WoW, Magic y Vtes Vs WoW Raid Decks

Nose si conocéis los raid decks del WoW... He hablado varias veces de ellos en mi blog. Son mazos tuneados que juega un jugador y 3 o mas jugadores se enfrentan a él con pocas opciones de éxito, lo que lo hace un desafío. En un juego de cartas del palo 1vs1, tener este tipo de alternativas es algo refrescante.

El caso es que la moda de jugar al WoW TCG en mi grupo de amigos ha pasado y otros hobbies están comiéndole terreno, con lo que no puedo jugar los mazos raid que tanto me gustan. Me he puesto a pensar en lo mucho que se parecen magic y wow y la idea llegó sola. Jugar los mazos raid contra mazos del wow o magic.
Así podría llevar los raid deck al pueblo (allí solo juegan magic) y que Onyxia desayune planeswalkers.

He estado pensado en reglas opcionales para aunar los dos sistemas y a la conclusión que he llegado es que según cada cual juegue magic o wow se le aplicarán las reglas de sus respectivos juegos. Por lo que la dificultad de mezclarlos en mínima.
Las vidas de los jugadores serán 30 en el caso de que juegue magic y las que tenga el héroe si es de wow. En el caso de magic si el daño no es letal se curaría, en wow se acumula.

Se podría meter también en esta loca mezcla Vampiro? Lo veo complicado, por el sistema de combate y sigilo/intercept. Una solucion sería jugar sin modificadores ni reacciones. O que el máximo de sigilo/intercept que pueda conseguir un minion sea 1, que sería el equivalente de vuelo en magic.

La próxima vez que vaya pienso probarlo, ya os contaré.

Leyenda:

WoW-------------Magic----------------VTES

Heroe-----------Planeswalker---------Pool?
Ally------------Creature-------------Vampiros/Aliados?
Ability---------Sorcery--------------Acciones/Combate?
Instant Ability-Instant--------------Modificadores/Reacciones?
Ongoing---------Enchantment----------Masters y Retainers?
Equipos---------Equipos--------------Equipos
Curar Heroe-----Ganar Vidas----------Ganar pool
Atacar----------Atacar---------------Bleed
Recursos--------Mana (al darse la vuelta dan incoloro)----Zona no controlada¿?¿?

New WoW TCG Set: Wrathgate

You can find the source at http://www.cryptozoic.com/press.php

Cryptozoic Entertainment Announces Release Date for Wrathgate!

Cryptozoic supports hobby stores with exclusive promo card!

Irvine, CA - (April 12, 2010) – Cryptozoic Entertainment, home of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game (TCG), is pleased to announce the worldwide release of the Wrathgate expansion on May 25, 2010. Wrathgate is the second of three sets in the Wrath of the Lich King block.

The 11th set in the World of Warcraft TCG, Wrathgate features 220 new cards straight from Northrend and the new Argent Crusade faction. Yes, players can recruit figures from Warcraft lore like Highlord Tirion Fordring for the battle against the Scourge. Also, players can use new Wrathgate crafting materials to forge brand new gear for their TCG heroes.

Each booster pack contains 19 game cards. As with previous sets, players have a chance to open one of three new Loot cards randomly inserted into Wrathgate booster packs. The codes on the Loot cards are redeemed for cosmetic upgrades to World of Warcraft® MMORPG characters. The loot cards in Wrathgate are Landro’s Gift, Statue Generator, and Blazing Hippogryph. The latter is another TCG exclusive mount—a flying hippogryph to set the skies on fire.

Additionally, hobby stores that order from an authorized Cryptozoic distributor can take part in the Buy-A-Box program. Players who purchase a Wrathgate booster box from participating hobby stores will receive an exclusive extended art Torch of Holy Fire just for supporting their local hobby store. Supplies are limited, so reserve yours today!

WoW TCG has developer: Cryptozoic

Copied from their blog site "cryptozoic.com":

This is the place where we will give you a glimpse behind the scenes of what goes on at Cryptozoic. We’ll cover everything from the latest happenings in R&D and Organized Play to fun stuff like contests, interviews with staff and players, and even features on some of the best hobby shops to play the World of Warcraft TCG at.

Now I’m sure you’re thinking, “well that’s all well and good, but we want information now! What’s taking so long?” So that’s what we’ll focus on today. Simply put, these things take time. There’s a lot to do to support a TCG and we do ask that you have a little patience and we promise you that when everything is said and done, we think you’re going to be pleased with the results.

