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Altered Corner And So It Begins · Archons Corner

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Speaker 1: Look, they said that I couldn't do it, So I
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Speaker 1: went into did it? W zona you nobbing?
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Speaker 2: Winning?
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Speaker 1: Top of the World is globeusy spinny spinning if you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've been on a mission.
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Speaker 3: Mission.
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Speaker 1: So okay, let's get it. Got a little time on
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Speaker 1: my hands with a wristwatch. I don't got time for
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Speaker 1: the breaks and the pitstop breaks through the dad.
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Speaker 4: All right, what's going on? Everybody? I am the one,
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Speaker 4: the only the w oh okay, I e I have
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Speaker 4: a new cast of misfits here, five of them. One
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Speaker 4: you might recognize weird weirdly enough. But first off, I
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Speaker 4: want to kind of go over this. Obviously, this is
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Speaker 4: going on the Archives Corner channel. This is going to
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Speaker 4: be Altered Corner for the foreseeable future. He forg is
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Speaker 4: not going away as the Archives Corner focus. But I
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Speaker 4: feel like every Tuesday, maybe we bring an old friend
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Speaker 4: back in and we do what he is doing now.
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Speaker 4: So Z, what are you doing now?
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Speaker 5: Well, hey, guys, I am now plane Altered. It is
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Speaker 5: a brand new card game. Today is going to be
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Speaker 5: our first podcast with our new misfits. We might have
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Speaker 5: actually have another one join us next weekcause some of
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Speaker 5: the keyboards. Folks will recognize he's his young gun, and
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Speaker 5: we'll talk about that here in a second. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: I am full on board into Altered. I had initially
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Speaker 5: got into it as an investment, but uh, I just
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Speaker 5: love the game. The gameplay is actually really much more
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Speaker 5: engaging than I had planned on it or thought I
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Speaker 5: would initially would be. So yeah, we'll be talking about
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Speaker 5: some of that as we go along. But yeah, we've
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Speaker 5: got some other folks here with me.
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Speaker 4: We'll want to we'll go through our brand new set
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Speaker 4: of misfits. One you might recognize the noble one mister Zach. Hey,
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Speaker 4: we have Ogre. Hey, he has a going and we
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Speaker 4: have coal.
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Speaker 6: Hello everybody.
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Speaker 4: So we will have a new hopefully a new misfit
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Speaker 4: next week. We always like joining misfits to the Misfit
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Speaker 4: Army and Z kind of go over how you want
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Speaker 4: to run this on a week to week basis.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so on our weekly structure, of course, we're gonna
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Speaker 5: have some other stuff come up, especially there was like
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Speaker 5: an Ama recently that was launched today, so we will
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Speaker 5: talk about that next week in addition to our weekly cadence.
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Speaker 5: But each week we're gonna have a unique of the week.
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Speaker 5: One of the big things about the Altered Card Game
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Speaker 5: is it doesn't have unique decks that a lot of
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Speaker 5: audience is familiar with right here, but it has unique cards.
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Speaker 5: So there are cards that are printed one and every
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Speaker 5: eight packs or so that no one else will ever
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Speaker 5: own that card. So obviously there could be spikes, but
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Speaker 5: there can be spikes up and down. So each week
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Speaker 5: we're gonna feature a special card that caught our eye
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Speaker 5: for whatever reason, and Ogre is going to kind of
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Speaker 5: take on leading that segment. He won't always be the
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Speaker 5: one that found the card, but I think he ever
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Speaker 5: will enjoy his reactions to the cards. Because we all
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Speaker 5: have in the in the local server about our keyboard service,
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Speaker 5: I mean our Altered server here, and then with them
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Speaker 5: how many podcasts casts we do, like.
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Speaker 4: What only five years worth? Not a big deal?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot? And then there will be a deck
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Speaker 5: construction segment. We're all going to pipe in on that
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Speaker 5: because we're gonna have different things that we are kind
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Speaker 5: of attuned to or searching for. I will be the
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Speaker 5: leading that segment. The segment that is we'll all kind
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Speaker 5: of talk about competitive talk. There's a y I suck
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Speaker 5: it Altered segment that will be led by our misfit
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Speaker 5: that will be joining us next week, and then we'll
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Speaker 5: always covered events for recent and upcoming. Cole is our
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Speaker 5: local event runner for the Altered Texas discord that we
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Speaker 5: have over here, so he'll be talking about those, but
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Speaker 5: not just the ones on our server, the ones that
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Speaker 5: are happened in real life and around the around the world,
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Speaker 5: as well as far as like the actual physical play too.
