So there was like a half dozen pre-release across the world yesterday.
Who went?
Who got Stuff?
What Stuff did you get?
What do you think?
Are you excited?
"Did it give you Wood? You know, like Teak or Mahogany?" <James Woods in John Carpenter's Vampires>
Oh boy a Pink Floyd reference:)
Couple cards I really liked.
Rashotep 2
6/27
death earth void
e commit: chose a card in your opponents staging area. That card is considered to have a blank text box until end of turn.
This guy effectivly nerfs one card strats. Looking at you defender and chun-li. Play a poke, use his e turn off chun-li, precede to play your turn.
And another of his
Valued but not trusted 2/4 no block (alot of foundations like this) UR
e destroy this foundation: name a card. abilities printed on the named card may not be played during this attack's enhance phase.
And a 3rd this one from siegfried.
Torn hero 1/5 no block (told ya) uc
Static if this foundation is commited due to your opponent's card effect, chose 2 cards in your oppponents staging area and commit them.
r discard a momentum: when your opponent plays an abilty that commits a card they commit this card instead.
Oh hey there order decks.
Soul Calibur (dot) 4/5 asset
earth/good/life
seigfried only, unique
R commit: after your opponent plays an ability that commits 1 card in your staging area, choose 1 foundation in your opponent's staging area and turn it face down. that card is considered to be a foundation with a blank text box.
UR
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Knight Breaker 5/3 attack
3H5 +0H
death/evil/fire
weapon, combo (mid attack, high attack)
{death} E: if this attack deals damage, destroy 1 of your opponent's committed foundations.
combo E: this attack gets +X damage. X equals the printed damage of the immediately preceding attack in your card pool.
UR
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Pillage 3/5 action
air/fire/good
first E: your weapon attack gets +X damage.
R
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Siren's Call 6/2 attack
4H8 +2H
fire/good/order
weapon
E this attack gets -X damage: commit a card in your opponent's staging area with a difficulty of X or less. you may not increase the damage of this attack.
R
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seigfried's earth divide (only briefly saw it so very vague)
6/{3?} {4?}{H?}13
only playable if there are 2 other attacks in card pool
other effect dont remember at all
I was able to run a Pre-release last. It was a great time. Everyone in Calgary is really looking forward on the two sets. The art work is amazing.
One of the cards I thought was good against control Hacks was
Willful
2d 5cc Wind, Chaos, Fire. 2 H block This is a common
R: Before you a fail a control Check that was modifird by your opponent, that card is succesful instead. Discard this card for your card pool and draw 1 card.
E: If this attack deals damage, your next attack gets +3 speed.
I also like a lot of the cards that came out of the Nightmare support.
Intimidatining Presence
2d 5c no block Death, Fire, Evil. This is a common also.
E Destroy a foundation: If your attack deals damage, your opponent must destroy 1 of their foundations or assets.
I will release more cards while I have time at work.
Also how many pre-release kits did you guys all get. Our two venues where only able to get one at each. Which is going to be really bad for our players going to Path of the master event.
*drools* Tell me more...
I am also extremely curious as to the contents of the starters, seeing as how they're 100% fixed now and not semi-random. Can anyome post a starter decklist?
Pweeeeeze?
edit: Pillage. What's X? I sincerely hope you simply forgot and it's not an undefined X you can make out to be OVER 9000 if you want it to...
Haven't had my release yet but I have seen a lot of cards from this set and they are sexy 
Zhao Daiyu's UR attack is sick...
Twilight Embrace
6Diff
3 Check
4H7
Chaos/Death/Evil
Zhao Daiyu Only/ Combo(Mid Attack, Low Attack)
Combo E: Remove 2 cards in your opponent's Staging area from the game.
E: if this attack deals damage remove 2 cards in your opponent's staging area from the game.
This set looks awsome, I've already got very fun builds for Good Hilde and All Ivy. I got a ton of stuff, though couldnt manage to pull the one super I really wanted. Im really looking forward to also building Death Padma, Fire Astrid and maybe life Tira
heres the stuff I pulled
Characters
What Super did you really want and what does it do?
