Test username: Gingrich Yurr Games so far: 4 First game: Walpurgis Spam vs Adajon42 Spoiler Walpurgis x 3 Level 1 Human Priest St. Hedvig's Black Axe St. Hedvig's Black Axe St. Hedvig's Black Halo Nightmetal Shield Possessed Shoes St. Hedvig's Black Bundle Witch's Snare St. Hedvig's Black Bundle Subtle Positioning Perfect Corruption 2 x Entangling Roots 1 x Subtle Parry 2 x Soothing Darkness 2 x Unholy Energy 1 x Unholy Frenzy 1 x Toughened Hide Strips 1 x Lunging Bash 2 x Vanguard 2 x Savage Curse 2 x Blight 2 x Disorienting Block 3 x Creature Of The Night 2 x Obliterating Chop 1 x Shifting Block 1 x Shuffle 1 x Immovable 1 x Cautious Sneak 9 x Walpurgis Night I played a Walpurgis spam deck with three times of the priest shown above totaling 27 Walpurgis Nights, as I was afraid it would be too powerful in disrupting games and devalue deck building, especially with how many you can pack on a single priest. I spammed Walpurgis right off the blocks and continued doing that so I have no idea what deck Adajon was using. Whenever I was in a disadvantageous position or when the forms wore off I used Walpurgis again. After much chaos he eventually won, but I found out that people probably won’t use a Walpurgis spam deck as it is simply too random and doesn’t give the user any advantage at all, so we won’t have to worry about that. It could be useful in smaller quantities to disrupt, but at large numbers, definitely not a feasible build. Second game: Burfft against KKarma Spoiler Searing Level 1 Dwarf Wizard Searing Pain Searing Pain Spector's Raygun Spector's Raygun Luke's Iron Hand Asmod's Telekinetic Chain Perrio's Kinetic Robes Bertha's Big Clogs Raging Battler Novice Teleportation 6 x Fireball 1 x Walk 6 x Flash Of Agony 2 x Dimensional Traveller 7 x Telekinesis 2 x Reliable Mail 2 x Hypnotic Beacon 3 x Stone Spikes 1 x Officer's Harness 1 x Force Bolt 2 x Illusory Barrier 2 x Blind Rage 1 x Toughened Hide Strips Nuclear Level 1 Dwarf Priest Cursed Radcannon Cursed Radcannon Savage Plates Black Cat Buckler Quellic's Boots Skull Of Savage Iljin Skull Of Savage Iljin Skull Of Savage Iljin Raging Battler Focused Cleansing 1 x Flanking Move 2 x Reliable Mail 7 x Savage Curse 4 x Unholy Energy 1 x Mass Frenzy 6 x Radiation Bomb 3 x Parry 1 x Thickened Mail 4 x Blind Rage 3 x Inspiring Presence 3 x Holy Presence 1 x Toughened Hide Strips Pain Level 1 Dwarf Wizard Searing Pain Searing Pain Spector's Raygun Spector's Raygun Luke's Iron Hand Asmod's Telekinetic Chain Perrio's Kinetic Robes Bertha's Big Clogs Raging Battler Novice Teleportation 6 x Fireball 1 x Walk 6 x Flash Of Agony 2 x Dimensional Traveller 7 x Telekinesis 2 x Reliable Mail 2 x Hypnotic Beacon 3 x Stone Spikes 1 x Officer's Harness 1 x Force Bolt 2 x Illusory Barrier 2 x Blind Rage 1 x Toughened Hide Strips I used a burfft deck to see how well it would compete against the new cards. Not very well. KKarma was using using two Talented Healer Vampires and a Spirit wizard. First turn I didn’t get any burfft cards, and it all went downhill from there. KKarma drew Ethereality Form, and so I ahd to use all the Fireballs against the other two vampires, but they healed it back with vamp attacks. They had plenty of movement and I didn’t draw enough Telekinesis. Eventually KKarma won through VP camping and killing one of my wizards. Overall I would say Ethereality Form is really powerful, stopping burst, linear, etc. as well as handicaps like Travelling Curse. The wizard was basically invincible during that battle. Wizard’s main threats are other wizards and with these attack types gone, the only real way to damage them would be to use control cards to move them closer to your warriors or just using the more powerful single target attacks like Mega Laser or Obliterating Spark. Vampires are also really strong especially Vampires Kiss which heals an insane amount. Third game: Burfft against TimedTesting Same party as above. Used burfft again this time in a more open map. TimedTesting was using a human wizard, dwarf priest and a human warrior. I’m not sure what kind of build he had to be honest. His Warrior was packed full of movement as well as Vanguards and Wind Dancers. His priest didn’t do much and his wizard was the main damage dealer with terrain attachments. This time the luck of the draw was with me and I threw all the Fireballs and Radiation Bombs I had at him. At