this is counted as a player action. If you need to find out more about this mechanic, they have a specific document all to it at http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/agotlcg/support/Shadows.pdf.
One of the upsides playing the shadow cards is that it can't be discarded/killed by normal effects and claim effects. Also, I think that FFG did this to further utilize the treasury/gold tokens mechanic of the game.
Now on to some the cards that caught my eye...
From the Shattered Armies chapter pack:
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Card: Tommen Baratheon (L)
Cost: 1
STR: 1
Icons: P
Traits: Lord. King.
If there is another King character in play, Tommen Baratheon cannot attack, defend, or trigger his character ability. Marshalling: Kneel Tommen Baratheon to draw a card.
*Tommen!!!
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Card: Northern Cavalry Flank (S)
Cost: 4
STR: 5
Icons: M,P
Traits: Army.
No attachments except Siege. Deadly.If an opponent is running an agenda, Northern Cavalry Flank does not kneel to attack.
(War)
*Geez. They really can't get enough of the deadly, don't-kneel-to-attack, friggin' huge armies for Stark. Sigh.
From the City of Secrets chapter pack:
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Card: Tyrion Lannister (L)
Cost: s2
STR: 3
Icons: M,I,P
Traits: Lord.
House Lannister only. Stealth.Response: After a card comes out of Shadows, Tyrion Lannister gets +2 STR and gains your choice of Deadly, Renown, No Attachments, or Immune to Events until the end of the phase.
(Shadow)
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Card: Shadow Politics
Cost: s0
Type: Event
Traits: Small Council.
Response: After Shadow Politics comes out of Shadows, choose a player. That player may initiate an additional I challenge against an opponent of his or her choice as a standard player action this phase.(Shadow)
From the A Time of Trials chapter pack:
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Card: Condemned by the Council
Type: Event
Traits: Small Council.
Response: After you win an I challenge, choose a location controlled by the losing opponent. If that location has the Shadow crest, return it to Shadows. Otherwise, discard it.
*Finally, some location removal for I-heavy decks. A very good thing.
From the Kings of the Sea chapter pack:
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Card: The Price of War
Type: Event
Response: After you win a M challenge in which you control at least 1 attacking War character, choose and discard from play up to 2 non-limited locations controlled by the losing opponent. (Limit 1 per round.)
Well, that's all I have for now. There are a lot of new cards out there and combos waiting to be used and abused. Sadly, access to the cards isn't what it was before. However, I am still hopeful that we could revive this game somewhat...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A question...
We've gotten the new chapter packs.
And yet it is only Richard, so far as I can recall, that has successfully integrated the new cards into his decks.
I personally thought that with the new cards I would find the excitement and drive to build new decks for our beloved game. But alas that was not the case.
With the official demise of UDE's VS system and the lamentations it got from its fan base I couldn't help but wonder at the state of AGOT right now. Especially here in our own little nook.
By last count the only active AGOT players were yours truely, Gil, Richard and Mikko.
Aaron has not really played that much even after getting some cards from the chapter packs. It has been a long time since Icy has played a game and has shifted full time to Bleach.
I myself am guilty of not finding time for AGOT. Like I said in a long gone article AGOT is like a girlfriend with the same enormous demands on a player's time. You cannot casually pick up cards and build decks around it. You cannot expect to win without spending a lot of time testing and tweaking your decks. And with everything going on in my life right now AGOT took the extreme backseat.
I have made my peace with VS. And right now I get the feeling that I should also make my peace with AGOT. What do you guys think?
And yet it is only Richard, so far as I can recall, that has successfully integrated the new cards into his decks.
I personally thought that with the new cards I would find the excitement and drive to build new decks for our beloved game. But alas that was not the case.
With the official demise of UDE's VS system and the lamentations it got from its fan base I couldn't help but wonder at the state of AGOT right now. Especially here in our own little nook.
By last count the only active AGOT players were yours truely, Gil, Richard and Mikko.
Aaron has not really played that much even after getting some cards from the chapter packs. It has been a long time since Icy has played a game and has shifted full time to Bleach.