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Speaker 5: I think I left went off of our list. We're
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Speaker 5: also going to have a meta liner that's going to
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Speaker 5: be the person that's talking about like the prime meta deck,
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Speaker 5: and Zak is my new front runner for Altered. He
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Speaker 5: has been crushing it, so he will have his own
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Speaker 5: little segment about playing the top meta deck and like
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Speaker 5: things that he's learned, the lines he's played in kind
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Speaker 5: of matchups to look out for as the I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's a constructive game, so there's always going to be
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Speaker 5: a meta deck. So Zak might be shifting from time
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Speaker 5: to time to whatever that deck is, but he will
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Speaker 5: be our this is what the meta is, and this
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Speaker 5: is what you're going to have to come at. You're
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Speaker 5: going to try to beat it. As he's crushing souls
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Speaker 5: out there, and that's generally going to be our weekly structure,
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Speaker 5: with extra tidbits added in based on what's going on
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Speaker 5: in the world of altered as. It's brand new. It's
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Speaker 5: only been around a month.
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Speaker 4: All right, And what that being said is it time
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Speaker 4: to go to oger with the unique of the week.
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Speaker 4: That flow is real nice. By the way Unique of
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Speaker 4: the Week I do. It was soothing to my ears.
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Speaker 4: It feels nice.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So well, we're going to be kind of obviously
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Speaker 2: this is our first time, so we've got a lot
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Speaker 2: to learn in terms of like what we'll be looking
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Speaker 2: at in the future. But I do want to set
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Speaker 2: a few standards in terms of how I react to these.
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Speaker 2: I'll do my best.
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Speaker 7: Just go for it.
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Speaker 5: How do you react to this? First read the card?
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Speaker 2: Okay, so today we're looking at Cat's a quaddle out
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Speaker 2: of Ortis, And anybody that's played into Ortis recently knows
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Speaker 2: Kats is pretty good just on its own. This guy
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Speaker 2: is going to cost you five from hand six from reserves,
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Speaker 2: a little bit more expensive than regular three two two
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Speaker 2: stats not great, but he's a bureaucrat. You're not expecting
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Speaker 2: big numbers here. Where it gets really and truly ridiculous
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Speaker 2: is the ability text when an opponent draws one or
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Speaker 2: more cards or does resupply create two Ortis recruits in
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Speaker 2: my expedition, Okay, this is two. I did, in fact
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Speaker 2: say two. Now that effect in and of itself. Listen,
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Speaker 2: we've seen these uniques before. They're out there. You know
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get hit with soldiers. It is what it is,
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Speaker 2: right like, you're to deal with that.
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Speaker 5: But that's double value already, right, that's twice as good
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Speaker 5: as every other quests in the game.
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Speaker 2: It's it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Now play around
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Speaker 2: it like you can. You can try to limit how
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Speaker 2: many times you're gonna draw or resupply outside of you know,
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Speaker 2: the normal start of turn things.
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Speaker 5: Yes, you can hamper yourself.
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Speaker 7: Yeh yeh yeah, you just you just crippled yourself just
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Speaker 7: by playing. Try to play around this card.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes that's what you got to do, right with
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Speaker 2: these ridiculous blue uniques.
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Speaker 7: But then.
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Speaker 2: At lace there's more draw three cards. Let everybody take
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Speaker 2: just a moment, just a moment, take this in three cards. Now,
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Speaker 2: at the start of every turn, you get to draw
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Speaker 2: two cards, and then you may add one of those
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Speaker 2: cards into your manna so that you can actually play
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Speaker 2: the game right, So at most you're probably by default
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Speaker 2: gaining one additional card to spend during your turn. You've
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Speaker 2: got your stuff in reserve, you've got whatever this card says.
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Speaker 2: At dusk, which is at the end of your turn,
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Speaker 2: draw three cards. Why is that important? Well, it's three
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Speaker 2: cards first of all, in a faction that would just
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Speaker 2: love to beat you up with various options and bureaucrats
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Speaker 2: that they can throw at you, it gives you those
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Speaker 2: cards right at the end of your turn going into
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Speaker 2: your next one. So you have additional choices in terms
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Speaker 2: of when you draw those two cards, what am I
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Speaker 2: going to put into mana, Like, what am I prioritizing
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Speaker 2: turn to turn at dusk? Typically, like you're going to
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Speaker 2: see some other like sabotage effects that are occurring then,
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Speaker 2: So you're getting the this reactionary time period to sort
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Speaker 2: of like set yourself up for the next turn. Is
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Speaker 2: it as good as like at noon draw three cards?
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Speaker 2: Probably not, but well I think it's better you think.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm on that.
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Speaker 5: Let's break the down the dust part of this, because
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Speaker 5: if this is a bureaucrat and this was fire and
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Speaker 5: at noon. That means it's gonna happen once one time
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Speaker 5: per time you play it. Now, they the bureaucrats worked
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Speaker 5: the most of us experienced playing a war that has
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Speaker 5: played well Altered for anyone that hasn't played Alter yet,
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Speaker 5: like it's a hero that allows their people go to sleep,
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Speaker 5: which means that it is going to be on the
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Speaker 5: board for two dusks. So this one play of five Mana,
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Speaker 5: which is mid game, allows you to draw six cards.
