Eredan's World

Thank you, that part about the item effects is what I wasn't seeing.

If you're comparing them by pure stats to cards such as abomination, then yes, they are under powered.  Other wise they are one of the most synergistic and versatile castes out there.

What I don't like is staring at the tally screen after a fight, and seeing I caused somewhere in the 30's amount of damage, the discard deck caused about 8, and I still lost.

How are you using [card]Elfine Bow[/card] in a Zil deck?  Unless there's a Sap Heart in there that I'm not seeing. 

That's not what it says though.  It says that if you take powder or fire damage, you endure 3 direct damage.  Doesn't say that you inflict it or heal it.

[card]Powder Keg[/card] I don't think this card works as intended, or is translated correctly. 

As it is now, reading the card tells me that if my opponent attacks me with a powder weapon or fire, then I take an additional 3 damage.  It gives no other benefit.  So, umm, why would you want to use it?

How so?  Having been playing pirates, it seems to be a very luck based deck.  If you don't draw the right cards in the starting hand, you're pretty much hosed.

Yes, abomination  is grossly powerful like that, coupled with a decent defense and health.  Yes, he can put up large numbers off the bat.   But know what?  First time against him, you simply play defensive, he may drop you to 1-2 health, but you have a chance to turn it around and kill him off next round.

No kidding.  I played a game today with my pirates, and had the stars align or something...  was going against a standard zil deck, the shadow, selene, and bigrage.  I had [card]Captain Al Killicrew[/card], [card]Bragan[/card] and [card]Armada[/card].  I started, so I sent the captain against shadow, dropped [card]Supplying[/card] and [card]The Pirate Code[/card], took my hits and went to next round.  Opponent sent bigrage against armada, giving me +10 to attack off the bat.  I use weapon dance, and another supplying, putting me at 13/16, and luck out on taking bigrage out.  Next up is bragan vs. selene.  I drop my third supplying, followed by a [card]fiery sword[/card], turning bragan into a 17/20 beast, killing selene.  fourth round, they choose poorly, sent shadow back against the captain, I drop a [card]flames of the phoenix[/card], doing 8 damage to shadow, kill both the captain and shadow, and walk away the winner.  Extreme luck.  Every other game I've played I usually end up losing since all the cards I need seem to get grouped together in the very end of the deck.

Did you read the cards?  [card]All is fair in love...[/card] by itself gives +3 to attack, it chains to [card]...and War.[/card] which gives an additional +2-3, for a total of 5-6 attack.

[card]The pen is mightier...[/card] gives +1-2 spirit.  [card]...Than the sword[/card] adds your spirit to you your attack and adds one.  Mages start with 2-3 spirit.  Let's take [card]Pilkim[/card], basic level one version, has 2 spirit, adds 1 spirit on certain levels.  Against a warrior or marauder that's +6 to attack.  Stick a [card]Mystic Staff[/card] and it's another +2 attack, a [card][/card] or [card][/card] which are also common in mage decks, which are an additional +1 attack each, and then let Pilkim level up some, so he has +2 to his spirit instead... so we now have a pilkim sitting at 8 spirit, dropping a pen is mightier and than the sword, giving him a +11 to his attack.  And while this may sound far fetched, it is extremely common in mage decks to have all their mages with 4-8 spirit.

It can make up to 8 damage, but you have to have spells in your discard pile. 

1.) you only have 6 other spells total.  So until you get to them and discard/use them, arcanium will be useless.

2.) it takes a second card to even be able to use, so it'll just be sitting in your hand taking up space until you can draw Dragon's Wit.

3.) you were talking about using Solar's Anger also, so now you have 4 cards that you can't even use unless you draw another card.  That's a lot of unusable space in a 20 card deck.  Better to drop the whole dragon's wit/solar's anger/arcanium and put in cards that you can use when you draw them for maximum effect.

Winning games in Eredan is all about speed.  The decks that can use cards to kill you win.  Those that are just sitting there waiting to be able to do something lose.