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KeyForge by Richard Garfield - The first Unique Deck Game (can't modify decks)
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Lol must be a world wide issue same thing happened here in australia.
The game is good but I've probably played under 10 matches so far. I really like mars. Logos has this really nutty card- photon shark? that has been a lot of fun too.
It feels bad when you get a deck that is not quite right tho. I have one Mars/Logos/Brobnar that is /almost/ there except it has only one brobnar creature and it's not even a good one lol
The game is good but I've probably played under 10 matches so far. I really like mars. Logos has this really nutty card- photon shark? that has been a lot of fun too.
It feels bad when you get a deck that is not quite right tho. I have one Mars/Logos/Brobnar that is /almost/ there except it has only one brobnar creature and it's not even a good one lol
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Man.. I was looking forward to it. I had no idea it was going to be so popular. My local store sold out. I'll have to wait another week or so to get the starter set but I'd rather see this than it not sell at all. I hope they start doing keyforge nights.
I picked up 3 decks on saturday, I'm loving the game, definitely convincing as many friends as possible to play.
Pre ordered and my shop says they've sent it, but still waiting for mine to show up. My coworker ordered his from the same place, and his came on Thursday. We've been playing and it's pretty good so far, though been a bit RNG heavy on the draw.
Played it over the weekend and thought it was fun. If you're at all familiar with things like MTG it isn't hard to learn. I had a few beers by the time it was explained to me and pretty much had it figured out before my first game was over.
Pay attention to your opponents, though. Even if they aren't trying to cheat they may forget the house they declared for and try to attack with non-aligned creatures. Accidents happen, especially while learning. Basically the hardest part is figuring out which house to declare and keeping track of that on the opponents turn.
Pay attention to your opponents, though. Even if they aren't trying to cheat they may forget the house they declared for and try to attack with non-aligned creatures. Accidents happen, especially while learning. Basically the hardest part is figuring out which house to declare and keeping track of that on the opponents turn.
Been playing for 2 weeks now and loving it. Chicago stores still have decks, but not the core set. Great game and I enjoy the fact that I'm not spending insane amounts of money to be "competitive" like Magic - simply sit down and play!
Granted... this is before the "constructed" organized play has even begun. If it simply turns into a loot box in paper form, I'm out of playing at the store/regional level. But it's a super fun game in and of itself, so there will always be a fun casual basis for me.
Granted... this is before the "constructed" organized play has even begun. If it simply turns into a loot box in paper form, I'm out of playing at the store/regional level. But it's a super fun game in and of itself, so there will always be a fun casual basis for me.
I grabbed three packs at the store today. Kinda wondering if I should have gotten all four they had, but I really just wanted to try dueling with my friend, and having a spare pack incase one of the three was way unbalanced.
Edit: As someone who doesn't play these games often, what are some tips for "learning" a deck?
Edit: As someone who doesn't play these games often, what are some tips for "learning" a deck?
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Got a starter set plus four additional decks in the mail today. At work for another few hours yet though and I'm dying to look at the cards. Plan on having a few learning games with the basic decks in the starter first with my brother in law. Gonna setup a 4 person round robin or 5-6 Swiss tourney with my decks in my board game/MTG group soon. Will let the winner keep his deck as a surprise. :) Gonna open the decks but keep them sealed tonight. Want to see if I was lucky enough to get a banned deck or maybe a Four Horsemen one.
I've bought a good handful of decks, and one of them is just awful. Mars and Untamed with few creatures and thus little possibility of stacking like they're intended.
I put in a late preorder for the starter pack on Amazon, and the estated shipping date keeps moving back, which is annoying but good news for the game at least. Plus, it will give me time to find someone to play with...
So uh, any tips for dealing with this deck?
https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/2677b4ff-8367-4921-9032-336ed1c19acc
I'm like 90% sure it's just going to function as a funny deck name in my collection, but any advice for keeping it functional would be great.
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https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/2677b4ff-8367-4921-9032-336ed1c19acc
I'm like 90% sure it's just going to function as a funny deck name in my collection, but any advice for keeping it functional would be great.