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Speaker 5: And like, the main thing I wanted to say here
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Speaker 5: is if you're newer to Altered or even if you've
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Speaker 5: been playing Alter for since the release back in September
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Speaker 5: or early September, like car draw in this game is
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Speaker 5: more valuable than any other TCG I've actually played because
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Speaker 5: of the way the Mana thing works, and you just
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Speaker 5: often like you just run out of cards quite often
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Speaker 5: in certain factions. It is definitely more than double as
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Speaker 5: value of a card draw in KeyForge. I didn't play
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Speaker 5: Pokemon that long, but it is so I'm not I
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Speaker 5: don't even remember how many cards you.
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Speaker 4: So many cards that allow you, yeah, clip through your stuff.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they could search for stuff too, Like I feel
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Speaker 5: like the card Dorall here is probably fifty to seventy
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Speaker 5: five percent more important than magic. I did play that
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Speaker 5: a bit carddrall was important there, but like overall, drawing
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Speaker 5: three cards is fastly more valuable than basically anything I've
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Speaker 5: seen in this game, like there as there are ways
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Speaker 5: that actually increase your manipool that I think are way
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Speaker 5: worse than this three cards, Like I will take three
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Speaker 5: cards over a mana any day. Any game can.
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Speaker 2: Put this in a very simple perspective, honestly, because as
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Speaker 2: as we discuss it, he's convincing me to hate it
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Speaker 2: more than I did before. So in Cards in Purple
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Speaker 2: we have a we have a very simple card called
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Speaker 2: Magical Training.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna let you spend one manna to draw a card,
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Speaker 2: and then it's going to go to your reserve where
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Speaker 2: you can spend two man or is it three three
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Speaker 2: for the common three, So a total cost of four
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Speaker 2: mana spent will get you two cards drawn, right, And.
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Speaker 5: That's generally the ratio across the game. If you look
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Speaker 5: at any card in the game that has a draw effect,
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Speaker 5: it normally has like crappy stats costs to you more
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Speaker 5: for a draw of one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get like you get some outliers, right, Like
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Speaker 2: you've got your baba's and you've got some other things
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Speaker 2: that are going to get get it for you to discount.
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Speaker 2: But that's the thing that they're good at. This one
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Speaker 2: is going to give you three cards, which is again
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Speaker 2: we priced two cards drawn at four mana right, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so let's just take that four out of his cost, right,
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Speaker 2: and you're only paying that cost once and then you're
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Speaker 2: sleeping him and getting him two turns. Right, So so
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Speaker 2: let's assume you pay that that five. You've effectively spent
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Speaker 2: one for three to two stats, which is still way above right.
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Speaker 2: It's great, and none of that is taken into consideration.
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Speaker 2: The other passive ability that's sitting on that is.
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Speaker 5: Better than the original.
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Speaker 2: So all in all, yeah, ogre stamp of busted right there,
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Speaker 2: this is our inaugural totally boc is unique that somebody
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Speaker 2: managed to find and put in a deck. Good for
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Speaker 2: that person whoever owns this. I'm not sure which player
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Speaker 2: this Blunk Pluka Pluka great Heart.
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Speaker 5: We'll talk about later. Yeah, he would not sell it.
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Speaker 4: It's going to be some twelve year old that's going
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Speaker 4: to put it in like a Nike shoe box, right, no, because.
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Speaker 2: That one's absolutely out there haunting people. This is a
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Speaker 2: live grenade.
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Speaker 5: Is it is very live?
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Speaker 4: That is the what do we call it? That's like
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Speaker 4: the mantra and keyboard, like the most busted decks or
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Speaker 4: in like somebody's shoebox that like is not when they're
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Speaker 4: attic and they just have them all. But this one's
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Speaker 4: wrecking wrecking tournament stats, huh.
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Speaker 5: For sure, for sure, Wilch. We'll talk about soon. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: if you actually use the math we just applied to this,
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Speaker 5: Like so based on his reduction in power and its
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Speaker 5: increased ability, that should have been a four or five
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Speaker 5: cost at three two two with the extra token. Then
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Speaker 5: if you a factor in the three cards, not ignoring
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Speaker 5: bureaucrat just once, he should have actually costed ten eleven,
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Speaker 5: Like mathematically, it should have costed you ten manua and
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Speaker 5: then eleven mana to match the cost of the factions
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Speaker 5: that actually draw.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and let's let's be honest, like obviously we're
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Speaker 2: discounting a few like there's a there's a bunch of factors, right,
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Speaker 2: like many things matter in this game, is in all games.
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Speaker 2: And while we are somewhat presenting like a magical Christmas land.
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Speaker 2: Take on the value you're to get from this card,
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Speaker 2: because the reality is like some you could pay five
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Speaker 2: and then somebody's gonna spend three and remove it. Like
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Speaker 2: that's gonna happen regularly enough. But when it doesn't, this
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Speaker 2: thing is gonna overperform to a degree that is just absurd.
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Speaker 2: If you look at some of the other uniques that
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Speaker 2: are out there and are like the ones that you're
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Speaker 2: frequently going to see in the pool, like this is.