So to keep you all in the loop, here’s a short list of some of our priorities over the next 60 days:

Finalize locations for the Continental Championships in North America and Europe. (That’s right! The EU is getting a Continental Championship!)
Get Battleground kits back on track in April. We are going to be putting a lot of focus on supporting hobby shops and this is just the first step!
Launch a brand spanking new web site for the World of Warcraft TCG.
Start to rebuild our support in Europe, China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Australia. We know you guys are hurting. All we ask is that you give us some time.
Launch a new volunteer program to help promote and support the TCG.
Launch the Wrathgate Booster expansion. (Class decks will follow shortly after)
Finalize the design of a super top-secret new product.
Get a little sleep sometime in between all this.
Schedule Darkmoon Faires around the world.
Update this blog at least 3 times per week.
This list is certainly not all-inclusive but we wanted to give you a taste of what we have on our plate. There are literally hundreds of items on our “to do” list. Obviously we will be busy and we are sure many of you love this game just as much as we do and are thinking to yourselves “I wish I could help”. Well, you can.

Get out there and promote the game! Teach someone new how to play, talk to your game shop owner and run a Battlegrounds league for them, and most importantly have fun!

Epicly,
The Cryptozoic Staff

UDI leaves WoW TCG

WoW TCG doesn´t have distributor at this time. It´s a shame.
UDI, Upper Deck International, has witten this:

"Over the past few months there has been much speculation about the future of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and Miniatures Game and due to ongoing discussions, we haven’t been able to provide any clear answers until now.
After long and careful deliberation, Upper Deck International (UDI) will not be renewing its World of Warcraft license agreements with Blizzard Entertainment. We’ve had a fantastic time working on the World of Warcraft brand and feel we have produced some of the most compelling TCG and Miniatures Game products since the turn of the century. Unfortunately, due to gradually declining sales over the past few years and the overall downturn in the economic climate, we have had to make the tough decision to discontinue our World of Warcraft product lines.
UDI World of Warcraft products will be available until the end of March. Upcoming products such as the Class Starter Deck, Wrathgate Booster, Souls of Vengeance Starter, Deluxe Starter and Booster will not go into production.
We know this is disappointing news for all World of Warcraft fans and want to thank players and retailers for their ongoing support over the years.
Being part of such a great and passionate community has truly been a privilege.
We are currently working with Blizzard Entertainment to facilitate a smooth transition as they work on their own plans for a World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.
Further announcements on this transition will follow over the coming weeks.
We will be pulling out all the stops to send off the UDI World of Warcraft lines in style. Look out for special events at your local gaming store with some of the greatest prize support ever and a final opportunity to complete your collection.

Joeri Hoste Carl Crook
Category Manager Trading Card Games International Marketing & Community Manager
Upper Deck International Upper Deck International "

Blizzard has sayed:

"As some of you may already be aware, we will not be renewing the World of Warcraft: The Trading Card Game license with Upper Deck. We want to assure you that we are committed to supporting the TCG, and players can look forward to new content and strong organized play support in the near future. We will share additional details about the game’s transition to a new partner as soon as possible. For those awaiting tournament prizes, we will ensure you receive them."

Scourgewar Spoiler

http://wowtcgesp.wordpress.com has a lot of new spoiler cards of the new set of wowtcg. They are scanners, not official previews. But they are real. The blog is in spanish, but the cards are in english.

link

Naxxramas raid deck (WoW TCG)

This Raid, in the card game, is going to release in 2010.

At the moment, I´m trying to get (in WoW)the Tier 7 in this Raid and it´s really hard.
This raid is the headquarters of the Scourge, and Kel'Thuzad rules there.

From a oficial source:

In response to player feedback, Upper Deck Entertainment will offer an additional SKU with its next raid deck release for the World of Warcraft TCG. In addition to the standard raid deck configuration, which contains the raid deck and a “treasure pack” of exclusive cards, Upper Deck will also offer the treasure pack separately, for players who don’t wish to buy multiple copies of the raid deck for a complete play set.

“One of the complaints that we got was that some of the tournament players wanted the treasure pack content, but they didn’t want to have to pay $30 repeatedly just to get that treasure pack,” Upper Deck’s Dan Bojanowski told ICv2. “So we’re offering the same value here [in the raid deck] but also a separate treasure pack for $9.99.”

The Naxxramas Raid Deck follows the same configuration as previous raid decks, with a large deck for the “boss” player, 15 oversized hero cards, rulebook, and treasure pack, for $29.99. The Naxramis Treasure Pack, identical to the treasure pack in the deck box, contains 15 random cards of a 30-card foil subset, one alternate-art hero in Naxxramas gear, and a loot card (from the Fields of Honor loot set) in one of 10 packs, for $9.99. The raid decks and treasure packs will arrive in stores November or December, probably after the Scourgewar expansion (see “World of Warcraft TCG: Scourgewar”).