I myself am guilty of not finding time for AGOT. Like I said in a long gone article AGOT is like a girlfriend with the same enormous demands on a player's time. You cannot casually pick up cards and build decks around it. You cannot expect to win without spending a lot of time testing and tweaking your decks. And with everything going on in my life right now AGOT took the extreme backseat.
I have made my peace with VS. And right now I get the feeling that I should also make my peace with AGOT. What do you guys think?
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Away from the game
Fate has conspired to take away what meager time I had remaining for AGOT.
Since getting the chapter packs I have made a total of zero (0) decks from the new cards.
Saturdays is the only time I can really dedicate to gaming for AGOT. And that hasn't panned out to well lately. The drive to make a new deck gets kiboshed by the fact that I might not probably be able to play it.
As I've said sometime ago in another AGOT forum. AGOT can be a most demanding mistress. It is not for the faint hearted nor for the fool who is half committed.
Building decks and being competitive in AGOT demands an inordinate amount of your time and focus. Its not like most card games where you can throw in cards together and say you've built a deck.
To my cohorts in AGOT my apologies. This is not a goodbye to the game but just a vague expression of my current attitude towards the game.
See you next tourney (whenever that is)
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Now It Comes To War!
On April 23rd the AGOT community celebrated the influx of new cards by holding their first official tournament in months. This is one person's view of that event. Names have been changed to protect the Greyjoys.
To be honest, me? I'm still exhausted. I'm not as young as I used to be, and last night we played til past four am. It was worth it, though: our first tournament, literally, in months. Everyone was excited, and everybody's schedules came together so we had a six-player tournament. It was our first time to play officially in forever, and our first chance to incorporate the new cards from the Chapter Packs. (I know, I had said I was going to write about the chapter packs after my last post on the Core Set. Forgive me.) So we expected a series of matches with both the delight of greeting an old friend, and the anticipation of seeing new tricks and strategies played out.
There were six of us: Gil, Mikko, Aaron, Ron, Peter, and myself. Peter was a surprise addition to the ranks: no-one had anticipated his interest in AGOT to resurface so strongly. And Aaron passed on his Bleach interests in order to join us, so it would be a memorable night, in so many ways.
First off, let me say, that I can only give a limited perspective of the event: I was so caught up in my own games and the new cards that I never even got to look over at the other matches going on. So on to what little I know.
Mikko brought his newly-developed Targaryen Ambush deck, which I had playtested against 2 weeks previously and found very strong. Indeed, it inspired me to rebuild my own Targ deck, no small feat considering. But it's true: Targ got a lot of great cards in the first four chapter packs. Their splendid Ambush characters have a lot to offer. I had also been inspired by Gil's use of certain new Lannister cards, which is one of the joys of playing with people who favor other Houses than your own: both Mikko and Gil had long since identified the standout cards of their Houses and integrated them well. The Targ jumpers, Lannister's Toll Gate, the excellent Pyromancer's Cache, all great new components.
For this tournament, though, Gil brought out his Baratheon deck, the one called The Tank. Iam not sure exactly what all is in it, but knowing Gil I know two things that you can rely on:
1. It's fast.
2. It wins.
However, these beliefs were to be shaken during this tournament, to the surprise of all.
Aaron played Martell, and I know nothing of his deck except that he was looking for Wildlings beforehand. (sorry, man. I looked, but did not find. I have them somewhere, but I didn't bring my Wildling to the night's games.) Peter was running, apparently, a Lannister War-Crest deck, but as these two guyhs were the ones I din't play against, I have little to report on their deck construction, except that at one point I looked over and Aaron had revealed The First Snow Of Winter, and I remember thinking, huh: an XP first? Amazingly for a card that has virtually defined the US environment, First Snow is almost never played over here. Guess we love our weenies.
Ron, in another surprise twist, brought his Martell deck to the tournament. Ron is a devoted squid, of course, and he says he likes to play all his decks like they were Greyjoy decks. Having played against his deck in the past two weeks, I can agree.