one point his priest got turned into a zombie by the radiation bomb which was quite interesting, and in fact may have won me the game as he had too little movement, before that he was going to corner my wizard. One potential bug was that Spin Around triggered Wind Dancer but not Vanguard. That is all. Fourth game: Movement Dwarfs vs TimedTesting Spoiler Okok Level 1 Dwarf Warrior Talissa's Trident Talissa's Trident Yvette's Betrayal Snarlcub Hide Captain Teadora's Resolve Lieutenant's Cap Captain's Gumshoes Raging Battler Untrained Lycanthropy 1 x Monstrous Hide 2 x Able Bludgeon 1 x Investigate 1 x Lycanthropic Form 1 x Team Shift 4 x Vengeance 1 x Sparkling Cloth Armor 2 x Lunging Bite 2 x Shifting Block 1 x Sundering Strike 2 x Penetrating Lunge 6 x Vicious Thrust 1 x Weakened Armor 2 x Blind Rage 2 x Run, Team! 1 x Howl 2 x Subtle Parry 1 x Surging Shield Block 3 x Toughened Hide Strips Grikgrund Level 1 Dwarf Warrior Final Sword Final Sword Yvette's Betrayal Snarlcub Hide Captain Teadora's Resolve Lieutenant's Cap Captain's Gumshoes Raging Battler Untrained Lycanthropy 1 x Monstrous Hide 2 x Able Bludgeon 1 x Investigate 1 x Lycanthropic Form 1 x Team Shift 6 x Vengeance 1 x Sparkling Cloth Armor 2 x Lunging Bite 2 x All Out Attack 1 x Sundering Strike 4 x Strong Hack 1 x Surging Shield Block 2 x Shifting Block 2 x Run, Team! 1 x Howl 2 x Subtle Parry 1 x Weakened Armor 2 x Blind Rage 3 x Toughened Hide Strips Zhufbar Level 1 Dwarf Warrior Snitrick's Last Stand Snitrick's Last Stand Yvette's Betrayal Snarlcub Hide Captain Teadora's Resolve Lieutenant's Cap Captain's Gumshoes Raging Battler Untrained Lycanthropy 1 x Monstrous Hide 2 x Able Bludgeon 1 x Investigate 1 x Lycanthropic Form 1 x Team Shift 4 x Vengeance 1 x Sparkling Cloth Armor 2 x Lunging Bite 2 x Shifting Block 1 x Sundering Strike 2 x Penetrating Lunge 2 x Parry 1 x Surging Shield Block 2 x Pulverizing Hack 2 x Run, Team! 1 x Howl 2 x Subtle Parry 2 x Wounded Block 1 x Weakened Armor 2 x Blind Rage 3 x Toughened Hide Strips I used this deck to see how good Vengeance is and made sure my dwarves had plenty of movement besides. It worked pretty well, Vengeance really makes your opponent contemplate whether to attack you or not. Two at once allows you to move behind an enemy too. It is really way too powerful, either the ability to move should not stack or change it to move one. Even the wizard dared not to attack the warrior as he had two Vengeances as well as a Sparkling Cloth Armor and could close the gap between them. Another thing to note, Wind Dancer can be good in a right deck. TimedTesting’s warrior had lots of movement, and accumulated 4 Unreliable Blocks. I decided not hit him with my dwarf and risk losing a powerful attack. I think it is good as temporary protection for one turn, sort of a pseudo Impenetrable Nimbus, but it takes too much work for it to be effective. I'll come back to edit as I test more.
Games so far: 5 Fifth game: Bejeweled Elves vs tmzerozero Spoiler: 3 of these Bejeweled Elves Elf Level 2 Elf Warrior Bejeweled Shortsword Bejeweled Shortsword Rageblood Dagger Spiked Tlahuiztli Parrying Buckler Crusty Helm Sticky Slippers Cautious Mobility Novice Impaling 6 x Powerful Hack 1 x Blind Rage 2 x Impaler 2 x Immovable 1 x Obvious Maneuver 1 x Raging Strike 1 x Barbed Platemail 1 x Dancing Cut 1 x Hardy Mail 2 x Powerful Bludgeon 1 x Wild Run 3 x Parry 7 x Vicious Thrust 1 x Penetrating Cut 1 x Ouch! 2 x Elven Maneuvers 1 x Scouting Run 1 x Reliable Mail 1 x Mail Just wanted to see how effective Cult of the Bejeweled would still be after the expansion and played three times of the warrior above. Unfortunately, tmzerozero was also running Bejeweled Shortswords on two dwarves as well as a control dwarf wizard. He did use some Mitternacht items though in his build. Eventually it was a tight win for tmzerozero as his dwarves outlasted my elves. Overall I think his Mitternacht items didn’t really play a huge role in the game, such as Antimagic Skin which was pretty useless against my warriors and his Wind Dancer as his dwarves didn’t have that much movement. This is probably what battles will be like when Mitternacht is first released with people slowly building up their collection and adding items to existing builds, before trying all new builds altogether. That’s probably about it, didn’t have too much time today to test more games.