Spoiler Video of the Death Knight Starter

Music by Pendulum.

Spoiler Video of Fields of Honor (Part 2)

The last part of the wow tcg video spoiler.



Music by All that remains

Spoiler Video of Fields of Honor (Part 1)

I´m in examns, and that´s why I haven´t posted anything until now. Today, after dinner, I had some time to publish on youtube the first part of the new wow spoiler, Fields of Honor.
In this set the Paladins have the best cards, although for me (I play warlock) there are some good cards too, like curse of weakness. Tomorrow I will publish the other part and the death knight starter. See you!



Music by Bring me to Horizon.

New Raid Decks

I bought 3 raid wow decks ($30 each one in shops) at 22 Euros (all) without the treasure booster in ebay.

Only for the illustrations is a good purchase, but in addition, it´s a really fun game. Black Temple (To kill Illidan), Molten Core (Ragnaros) and Magtheridon are the three raid decks.
We have killed several times Onyxia, and we need another challenge more difficult like molten core. The next week we´re going to kill Ragnaros without a Priest, I swear!

Fields of Honor (WoW TCG)

New visual spoilers from the last wow tcg set, Fields of Honor:

Arena Grand Melee (WoW)

New heroes, with permanents flips:

Alliance Gnome Warrior (arms)
Emmi Spriklestrike
5 - You may flip Emmi.
(flipside) Emmi has 1 melee Attack

Horde Tauren Druid (Feral)
Kauno Stonehoof
5- You may flip Kauno.
(flipside) Kauno has 40 Health

A new kind of key word: Preparation. This let you play this cards for free the first turn. See that if you play warlock, the ability let you play pets with 0 cost.

Nature's Guidance
3 cost
Druid Arena Ability-Feral
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
Ongoing: You pay 1 less to play Feral abilities, to a minimum of 1.

Shredder
3 cost
Hunter Arena Ally- Ravager
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
2 Melee Atk 4 H

Arcane Intuition
2 cost
Mage Arena Ability- Arcane
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
Ongoing: When Arcance Intuition enters play, draw a card. Your maximum hand size is increased by one.

Brutal Gladiator's Greatsword
5 cost
Paladin Atena Two Handed Weapon- Sword
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
5 Atk 3 Swing cost

Power Word: Courage
3 cost
Priest Arena Ability- Discipline
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
Ongoing: Allies in your party have +1 health

Shadow Tactics
4 cost
Rogue Arena ability- Assasination
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
Ongoing: You pay 1 less to play Combos and finishing moves, to a minimum of 1.

Maelstorm of Steel
3 cost
Shaman Arena Ability- Enhancement
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
Ongoing: You pay 1 less to strike with weapons.

Demonologist's Pact
2 cost
Warlock Arena Ability- Demonology
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
Ongoing: You pay 1 less to play Pets.

Guardian's Plate Bracers
3 cost
Warrior Arena Armor- Plate Wrist (1)
Preparation (On your first turn, you may play this card without paying its cost).
3 Armor

How many ccg do you play?

59 readers of this blog have voted the poll: "How many ccg do you play".

All of them play vtes. I expect that xD.

The results are:

Vtes 59 (100%)
Magic 17 (28%)
WoW 12 (20%)
Other 10 (16%)
Legend 6 (10%)
Yugioh 3 (5%)
Versus 2 (3%)
UFS 2 (3%)
Naruto 1 (1%)


Personally, I play Vtes, Magic and WoW right now. But I´ve learned to play at some time to UFS, Anachronism and Legend.

My favorite ccg is Vtes.

My kingdom for a Deck

At least, our order has arrived! One month later, but it´s better now than never.

A new CCG (WoW TCG)

I saw a really good offer in internet and I´ve bought 3 wow tcg´s decks to play with my friends. For 9 Euros we bought a raid deck too to play 4 players at the same time.
WoW TcG is a card game 1vs1 from the people who designed Versus. In this game you are a Hero, and you must defeat the opoosite one. You can join the Horde, the Alliance or the Burning Legion.
I have to say that I love this game. I have two PJ in a pirate server of World of Warcraft, and I enjoy playing the same powers that I have in the Pc game. The illustrations are great and the raid deck is a really good idea. 3 players against 1, like the nergal´s storyline.

Here you have an interactive tutorial who teach you how to play.