Edited for the correct deck link.
Looking at it, you have some strong synergies in the respective houses, but also some cross synergies especially with the ability to play Mars cards outside of having named that house.
You have a ton of damage capabilities, so you could control the board very easily. Beyond that you have quite a bit of pure aember gain from cards and some that can really boost you depending on how your board has shaped up. You have big creatures to jam up the board that protect ones that you might want to use their abilities for.
I might try it on Crucible and see how it plays, it looks like it would be fun. Much more fun than mine, well mine is "fun" in that it is challenging to get anything going right.
https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/da90a25e-81fe-45f9-959f-e60aea91ee62
There is one fun combo, but requires three different cards and a decent board of creatures to make it worthwhile. Pick logos, reap or attack with creatures (make sure not to let any of them die). Play Library Access which draws a card for every card played this turn. Play any other logos creatures or cards you can, including Phase Shift which allows you to play a non-logos card. After you've played what you want for the turn, you play Hysteria which returns all creatures to their owners hands. This means I can now replay all those creatures and draw a card for each one. Giving a chance to draw more cards to keep the combo going or at least filling out your hand with other houses to play with.
In one game the combo won me the game, but in another it put me ahead at the time but I eventually lost even though my opponent said he felt like he lost after the combo.
I'm really enjoying the game and can't way to play with more decks. Going to try and get my wife to play as well and check out any local game stores.
So I've been really enjoying this deck, but I can't help feel it'd maybe perform a bit better with Shadow instead of Mars.
Anyone have any thoughts on the deck?
https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/9b02471f-c0ff-4940-824f-42570a5cadd3
Anyone have any thoughts on the deck?
https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/9b02471f-c0ff-4940-824f-42570a5cadd3
After a couple of quick games with the starters, my wife and I played with some unique decks and the game went nowhere. I would get aember, she would steal it, I'd kill most of her creatures, I'd forge, she'd unforge then steal. We ended up calling a draw as no one could get ahead. Still fun though.
My local shop is supposed to be getting restocked today, only problem is they share a parking lot with Best Buy. Finding a spot gonna be a real pain in the assssss
How did she not end up forging if she had stolen amber? I could understand if she was recurring key hammer into her hand somehow, but outright stealing (instead of capturing) means she would accumulate amber over time.
Bought 4 decks over the past week. Game is pretty fun overall and has some interesting interactions. The whole deck concept is great and should allow for some long term play. Also at 10 dollars it is cheaper than playing mtg. I think sealed is going to be better for tournaments overall, reduces buying a ton for certain strategies and guarantees a bit more fairness.
Not sure about tournaments or anything but the randomization is cool and I opened a decent one I think.
Not sure about tournaments or anything but the randomization is cool and I opened a decent one I think.
Thanks for the write up. I'll have to give the deck another shot. Maybe I'll play with a bit more attention to discarding so I can cycle through and get back to my creatures sooner.
I think discarding will be a very important part of the game.
I've got a deck that has Mars in it, but the Mars part of the deck is mostly filled with spells. There's only two creatures, and they have no meaningful interaction with the rest of the deck. So, what I could do is use something like Orbital Bombardment on a turn, then discard my Mars cards and then draw however many I discarded at the end of my turn.
It certainly is. There's the case where you mention were you simply get weak cards that you need to cycle through, but there's also the case of not holding on to strong cards to gum up your hand for the particular strategy you are executing. Discarding is essentially card draw here and card draw is almost always insanely poweful in any tcg.
Sometimes I'll get powerful cards for late game that just do nothing for me to start, so I will discard those to make space for something else that has more impact in the moment. There is a lot of depth to this game that doesn't appear at first glance, similar to how in MTG you can play it simply but there are strategies that really help in optimizing your play like the order of what you play and when.
Had some fun playing with a few friends' decks last night. Won one, lost one. Both games had interesting strategic depth and decent combo opportunities.
I do think it's somewhat limited by lack of experimentation and creation aspects, and like others have said, the art seems to be pretty meh. But I had fun, and that's what counts.
