Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Time to get this rolling Bitches!

New years bring new ideas and all kinds of other new things. Lets start off with our new guild list. I removed some of the inactive/never seen members and have added some of the newer ones who joined past weeks. (One person is inofficially, officially in the guild, but still needs to pop up into our chat...)

Joining our guild will need a person to be at least active in our regular chat http://xat.com/englisheredan and then everything depends on how good people work with our current clannies.

Another new thing I would like to work on is a new blog layout at least. The web site idea kind of got Smashed against the Wall and we're gonna have to wait a bit until I can find an alternative solution. Any suggestions/Ideas on a new guild blog layout, feel free to post them here.

I have been semi busy with helping out in the forums and fulfilling moderator duties as well as entirely reworking up the FAQ/Wiki section to help the community get their shit together. If anybody is up for helping in this, I will surely find something to help out. Ask either Rathedan or me on this issue. :)

With that cheers and Happy Near Year fags! :D

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Pirates, bitch!

The day has finally come, Pirates has infiltrated Eredan in the form of the Al Killicrew Pirates. Not only are they a new release, but they're their own brand new guild, and the folks are Eredan made sure that they made a big splash with a 22 card release, including 8 character cards. Now that is how you introduce a new guild.

Along with introducing a whole new guild, the pirates bring a new gameplay mechanic in the form of "Powder" tokens. Powder is used to fuel the pirates action and spell cards and sometimes even strengthen the characters themselves, like in the case of Armada. Armada gains +1 attack for each Powder token on both herself AND her opponent. Paired with Captain Al Kilicrew, the supposed leader of the guild at the moment, she can gain an attack bonus of +6 on turn one without playing a single card. Throw in a Supplying, all live characters get 3 powder tokens, and thats a whopping +12 attack bonus. Other cards like Pistoblade give the character an addition attack bonus if they have powder tokens. The pirates have also brought along some powder driven spells, Fiery Sword and Flames of Phoenix. Fiery sword is pretty much the spell version of Armada's organic ability, +1 attack, and an additional +1 for each powder token on your character. The key to this spells is that all token ares are removed from your character after the spell is used, leading us to our next card, Flames of the Phoenix. Flames of the Phoenix is the Pirates devistating and self destructive answer to Lightning Bolts. It deals x fire damage to each character, where x is the number of powder tokens they have, those tokens are then removed.

I have two sample decks for your reading pleasure, the first is my concept, and the next is Joe's. Be sure to leave your feedback in the comments!

This is my approach to a powder heavy deck based around Armada and Flames of the Phoenix

Armada - Captain Al Kilicrew - Bragan

3x Supplying
2x Fiery Sword
3x Flames of the Phoenix
2x Potato Peeling Duty
3x Tadaa! You're a Bunny
2x Jolly Roger
1x Gofer Sinker
1x Journey
1X Ill Omen
2X Fallback

And this is Joe's deck. It's more item centric.

Captain Al Kilicrew - Clover - Armada

3x Dominate your Opponent
2x Pistoblade
3x Multitasking
3x Jolly Roger
2x Devouring Dagger
2x Ammunition Box
2x Pirates Code
3x Supplying