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Speaker 2: This is one of those like golden Geese that's gonna
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Speaker 2: make Pluka lots and lots of tournament points.
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Speaker 5: Two days before that tournament I lost to him. He
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Speaker 5: played this on he played meadow turn one, and on
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Speaker 5: turn two he played it. I immediately went to concede,
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Speaker 5: and it wouldn't let me. It gave me the warning,
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Speaker 5: it's too early to concede this game.
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Speaker 2: But and that's it. I think that's that's sort of
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Speaker 2: what we'll do right well.
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Speaker 4: For people who are like listening beyond right, because like you,
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Speaker 4: we are going to get some key forgers in here.
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Speaker 4: So the heroes, so at the beginning of every game,
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Speaker 4: you have a hero and a companion, right, and your
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Speaker 4: and your ultimate goal is to get them to meet
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Speaker 4: on a board.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 4: You can do some more research beyond that. But the
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Speaker 4: big thing in all of this, and I kind of
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Speaker 4: lost where I was going with this, that's kind of
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Speaker 4: your big thing, right, You're trying to get your characters,
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Speaker 4: your your hero and you're you're reuniting them, right, I
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Speaker 4: guess is the way.
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Speaker 5: That you're exploring a new territory. You're meeting at the
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Speaker 5: middle to compare notes or something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's some really deep lure, like.
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Speaker 4: I'm looking at and this is more lower than I've
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Speaker 4: gotten in a while.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot, there's a lot.
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Speaker 4: The world buildings seems.
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Speaker 5: There's like one hundred something characters and every character has
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Speaker 5: their own story or something.
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Speaker 2: It is is a lot.
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Speaker 4: So on top of that, there are there is going
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Speaker 4: to be So there's like kind of your standard card, right,
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Speaker 4: everybody can get these, you know, they're they're just kind
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Speaker 4: of your your standard cards. And then there's unique. So
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Speaker 4: what we're spot talking about here is the unique being
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Speaker 4: there is one of one in the world for this card.
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Speaker 5: Correct, yep, yes, this card will never be printed, Okay.
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Speaker 4: And then on top of that, I haven't done a
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Speaker 4: ton of research. My my altered research is a little waning.
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Speaker 4: At the current time, I personally am getting ready for
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Speaker 4: a key Forge world, so I haven't gotten a ton
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Speaker 4: of time to go out there and do much. But
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Speaker 4: heroes will if from what I understood or from the
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Speaker 4: brief notes I've been reading, certain heroes will no longer
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Speaker 4: see play, am I correct, Like they're gonna get points
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Speaker 4: and then they'll be retired. Similar to question blood, oh.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 5: I don't think we.
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Speaker 2: I don't think we have any like firm idea of
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Speaker 2: how they're going to approach. I guess we would call
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Speaker 2: it a rotation, like I haven't seen them discussing the
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Speaker 2: thing that I have not either in terms of like
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Speaker 2: I mean a month, so you.
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Speaker 5: Know, well, they don't even plan on starting OPE until
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Speaker 5: like a real official LOPE until what will call was
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Speaker 5: it January next year?
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Speaker 6: So for competitive they've just always kind of said twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty five. I don't think there's a hard target yet.
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Speaker 6: And for retiring heroes, I would say, just based on
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Speaker 6: the news that no new heroes will come out until
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Speaker 6: set four, I don't think they'll retire heroes. I don't
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Speaker 6: even think, honestly, any heroes will be changed at all.
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Speaker 6: There may be certain cards.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll see. It's it's I think the it's
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Speaker 2: it's very new in the game's lifespan, right like we're
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Speaker 2: we're just now sort of starting to sink our teeth
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Speaker 2: into the first eighteen Yeah, and I.
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Speaker 4: Think there's three per faction, if one three per faction exactly.
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Speaker 2: And they're doing a lot of learning right along with us,
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Speaker 2: right like, this is this is their first card game.
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Speaker 2: They've got some some industry bets on their design team
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Speaker 2: and on their marketing team, and they've they've definitely got
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Speaker 2: some like resources they're tapping that other first time card
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Speaker 2: game creators didn't have access to. But I think that
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Speaker 2: they're going to have to see how we all respond
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Speaker 2: to the game that they're giving us, because it's it's
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Speaker 2: a little bit different than you know, a lot of
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Speaker 2: what people have played before they start making decisions and
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Speaker 2: committing it.
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Speaker 4: And again, it's a very strange card game, right like,
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Speaker 4: this is a very strange. By strange, I mean, it's
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Speaker 4: not your it's not typical, right like, this is again
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Speaker 4: much like Keyfarge, I hate that that's where my background
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Speaker 4: is right. Now, it's a race, right, it's not necessarily
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Speaker 4: you're not attacking your opponent. This is about moving pieces
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Speaker 4: as opposed to dealing life point damage.
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Speaker 5: I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So I'm looking at some of the cards because I
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Speaker 4: bought at gen Con, which I was at this year,
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Speaker 4: I bought the uh the girl who flips coins or
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Speaker 4: rolls dice Nevenka.
