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So I've heard, but they have already responded to the bad reception, which is about as good as we could hope for at this stage.

it’s better than not addressing it, but this company has been amateur hour for far too long

This is obviously fantastic to see, but as you say, we'll need to wait for what changes they're actually going to make. Acknowledging the problem is step one.

Lorcana did start out very slowly, hopefully SWU will have a similar trajectory.

Good catch! I did mispeak, so the Analysis and rating would be the same. Those are some very interesting applications that could certainly make the card more playable. I'll keep them in mind when I get round to building Cunning Bossk/Jabba.

I strongly considered giving him four, but we'll have to see how well he ends up performing.

I think you're wrong and I will come back to this video in 3 years to tell you so. "Non-Thematic"? LMAO! Tell me you haven't played the game, without telling me, you haven't played the game! May the 4th be with you! LOL!

The ruleset for Star Wars: Unlimited is excellent. It is derivative, but building on successful mechanics from its predecessors seems like a sensible move to me. 'Theme' isn't my area of expertise, and is quite subjective. You may be right, but I'm not particularly interested in whether this feels 'Star Wars-ey' or not. FFG have certainly built up a negative reputation, but hopefully this game will be different. There's no guarantee, but FFG's decisions outside of the game have been overwhelmingly positive so far.

​@@xyoucancallmeal From a engineering standpoint, the mechanics function well and balance. But most enthusiasts see CCG's more like cinema then they do a mechanical object. Marvel ironically has shown us just because a films plot and characters function well and the film even looks great; this does not translate to a beloved end product. Art is always subjective and CCG's are the marriage of math and art (not just in the card art, in feel, theme, flavor, subtext, non written storytelling over time). The time you spend in a game is itself a story, back and forth, ups and downs, the come back. The matches you remember are always the dramatic ones. I digress and yes, I'm a filmmaker by trade but the art in a CCG is more than half the products appeal. Look wayyyyyy back at Star Wars CCG from 1995 and you will see flavor and tabletop storytelling in full flight. It's the ONLY reason it's still the most collected dead CCG. I barely made a point but might be a way to look at games you haven't delved into before. Loved your Snap vids and will continue to follow your channel if i play the games or not.

You raise some good points. The 'art' of a CCG is important, but it is subjective and I'm not particularly qualified to talk about what makes 'good art'. Instead I can focus on something which I think is an objectively strong ruleset. The matches I remember are the interesting tactical battles, not the thematic ones, but that obviously doesn't apply to everyone. Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoy the channel.

This is absolutely a “tell us you haven’t tried the game without telling us you haven’t tried the game” comment.

Those are deck archetypes or general outlines of strategies that can exist in a card game. For example, an aggro deck is, unsurprisingly, aggressive in its gameplan and tries to win the game quickly and a control deck would, as the name suggests, control the game to try to win later on.

Would love you to see you reviewing your review now we're seeing a meta in tournaments appear.

I failed to anticipate Amethyst/Ruby. So Amethyst is the second weakest colour now.

@xyoucancallmeal Amethyst is dominating the tournament scene atm. I played in a 45 person tournament at the weekend and every person in the top 8 aside from myself had Amethyst in their deck. The PPG event had 6 of the top 8 playing Amethyst. Obviously, we all have opinions, but it's easily the number one colour at the moment.

The paper tournament scene is currently full of new players. Because there isn't a significant prize pool, only local players can attend. People are mistakingly taking the results of these events to mean the decks played are strong, this is not the case. The players who have played using online clients such as TTS or Pixelborn have a much deeper understanding of the game in my opinion. Amethyst has one very strong deck paired with Ruby, and people are only just starting to play the counters to that online, never-mind in the paper scene. And while Amethyst can be paired with anything to have a serviceable deck, this is true of all colours. Amethyst/Steel, Amethyst/Amber, Amethyst/Emerald and especially Amethyst/Sapphire are all weaker than similar archetypes in other colours in my opinion. And, even if I'm right, this will not reflect in the 'meta' that we see for quite some time.

I don't remember saying anything of the sort. I believed many of the Amethyst cards were strong, but couldn't find a home for them. It's true that I didn't predict Amethyst/Ruby Control being as strong as it is. I don't think it is the strongest deck in the format, although it is up there, and I now believe Amethyst is the second weakest colour, rather than the weakest. Part of the reason the deck seems so strong is that people don't seem to want to play the counters, but that will come.

