~Beyond the Border~ > Akyu's Arcade
Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
hyorinryu:
I randomly opened one of her in a box.
Also, I tried to play a pokemon game, and unfortunately, once my friend got a stage two on the field, I just couldn't recover.
commandercool:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/war-of-the-spark-spoilers-april-22-2019-japanese-alternate-art-planeswalkers
Well that's pretty wild! I wonder if these will be available in English. They're super cool (mostly, except for the kinda weird Bolas art) but I don't usually like playing with foreign cards, especially with this much text.
Tamer Anode/Cathode:
Doesn't sound like they'll be available in English, but will at least be available for purchase in EN-speaking regions
I can't really complain about the Bolas art too much since I looked up the artists and the one who did his alternate art is pretty prominent, having worked on a lot of kaiju and mecha stuff since the 80's. The alternate Yanggu is by an artist who did a lot of FE stuff, mostly between 6-10. The majority of the artists are people who do art for JP card games, especially Duel Masters
commandercool:
My first prerelease wasn't great, I opened a Gideon but got smashed first round by an opponent who went turn 5 Bontu-> turn 6 foil Liliana both games. Then I played against an eight-year-old second round who never cast a spell and lost the match in five minutes, then I somehow got a bye despite having a win so I may as well not have played and just sat there for almost all of the three-hour event.
A buddy and I decided to buy boxes and mine was looking pretty grim, with my only three mythics up to that point being the three bad finales, but then I had a pack with Bolas and a foil Niv which turned things right around. Going to another prerelease tomorrow, we'll see how everything shakes out I guess.
Tamer Anode/Cathode:
I have not had a chance to do a physical prerelease yet. The one I tried to go to today was fully booked so the best I could do was pre-register for tomorrow,
I did have a chance to use a bunch of my stockpiled gems and try sealed on Arena twice. Dreadhorde Invasion is incredibly potent, especially if you get any of the lords that give your tokens evasion or a lot of other Amass/Proliferate effects to get to critical mass faster