Recent Posts by kamarade09

Topic: Guestbook / Merry Christmas

Late Merry Christmas to everyone and a belated Happy Birthday to Furon ^_

Topic: Bugs / Forum Bug [fixed]

While viewing a thread in the forums, even in the sense of typing this one up, at the top of the screen it says Forums → Bugs → New Topic, or whatever forum you’re in, then the thread. When wanted to return to the Forum page, by clicking on Forum in this list at the top, it directs you to the main page, instead of back to forums.

Topic: Challenges and Invitations / Challenges for Mana

I run a pure mana deck, posted it in the deck section of the forums, if you would like to challenge me and get better at beating mana decks then feel free. I’m only online while at work which is 8am – 4:30pm Central time Mon. – Fri.

Topic: Ideas / Let's discuss vampires

In the sense of Vampire legend, how they survive by feeding on the life of other creatures, people, whatever. It would be extremely interesting to have creatures, not just Vampires since they would be directly linked to a dark themed deck, that gained Attack and Health from the death of other units.

For instance: A creature that comes out saying it’s a 2/4 (Attack/Health) with the effect of whatever it could be named, like Vampirism, for lack of better term at this point in time, would have the ability, due to Vampirism, that if a unit is destroyed by this creature it gets ?/?. Buildings would be included on this.

For example: Vampire Ghoul – 7 population 3 gold, of course the cost will have to be decently high to help make sure that these creatures don’t get completely out of control – Vampirism, when this creature destroys any other unit put ?/? on this unit where ? equals half of the destroyed units attack and Health.

Vampire Ghoul attacks and destroys some building that is 40 health, that would give it 0/20. Making it pretty beastly, but it is easily avoidable in the fact that Vampire Ghoul could be stopped since it’s original health is only 4. Also, for an advanced player using some mana in their deck, it would be great for them to let this building be destroyed then lesser or greater chain Vampire Ghoul and take it over.

If they were only Vampires, and secluded to a dark themed deck using population, there could be a counterpoint in the sense of a Light themed deck, like everywhere else. Only in the light themed, a card like Mage of Wisdom, per say, would make an appreance.

For instance: Mage of Wisdom – 3/3 – 2 Gold, 3 Iron, just saying random stuff, not saying it’s going to be this cheap. – With the effect of Recruitment, for lack of better term.

Recruitment – Gain 1 population for every friendly unit on the board whenever another friendly enters battle.

For instance: Let’s say you’re playing a light themed deck. You play Mage of Wisdom, you gain one population for when he comes onto the field. Then play another unit, gain 2 population, play another unit, gain 3 population, and so on and so forth.

Another Example: You have 5 units on the field, non of which happen to be Mage of Wisdom. Then what happens to be drawn when able, a wonderful Mage of Wisdom. Play this Mage, taking your unit count up to 6, gain 6 population.

Topic: Ideas / Showing Effects

On another note, but just going to add it to this massive novel as the sequel. What about a mailing list for updates? Just a quick e-mail sent out to the database of what the adminstrators have accomplished and what is new.

Topic: Bugs / Locking up

I found out, using Internet Explorer 8 I believe, that if I do not IMMEDIATELY press the Start Duel button when it appears, then I join the game with either my hand missing, my opponents hand missing, my opponent seeming to not play anything, not getting to draw cards. Little things here and there but I cannot complete the duel and have to log out and back on to get my status from (PL) back to normal online. This problem occured atleast 5 times in a row to me today, 12/11/09.

Topic: Open Discussion / Victory Deck

I would have to go with DarkRune’s suggestion and my suggest of what to take out would be the Call Lightning, the cost of that card is cheap but it drains all your mana. Mana Streams are slow and Arina could be killed faster than a building. Possibly another Market Place in change of that item and it would run pretty smooth.