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Speaker 5: Sure, yep.
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Speaker 4: She hasn't even opened out of her plastic yet. Because
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Speaker 4: my group hates new things because we're all old men
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Speaker 4: and change bad. So you know, it is what it is.
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Speaker 4: But what one day I'll get out into the open
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Speaker 4: and play this stuff. I just I remember playing with Domino,
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Speaker 4: who is another key Forge friend who opened me up
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Speaker 4: to it, and I'm like this, I don't know if
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Speaker 4: she's actually good or not, but like I get the
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Speaker 4: feelings she's going to ruin somebody's day at like a
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Speaker 4: large tournament one day, like because like.
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Speaker 6: Probably the person playing her, she's gonna ruin the owner's
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Speaker 6: day is as possible.
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Speaker 4: But like, you know, you're gonna have that guy who
18:49
Speaker 4: like has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this deck, right,
18:54
Speaker 4: and he's on and he's and he's going and like
18:58
Speaker 4: all the roles just come out and it's just it's
19:02
Speaker 4: gonna be a bad day. I don't know. That's probably
19:04
Speaker 4: that you guys can tell me if I'm wrong on
19:06
Speaker 4: that one.
19:07
Speaker 5: I will never play that hero. I actually am really
19:09
Speaker 5: bad at their names, like the hero names. I know
19:11
Speaker 5: actually a lot of the cards. I know most cards
19:14
Speaker 5: in the game, but the hero names I suck at,
19:16
Speaker 5: so I I know them by their ability. I call
19:19
Speaker 5: that hero snake Eyes.
19:24
Speaker 8: That's my name for Hervenka is a hell of a
19:27
Speaker 8: leader if you roll high, though.
19:30
Speaker 4: I was gonna say if if you roll well, like
19:34
Speaker 4: she is an RNG engine, and I just know like
19:36
Speaker 4: one day it's gonna be like all my luck goes
19:38
Speaker 4: into ruining someone's day, and that that I run really well.
19:43
Speaker 8: Actually, if you can get the permanent on board and
19:47
Speaker 8: online early by like turn one, turn two, the rest
19:50
Speaker 8: of the game, you get to pick and choose your
19:52
Speaker 8: bonuses all gain long, so it's it's great. Like when
19:56
Speaker 8: I need to anchor something, I can make sure I
19:57
Speaker 8: get it anchored, or I need to lose something, I
19:59
Speaker 8: make sure I get boosted that permanent. The bastion, the
20:03
Speaker 8: Lyra Bastian. That thing makes the world of a difference,
20:06
Speaker 8: and it makes her so consistent.
20:10
Speaker 4: The other one I'm now looking at. I now want
20:13
Speaker 4: to find whoever Fenn and Crowbar are joined the Crowbar squad.
20:21
Speaker 4: Nothing's more cool. I'm guessing Crowbar is the pumpkin guitarist.
20:25
Speaker 4: Maybe he's a bass that could be a bass that's
20:29
Speaker 4: kind of just cool. I'm probably going to be the
20:33
Speaker 4: perpetual nube to this game because I'm probably going to
20:38
Speaker 4: play it more casual than anything else, because that's just
20:42
Speaker 4: where we're at right now. Maybe one day we'll sink in,
20:45
Speaker 4: maybe we'll have something in Chicago and me and Ze
20:48
Speaker 4: can meet up once again.
20:49
Speaker 7: For sure, it does play very nice casually, if you know,
20:52
Speaker 7: if that is the shtick that you want to stick on.
20:54
Speaker 4: And you know, rolling dice. To me, nothing, nothing is
20:57
Speaker 4: better than being able to hit on a luck, you
21:01
Speaker 4: know what I mean, just to make somebody cry. But
21:04
Speaker 4: that's that's be it. That's okay. So we've kind of
21:06
Speaker 4: gotten that overview. I feel like we should have done
21:08
Speaker 4: that first, but that's not good.
21:11
Speaker 5: I do want to introduce another missfit that just joined us.
21:14
Speaker 5: This is Ethereal He is the owner of the survey
21:17
Speaker 5: here and thanks for all of the support he's shown
21:20
Speaker 5: in one of the another local Texas. Actually, so I
21:24
Speaker 5: feel like you guys have as in Texas. We have
21:27
Speaker 5: we played cards down here.
21:28
Speaker 2: Bro.
21:29
Speaker 4: I need Yeah, clearly I need to move to Texas because, yeah,
21:32
Speaker 4: I've been saying not not only do you guys have
21:35
Speaker 4: all the card shops on top of that, like you
21:39
Speaker 4: guys start your bucket managers at like one hundred grand,
21:42
Speaker 4: which I am a store manager. Now knowing that like
21:45
Speaker 4: somebody in BUCkies that like runs the meat department is
21:49
Speaker 4: making like the.