Me? Naturally, it was Stark. And I had made some changes to my usual deck. (As you know, I have at least five Stark decks.) I hadn't incorporated that many new cards, but I had a lot of differences. One of the fun parts of getting new cards is finding new combos with old cards, and in this case, I went the extreme route of not only De-Winterizing my deck (in preparation for the eventual Winter rotation, I pulled out all Winter Block cards) but I also tried some 5KE combos that I's always wanted to see in action. Not great stuff, mind you, but hey, it was a new day, why not experiment?
Of course, the most significant loss to my deck was Massing, but there was a lot that left along with it. A lot of my big characters, went too, and it was a wrench to lose them. But it did free up some critical deck space. I was able to go into the tourney carrying a deck that was only about, oh, ten cards overweight. Included among these:
Three Winterfell tutors. I had long felt that these cards, apart from carrying the rare-for-Stark intrigue icon, also synergized well with Stalwart. I also thought they could do well with the new Wolf Heralds, especially in conjunction with Gates Of Winterfell. To further speed through this process, I added:
Three Winterfell Hot Springs. Basically card filters, I thought these locatons would help the Tutors put more cards in my hand. As it turns out, they didn't do so well: Even when I was filtering my deck, it didn't help much. Lesson learned: Draw is better than Filter. Fortunately to make up for the missing Massings I had put in:
Three Watching The Heavens. More resource-intensive than Massing, these cards are still a great bargain. What more need be said?
Bear Island. Just one, it's unique. And it actually never came out in any of these games. Bt I like it, and I don't doubt it'll be a standard, despite its somewhat restrictive absolutely-no-neutrals requirement.
Jaqen H'ghar. Another card that will make the cut, although he isn't as massively game-breaking as the US boards said he once was. His strength doesn't rise above three now because you don't dare put power on him. Still, he's a keeper.
Gates Of Winterfell. I think this card has potential but like the Springs and Heralds, it needs combos to maximize it, and that means more Drae is needed. Wait and see if it ends up staying.
Icy Catapult. By far my favorite addition (I put in three Karhold Master-At-Arms to maximize them) the Catapults were the first cards I picked out of the Chapter Packs. In an environment without Arya's Revenge, you gotta have something, right?
To be fair, the new additions didn't fly as well as I'd hoped, but I'm very glad I tried them. The Winterfell Tutors are solid characters even without using their ability. The Hot Springs, I dunno. Probably they should go. The Heralds can stay, although I feel they aren't AS strong as I once thought. Still, they're good, and the Tutor means that Stark can use them better than most. Jaen stays. Bear Island stays, although it may need help.
It's late now, so I'll leave the rest for another night.
To be honest, me? I'm still exhausted. I'm not as young as I used to be, and last night we played til past four am. It was worth it, though: our first tournament, literally, in months. Everyone was excited, and everybody's schedules came together so we had a six-player tournament. It was our first time to play officially in forever, and our first chance to incorporate the new cards from the Chapter Packs. (I know, I had said I was going to write about the chapter packs after my last post on the Core Set. Forgive me.) So we expected a series of matches with both the delight of greeting an old friend, and the anticipation of seeing new tricks and strategies played out.
There were six of us: Gil, Mikko, Aaron, Ron, Peter, and myself. Peter was a surprise addition to the ranks: no-one had anticipated his interest in AGOT to resurface so strongly. And Aaron passed on his Bleach interests in order to join us, so it would be a memorable night, in so many ways.
First off, let me say, that I can only give a limited perspective of the event: I was so caught up in my own games and the new cards that I never even got to look over at the other matches going on. So on to what little I know.
Mikko brought his newly-developed Targaryen Ambush deck, which I had playtested against 2 weeks previously and found very strong. Indeed, it inspired me to rebuild my own Targ deck, no small feat considering. But it's true: Targ got a lot of great cards in the first four chapter packs. Their splendid Ambush characters have a lot to offer. I had also been inspired by Gil's use of certain new Lannister cards, which is one of the joys of playing with people who favor other Houses than your own: both Mikko and Gil had long since identified the standout cards of their Houses and integrated them well. The Targ jumpers, Lannister's Toll Gate, the excellent Pyromancer's Cache, all great new components.
