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Yea I saw that. I expect booster boxes of awakening to be at $300 in April. Kind of wish i'd held onto mine. I don't expect singles to get much higher than what they are though. For some reason people would rather pay more for a blind booster box then the singles from a booster box. People can be weird. The only singles I expect to get higher would be Sith Holocron, Holdout Blaster and Jetpack. I think the two best decks going into worlds would be the Force Villain deck and the Jango/Bala-tik variant decks.
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ShowTime posted:Yea I saw that. I expect booster boxes of awakening to be at $300 in April. Kind of wish i'd held onto mine. This is exactly why Game of Thrones didn't take off here. Even though it was a great game and everyone I demoed it to loved it, everyone said no sir when they found out there weren't randomized booster packs to buy. It's also why, even though there are enough singles in my LGS's showcase to make at least three complete decks, everyone just looks at them, frowns, and laments that they can't play because the store doesn't have any packs. I think I'm going to pull the trigger and buy two Force Chokes, two Kylo's Saber, and another Vader.
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Feb 19, 2017 16:50
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ShowTime posted:I think the two best decks going into worlds would be the Force Villain deck and the Jango/Bala-tik variant decks. Poe/Rey dominates both of these decks handily.
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Feb 19, 2017 18:39
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BJPaskoff posted:A source from someone on Facebook who was at ToyFair said: I wonder how the total print runs of SoR and Awakenings will compare. I'm still assuming there will be a big reprint to meet demand (because FFG probably wants to get in on some of this profit, too) but maybe it will continue along the early magic analogy and there just will be some set eventually that is not as scarce like The Dark was.
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Feb 19, 2017 18:57
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fozzy fosbourne posted:I wonder how the total print runs of SoR and Awakenings will compare. I'm still assuming there will be a big reprint to meet demand (because FFG probably wants to get in on some of this profit, too) but maybe it will continue along the early magic analogy and there just will be some set eventually that is not as scarce like The Dark was. I think that'd be flagrantly stupid in modern times, and I don't see any indication that they're planning it. If they do that, I'd expect a rapid adoption of a tournament standard that simply doesn't allow Awakenings cards (accompanied by an announcement of a future rotation schedule). I think that'd also be way less good than just printing more Awakenings, but if they simply can't fit more into the production schedule, it'd be a solution. But I don't expect them to power creep significantly enough that the top Awakenings cards stop being critical to decks, so the growth of tournaments will absolutely be stunted if they let them go the way of early Magic sets without rotating them out quickly.
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The facebook SW Destiny marketplace that I sold some boxes through has been a fun place this morning. A guy posted a picture of a full case of 6 boxes, asking for $1,200 for the lot. Then a handful of people had MELTDOWNS and at least one guy got banned. I wonder if Spirit of Rebellion is going to have the same availability issues.
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I had a box of what I thought was empty wrappers in my car. Turns out there were three packs still in them! I'm giving out one tonight at random at my Destiny tournament to try to bribe people to come out and play. People have decks, they just don't play because there's no packs. The tournament's in Selden, NY, so if anyone's around there, ask me for more information.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:08
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BJPaskoff posted:I had a box of what I thought was empty wrappers in my car. Turns out there were three packs still in them! I'm giving out one tonight at random at my Destiny tournament to try to bribe people to come out and play. People have decks, they just don't play because there's no packs. Post the expression of the lucky bb8 winner please!
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canyoneer posted:The facebook SW Destiny marketplace that I sold some boxes through has been a fun place this morning. A guy posted a picture of a full case of 6 boxes, asking for $1,200 for the lot. Then a handful of people had MELTDOWNS and at least one guy got banned. $1200 isn't even much of a bulk discount though. You'd think you'd get a bit knocked off for buying all of them at once. Are people just choosing to ignore reality when it comes to prices? Everyone can go to Ebay and search for themselves. Boxes are $200 at least and are only going to rise (though I think the cap is coming up soon, at some point people just won't pay. That point is probably at about $220-$230). There is something to be said with purchasing on Ebay and getting a buyer guarantee, which you don't necessarily have on Facebook.
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ShowTime posted:$1200 isn't even much of a bulk discount though. You'd think you'd get a bit knocked off for buying all of them at once. I agree, that probably isn't the right price for almost anyone. Guy *might* have sold them one by one at $200/ea eventually, but there's probably nobody willing to pay $200/box who is also looking for 6 boxes.
