Hi everyone,

the Summons of the Deep series is now complete with release of The Path of Y'ha-nthlei.

Dreamlans is just announced and features 3 APs so far.

Is Dreamlands complete with the 3 APs?

And after that?

Well, as much as I like the game, I hope the pace for producing new APs (just for the sake of producing them?) will slow down a little bit.

So many cards will be available when Dreamlands will be completely released (including the good old black border cards) that - for me - this will last for quite a while.

Do you know, what future release plans and quantities (regarding number of APs for further sets) will be?

And: in your opinion: is the level of quality or usefulness of the cards steady throughout all APs or is it getting worse the more APs are published?

I can't judge the playability of the cards too well as I am a too unexperienced/unfrequent player of the gamer and also I'm starting to sort my ever growing collection of old an new release cards.

Cheers,

Chris

I imagine Dreamlands will be a full six asylum packs, no reason to believe otherwise.

chastur76 said:

My understanding with the LCG format is that a new AP will be released every month. Thats a total of 240 new cards over the course of a year (not including a Core Set, which I don't know if they'll be doing yearly or not)

IMO, The whole idea behind the LCG was to have a constantly changing game on a monthly basis, hence the "living".

IMO, cards have been of relative equal quality throughout the AP releases. There have definitly been some individual cards that have stood out for me and decks I've made, but I can't say I've felt any particular AP on a whole was better or worse than another.

In regards of playability, I will say I've come across cards that I've been pretty certain I'll never use. However, I don't find that to be different from any CCG I've ever played.

Wow, each month a new AP is pretty hefty imo. Even though the cards are fixed now you still have to lay down 360 dollars per year to get three of all the rares in the asylum packs. Maybe even more when the minimum card requirement per deck will go up to sixty and 4 identical cards are allowed.

I was under the intention that this format could save me some money and everybody had even chances because we all possesed the same cards and all came down to deck building skills and making the right choices. With an AP released every month I dont see everyone buying three of them so there will still be people who just have the better cards or at least more of them.

Every two or three months a new AP should be perfect to me.

Well I look at it like this. If I've got a good meta game environment I don't need three packs to get all the cards I want. I can take the ones I want and hopefully trade away the others to people who want them for more of the ones I want.

Even so, $360 a year for a complete set (three copies of every card released that year) is a bargain in comparison doing the same thing for Magic: the Gathering for example.

And I haven't heard or read anything about deck sizes increasing to 60 cards or FFG increasing the card limit up to 4 per copy in a deck. Where are you getting that information?

That doesn't so much sound like a format change rumor, but rather a preference for local tourneys. In my store, we still go three-card limit (more balanced for us casual players and veterans alike, and more variety that way!), but we say decks have to be 60 or above, not 50, so that specific end-game combos don't come up quite as quickly. And with some of us metagame fanatics, that is a genuine worry.

So my preference is 50 or 60, 3 ea., and while some M:tG vets might think 4x is great, it's more boring and costs more money to accomplish, so I don't think FF will do that for standard tourney guidelines. Besides, then they'd have to change their core rulebook, and when is that likely to occur???

~J~

Sorry for the confusion, some bad wording there. I ment to write that maybe in the future deck card limit could be increased and with it maybe also the 3 identical card limit.

Where i get this information from?

It's mentioned in the rulebook (Deck buidling rules) that the minimum of required cards could increase when more new cards come available.

I don't think they'll do that. They already annoyed people when they changed it from 4 to 3, and a lot of people will have sold off their 4th copies. Imagine the uproar if they find out they could have used them again.

Everyone I've played the LCG with has been limiting themselves to a maximum of 3 of each AP.

If FFG switched to 4 of each card that would force folks to go through alot of trouble to find and

purchase many old APs to stay competetive. Going from CCG to LCG caused enough havoc.

The game is enjoying a recovery, let's not do anything unnecessary to wreck it.

Darkman said:

They talk about tne size of a deck. The minimum is now 50 cards, but it could be 55, 60 etc...