Eredan's World

"Random number between attack score range" - ( minus ) "opposing character's defense score" = Damage dealt

Example: Your character has 6/9 attack and the opposing character has the defense score of 3. The damage your character will deal is: a random number picked between 6 and 9 ( possible numbers:6,7,8,9) - ( minus ) defense score of 3.

Your minimum damage possible is : 6 - 3 = 3 mininum damage
Your maximum damage possible is: 9 - 3 = 6 maximum damage

So do you want another card like Counterspell and Magic Shield?

You do understand the effect of those cards is really strong and the thing keeping them from being abused is their huge drawback. A pure Mage character and a pure Priest are completely dependant on the cards it plays, more than any other character in the game. Using the Magic Shield against a pure Mage character when you have the initiative pretty much nulls all the effectiveness of the Mage.

Also, there are only two important spell cards that can increase the attack power of the caster. Keep in mind two things: First, mages have a low attack to begin with, and Second, they can be countered by Diversion and Reborn which are seen pretty often in matches.

About the Anti-Physical cards: Fallback and Bunny DO have a downside, although it is not a huge downside it is enough to make the difference. Also, i never mentioned Illusory Reflection having a drawback!

Illusionary Reflection can make Mages untouchable DEPENDING on what Mage is using it, in which turn and against certain opponents. But it is just like i said, Mages are VERY dependant on cards they play. If you play Illusory with your Mage you are giving up a damage card.

About the card that can turn the opponent's attack to 0: You are correct. There is one card with no drawback that can reduce the opponent's attack to 0 and i had completely forgotten about it. It is called A Close Shave. And there is a reason for me to have forgotten this card:  It requires both your character being a Tracker AND the opposing character being equipped with a Dagger. Keep in mind Trackers are not a Top deck, so it is clearly obvious this card is not as threatening as it may look like.

Magic Shield and Deflection are not optimal cards for countering spells. There is a reason for them not being seen much in play which is their big drawback. BUT i didn't even give them as examples in my previous post anyway. Look at my examples. Those are good counters for spells.

You should also suggest more ways to deal with Physical Damage.

Given that most decks are based on Physical Damage...

Also, the best cards to defend against Physical Damage have drawbacks too, like Tadaa! You're a bunny and Fallback. So why not some cards to help against Physical Damage? I am sure it would be help you against Witchblades because just like you said they are based on Physical AND Magical Damage.

Getting the things straight:

You said the opposing character was a warrior courtesan Kot/Zil able to cast Mage spells.

There is only one character that fits this description : Galmara ( Shadow Guemelite version). A Guemelite can ignore the Mage class restriction related to spell cards depending on which kind of Guemelite he is. In his case, he is a Shadow Guemelite, which means he can play Shadow spells.

Now onto the next issue:

You mentioned that your character had 8/8 attack and that your opponent's character had 7 health and 1 def , and was using manipulation, and you weren't able to defeat him.

Here is what manipulation does : "Permanent. All opposing character have attack -1. Opposing characters that share the same guild as your character, Attack -2 instead. Chain." Meaning that is at least a -1 attack your character.

You didn't mention when he used the Manipulation. Neither what cards you and your opponent on that given turn. IF your opponent used Manipulation on that specific turn your character then became a 7/7 due to Manipulation effect and so wasn't able to win the match. This is just a random guess because like i said, you didn't give more info on what cards you both used on that turn.

Not really. You will understand more about how usefull counter cards can be as you keep playing

You still didn't completely reply...

Did you use the DSH before the Arcanium or after the Arcanium?

DSH works on spells used AFTER it is played.

What kind of deck are you using where Anathema would take place of an Assass?
You usually swap the worst card or the most situational card in your deck for the Anathema. And i don't see an Assass being neither the worst card in your deck nor the most situational by far.

I never said it is not possible. Rather there is the possibility it may not get done in time. Given we don't know the artists schedules there could be problems like diseases, other art jobs to be done, and many other random things.

The main point was:

Isn't it a lot more safe, faster and simple to hire an artist to get 200 artworks done right away? Why do it an weekly basis when you could just ask the artist to do a lot of work in a single request?

I suppose the artist already had done MOST of the fallen from the sky collection since the very beginning. Just because they release new cards every week it doesn't mean they are creating new artwork for them every week. Imagine the whole time it would take to create new cards if it was done like this.

Also , i find it very likely the game is running just from a server in France.

@XenoZangoota: You've already said it....

The average scores of character do not represent their actual strenght. Each character card has a set of action/spell/items that are used with them and even specific character combinations which multiply their strenght.

About the second part of your suggestion, related to the rarity of cards: It has already been said before. Although many rare cards are excellent, some of them are just terrible. Rarity does not, directly, represent the usefullness of a card. As an example: RoD is an uncommon card, and it is clearly a better card than Arcanium, which is a rare card.

@Squarta: Thanks for the input. I agree with you. According to my suggestion the developers would need to keep watch over cards because, like you said, a card that today is called half-decent can later on be amazing when new cards arrive.

A system to differentiate the different power levels of decks takes a lot of effort to be done and evened out, but it would bring eredan to another "level" ( I suppose you can understand what i meant ).

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EDIT: I actually gave a better thought at this and came up with a much more simple system.

Here is how the system works:

Tier 1 - Bronze League

In the Bronze League your characters' max level is 2. There are many card restrictions in your deck building here. Example of forbidden cards for the Bronze League: Assassination, Living Dagger ( and its evolutions ), Rain of Death, Quick Draw, Solaris, Divine Light, Overwhelming Victory,Manipulation, No Unique cards allowed, No Legendary cards allowed....( and others).

Tier 2 - Silver League

In the Silver League your characters' max level is 3. There are some card restrictions in your deck building here. Example of forbidden cards for the Silver League: No Legendary cards allowed...( and some others)

Tier 3 - Gold League

In the Gold League there are no restrictions other than the ones that currently apply to the game.

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I suppose that is a decent start!
Given 2 weeks i suppose anyone with deep understanding of the game could come up with a full list of cards that are not allowed in each tier. Of course the list would need updates on a regular basis, but that is the funny part of many online games, the updates.

The player would then be introduced to this system when he reaches lvl 11. Before level 11 he will just play in usual level rooms. After level 11 the level rooms would no longer exist. They would be changed by the League ( tier ) rooms.

To put it simple: the problem with different tiers being based just on character level is that some decks are great even at low level. Example : Courtesans.
But Courtesans are only great when they can use their specific cards. This is the same situation for almost all "low" level great character cards.

If you put restriction to the cards in the deck itself you can have a simple yet effective solution.

It is possible to do this already....