For this tournament, though, Gil brought out his Baratheon deck, the one called The Tank. Iam not sure exactly what all is in it, but knowing Gil I know two things that you can rely on:
1. It's fast.
2. It wins.
However, these beliefs were to be shaken during this tournament, to the surprise of all.
Aaron played Martell, and I know nothing of his deck except that he was looking for Wildlings beforehand. (sorry, man. I looked, but did not find. I have them somewhere, but I didn't bring my Wildling to the night's games.) Peter was running, apparently, a Lannister War-Crest deck, but as these two guyhs were the ones I din't play against, I have little to report on their deck construction, except that at one point I looked over and Aaron had revealed The First Snow Of Winter, and I remember thinking, huh: an XP first? Amazingly for a card that has virtually defined the US environment, First Snow is almost never played over here. Guess we love our weenies.
Ron, in another surprise twist, brought his Martell deck to the tournament. Ron is a devoted squid, of course, and he says he likes to play all his decks like they were Greyjoy decks. Having played against his deck in the past two weeks, I can agree.
Me? Naturally, it was Stark. And I had made some changes to my usual deck. (As you know, I have at least five Stark decks.) I hadn't incorporated that many new cards, but I had a lot of differences. One of the fun parts of getting new cards is finding new combos with old cards, and in this case, I went the extreme route of not only De-Winterizing my deck (in preparation for the eventual Winter rotation, I pulled out all Winter Block cards) but I also tried some 5KE combos that I's always wanted to see in action. Not great stuff, mind you, but hey, it was a new day, why not experiment?
Of course, the most significant loss to my deck was Massing, but there was a lot that left along with it. A lot of my big characters, went too, and it was a wrench to lose them. But it did free up some critical deck space. I was able to go into the tourney carrying a deck that was only about, oh, ten cards overweight. Included among these:
Three Winterfell tutors. I had long felt that these cards, apart from carrying the rare-for-Stark intrigue icon, also synergized well with Stalwart. I also thought they could do well with the new Wolf Heralds, especially in conjunction with Gates Of Winterfell. To further speed through this process, I added:
Three Winterfell Hot Springs. Basically card filters, I thought these locatons would help the Tutors put more cards in my hand. As it turns out, they didn't do so well: Even when I was filtering my deck, it didn't help much. Lesson learned: Draw is better than Filter. Fortunately to make up for the missing Massings I had put in:
Three Watching The Heavens. More resource-intensive than Massing, these cards are still a great bargain. What more need be said?
Bear Island. Just one, it's unique. And it actually never came out in any of these games. Bt I like it, and I don't doubt it'll be a standard, despite its somewhat restrictive absolutely-no-neutrals requirement.
Jaqen H'ghar. Another card that will make the cut, although he isn't as massively game-breaking as the US boards said he once was. His strength doesn't rise above three now because you don't dare put power on him. Still, he's a keeper.
Gates Of Winterfell. I think this card has potential but like the Springs and Heralds, it needs combos to maximize it, and that means more Drae is needed. Wait and see if it ends up staying.
Icy Catapult. By far my favorite addition (I put in three Karhold Master-At-Arms to maximize them) the Catapults were the first cards I picked out of the Chapter Packs. In an environment without Arya's Revenge, you gotta have something, right?
To be fair, the new additions didn't fly as well as I'd hoped, but I'm very glad I tried them. The Winterfell Tutors are solid characters even without using their ability. The Hot Springs, I dunno. Probably they should go. The Heralds can stay, although I feel they aren't AS strong as I once thought. Still, they're good, and the Tutor means that Stark can use them better than most. Jaen stays. Bear Island stays, although it may need help.
It's late now, so I'll leave the rest for another night.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Waiting...
One of the hardest things to do in this world.
When you wait you get into all sorts of emotions/feelings/state of mind:
1. anxiety
2. fear
3. wonder
4. impatience
5. worry
6. unease
7. hope
Soon. Someday soon we shall get those chapter packs. And with the new cards hopefully some new life into the local AGOT community.