I do think it's somewhat limited by lack of experimentation and creation aspects, and like others have said, the art seems to be pretty meh. But I had fun, and that's what counts.
Who else mentioned the art was meh? Or do you mean outside this thread? I'm reasonably fond of the art, which ranges from decent to great.
I dunno. A few. And I kind of agree with them. I don't find it super appealing. It's not *bad*, but...
Am I really gonna be the first one here to shit on the faction names and icons? I'm super into the game concept but my GOD those are terrible.
Fucking Brobnar!? MARS!? This shit reads like the packaging on a bootleg knockoff, what the hell happened to the FFG team that did design for Android: Netrunner!?
I like most of the card art, but the house icons are quite bad, even for the themes they're gunning for.
Oh I agree, I wouldn't call that 'the art' I guess. but yeah I think those symbols are terrible
Shit my store didn't get their restock today, I don't wanna keep annoying them but I'm gonna check like mad tomorrow
I have two local stores. One is really big and sold out completely, but one had three basic decks left and some playmats. Starters are completely sold out on a distributor level I'm told.
One is going to start buying/selling decks — probably both, actually — and they'll both be hosting tourneys so that's good. Seems really popular.
One is going to start buying/selling decks — probably both, actually — and they'll both be hosting tourneys so that's good. Seems really popular.
It's way too early for that, in my opinion. Are some decks going to be better than others? Yes. It isn't a flat plane. But we have over 30 decks, and none have been unplayable yet. Matchups make a huge difference, and your fifth time playing a deck is going to give a better understanding of its inner workings than the first time.
Just last night my son and I played two unopened decks, and he was like, "This deck is bad." after I won. We switched and I destroyed him with said "bad" deck.
I bought the last three at the one shop that had them. I just really want a starter for the ember, tokens, and whatnot.
I was just going to buy one, but with three that's at least a good rotation right now.
I feel like it's going to be worse in Keyforge in terms of people blaming the deck if they lose. Taking away deck construction leaves an easy excuse. I feel and hope most of the time it's wrong, but it'll be true in some circumstances I'm sure. Still, the appeal to this game is some of its randomness and Garfield really knows how to design games with good use of random.
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I'll be curious too. Some of the decks will probably ask for very, very different play styles to a degree that some players might not expect. But some just seems crazy. I have one deck with 26 creatures and they're all pretty buff (Brobnar and Sanctum). Reaping with those guys out on the board becomes a pretty quick win, at least in the few games we've played with said deck.
My first game with that deck was against a deck with just 14 or so creatures and they were just constantly whipped off the board.
What's crazy is the way people are evaluating the decks. Decks with the four horsemen go anywhere from $50 to $300. This one deck with a double set went for ~$2,000 on eBay. It's crazy to try to determine how good a deck may be right now. I'm sure there'll be pretty bad decks, but that's the nature of the game. Working with what you have. Another deck is only $10 away.
I haven't had a chance to look into it much, but Sanctum and Mars seem really fun. Shadows looks like it's really good but has a higher skill ceiling.
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Over 150,000 decks have been registered already. That seems like a reasonable success to me, though who knows what will happen longterm.
All decks are competitive. When real organized and constructed play happens, your deck will be given "chains" before the start of the match if it's too good to even the playing field vs. other decks in the tournament.
These chains can be seen on the website itself before play so everyone knows if you have an OP deck or not. The feature isn't live yet, but it's a novel way to make sure that tournaments can be really won by anyone.
This is the newest deck I just picked up:
https://www.keyforgegame.com/deck-details/db0cfa0c-d45c-4907-8c13-cdf624e8e073
They have to print more decks, and in theory the German supply line should let them print and ship more faster than a traditional Chinese manufacturing method. We'll see how it works out.
In the meantime just be patient for 2-3 weeks and definitely don't spend like $50 on eBay. :P
Is the starter pack something I should buy or individual decks?
The starter pack has cardboard counter bits, but you can easily print your own. Not much reason to get one unless you want the non-unique learner decks or you catch one on a good deal.
Starter set is still available on Barnes and Noble's site, they have some coupons on their main page that might knock the price down too.