I play on Pixelborn (the fan-made online Lorcana client) primarily. The issue I have with Ariel OTK is that it gets run over by aggression and is too susceptible to single-target removal in the late game matchups. I saw that after recording this and it certainly got my attention, but after looking at the list I don't think it does anything that other colours wouldn't do better. The player who top 4'ed the event had never played before and threw together something off the top of their head without testing. As you alluded to, variance can do lots of crazy things.

Anything in particular I can help with?

"Popularise" definitely isn't the right word, the Emerald/Ruby Midrange isn't particularly popular and in the case of the Amber/Emerald Hyper Aggro, while I was the first to try that in the Pixelborn community, it's not necessarily rocket science to try an aggro deck with Just in Time. I listened back to that comment after recording and would've liked to have edited it out, but didn't decide to do so, so 🤷‍♂️ I would point out though that I am, as far as I can tell, the first person to play those sort of lists in the online Lorcana space and created them without input from others and don't think pointing out my role in their creation is necessarily a bad thing.

They reflect what I believe the strongest decks to be, not necessarily what is popular, which I stated in the video.

I definitely don't think my Amber/Amethyst deck is definitive. I haven't put much time into it because I don't think it's conceptually very powerful. The route I took with the list was a version of Amber/Steel Aggro which trades AWNW for Amethyst card draw. I have played a decent amount of the Hyper Aggro version you're referring to, and I've found it to be substantially weaker than Amber/Emerald Hyper Aggro.

The hardest match-ups are anything with steel and obviously ruby but other than that it's too fast for most decks to stop since I will never challenge which forces my opponents to keep challenging me preventing them from questing which I've been told puts lots of pressure on them because now they're trying to take care of my board

@@unboundjackalI’m waiting to see Chapter 2 if they add more 1 drop 2 lore. Amethyst/Amber should be played to play as few inks to get as much more as possible. It will get better I believe, it’s already great.

It already has

@osrsroland8464 I don't think I've ever seen an Amethyst/Sapphire deck function to be honest, I'm open to being wrong though, what deck do you think works with those two inks?

@@blerpsnurp Sapphire has ramp and Amethyst has Jetsam/Flotsam. You ramp into those two cards which gives you an army of Evasive Rushers that you can do whatever you want with. Then you have Belle to keep board presence strong. Generally speaking the Jetsam/Flotsam package is highly underrated because they are a 4-cost and 5-cost respectively and you have to draw both, well Sapphire gets around the cost requirement and Amethyst already has strong card draw / card ditching (with Cauldron and/or Yzma). Any new game, aggro is going to be king. This was true of the first 2-3 months of HearthStone as well. But eventually decks that can fight for board control while also keeping pace against Control will (generally) come out on top.

It literally just placed 2nd at a 1k tournament This guys channel is total bogus and to say you haven’t seen any amber sapphire either and is tier 4 is crazy.

The list you're referring to was brought by someone who had never played a game of Lorcana. It wasn't a highly competitive event. The fact that people are using that event as evidence of the power level of a deck is ridiculous.

That's very nice of you to say, thank you. I think 2 and 3 stars, respectively, were my ratings at the time. I absolutely will revisit the set, hopefully soon, as my thoughts have evolved on many of the cards.

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll be sure to fix that.

After extensive playtesting, I have definitely changed my views on many of the cards. I was too harsh on Amethyst, but it's still only very powerful when paired with Ruby. All other combinations seem weaker than the alternatives currently.

Using a fan-made client called Pixelborn.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Thanks for your kind words. It was very early to make those predictions and my views have already shifted on many cards. I created it with the intention of giving people a jumping off point for competitive play.

@@xyoucancallmeal will you do another video revisiting it all? Otherwise any cards in particular? From my box and the app i notice that ohana stitch is back to 2 lore and not 1

Bear in mind that the review is a prediction video of what I expected to be top-tier decks in the future; it's very speculative. As expected, my opinions on several cards have evolved as I've played more games. This review is specifically for the best decks, not just playable ones. All cards games end up with a small number of top-tier cards that make it into competitive decks.

I'll get a meta snapshot out ASAP which will have updated deck lists.

I'm in the middle of a house move, but I'll try to get a meta snapshot out ASAP.

@@xyoucancallmeal thank you!

Because it's uninkable, and we have no card draw, we can't support using a card from hand on it and still get to 6 ink.

I haven't worked on draft or sealed very much, but Pongo, Emerald Tinker Bell and Friends on the Other Side seem strong.

I find thoroughly enjoyable already. The First Chapter is a fantastically designed set in my opinion.