Tbh the having two parries and that amethist attack that does 8 when blocked was the thing that made me come out of hide in the last turn even if I had 3 life vs. your 1, so snitrick's last stand might be a cool weapon for goofing around, at least.
When I saw the severe nerf to Boo! I knew I had to test it out. Spoiler: Boo! Build Prankster Level 2 Dwarf Wizard Prankster's Feystaff Prankster's Feystaff Poltergeist Pendant Poltergeist Pendant Poltergeist Pendant Terrifying Zapping Wand Mantle Of Lingering Goat Boots Raging Battler Electroporter Novice 2 x Big Zap 10 x Boo! 3 x Arcane Curse 4 x Silver Bolt 2 x Blind Rage 1 x Immovable 1 x Reliable Mail 1 x Spark Inductor 2 x Memory Loss 1 x Dangerous Maneuver 4 x Winds Of War 1 x Dimensional Traveller 1 x Toughened Hide Strips 1 x Hover 1 x Weakened Armor 1 x Powerful Spark Poltergeist Level 1 Elf Wizard Prankster's Feystaff Prankster's Feystaff Poltergeist Pendant Poltergeist Pendant Poltergeist Pendant Terrifying Zapping Wand Mantle Of Lingering Goat Boots Dainty Silversmith Electroporter Novice 2 x Big Zap 10 x Boo! 3 x Arcane Curse 4 x Silver Bolt 2 x Fey Silversmith 1 x Immovable 1 x Reliable Mail 1 x Skip 1 x Spark Inductor 2 x Memory Loss 1 x Dangerous Maneuver 4 x Winds Of War 1 x Dimensional Traveller 1 x Hover 1 x Weakened Armor 1 x Powerful Spark Positioning Level 1 Human Wizard Prankster's Feystaff Prankster's Feystaff Poltergeist Pendant Poltergeist Pendant Poltergeist Pendant Terrifying Zapping Wand Mantle Of Lingering Goat Boots Subtle Positioning Electroporter Novice 2 x Big Zap 1 x Subtle Parry 10 x Boo! 3 x Arcane Curse 4 x Silver Bolt 2 x Vanguard 1 x Immovable 1 x Reliable Mail 1 x Spark Inductor 2 x Memory Loss 1 x Dangerous Maneuver 4 x Winds Of War 1 x Dimensional Traveller 1 x Hover 1 x Weakened Armor 1 x Powerful Spark 6th game: Boo! versus Khyle345 with two vamps and a wizard. The build was designed to have as much Boo! as possible. Well predictably I lost though it was closer than I expected, considering how little damage I had. I managed to get to 5 victory points before Khyle won. Anyway who cares about the game, I want to talk more about about Boo! I think it its current form it is quite unplayable. There were hardly any moments where backs were turned to me and even if they were Boo didn't do much use in the situation. Either they had already ran out of attacks anyway or the Dash would get them out of danger areas. I would have much rather gotten in an unblockable attack to the back than Boo them. Boo is mainly a reactive card so many of its uses are gone now that you must be behind the target. The best time to use Boo is when the target has attacks and is ready to attack you. Wizards most likely won't get Booed since they will be farther away and will be facing the action. Enemy Warriors or Vamps that move to engage one of your characters will most likely be facing whoever has Boo too, especially the target. The point is there will almost never be a time when backs are turned to your wizard or wizards with Boo. And when one of those rare moments pop up, it is not a suitable time to use it. I don't know what to do about it. I really don't. Maybe I'm not using it right but as it is I don't think it is Silver quality.
I think Boo! might be playable, if when casting from the front it did push back 1 and reverse the character's direction (basically the same as if they moved away from you). This way you still can at least get paper quality control out of it when forced to, is still thematic, and because it changes the players direction, if they cannot turn towards you again allows you to cast a full value Boo! on them afterwards.
I think that is possible but it might be hard to put all that onto a card text onto a card without making it look too cluttered since it would have two different effects in different situations.
Thank you for all your help with the Castle Mitternacht playtest. Unless you posted more in another thread (in which case, sorry I missed it), I have you at 6 games. You will receive 1 Epic Mitternacht chest when this content is released.
