Seed-3 preview

[Michael (Arcane Tinmen)]

Seed 3 is wrapping up here in the offices and we want to give you a little more of a taste of what is coming down the pipe.

So please meet "Iohane" - she is a tricksy character not too keen on showing what she is all about, so you will have to puzzle your way to her!

Full story here: http://www.thespoils.com/spoils/view...iohane_spoiled

[TriAdX]

How fun! If anyone figures it out post it!

[gr8bookworm]

Ok,

So I am looking at the numbers and reckon that they will correspond with a card in the original seed set so if we look at 90 we get Security System so the cost will be 4.

136 we get Cashiers Window so the Threshold will be 1.
133 takes us to Affectionate Dollkeeper so it will be a 2,2,4 character.
146 gives us Guttersnip so it will either have flip up or can be played whenever you can play a tactic or more likely both.
75 is Prehensile Pirate so the cost will be to remove 4 cards from the game (hopefully from either discard pile) and finally
50 is Black Scourge of the Brine which leads us to Covert?

Am I close??

Mark

[TriAdX]

Shes a SWORD!?

[jty3]

a Rogue Sword? Very interesting!

[Zwidar]

I don't know Mark. Maybe they're using numbers from diff sets. So here are possibilities I pulled from spoils inventory.
Cost: 1,3,4,7 (for a sword I could see 4, but gideon is a sword as well and he only costs 1)
Thresh: 1,2,3 (gideon is cost 1 thresh 3, so if we're going with previous swords I'd have to go with 3 thresh)
Stats: 2/2/4, 3/1/3, 4/4/1 (since it's rogue probably 2/2/4)
First Ability: Play as Tactic or Gore Engine token ability (I'm agreeing with the play as tactic)
Second Ability: Remove 4 cards from game or the Party Clown pay 1 at start trigger (neither of those really seem like rogue abilities, but I'd lean more towards paying 1 to search for something)
Third Ability: black scourge pay for covert, clay node pay to flip down/flipup, moneychanger draw acard (i don't see it drawing a card, i could see covert, but a pay to flip it down/up could be cool.)

The abilities are based off the assumption, it's following card numbers for other character abilities. If it's based off other card types as well that opens a lot more options.

[Oneyus]

I don't care what she does really, I just want the cards shipped so i can buy a play set :P

Side note: I really thought they would "touch up" the art on this card though. Seems pretty rough (like beta art) in comparison with Seed and Seed 2 art, its almost a different style.

[TriAdX]

So what are some of the more likely combonations of stats?

[Bizze]

If those effects gr8bookworm guessed are correct, then yet again the Rogue trade will find itself deprived of some real power. The Warlord Swords are so much better in comparison that it's alomst laughable.

A cost of 4 makes her rather expensive, but I guess the lower costs have already been taken by Gideon, Adriel and Athalamund. Still, for that cost she needs to be better than Athalamund in my opinion. Even with a flip-up of 0 it's not that great as it "costs" 4 to play her as a resource anyway.

So, what does she get for that cost? Speed 4 is good, but 2/2 Str/Life is not good for that cost. It should have been at least 3/3 to put her on par with Scout.

Play at tactic speed... well. Yeah, that's good I suppose, but to make it real good she needs more power or a Dollkeeper-like effect. Otherwise Gideon, Adriel, Athalamund and each and every Stiffbone will laugh at her. And get away with it.

Removing 4 cards in opponent's discard pile - yeah, that's a double-edged sword. It's a great effect but if it's a mandatory cost, it limits how soon you can play her. If it's your own discard pile, it sucks, so I hope it's not. In combination with the flip-up ability and playing her at tactic speed, you could respond to a lot of things, so this could be the best usage for her. The only problem is that she won't be doing much good on the field then, but hide in the shadows of the resource pile until she is needed. Perhaps that's her true role?

Covert is great if you can switch it on. If not, Rogue gets the fastest covert char, but it's practically meaningless. With a high speed and playable at tactic speed, you would want to use her for sudden blocks and if she's permanently covert, well.. you won't be blocking much...


I really hope gr8bookworm is wrong in his guessing...


Anyone else got any thoughts on her so far?

[Roll2Dice]

I'm not going to get too involved here, 'cause I know....stuff....

But, man, are you gonna be surprised when you see her in the flesh....

AHem... I mean.... Keep guessing. You're on the right track. Or not...

I've already said too much....

I'm going to go away now....

Bye....