Waiting kills the energy and the eagerness. And with the same cards to build with for almost the past 8 plus months, energy and eagerness gets killed some more, at least for myself.
I get bored easily. And not having new cards feeds into that. I have always liked CCGs because when the random bug bites me I can just go to a store, purchase a pack and be surprised. Chapter packs have already removed that part of surprise/wonder for AGOT.
In theory the game should be more stable with this move. It should help make the game cheaper. At least I'll be getting new cards.
Until they arrive I wait with bated breath. And hope that a game I truly enjoy playing is not going the way of the Starks. And that Winter for AGOT is not coming.
When you wait you get into all sorts of emotions/feelings/state of mind:
1. anxiety
2. fear
3. wonder
4. impatience
5. worry
6. unease
7. hope
Soon. Someday soon we shall get those chapter packs. And with the new cards hopefully some new life into the local AGOT community.
Waiting kills the energy and the eagerness. And with the same cards to build with for almost the past 8 plus months, energy and eagerness gets killed some more, at least for myself.
I get bored easily. And not having new cards feeds into that. I have always liked CCGs because when the random bug bites me I can just go to a store, purchase a pack and be surprised. Chapter packs have already removed that part of surprise/wonder for AGOT.
In theory the game should be more stable with this move. It should help make the game cheaper. At least I'll be getting new cards.
Until they arrive I wait with bated breath. And hope that a game I truly enjoy playing is not going the way of the Starks. And that Winter for AGOT is not coming.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Quick takes
The agot chapter packs orders are in the US already. A couple more weeks and we will be swimming in new cards.
Hopefully some newbies decide to join.
-o0o-
I actually didn't have time to come up with my promised Targ deck so I just gave my semi-new Martell deck more burn.
I kinda enjoy playing that particular deck. It has no draw engine to speak off but I like the tricks it has. I also like the fact that I can pretty much do a board wipe with "Kings and Queens" + "Injurious Poison"
And as the guys pointed out it still feels like semi-Greyjoy.
-o0o-
No tourney. We were only four. And due to scheduling conflicts (late Bleach start) we settled for just a couple of practice games.
It was fun and it gave me a chance to stretch out my long unused AGOT muscles.
Martell again is quite fun when you have the tricks in hand.
-o0o-
Till next time.
Monday, May 26, 2008
A round of applause
Finally light at the end of the tunnel or in this case possibly new cards in the next few weeks.
Thanks Ser Gil for facilitating the chapter packs procurement.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Ordering Chapter Boxes and Packs
Greetings, sers.
We can move forward with purchasing chapter packs! Whoot! It will cost a little bit more as compared to the previous transaction that I tried to do but it has a better guarantee. As such, the cost per chapter box (containing 6 chapter packs) would be PHP2,500.00.
Given this, I would like to verify everyone's orders are still the same:
Rich and Meeks: 1x W5K chapter box
Rich and Meeks: 1x Ancient Enemies chapter box
Ron: 1x W5K chapter box
Ron: 1x Ancient Enemies chapter box
Gil and Aaron: 1x W5K chapter box
Gil and Aaron: 1x Ancient Enemies chapter box
If you guys can bring the money tomorrow (Saturday, May 23), that would be great. Or you can pass by the shop next week on Thursday to give the money to Edge. He will be making his order for Bleach within that week and if we want to hitch a ride with that, we need to order and make payment now.
Do note that the Sacred Bonds and Epic Battles chapter boxes are already out. If you would like to add those to the order, let me know.
Thanks.
GIL
We can move forward with purchasing chapter packs! Whoot! It will cost a little bit more as compared to the previous transaction that I tried to do but it has a better guarantee. As such, the cost per chapter box (containing 6 chapter packs) would be PHP2,500.00.
Given this, I would like to verify everyone's orders are still the same:
Rich and Meeks: 1x W5K chapter box
Rich and Meeks: 1x Ancient Enemies chapter box
Ron: 1x W5K chapter box
Ron: 1x Ancient Enemies chapter box
Gil and Aaron: 1x W5K chapter box
Gil and Aaron: 1x Ancient Enemies chapter box
If you guys can bring the money tomorrow (Saturday, May 23), that would be great. Or you can pass by the shop next week on Thursday to give the money to Edge. He will be making his order for Bleach within that week and if we want to hitch a ride with that, we need to order and make payment now.
