KeyForge: Age of Ascension release
Jun. 1st, 2019 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellLast night, the friendly local gaming store held a tournament to celebrate the new KeyForge release, Age of Ascension. This introduces a bunch of new cards, and a few new mechanics, but all decks are supposed to be compatible and balanced with the original release.
It was a three-round sealed-deck tournament, so we got a new deck every round with five minutes to look it over before playing.
The deck-naming AI is still producing quirky results that never quite hit the mark.
On the other hand, flavor text is significantly improved. Much of the text in the first set looks like it was written by an intern ten minutes before a deadline. Now, though...
(Mars First: "'Mars second, third, and fourth, too, if you ask me.' -Ulyq Megamouth")
(Eureka!: "15 years, 40 million UX credits, and a 3% improvement on the real duck.")
This, though, is everyone's new favorite card. Who cares if you can only play one card if it's a really good one? And it's a common, so this will be popping up a lot.
Much fun was had by all. Of the three decks I got, the first (Sezan) feels like it has the ability to demolish pretty much anyone that gets in its way. The second (Loudfighter) was full of good anti-creature cards, but unfortunately my opponent had almost no creatures. The third (Vegas) got me a win due to a couple of lucky draws of just the right combination of cards.
Somehow this placed me third, for which the prize was... one more deck, thus upsetting my carefully laid plan of buying a four-deck-sized box a couple weeks ago, since now I have five. Argh.
Next week it's back to Chainbound tournaments every other Saturday, so I think I'll bring Sezan and see if it really bulldozes everyone the way it looks like it can.
It was a three-round sealed-deck tournament, so we got a new deck every round with five minutes to look it over before playing.
The deck-naming AI is still producing quirky results that never quite hit the mark.
On the other hand, flavor text is significantly improved. Much of the text in the first set looks like it was written by an intern ten minutes before a deadline. Now, though...
(Mars First: "'Mars second, third, and fourth, too, if you ask me.' -Ulyq Megamouth")
(Eureka!: "15 years, 40 million UX credits, and a 3% improvement on the real duck.")
This, though, is everyone's new favorite card. Who cares if you can only play one card if it's a really good one? And it's a common, so this will be popping up a lot.
Much fun was had by all. Of the three decks I got, the first (Sezan) feels like it has the ability to demolish pretty much anyone that gets in its way. The second (Loudfighter) was full of good anti-creature cards, but unfortunately my opponent had almost no creatures. The third (Vegas) got me a win due to a couple of lucky draws of just the right combination of cards.
Somehow this placed me third, for which the prize was... one more deck, thus upsetting my carefully laid plan of buying a four-deck-sized box a couple weeks ago, since now I have five. Argh.
Next week it's back to Chainbound tournaments every other Saturday, so I think I'll bring Sezan and see if it really bulldozes everyone the way it looks like it can.