Controller of Souls (Algol Super Foundation)
2/5
R, Commit: After your opponent plays an ability on an asset in their staging area, cancle that ability
E Commit, discard 1 card: Draw 1 card
Some other guys pulled it, yet out of 3 and a half boxs of SC4 I didnt pull a single one. LAME!
Dang thats pretty sexy XD
EDIT: Wait...that means Void has owl hate...YES! SR though =(
It looks like evil death and void actually have kills again for once. Yay
*glances at Padma* ...Well, I know who I'm building next. We might have our first, viable, Burn Deck character.
Seems like they did to Padma what they did to M. Bison's Psycho Crusher EXTRA and Rera Kishi Matek, was it?
Psycho Crusher EXTRA has Death, Evil, Order. Bison has Death, Evil, Order. The ability on Psycho Crusher EXTRA that Bison wishes he could use? An ALL Ability...
Rera Kishi Matek is a throw that if not blocked, gives the next Life or Order attack more speed. Neither Rera Kishi Matek nor any Nakoruru have Order (Rera doesn't count).
Now Padma has Chaos, Death, Water... yet if you build an all-water build with her you can't use her form. Woot.
Just be creative, you'll find a way.
No, I'll probably just ignore the form and abuse the R. Maybe add Hualin's shop or something, but due to the nature of the form, you wouldn't NEED many copies in deck, or even to depend on it.
Imagine a deck with nothing but 2 and 3 damage pokes... the opponent will have to full block or not block at all. If they half block a 2 or 3 damage attack, they take more damage than they would've if they didn't block.
But her being Chaos/Death/Water and Ivy apparently being All/Life/Void will probably not help in that aspect, but there should be plenty of 2 and 3 damage pokes out there.
dshaffer said:
*glances at Padma* ...Well, I know who I'm building next. We might have our first, viable, Burn Deck character.
Don't discount Zhao Daiyu.
Sol Badguy said:
Dang thats pretty sexy XD
EDIT: Wait...that means Void has owl hate...YES! SR though =(
The thing I love is that All has had 2 answers to Olc now... both have been super rares. Its going to be really hard to get these but somehow I must.
The thing I was really happy with was the number of characters (though its odd I pulled 4 Temujin out of 2 boxs but only 1 Zhao
PS all the stuff I had shown above is available for trade in my trade list.
Forgot that All didn't have one yet either....SR though =(
I just finished looking through the 2 sets and I can say that I am very impressed with the sets
Ragnar's Attacks are awesome
Zhao Daiyu is very interesting
Astaroth intrigues me alot
Cervantes is a bit wierd but he can work
And there is one attack that is 1 letter away from being changed due to its name..
You saw the entire sets? where O_O
Nemesis said:
....I thought you said you were looking through the sets....there are still about 200 cards or a bit less that Dragon didn't post. he only posted Rares and UR.
my bad i thought he posted the full sets..
Nemesis said:
my bad i thought he posted the full sets..
Nope sorry, only did the shiny things for reference when people are looking at my trade list. Theres alot of commons and uncommons left, far too many to scan
(though I suppose if someone wanted to trade me a neo raging storm... I could be convinced to scan the rest 
)
Basically heres the ideas
Ivy's cards deal with making stuff not count towards progressive, all her attacks are 3 diff 3 checks (her UR has 7 damage)
Ragnar's attacks have blank text boxs and rely on the stats. His foundations do damage bumps
Nightmare pops your opponent's stuff if you have less stuff, then gets damage pumps equal to the number destroyed
Siegfried gives everyone symbols, blanks out your opponent's foundations for a turn, and even permenently turns them upsidedown as blank foundations (he doesnt like cards with evil on them)
Astrid has TONS of weapons... including weapon foundations. She specializes in looking at stuff, checking if its a weapon, and if so adding it to her hand. She is very, very nifty
Hilde is a BEAST! most of her stuff either negs damage/speed or shoots it back up. (just look at her + dual-wielding + any attack with large damage)
now i don't know what to build next... spinning Nightmare or Bloody Astrid...
