A UR every 3 packs..is that normal?

HolyDragonCloud said:

Yes the ratio is 1 to 3 now I just hope I can get 4 knight breakers this weekend lol .

Okay, we did the ShadoWar Pre-Release and I was quite happy to see some of the cards and premade decks that are aggresive and play well with each other...

Characters

Padma. 7/18 Chaos/Death/Water
Starter Box Topper Character
R: After you deal 3 or less damage to your opponent, your opponent loses 2 vitality.
F: Take a Foundation from your staging area and add it to your card pool face down. Play that card as a 3 difficulty, 3 speed mid, 3 damage attack with Chaos, Death and Void. Only playable once per turn.

Zhao Daiyu.. 6/25 Chaos/Death/Evil
Pack Character
E Commit: If you block this attack, your opponent loses X vitality. X equals the block modifier of your block
R: After your opponent removes any number of cards from the game, they lose 2 Vitality.

Ragnar.. 6/30 Death/Earth/Fire
Starter Character
E lose 2 vitality, commit 1 foundation: Your attack gets +3 Damage.
Desperation First F Commit, Discard 1 Momentum : For the rest of this turn, your attacks get +2 Damage for every other attack preceeding them in the card pool. Lose 2 Vitality after each attack resolves.

I'd put up Lu Chen.. But he's a wall of text. I'll throw down 2 attacks 2 actions and 2 foundations...

Attacks

Odin's Wrath 8/3 4H10 All/Fire/Order +2M Astrid Desperation:6, Weapon
Ultra Rare

Fierce Twin Slash 6/3 4M5 All/Fire/Order Multiple:1, Weapon
E: This attack gets +4 Damage. Only playable if you have at least 2 weapon assets in your staging area.
Rare

Actions

Berserker Rage: 3/4 Death/Earth/Fire
E Lose 3 Vitality: Your attack gets +5 Damage.
Starter Rare Ragnar

Willful 2/5 Air/Chaos/Fire +2H
R: Before you fail a control check that was modified by your opponent, that check is succesful instead. Discard this card from your card pool and draw 1 card.
E: If this attack deals damage, your next attack gets +3 Speed.
Common

Foundations

Stand Off 2/5 Air/Earth/Fire +3M
E Commit 2 Foundations: This attack gets -4 Damage. Your opponent may commit 2 foundations to cancel this effect.
E Commit 2 Foundations: This attack gets +4 Damage. Your opponent may commit 2 foundations to cancel this effect.
Pre-Release Card

ShadoWar 3/5 Evil/Fire/Good +3H
E Commit: This attack gets -2 Damage. If it deals damage, your next control check this turn gets +2.
E: Your ShadoWar attack gets +1 Speed and +1 Damage.
Booster Box Topper

I like the look and feel of ShadoWar I think there's some really good gems hidden and we've yet to crack the surface. And SCIV is our next one.. I can't wait to see what opens there.

I just want to note - Lu Chen is DISGUSTING against mutli-symbol decks, if he can push a reversal through. "Oh, you're a Order deck running Battle Prowess for fun and profit? And you're about to Mega Spike loop me? Well, I'll smack you with Stardust Drop, and you can add those Battle Prowess-es to your card pool . Thanks and have a nice day." And his R is nasty as well, full-block and have a momentum/foundation to spare? Randomly choose a card in your opponent's hand and add it to their pool. Plus, when your opponent sits down they'll just see WALL OF TEXT and figure it's not important. :DDD

ROLGAR SMASH! Or whatever the fawk he's called.

*Ragnar is going to be sick, but more then that, all of his cards are pretty much some form of damage pump or cool destruction ability. He's crazy awesome. Especially since like half of it is Vitality loss for damage? Crazy suicide aggro is going to be hot with this set off of Death/Fire/Earth

You have no idea how much I want his set now, D**N YOU GUYS who already got it, lol.

I am so glad that this set is living up to its expectation that was lingeing for the longest time.

Also what rarity is this

Eltanin Nath Attack 4 Diff, 2 Ctrl +0M Block 4SpdMid 6 Damage All,Chaos, Void Ranged
If you discard this card due to your opponent's card effect, your opponent looses X vitality. X equals your opponent's printed hand size.

i am going to build the new astaroth off of evil

Sorry if I missed it, but were the starter deck rares spoiled? Not the characters, but other starter deck rares - that is of course if we have them this time around?

EDIT: Disregard that, I seem towards the end cheers

EDIT2: Actually, some starter decks are not spoiled! ;o Anyone know Astrid n stuff? <3

BFD's post has all of the characters and a lot of other stuff.

However...I AM curious as to what the other Astrid SE is. Her SE asset is there, just not her other card.

RAGNAR
MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK.

aryanufsnoob said:

Common.

Cracked my box of shadowar - 7 UR's +1 in the 3 packs that I opened for the pre-release tourney.

There was another hotpack popped in my presence, it too had 1 super, and the rest rares.

Must say... they certainly fixed the foiling on this set.

Archimedes said:

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME MAKING ....

Ahh Clerks...I miss Kevin "Not Jersey Girl" Smith.

Seriously.

The sheer amount of aggro Ragnar is going to put on the table is going to absolutely blind side some of the slower or more fragile decks out there.

It helps that turn 1 Chaos Flare can put him into desperation mode turn 2 if you drop dancing battle kabuki's action side behind it and some spam foundations.

I also like the design of his attacks. Efficient and powerful. Not a lot of style but you can't strut if you don't have any legs (they are Ragnar's now)

All i want to say is

KNEEL BEFORE ME!

diff-5 control-4 Death, Earth, Void UR

F: Name a Foundation. All copies of the foundation have blank text boxes until the end of turn.

Is that... in caps?

If so, I want.

Deck dont matter said:

Yes its all in caps on the card.

and unlike Rejection, which should have a exclamation point at the end, this one and the other properly have it.

No talk yet about how Siegfried will usually be giving +3 or +4 damage to all of his attacks? At the cost of a mere 2 vitality on an attack turn and occasionally committing a foundation when you do check a 3 on the ability? That seems pretty good...

MegaGeese said:

Relentless
diff: 2
CC: 4
Foundation
All/Fire/Order
weapon

R Commit: after you play a weapon card, draw 2 cards. Only playable if you have at least 2 weapon cards in your card pool.

as for her asset

Reaver's Axe
diff: 2
CC: 4
BZ: +2 High
Asset
All/Fire/Order
Unique * Weapon

E: your weapon attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage

E Destroy this asset: your ranged attack gets +2 speed and +1 damage

Could somebody start posting some commons and uncommons? Because while I think most of us are set on what starter they're going to use for pre, with only SE spoiled right now, it makes Cervantes, Yi Shan, Zi Mei, and Astrid look like absolute wimps, when something tells me they're better than that.

Deck dont matter said:

I....need this card!!!!

I wrote about some commons and stuff in my post

hmm, I think Earth might have to be in the conversation now when talking about the best symbol in the game.... Rashotep's blanking, Siegfried's anti-commit and foundation flipping, Ragnar's efficient attacks, plus anything good that may come out of Yi-Shan or Astaroth's support. It was already on the fringe of being top-tier, and just got a really big boost on top of that.