Topic: Ideas / Showing Effects

While using my mana based deck against other players only I find it quite complicated to see what is actually happening, in better terms, a lesser chain of mind was used on my Mind Warrior, I didn’t pick up on it till my own soldier started destroying my buildings. Also in the sense of population effects. It’s hard, for me atleast, to focus on scrolling the field to see my units in enemy spaces, clicks my buildings to produce mana and whatnot, and also watch my population. While playing, I use Plague and Lightning Strikes, if my opponent has the same problem as I do, then they just lose and aren’t really sure why. One of the Generals that you fight in single player also does it and for the first couple of times I played him, without him having any units on the field, I wasn’t sure what was happening to make me lose as fast as I did.

Possible solution: If a space on the side of the field is created that shows the last card played by you, and the last card played by your opponent, then a player would be able to realize what happened to their population or even which cards came into play before having to scroll to the enemy side of the board and watch it while still keeping track of their own mana production. In a perfect game, all the forest, stone quarrys, etc.. would be completed and recharged at the exact same time so one could click them all and get all the mana then go back to worrying about their opponents side of the board; however, everyone knows that is a slim chance and to time them all the player would lose VALUABLE time of setting up defenses against the onslaught that is sure to follow.

Alternate Solution: Spells that are played go straight from play after being used, if a discard pile was created by the player’s library, then someone could look at the top card of that pile to see what spell was played.

The main reason that I believe this would be extremely useful is in the fact of newcomers to the game. Noone likes playing a game that they lose at and don’t understand why, this would be like picking up a controller for Mario and playing with 1 life to beat the entire game your first try, it is HIGHLY unlikely. I, personally, like to watch how other players play and even the computer and build decks based off of what I know and what I learn from battles, in this case all that can be learned from battles is that something happens and there are just a few units out, making it complicated to get ideas to make a better deck from experiences that you encounter while playing.

Topic: Decks / Mana Decks

I tried this deck with Call Lightning; however, since it drains all of your mana it prevents you from immediately using Plague or Lightning Strike. Mind Warrior, then Plague, then some Strikes, you can easily take anyone down.

On the general note, I prefer Magic Rock and Enchanted Forest. I throw them on the third line with the Forest, Iron Mine, and Stone Quarry to protect myself and leave one to two slots open for the Mind Warrior to rush through for early population attacks. Also, when playing against AI opponents like Teraall and Igrim, their attacks come from the left side of the board, leaving the right side open for Mind Warriors to crash straight through, especially with the instant arrival that they have.

Arina I wouldn’t use because it wouldn’t last as long as a Magic Rock which has 40 HP. Mana Streams are annoying with the long build time and only 3 charges when Enchanted Forest and Magic Rock take almost half of the time and are unlimited. In this deck, I use Mana Streams only to push to the extra mana that I need for an extra Lightning Strike at the same time as I use another from some Magic Rock or Enchanted Forest mana. Also, another reason for lack of Arina would be I have no use for gold in this deck.

I did test around with substitution and threw in some more spells of dissolve gold, I believe that’s the name, dissolve all gold from both players and draw a card, this proved to only be useful when playing against larger decks with dragons and whatnot that require a decent amount of gold to get onto the field.

Topic: Decks / Mana Decks

This is a rough put together rather quickly yet has proved pretty useful in almost every battle, granted your opponent isn’t running the same deck.

Mono Mana (30 Cards total)

1x Stone Quarry
1x Forest
1x Iron Mine
4x Enchanted Forest
4x Mana Streams
4x Magic Rock
4x Ancient Wisdom
4x Lighting Strike
4x Plague
3x Mind Warrior

Starting Hand:
1x Stone Quarry
1x Forest
1x Iron Mine
1x Enchanted Forest
1x Magic Rock
1x Ancient Wisdom
1x Mind Warrior

I use this deck completely as an aggro deck and as can be seen by the Ancient Wisdoms and Mind Warriors, if certain cards get played in the correct order your entire deck will be ran through pretty quick, hence the lack of monsters for people who don’t understand the use of mostly spells.

Please comment and feel free to make suggestions about this.

Topic: Challenges and Invitations / Looking for Challenger

I’ll take you on Dragon, 8am-4pm central time, is when I’m usually online.

Topic: Challenges and Invitations / Who dares to challenge me?

I would like to play against DarkRune or Wupstomp. Usualy online 8am – 4pm Central time on the weekdays, then might be online after that but the chances are scarce.