21:51
Speaker 5: Guy that sits outside at the car wash that just
21:53
Speaker 5: is their car wash manager, which is literally just sitting
21:56
Speaker 5: there all day makes ninety eight. Yeah, he doesn't do
21:59
Speaker 5: it anything, he just sits there.
22:01
Speaker 4: Texas, Here I come.
22:02
Speaker 2: But before you get too excited, I do want to
22:04
Speaker 2: let you know that the rest of us that don't
22:05
Speaker 2: work at BUCkies are not making that kind of money.
22:08
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, but the stall on that, like I
22:12
Speaker 5: work at Education, I do not.
22:14
Speaker 4: Make I'm just like as Bucky is like a tough
22:16
Speaker 4: place to get into.
22:18
Speaker 5: Uh no, actually they're always hiring.
22:21
Speaker 3: They are literally always hiring.
22:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, they have their own management program and everything. So, yeah,
22:25
Speaker 5: you probably I really wanted to be a BUCkies manage.
22:27
Speaker 4: I've been here for how old are right now? Like
22:31
Speaker 4: fifteen years or something like that. I've been a manager.
22:34
Speaker 4: I think I got the XP and I run I
22:36
Speaker 4: run a bond store in the hood. I think I
22:38
Speaker 4: think I got this.
22:40
Speaker 3: They're opening the world's largest one soon.
22:44
Speaker 4: Maybe zee, I'm moving next door here, let's go. You
22:47
Speaker 4: can hear me.
22:48
Speaker 5: I'm about to have a new house. I can put
22:50
Speaker 5: you up for a little bit.
22:52
Speaker 4: You can hear me.
22:53
Speaker 5: Might No, no, never mind, I forgot about that. No,
22:56
Speaker 5: you can sleep outside in the neighbor's yo.
22:59
Speaker 7: I still you'll hear him outside those Yeah, like more
23:02
Speaker 7: than likely.
23:03
Speaker 5: I mean, let's get to a band down by the river.
23:05
Speaker 4: Let's put it this way for Keith Forage. This year
23:07
Speaker 4: when we go to Minnesota, we had to buy a
23:09
Speaker 4: suite so we could have two rooms.
23:11
Speaker 7: I hear.
23:13
Speaker 6: So the really interesting thing, Wookie that you said is
23:17
Speaker 6: you played Altered at gen Con and you started.
23:21
Speaker 4: I did not play it at gen Con. I got
23:24
Speaker 4: exposed to it on tabletop simulator. One of our one
23:29
Speaker 4: of our mutual friends here is his name is Domino,
23:31
Speaker 4: he might be in the server. I have no idea.
23:33
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, there's a chance that we met
23:36
Speaker 6: and you haven't known it until now.
23:38
Speaker 4: I tried and tried and tried to get into one
23:42
Speaker 4: of their I don't like pre releases. I don't really
23:46
Speaker 4: know what they were calling them. And every time, yeah,
23:49
Speaker 4: whatever they were calling him, and I tried and tried
23:51
Speaker 4: and tried, and I couldn't like for whatever reason, every
23:54
Speaker 4: time I was like, all right, I picked this one.
23:56
Speaker 4: It was like sold out immediately. So between the.
24:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, the road shows had usually just one person running
24:05
Speaker 6: it out of store, so it had a sixteen player limit.
24:09
Speaker 6: I want to say, I could pull up my documentation, but.
24:13
Speaker 8: I forget sixteen person except for like maybe gamers Guild.
24:17
Speaker 8: Easy for Gamers Guild, they had like thirty two and
24:20
Speaker 8: sixty four. That's because they had tons of product and
24:24
Speaker 8: they had tons of staff.
24:27
Speaker 7: Yeah.
24:27
Speaker 4: After a while, I'm like, can I just buy a
24:29
Speaker 4: starter since I can't get in? And they let me,
24:31
Speaker 4: so I bought. I bought that starter because I greatly
24:36
Speaker 4: enjoyed it when I played an online and I thought
24:40
Speaker 4: it was the most fun. It's probably not. I know,
24:43
Speaker 4: it's not the most competitive. Don't anything involving dice is
24:46
Speaker 4: never the most competitive. But I thought it was the
24:49
Speaker 4: most fun out of the ones I played. Hey, that's that's.
24:53
Speaker 2: Like the key factor in enjoying and sticking with a
24:56
Speaker 2: game so competitive or not give it time, like people
25:00
Speaker 2: are out there wanting to roll dice. Eventually, she'll get
25:03
Speaker 2: her time in the spotlight one.
25:05
Speaker 8: I'm curious though, about what's gonna happen with the meta
25:09
Speaker 8: after the major French tournament next week or this coming weekend,
25:13
Speaker 8: because they have ten twenty four players signed up.
25:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's one twenty four max max. Yeah, that's
25:20
Speaker 5: that's it. It's gonna be in.
25:23
Speaker 6: Yep, the uh you want to know the ludo ludo trotter.
25:27
Speaker 6: I have the information up for later.
25:31
Speaker 2: Kind he's flying us all to France so that we
25:32
Speaker 2: can participate, right see, maybe one.
