I love that decks seem to require actual piloting in order to win instead of the top decks of Ancient Bonds which I think played themselves.
The losses I’ve taken are the games that I think I could’ve played better as opposed to losing simply because my opponent had a certain card in-hand.
And I’ve seen a wide variety of generals. It’s great to see that generals such as Kaleos and Zir’an are seeing more play thanks to the support they got.
umm, hate to break it to you, but every other tcg functions this way with their products. physical and online card games, it doesn’t matter. rise of the bloodborn and ancient bonds were just the devs being extra generous
What do yo u mean I’m using a deck where death watch is a win con. It’s hard with all the removals but it works every now and then.
Not to mention that with the small mini-expansions it’s much harder for the devs to affect the meta of the game and make it fresh. There’s only so much you can do with 39 cards.
@persona0 Tsevech’s point is that CPG haven’t added any new deathwatch cards since alpha. Magmar have gotten grow minions, Lyonar have gotten Zeal, etc, but Abyssian is the only faction that hasn’t gotten any new cards that use their unique keyword.
I am not tsevech.
But yeah, that’s what I meant.
whoops, I got mixed up because of his random quote that didn’t have anything to do with anything.
I do agree with your point though, great minds think alike! 
I like the way the new set makes alot of new strategies (and some old fringe ones) more playable, but support for things like deathwatch and vespyr would be nice.
My personal issue with the set is that big creatures are still largely unplayable because of all the removal. I feel we should give non-magmar/vanar decks better ways to accelerate their mana and/or discount minions besides the precarious 1/4 golem that can work against you if your opponent has rush/airdrop
Vespyr got support.
Yes. Matches are so far a lot more varied with positioning finally being a significant part of the game. Thumbs up, though personally not a big fan of the sentinels. They require out of game knowledge of all the 9 possible cards to make good plays, which just slows everything down.
Okay, so I finally had some time to play a few matches.
My overall feeling is that this is a very nice expansion. So far I noticed a huge deck variety in ranked, though I should mention I’m still in Silver, so the meta is not that shaped yet. I think the games required more thought about positioning with respect to the Ancient Bonds times. I didn’t see any egregiously broken card, but there are many strong, interesting cards to add to pre-existing decks. I find Thunderhorn particularly nice, because it really forces one to think how to deal with it without losing the board or screwing up positioning.
My only concern is that, if a few of the old cards are not nerfed, we may end up having balancing troubles again. Now people are testing the new cards, but at some point someone will find the best decks to play with and they will likely include a few of the existing broken cards. So I’m having fun for now, let’s hope the developers will be quick at addressing the problematic interactions which will pop up for sure!
I still haven’t been able to connect to try out the expansion since Bandaï took over ._.
I’d try a Vet Obelysk if I could 8D
On Steam everything works flawlessly. You may want to give a try to the Steam client, especially if you already have a Steam account.
well. i like the sentinels, I don’t like the inconsistent and buggy interactions they currently have. i think once they’re fixed I’ll like them better
Which interactions do you find to be broken? Especially concerning those between old and new cards.
No broken interactions so far, but they will pop up for sure like in any card game with a large card pool. I believe a few of the Ancient Bonds cards are too strong and will create troubles in the future, but the state of the game looks fine to me after a bunch of matches.
I will play more in the next few days.
Vespyrian Might isn’t really a thing; they have no new support for the keyword vespyr, although they printed new members. Unless you also consider RotBB’s Myriad as “support for vespyr”… which I don’t
Shiver and Arbiter are both nice to get from Call, cheap and proc Glacial Elemental.
There’s also Glacial + Ambush (+ Kara) for nice turning of tables.
Glacial + Kara + Ambush is 10 mana…
That aside, they released support for infiltrate, not Vespyr; nothing released pushes you to play Vespyr synergies. Also, the flier suiciding into the general for 1 mana is what makes it less of a good card to grab from Vesp Call; I’d rather get a cheapened Cloaker or, even better, one of the 6+ mana minions.
You should have Glacial on the board obviously.
You are objectively wrong, but okay, redefine stuff in your mind the way you want, I guess.
Regardless of Vespyrian Might being good or not, they DID release Vespyr support and even new Vespyrs, which is way more than can be said about rebirth minions, of which they released nothing. Rizen is a glimmer of hope but doesn’t have Rebirth… but yeah, there’s now a new way to get eggs… hm.