Y Monday, December 04, 2006
1:46 am
Yay for spending time with your buddies =D. Brian, Darren and MC sleptover. Was only supposed to be Brian and Darren, but Brian psycho'ed us to play the World of Warcraft trading card game. MC followed us to Rid's shop. Then decided to sleepover when he learned of WoW TCG.Fine, I thought. Might as well give it a try. I stopped myself from overspending when I played Magic. I was mostly skeptical.. I mean, it's WoW. In my experience, anything which ports over to multiple platforms or products ends up horrible crapped up.
I expected it to be a money sink, hardly any depth, just playing on "this stuff's cool" marketing strategy.
I couldn't be more wrong.
It has mechanics VERY similar to Magic, allowing me to pick up the game rather quickly. That's a boon, because Magic trumps most other TCGs in my opinion. Look at Yu-Gi-Oh. Lmao. Almost all YGH players I know have ran off the Magic. I didn't even persuade them.
Now, similar, but NOT identical. For starters, there are "hero" cards. You build your deck around them. Pick a hero, which has a side (Alliance or Horde.) Cards are character and faction specific.
So if you have lets say, a mage "Litori Frostburn". She's an Alliance Human Frost Mage. Meaning you cannot play Orc allies, Warrior abilities like "Rend". Nor can she swing big two-handed swords. (Yes, you can equip stuff to augment your hero.) But, she can fire Frostbolts and Fireblasts. Fire spells? Yes. Only if they do not specify "Requires Fire Mage".
Plenty of potential. I can see myself dropping Magic to play the WoW TCG. Blizzard I hate you. Warcraft is taking over the world.
On a less geeky note, the sleepover was fun. We ended up playing the World of Warcraft Board Game (OMG WARCRAFT AGAIN.) till 6am. 1am - 6am. Wow. Now, 1 of that hour was spent ordering and scoffing down McDonald's while learning the damn game.
It's complicated, but simple once you've understood. Darren and I were Alliance, him being a Druid and me a Warlock. MC and Brian were Horde, Priest and Hunter respectively.
One word: FUN. Yes. It's long, complicated and messy, but hella fun once you get the hang of it. Doubly so if you have Brian. Lemme tell y'all why.
Okay. So we spent a crapload of time learning the game. Brian was first to encounter a monster. He needed to roll above 6 (out of a possible 8) to damage the creature.
He rolled 4 dices (His abilities and spells let him.) 4 - 2 - 1 - 3.
He died.
The whole bloody house echoed with our lunacy. We literally choked to death with laughter. How unlucky can someone get? Jesus. He DIED. On the FIRST BATTLE. WITHOUT EVEN HITTING THE ENEMY. LMFAO. It was the our maiden battle after reading the rules and setting but the large board and dozens of figures, info sheets and all that jazz.
Anyway, we somehow managed to finish the game. I highly recommend anyone who has any interest to play it with us. It's worth the time to pick it up. (Significantly faster since we can explain it now.)
Special note to Bagero: You can finally do something WoW-related. I look forward to you playing the WoW TCG with us. Bring Yi Heng along with us.