I was working on the Treasure Hunt today on my phone and I must have misclicked on my screen because I was working for like 6 hours or so with an error that I just saw now. 😭 Time to start over.
With my Arishem deck, I Legion'd Crimson Cosmos so have fun not being able to play any of your 0 cost cards Mister Negative *laughs in evil Arishem player*
Who would be the winner? 😮
First of all, as some may know, this is the Rite of Seeking blog guy. I know I have not written anything on my blog in a long time as I do but that is who is writing this, just for context. 😊
So yesterday, I got some friends assembled and did 8 player Blob. And y'all it was so fun!! The ending came down to my friend who is a newer player on Michael McGlen defeating a Blob enemy with a Lightning Gun. Pretty epic final action & we all celebrated our big victory.
Here's some of how I prepared.
People who were capable of supplying their own deck did so, but I also brought with me 8 decks using my own collection. This way, even if everyone failed to bring anything, I still had enough to run the event.
With just the Chapter 2 content, I made 5 29 XP decks using the Starter investigators. This was easy enough to do as there are enough cards for it & it was a reasonably quick build.
Then, I had another 3 player teaching campaign in progress and friends from that campaign were playing in Blob. So I brought those decks with mild adjustments to make them standalone legal. This was great for our new players to give them an option to use a deck they already have piloted.
I also picked up a whiteboard and markers from Canadian Tire to have a tracker. So glad I did!!! I was updating it all night.
If you are going to run this, you will want a very prepared, knowledgeable player being event organizer. Be ready to educate the group throughout if there are newer folks. I could probably handle a 3rd table but not much more. We would definitely want someone not playing to handle the organizer role beyond that, which the book also suggests.
The run time ended up being 4 hours but if everyone knew the rules more thoroughly it probably would have been around 30 minutes faster I would guess.
Everyone had a great time (although rules for new players was a bit of a struggle some times) and we l are hoping to do more Epic Arkham in the future with more players!! 😊
Thought this was a cool touch! Would be down to see more thematic things like this in the mode.
Prefacing this by saying this is not a complaint & I am aware there are many great rewards throughout the track.
I just thought seeing the line Final Reward above a sad 10 Boosters with a glowing golden background behind them is just absolutely hilarious. 😂 Look at those 10 Boosters glow with such fiery vigor!! Whoa!
Like at this point, these had better the best 10 Boosters of my goddamn life if I get that far 😂😂
She doesn't get played or talked about very much. She's not been on the radar for most publicly hated cards recently, and she probably isn't helpful against most Quickdraw Thanos FF decks. But I feel like when Enchantress is good and gets down on the board, it sometimes feels like an absolute blowout. I was playing her in the Tens Hydroman deck I've been testing because of the new OTA, and I was impressed! What's everyone thoughts on Enchantress nowadays?
Very interesting moment today, my Baron Zemo pulled the opponent's Thanos FF that they had been loading up all game. It then proceeded to shoot every shot, but for me. 😂😂 Probably an extremely rare interaction because it requires Thanos FF to be the lowest cost card in the opponent's deck and you have no real way of knowing that's the case. Part of me wondered if maybe the shots wouldn't carry over if Baron Zemo took the card because I didn't load any myself but it seems it does.
We had a music themed set, so wouldn't it be cool to have a set themed around making movies? And your battlefield is like your cast of actors, so to speak? And the special mechanic can be Starring Roles where certain champions can become the leads of your movie. Not sure how exactly that would work but highlighting individual champions feels in line with other mechanics.
There can also be Award Seasons at the end of each Stage where certain champions on each players boards have the opportunity to win an award, such as Best Tank or Best Mage. That gives the winning unit a Fame bonus & provide a mini quest for everyone to work towards over the course of the game.
Origins can reference movie genres like:
-Horror, featuring some zombie or vampire themed stuff
-Western, with High Noon skins
-Sci Fi, featuring the bazillion sci fi skins we have
-Fantasy, featuring the Rift Quest skins
-Romance, featuring the Heartseeker skins
-Mystery, featuring some detective or cop themed skins
-Comedy, featuring meme skins
-Anime, featuring Star Guardians
And the Classes would be drawn from a lot of the classic roles but also can be things that reference movie production roles, special skills actors may have, or things associated with fame.
-Socialite can come back
-Producers help with your teams econ
-Animators make your team faster
-Paparazzi target the most Famous enemy unit, such as the unit with the most Awards
-Fashionistas create a Red Carpet that goes across your board and Fashionistas on Red Carpet spaces get bonuses.
-Trainers is a the summoner origin and they have trained companions to fight alongside them like Tibbers, Valor, and Willump.
-Archers, Magicians, and Fighters can be among the basic marksman, mage or warrior classes
And so on.
So for example, Heartseeker Quinn would be a Romance Archer Trainer & she would be a ranged marksman who also relies on Valor, while Definitely Not Vel'Koz can be a Mystery Magician who solves mysteries by "researching" his targets.
Anyway, that's my little pitch for fun. If you read this, I hope you enjoyed my idea!
Between the dev video, Tim doing a PBE Patch rundown video on YouTube, and Rioters being around on social media, I for one am feeling like my concern around communication with the community post-Mortdog is starting to be addressed. Of course, this is still early and relationship, recognition and trust needs to continue to grow. Mort was special because we knew who was speaking to us, while we are still learning who these other Rioters are. However, I can appreciate that the groundwork to make things happen is being laid down and I look forward to seeing more of it. I just wanted to share some positivity to the team to encourage them to keep up the efforts this direction because it addresses a big fear I had about the future of the game.
