This draft deck was BAD, but I was able to steal a handful of wins. Turns out I literally can't stop a resolved Hogaak. Ended 1-2 for the night (4-5)
Draft 3 and I can absolutely feel it. I got passed a Chainer during pack 1 and it totally derailed my draft plans 😅 hopefully I can salvage this with tight gameplay
This deck felt unbeatable until I went up against Specter of Mortality and Skinrender with 5 reanimates to keep triggering them 💀 Went 2-1 (4-2)
Draft #2, we're gonna do better this time. In the spirit of desert cubes, the Fire Swamp only lets you add Swamps after the draft. Here goes nothing
Was a little bit wrong: lost round 1 to my Nurturing Peatland hurting me, then lost round 2 to Memnarch stealing all my lands. Managed to eventually pull it back in round 3, for a final 1-2 (2-5) result
Shoebox round 1: Devoid Cube! You know how much I love a desert cube. P1P1 Meekstone and Field of the Dead with a KCI combo loop is either going to feel unbeatable or useless
Hell yeah! I'm in if you get a group together
See y'all tomorrow 🔥
I will!!!
I've missed all the CubeCons because of when they've been in October, but now it's time for the Shoebox convention and it's down the street from my house 🎉 I'm so excited for this weekend you guys
Yes! We didn't want to include piloting in the set (for complexity reasons, to let the new mechanics have more space and spotlight) which meant he'd just be a ground unit.
That said, we did talk about it and the door is very open to making a pilot version in the future. #FFGStaff
For much of design there was a meaningful self-discard theme, as John wanted to capture the feeling of "overclocking" yourself, spending your deck as a resource. It was a tension because we don't want to turn the discard pile into a second hand, but it opened up some very fun design space #FFGStaff
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible
When we put Doctor Aphra in SHD, her evil droids had been written out of her story, and were more associated with Darth Vader in my mind. When they returned (in between design & release of SHD), fan demand for them was overwhelming, so we went out of our way to find a home for them in LAW #FFGStaff
I love to death how much the new Marathon game is built on the aesthetics of the old '90s game I loved so much growing up. That they ported the terminals directly into the new game (both in the codex UI and in the levels themselves) is so sick
Outnumbered the fascists.
Police failed to break our line.
They got bundled into taxis & fucked off home.
Got a pic that goes crazy hard out of the whole equation.
Lovely Saturday, over all.
They added a necromancer to Slay the Spire which means that's the only class I'll play from here on out, haha
A cool thing about aspects being your set's theme is that there's lots of backwards compatibility when you make synergy cards. These cards caring about how many aspects a card has means they're going to be playable with cards in any set, but optimized when playing with LAW cards #FFGStaff
With multicolor being such a prominent theme, we wanted some commons that would be sufficiently exciting. To make them even cooler, John proposed making them all performing different roles in a heist team, and I worked with the art team to get the aspect colors into the art piece of each #FFGStaff
Not this set, he wouldn't make sense in the concept for the most part. But perhaps more importantly, the show didn't come out until months after we locked the prestige list! #FFGStaff
You can evade Sentinels when you attack with a condemn'ed Saboteur unit, and it will still get +2 power from Commence the Festivities. You will not defeat the defender's shields (from Saboteur) or use any other abilities. #FFGStaff
Man, finally someone wrote an article about this feeling I've been having for the past several years.
When John put The Client on the character list for LAW, I was dubious initially at whether he would fit in this set. But he does hire a famous bounty hunter, and the mission to recover Grogu is kinda like a heist, so once I saw it all together I was convinced #FFGStaff
video from iceout.org earlier today at the whipple outside minneapolis shows a hennepin county sheriff’s deputy shoving the head of a protestor who was already tackled into the ground
we need someone to challenge dawanna witt for sheriff. this brutality happening under her watch is unacceptable
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
I criticize Schumer and Democratic leadership all the time. They suck. But a party that has Zohran Mamdani, Ihan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others, is not worthless by any means. I will not be self-righteously sitting out the midterms. I’ll be voting for Democrats like a motherfucker.
With lots of credits in Lawless Time, we wanted to make sure there were also tools to beat credit-heavy decks if the strategy became dominant. Putting those abilities on characters famous for stealing a bunch of money from the Empire felt especially appropriate #FFGStaff
Correct! (It's very exciting/terrifying) #FFGStaff
