u/Vegakis

The Origins team recently announced that 7 Locations will be disabled for the Crimson Cup tournament because they consider them particularly RNG-heavy:

🚫 Junkyard
🚫 Cloning Lab
🚫 Reflecting Pool
🚫 Amplifying Amphitheatre
🚫 Giant's Beacon
🚫 The Colosseum
🚫 Nostradamus' Call

For anyone wondering what makes them so swingy:

🗑️ Junkyard — Both players discard a random card.

🧬 Cloning Lab — Playing a character here fills the remaining spaces with copies of it.

🪞 Reflecting Pool — Playing a character here copies it in another location.

💥 Amplifying Amphitheatre — All damage dealt here is doubled.

🏔️ Giant's Beacon — Draw your highest-cost card and set its cost to 1.

🏟️ The Colosseum — Characters here have Double Attack.

🔮 Nostradamus' Call — At the start of round 6, both players' decks are destroyed.

I can understand why some of these might be too swingy for a competitive tournament, especially when a single Location can completely change how a game plays out.

What I'm more curious about is whether all 7 really belong in the same category.

Some feel like pure RNG, while others seem more like powerful strategic effects that simply create very high-impact situations.

👀 Which one do you think is the biggest problem?

Would you rather see these Locations banned, reworked, or eventually brought back into competitive play?

Timothy from Koin/Origins TCG just shared an interesting update about how they want to build the Origins community beyond the game itself.

The idea is pretty simple: imagine going to your local game store on a random Tuesday night, pulling out your phone, and playing Origins against other local players in a weekly tournament.

The new Digital LGS Program is planned to include:

• 🏆 Weekly local Origins tournaments
• 🎁 Exclusive in-person promotions
• 📦 Pre-orders for upcoming collector sets that won't be available in-game
• 🤝 A way for players to actually meet and build local communities around a digital TCG

The official in-person events are planned to start in early 2027.

What's also interesting is that stores don't have to wait until then. Set 1 launches on Kickstarter on October 27, and the team is already working with local game stores around the launch. Timothy says they've already spoken with 30+ interested stores in just two months.

They also mentioned that there will be a version of the program specifically for streamers and content creators.

I personally like the idea of keeping the actual game digital while using LGSs as physical meeting points for tournaments, promos and community.

What do you guys think? Could a model like this work for a digital TCG?

For me, this is the day of transformation: he looks one way and sees Fabrizio fleeing; he looks the other and sees his wife about to start the car. That is the look of realization.

The premise was simple: “separate the facts from the falsehoods, and if there is reasonable doubt regarding the defendant's guilt, you must return a verdict of ‘not guilty’.”