25:35
Speaker 5: Day not today. But it's not a no.
25:41
Speaker 3: He didn't say no. That's right, he didn't say no.
25:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, shall we two uh metal lions with
25:50
Speaker 4: mister Zach.
25:57
Speaker 7: We're not talking about meta lines this week though, right
25:59
Speaker 7: specifically you're.
26:00
Speaker 5: Talking you're talking about the tell us about your events
26:03
Speaker 5: this week? Would you do all right?
26:05
Speaker 7: So Cole put on a alter Texas for the alter
26:09
Speaker 7: Texas Server event on bg A. The BGA platform for
26:15
Speaker 7: running Altered is pretty fault flawless, like they've done a
26:18
Speaker 7: very good job pointing in there and everything seems to
26:21
Speaker 7: be running really well. They had another software before that
26:24
Speaker 7: was privately done, but it wasn't allowing people to import
26:27
Speaker 7: their uniques, which is a very important part of the
26:28
Speaker 7: game if you uh gathered any of that from Ogre's conversation.
26:34
Speaker 7: So in that event, I did play probably the one
26:38
Speaker 7: of the meta decks with the Hero Waru and Mac
26:43
Speaker 7: no not terribly surprising. I did top place with that
26:47
Speaker 7: because of the deck itself. I did end up placing
26:52
Speaker 7: first with that. The second place deck was also a
26:54
Speaker 7: Waru in Mac and I don't remember if I remember
27:00
Speaker 7: third and third, fourth?
27:02
Speaker 5: Who was in second place?
27:05
Speaker 7: Cow's Tippin' Yeah, one of our one of our Dallas
27:09
Speaker 7: area people in the server.
27:13
Speaker 6: Yes, So we did a season zero to test out
27:17
Speaker 6: the tournaments software, and it probably would have been good
27:21
Speaker 6: if I collected more data.
27:24
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm.
27:25
Speaker 5: Just and it worked, Wookie, it worked perfectly.
27:28
Speaker 7: Again.
27:28
Speaker 5: I'm not going to bade on some other right now.
27:32
Speaker 7: This worked. This worked really well, but this was through
27:34
Speaker 7: BGA though yeah, this was this, but they had.
27:37
Speaker 5: To integrate through their sure the system, none of this
27:40
Speaker 5: works unless what is the altered company. It's sort of
27:44
Speaker 5: the economics Equinox, like Equinox had to put like, there
27:48
Speaker 5: is nothing on BJA like this right now, so Equinox
27:51
Speaker 5: did have to do a lot of working with their
27:53
Speaker 5: server people.
27:54
Speaker 2: Should we take just a moment to explain it. I
27:56
Speaker 2: think we've kind of we've beat around the bush a
27:58
Speaker 2: little bit about what they've done, but that the core
28:00
Speaker 2: of it is like BGA on its own board game
28:02
Speaker 2: Arena is a website that you can go to and
28:05
Speaker 2: they offer pretty well scripted tutorials for a lot of
28:10
Speaker 2: board games, but also just the ability to play both
28:12
Speaker 2: in real time and asynchronously with people everywhere. Right, Not
28:17
Speaker 2: every board game in the world obviously is supported, but
28:19
Speaker 2: quite a few are, and it's it's pretty well built.
28:22
Speaker 2: The altered iteration of of the platform is actually, yeah,
28:27
Speaker 2: they partner directly with the people that own it, and
28:31
Speaker 2: there's full collection integration. So all of us have scanned
28:35
Speaker 2: our cards, they exist in our digital collection. All we
28:39
Speaker 2: have to do is log into BGA go to the
28:41
Speaker 2: Altered game, and when we when we fire a you know,
28:44
Speaker 2: a round of the game up, we say, okay, find
28:46
Speaker 2: me an opponent. There's a ranked mode, there's a casual mode,
28:50
Speaker 2: there's preferences in terms of how long you want to
28:53
Speaker 2: give each person to play. There's there's so many things
28:56
Speaker 2: you can do, and that just asks, hey, you know
28:58
Speaker 2: you've got these six decks built in your collection, which
29:02
Speaker 2: is when do you want to use? Brings it all over.
29:04
Speaker 2: We don't have to do anything beyond that, right, just
29:07
Speaker 2: sign it.
29:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great and right now, right now, this very minute,
29:12
Speaker 5: and at all times I've ever checked, it's around this number.
29:14
Speaker 5: There are fourteen hundred and thirty two active games, meaning
29:17
Speaker 5: there are twenty eight hundred and sixty four people playing
29:21
Speaker 5: Altered in this competitive match system as I'm speaking right now.
29:27
Speaker 5: This other game that we occasionally might mention, the highest
29:30
Speaker 5: I think I've ever seen in that thing was forty fifty.
29:35
Speaker 5: There are a lot of people freaking playing this game
29:37
Speaker 5: right now, like a ton.
29:40
Speaker 8: Yeah, I will say it has a little bit of
29:41
Speaker 8: everything for everybody, especially like because it's on BGA, it'll
29:45
Speaker 8: attract the board gamers, but because it's made by European company.