This one was actually problematic for me so I am proud of myself for doing it. My numbers were good enough for the star and not much else lol. The main struggle was that my DOT team is one of my main teams & I put them on Node 3 (the TVs) where they absolutely sucked. Then I had to redo and shuffle every other side. Once I found I could at least pass Node 1 with DOT, I was good to go!
Teams are DOT w/ Aventurine to help with weakness breaking the boss' element (otherwise it's only Hysilens touching the bar), Archer (no Rin yet 😮💨 but still alright), and Himeko Nova with M. Blade. It seems that Himeko Nova is currently my strongest team by far on my account, which is fun.
How was everyone else's clears?
If you are playing the right kind of on reveal deck & run into an affliction deck, Misery can destroy a lane of afflicted units, clearing those bad values from your board. She will also of course repeat those effects, which could give you another bonus too. All of this could help you flip a lane and make you more reliable in an afflict heavy meta. Notably, Misery with no afflictions on her at least ties Scorpion BND head to head because they are both 8 power. I think building an On Reveal deck with maybe both Luke & Misery in it could be pretty resilient. What do you all think?
I guess this is a bit of a perspective question. I've had a few puzzles now where I will get the right answer, that is to say, I correctly identify the killer. However, when I look at the answer grid, I find maybe 2 of my letters were placed off from the answer grid.
Would you say these puzzles were still solved correctly? Or is getting the murderer correct not enough and every character must also be perfectly placed to say you solved it?
Outside of Set 8, Rammus has been linked to Yordles every time he has appeared.
Set 15, he was one of Lulu's Monsters for Monster Trainer. Of course, Lulu is a Yordle.
Set 17, he is part of Meeple, which is a majority Yordle trait.
Set 18, he is part of the Sprykin, who are entirely Yordles plus Rammus.
So basically outside of the outlier of Set 8, every time Rammus has appeared he is tied to Yordles. And I love this so much, and I think Rammus being a friend to Yordles should just become a part of his League lore because let's be honest, this guy has minimal lore to speak of otherwise. The Yordles adopting Rammus, a mysterious Shuriman demigod, as a pet or companion just makes sense! That's literally something they would do! And Rammus would say OK to that. 😊
In short, Yordles ❤️ Rammus forever, please Riot!!
So I am playing the Hulk deck in GA. X Mansion gave me Patriot. Patriot does not buff my Hulk, even though Hulk has supposedly no ability. Does being a Champion count as having an ability for a card like Hulk? I know there is a champion skill card tied to the champion Hulk. However, the text box is the same as regular Hulk, so that seems kind of wonky. I would assume Patriot should buff Hulk here.
I do go on to lose this game because of this interaction btw.
Just realized this today and thought it was worth sharing.
If you play a character on turn 2 while your opponent plays only TOV, should you then play Triton on Turn 3, the opponent will not receive any buff as they did not have a character played the previous turn. This of course makes Triton's buff one sided.
In my last game I used this to buff my Lasher with Triton while my opponent's TOV deck got nothing. Felt pretty good & my opponent retreated a little bit after.
I posted earlier about my duo sustain AA clear which I was really happy about & I got a lot of negativity around my Huohuo being bad. 😒 So here we go I built my Huohuo and I got 2 stars with Tribbie. 🌟🌟 Thank you to everyone who was positive and helpful to me in my previous post. I appreciate all the kind comments from before. ☺️
Hydra Bob was my only unowned card from the winning GG deck and a card I had been wanting for a long time. When I considered the odds and cost per pull, I decided to give the new GG pack a few tries. I missed the first two pulls, but I did like the variants I got & most importantly, I reached an album reward to give me 2,000 more tokens!!! This allowed me to pull one last time, and I finally got the Hydra Bob I had been chasing in 3 pulls. 🤩 Ahhh, I am so excited! For once the gambling paid off for me.
This might be fairly obvious but I haven't seen a lot of talk about it & there are always new people around so I thought I would share. Venus works positively with the Horde mechanic as it counts as an Empower for Zombie Horde.
For example, if you have Venus out, then play Zombie Scarlet Witch and then play the Hunger on top of ZSW, Venus will go off 2 times, once for ZSW Horde trigger and once for The Hunger's Horde trigger. This would give you a 7 power Zombie Horde. The more you play into the ZSW lane, the more Venus will also trigger.
I don't know exactly how strong Venus Zombies would end up being but deck diversity is always great to see so I wanted to throw it out there. This deck also does well with spamming lots of small repeated buffs like Angela so Venus can get value outside of buffing your Zombie Horde. (Notably, it does not help Kitty but you should probably just run Kitty anyway.)
I got Infinite for the first time ever this season!! I'm so excited.
I played a lot of decks this season but En Sabah Dump took me over the finish line. If you don't know, you basically just use QS/Domino to fill up early spots and allow your deck to have a lot of big cards to improve the average Jubilee/En Sabah Nur/Dracula/Dragon Lord pull. Debrii fills up spots to enable ESN objective. Jubilee and Dragon Lord also help fill up spots. Your main goal is to cheat out big cards and you are fairly reliable at being able to do that.
Game winning moment was Dragon Lord pulling a Magneto to disrupt a Symbiote Spiderman/Black Panther Combo. I then correctly predicted their final point output would be them playing Arnim Zola & knew I had more point output than that to lock in the game.