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Is anyone interested in doing some value trades for rares -> legendaries to help me fill out my gaps? I'm looking for the following: Captain Phasma Commanding Presence Darth Vader Jabba the Hutt Crime Lord Launch Bay Luke Skywalker One with the Force Han Solo Thermal Detonator
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Freaking western Long Island, man. All the stores down there are at least 40 minutes away from me, but it's where all the gaming happens that isn't the top tier of games (your Magic, Pokemon, Warhammer 40k, etc.). I went there tonight to play some Destiny, and there were nine players while I struggle to get more than two people besides myself to show up. I brought Han/Rey because I figured it was tier 2-ish enough and expected lots of Vader and Jango. Apparently everyone had similar thoughts, because there wasn't a single Jango (that I remember seeing). I went 3-1, with my only loss to a mirror match where my opponent looped Second Chances better than I could. Action economy and being able to claim to get that Second Chance back is the only thing that matters in that mirror match. There were only four rounds, and the top two got prizes in store credit. I thought both the top two were 4-0, but that can't happen with nine players, right? Must've been a 4-0 and a 3-1 who got second on breakers. It sucks that I didn't get anything for 3-1, but at least it was valuable tournament experience.
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Feb 24, 2017 05:50
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I avoided getting into Star Wars Destiny because I was worried it wouldn't have much lasting potential. Does this seem to be the case, or is it picking up steam?
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I avoided getting into Star Wars Destiny because I was worried it wouldn't have much lasting potential. Does this seem to be the case, or is it picking up steam? You literally can't pick up the game unless you want to pay insane prices. There is zero stock of stuff, and not because of it being a huge game. They made so little of it and can't produce more in a timely manner, so the scene is small and stagnant. Play online or print a proxy set. The game is good but FFG sucks at production.
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Feb 26, 2017 00:23
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Some stores in my area still have some stock.
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It's a very good strategy game. As long as they are careful about balance, power creep and production runs, it will be around for some time to come. It is their flagship CCG and is based on Star Wars. Lots of things about it just work.
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Feb 26, 2017 02:28
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I like how fun it is and how well balanced it is, every game seems to come down to the wire if both players are equal.
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Feb 26, 2017 02:33
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Played all day today. The game has a really great flow with the short downtime between turns and the drama of all the dice rolls on both sides. Game owns, wish it was more available and not a ccg, but alas
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Feb 26, 2017 02:52
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Feb 26, 2017 03:00
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Feb 26, 2017 03:00
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I have a feeling their L5R remake will use the same card/dice system but will be a LCG. So we may get a LCG version of this game, just in a different universe.
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Feb 26, 2017 03:14
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Grievous gets murdered so fast, lol. We threw together Grievous/Dooku and Poe/Rey decks and tweaked the Grievous deck all day but he never got to use his ability. Poe is really great. He has good dice, 12 health, and his special is fun.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Grievous gets murdered so fast, lol. We threw together Grievous/Dooku and Poe/Rey decks and tweaked the Grievous deck all day but he never got to use his ability. Yeah, he does drop fast. His dice are so solid and his ability is good enough that he really scares people. I rarely expect him to survive attacking more than two or three times. Maybe hard mulligan for force training and try to use that to get some shields out early? Or go for dug in?
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thocan posted:Yeah, he does drop fast. His dice are so solid and his ability is good enough that he really scares people. I rarely expect him to survive attacking more than two or three times. Maybe hard mulligan for force training and try to use that to get some shields out early? Or go for dug in? Yeah, we had Dug In, Isolation, and Hidden in Shadow in the deck but he still got murked. Hidden in Shadow is probably too slow. I think I might try Personal Escort
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Yeah, we had Dug In, Isolation, and Hidden in Shadow in the deck but he still got murked. Hidden in Shadow is probably too slow. I think I might try Personal Escort It's still tough. The deck is kinda slow to get control out. I usually just accept that greivous is dead, and try to get him to do as much damage as possible on the way out.
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thocan posted:It's still tough. The deck is kinda slow to get control out. I usually just accept that greivous is dead, and try to get him to do as much damage as possible on the way out. It did a little better today. The Personal Escorts help, I think, but probably just as important has been just ruthlessly overriding upgrades into Mind Probe. Unrelated, I wonder if they'll eventually give cards action abilities or trigger effects that could be paid for with resources or maybe dice. I think Lukas mentioned that there might be cards like that in SoR. Looking at Olivia Voldaren in another thread, it made me think about how early Magic cards looked compared to the cards of today, and what a card like that would look like in destiny down the road.