Do note that the Sacred Bonds and Epic Battles chapter boxes are already out. If you would like to add those to the order, let me know.
Thanks.
GIL
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Chapter Packs and Then Some...
Greetings, sers...
Yes, it was a supreme disappointment when I found out (after making payment, of course) that the online store I was purchasing cards from wouldn't accept my PayPal payment given that my billing address, as it is here in the Philippines, could not be verified. Now how annoying is that? They want a US billing address. Sadly, I don't have one and I don't think that anyone in our small but solid community has one either.
And to make things worse, my card was charged after I submitted my paypment through PayPal. Fortunately though the charges were reversed after a week of them (the online store) refunding the payment. Well, that was a hassle to say the very least. And we weren't able to get our cards!
Be that as it may ("nevertheless" in a geek's language), we have another option that we can use as mentioned by Edge last weekend. Since Edge orders Bleach from a friend in the US, we can hitch a ride so to speak and order AGOT stock. It'll be a little more costly though but nothing that would turn a man into the decay of Philippine society. Hehehe. I guess we (or I at the very least) can discuss this with Edge over this weekend. And I will post the verdict here. On the bright side if one would care to look in that direction, we can order all three new chapter packs instead of just the first two.^^
Well, enough of that for the meantime. I'd like to sidestep into another topic. What happened over the weekend, that is. Unfortunately, Ron called in sick. But we still managed to get a few games in with Matt, myself, Meeks and Rich. I know that Rich wanted to write a bit about Matt's Bara deck but I'll steal a little of his thunder.^^ I did promise that I would tweak the deck and tweak the deck I did. I just took out something like 12 cards from the initial 73-card deck given problems with the flop and the draw. And here I thought I was the only one making decks with card counts above 70! Suffice to say, the deck became more brutal. Faster and more brutal. And to a certain degree, I regret tweaking the deck as it has become more consistent (especially winning or at least getting to that point). All that aside though, I'm happy that I was able to help make a deck, particularly a Baratheon one, more efficient. I'm actually thinking of copying it and adding a few more tweaks.^^
And on that note, Meeks ended up playing that Bara deck in our multiplayer game. Suffice to say, he loves the house. Ah, who wouldn't love power rushing and ending the game quick with all that renown. You just need to make sure that you remember that Melisandre's ability can be triggered even if the character with renown claiming power isn't your own. Tsk, tsk. Such is the way of Martell players. :op
Anyways, I think I've done a little bit of my writing. It's early morning and I think I need to hit the sack. Or download porn. Or sleep. Either way, both ideas are good. Or I can do both! Duh. Hehehe.
Until then, let's keep the fires burning bright at The Wall even if Winter is Coming. Daybreak (what a crummy card though) will eventually come to those who can wait...
Yes, it was a supreme disappointment when I found out (after making payment, of course) that the online store I was purchasing cards from wouldn't accept my PayPal payment given that my billing address, as it is here in the Philippines, could not be verified. Now how annoying is that? They want a US billing address. Sadly, I don't have one and I don't think that anyone in our small but solid community has one either.
And to make things worse, my card was charged after I submitted my paypment through PayPal. Fortunately though the charges were reversed after a week of them (the online store) refunding the payment. Well, that was a hassle to say the very least. And we weren't able to get our cards!