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There are definitely cards in the new set with alternative triggers. There is a blue support that blanks dice when you roll a shield or a yellow upgrade that adds a shield when someone resolves a ranged dice. Interesting alternate triggers with more complex timing interactions. Should be good.
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Rumor mill: My local store is opening up pre-orders tomorrow at $86/box for Spirit of Rebellion. They also stated in the same announcement that their policy is to open up pre-orders at exactly 30 days from release date. Putting those two together, I'm expecting that we see SoR in the last week of March
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canyoneer posted:Rumor mill: When did Awakenings officially release again? My bet is SoR releases 4 months out from that. I think they will try to have a more consistent schedule with these releases since they have a film schedule to work around and they probably want to avoid the delays that they had with aGoT 2 (and conquest). AGoT totally died around here during the big delay between core sets at gen con and the first expansion edit: according to this thing, it was end of November: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/10/3/embrace-your-destiny/ So yeah, end of March makes sense. fozzy fosbourne fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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They are suppose to be announcing something this week and it probably is the SoR release date. My LGS has been doing preorders for awhile though, so that bit about opening them up a month before release isn't exactly true. They've had their orders in with their distributors for awhile now, just with no release date. Being in March kind of fits with the restock of starters planned for March. End of March could work and if not then, end of April. I still have access to my work email and nothing in there about it on todays solicits.
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One final print run of Awakenings arriving in June. Then no more, ever. A new core set is coming at the end of the year. All expansions will be one printing and then nothing. People on the Facebook groups are flipping their collective shits over the news. A core set rotation is par for the course in CCGs, but many Destiny players don't have a CCG background. It's possible the one printing of expansions might be enough, but then again this is Fantasy Flight we're talking about here. Annual core sets to rotate out bad cards and reprint the ones they want to keep in the game is a smart move.
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Yeah the rotation isn't that surprising but a single print run when they have shown the run wasn't enough...
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bowmore posted:One single print run of expansions sounds insane Because it is. I've been trying to buy product for this game since it came out and have only managed to get the starter sets. If the availability of the future print runs is anything like it's been, I don't see this game thriving at all. Secondary prices will sky rocket and lock new people (IE kids) out of getting into the game. The base set reprint every year is great and all, but that's once a year and what if you can't get any product from the newly-only-one-print-run expansions? Nothing about this sounds good for growing the game other than secondary market prices which FFG doesn't make money on...
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bowmore posted:One single print run of expansions sounds insane I'm trying to be optimistic, but if Spirit of Rebellion sounds like it's not going to be in stores, I'm going to sell any boxes I preordered when the price spikes and then enjoy Awakenings as its own game or build a cube or something, I don't know. The game is too good and fun to write it off completely.
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I must be skipping over it. Where does it say there is a set rotation? I just see they will print a new core set along with new expansions after a year, not that the old core set or expansions rotate out. Edit: To clarify, i'm asking if they say in there that the old core set and expansions will no longer be tournament legal. I understand the print runs rotating out, but will the older stuff not be playable? Edit 2: Also, it says SoR in May. Skipped over that until a reread. ShowTime fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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frgildan posted:If they plan on replacing the starters every year does that mean Rey,Finn,Kylo and the trooper are cycling out of competitive as well? Have they commented specifically yet about what's legal to play? I don't think they have said anything regarding that yet, just availability of cards. I wonder how many boxes of Spirit of Rebellion will be printed in comparison to Awakenings. I'm still getting flashbacks to early magic here. Wish this game wasn't a ccg!
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ShowTime posted:I must be skipping over it. Where does it say there is a set rotation? I just see they will print a new core set along with new expansions after a year, not that the old core set or expansions rotate out. "Base set" usually has that meaning in TCGs, so I'm making a logical assumption there. They'll probably have formats, because some people are waiting until June for Awakenings and then the new core set is (in theory) replacing it in November/December, six months later. It would be smart for them to reprint a lot of Awakenings in the new core set to make sure people can keep playing with those cards, also. The one-print-run situation is FFG trying to mask the fact that their printing capacities are much smaller than what Wizards of the Coast has. They know they can't print two sets at once, so to get expansions out at reasonable rate, they have to run the next set before the printing press even cools down from churning out Spirit of the Rebellion dice and cards.
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People are going crazy with this news. The subreddit thread on this makes it seem like the world is on fire. I had some Ebay auctions up and I took them down. I'm not sure if this is going to seriously harm the game or make prices skyrocket. I'm glad i'm not too heavily invested in case the bottom does fall out.
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