Be that as it may ("nevertheless" in a geek's language), we have another option that we can use as mentioned by Edge last weekend. Since Edge orders Bleach from a friend in the US, we can hitch a ride so to speak and order AGOT stock. It'll be a little more costly though but nothing that would turn a man into the decay of Philippine society. Hehehe. I guess we (or I at the very least) can discuss this with Edge over this weekend. And I will post the verdict here. On the bright side if one would care to look in that direction, we can order all three new chapter packs instead of just the first two.^^
Well, enough of that for the meantime. I'd like to sidestep into another topic. What happened over the weekend, that is. Unfortunately, Ron called in sick. But we still managed to get a few games in with Matt, myself, Meeks and Rich. I know that Rich wanted to write a bit about Matt's Bara deck but I'll steal a little of his thunder.^^ I did promise that I would tweak the deck and tweak the deck I did. I just took out something like 12 cards from the initial 73-card deck given problems with the flop and the draw. And here I thought I was the only one making decks with card counts above 70! Suffice to say, the deck became more brutal. Faster and more brutal. And to a certain degree, I regret tweaking the deck as it has become more consistent (especially winning or at least getting to that point). All that aside though, I'm happy that I was able to help make a deck, particularly a Baratheon one, more efficient. I'm actually thinking of copying it and adding a few more tweaks.^^
And on that note, Meeks ended up playing that Bara deck in our multiplayer game. Suffice to say, he loves the house. Ah, who wouldn't love power rushing and ending the game quick with all that renown. You just need to make sure that you remember that Melisandre's ability can be triggered even if the character with renown claiming power isn't your own. Tsk, tsk. Such is the way of Martell players. :op
Anyways, I think I've done a little bit of my writing. It's early morning and I think I need to hit the sack. Or download porn. Or sleep. Either way, both ideas are good. Or I can do both! Duh. Hehehe.
Until then, let's keep the fires burning bright at The Wall even if Winter is Coming. Daybreak (what a crummy card though) will eventually come to those who can wait...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wow! I wish we had chapter packs right now!
From the "Sacred Bonds" chapter pack:
* Jaqen H'ghar (S/L/B/G/T/M) Cost 5 STR 3 M,I,P Ally. Stalwart. Infamy. Vigilant.
Intimidate. Ambush. Vengeful.
Jaqen H'ghar gets +1 STR for each power on him.(Learned)
wow!
can a character have more keywords in him.
wow!
and while we are at it some Greyjoy lovin:
Herald of the Sea Cost 2 STR 2 P Herald. Response: After you play Herald of the Sea from your hand, search your deck for a character, reveal it, and shuffle your deck. Then, put the revealed card on top of your deck.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Build it and they will come
Ah our recent plans to procure Chapter packs went down the drain.
Hopefully there will be alternatives.
No new cards is death to any card game (except poker, and even then you break open a new pack every so often).
Hopefully we get new cards soon.
-o0o-
In other thoughts, I think that the blog is still the best solution to the "lack of forum" problem. The community isn't big enough to support a full forum.
hopefully the adage "build it and they will come" will prove true in the long run.
Winter is coming.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Quick Update
Finally we had an AGOT tournament again last night after a long long while of not having any.
My "spit and bailing wire" Martell deck went second in the six-man tourney.
It fought Mikko's Martel to a 10 all tie. It barely fought a Baratheon deck in the second game as Matt felt sick. And it lost resoundingly to Aaron's finely tuned Martel. Ending the night with a Draw-Win-Loss record. Not bad I guess.
More later. Pictures later.
My "spit and bailing wire" Martell deck went second in the six-man tourney.
It fought Mikko's Martel to a 10 all tie. It barely fought a Baratheon deck in the second game as Matt felt sick. And it lost resoundingly to Aaron's finely tuned Martel. Ending the night with a Draw-Win-Loss record. Not bad I guess.
More later. Pictures later.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Chapter Packs!
Yes! Finally the long awaited text message has arrived!
Ser Gil has placed the order out for our chapter packs!
Finally in a few weeks we will have new cards to play with and a new environment too!
So what's life like after your TCg becomes "not a TCG" anymore?
We don't know yet but in a few short weeks we will find out. Along with the answer to the question "With everyone having the same cards which decks get built?
I can't wait!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
In the beginning...
There was an AGOT forum somewhere...but then it crashed.
We moved to skillze and that crashed too.
So to provide a voice for the small AGOT community in our country I have set up this team blog.
As they say...build it and they will come.
Welcome all and enjoy our own little niche that is the AGOT card game.
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