29:51
Speaker 8: I I'm kind of a I'm a big fan of
29:55
Speaker 8: Regis because with Equinox, this is his second company he
29:59
Speaker 8: created like dickx It and Mysterium, which are really fun
30:02
Speaker 8: like outlandish board games, and so yeah, they're great games.
30:07
Speaker 3: Like if you haven't.
30:08
Speaker 8: Played them, I suggest you try them because it carries
30:11
Speaker 8: over a lot of the art and the style and
30:14
Speaker 8: like gameplay wise that altered is kind of known for now,
30:18
Speaker 8: and so Asmode Games obviously saw a huge potential there.
30:23
Speaker 3: So, as we've talked about before, BGA is.
30:26
Speaker 8: Owned by Asmody Games, but with the openness of the
30:32
Speaker 8: of I guess information out there, they do partially own
30:35
Speaker 8: Equinox now, and so they have much more incentive to
30:40
Speaker 8: make sure that it is published well, produced well and
30:44
Speaker 8: the distributed well as well as like performing on BGA
30:49
Speaker 8: to get the name out there. And I've said this
30:52
Speaker 8: to a lot of people, like they didn't have to
30:56
Speaker 8: do Kickstarter. They didn't have to do BGA because they
30:59
Speaker 8: had the back from the world's largest publisher and distributor already,
31:03
Speaker 8: as More Day Games is over five billion dollars in assets.
31:06
Speaker 3: They didn't need any of that and yet to.
31:09
Speaker 8: Develop something so robust for us as the players both
31:13
Speaker 8: competitively and casually on BGA and other sources. Is tremendous
31:18
Speaker 8: in what they've done so far in just such a
31:21
Speaker 8: short amount of time.
31:22
Speaker 3: I mean, think about it.
31:24
Speaker 8: This ended in March for us, and now we're in
31:27
Speaker 8: not even barely October, and we're playing all these things
31:30
Speaker 8: and we're seeing thousands and thousands of matches every day,
31:34
Speaker 8: you know, So it's pretty amazing.
31:35
Speaker 5: Because people were talking about this on the server at
31:37
Speaker 5: some point and people were like, well, when is this
31:39
Speaker 5: gonna happen? This is like, you know, I was like,
31:41
Speaker 5: y'all need to cool your jests. Like, honestly, if BGA
31:44
Speaker 5: had integration by November, I would have been super impressed
31:49
Speaker 5: and pleased. The fact that it came out this fast
31:53
Speaker 5: and it's had so few glitches is amazing. Like their computer,
31:56
Speaker 5: like their software, glitch response time has been outlandishly fast.
32:01
Speaker 5: In my opinion, because we just talked about the card
32:04
Speaker 5: quetz a caddle four days ago, the trigger effect wasn't
32:08
Speaker 5: actually working in relation to two other heroes. It wasn't
32:12
Speaker 5: working for Fenn and it wasn't working for Turbo, and
32:16
Speaker 5: bug reports got reported that day and in twenty four
32:19
Speaker 5: hours it was fixed, and it even said the day
32:22
Speaker 5: that it was happening, there was like a note in
32:25
Speaker 5: in the game that said, we are aware of this bug,
32:28
Speaker 5: we are working on it, and then the next day
32:30
Speaker 5: it says we have fixed this blah blah blah blah blah,
32:33
Speaker 5: like right there on your load screen. I was just like,
32:37
Speaker 5: that is way over share that devs normally don't need
32:40
Speaker 5: to do, Like they just don't normally do any of that.
32:43
Speaker 5: You just kind of like, see what gets fixed when
32:45
Speaker 5: you get hot fixes pushed.
32:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, so as as maybe a parent, we're as players,
32:50
Speaker 2: we're pretty fun of it. I didn't mean to derail Zach.
32:53
Speaker 2: I just thought maybe it would help context. And absolutely, no,
32:56
Speaker 2: I think it was. I think it was well well needed.
33:01
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it absolutely the game. It it I
33:05
Speaker 2: have yet to run into a problem playing that.
33:06
Speaker 7: I'm bga. I think it runs fantastic. It it gives
33:10
Speaker 7: you more like as far as like the tumult or
33:13
Speaker 7: the exploration as your characters are advancing. It has like
33:16
Speaker 7: a nicer look to it. The cards flip over, like
33:19
Speaker 7: everything just kind of flows very nicely with the the
33:25
Speaker 7: interactions with the game itself on the thing, how did you.
33:30
Speaker 2: Feel about it? I feel like your perspective is really
33:33
Speaker 2: good when you get on this because you actually played
33:35
Speaker 2: every round in the tournament. How did how did you
33:38
Speaker 2: feel about how it ran in terms of what was
33:40
Speaker 2: expected of you as a player, and like how the
33:45
Speaker 2: I guess just how the general flow of that season
33:47
Speaker 2: zero tournament went.
33:49
Speaker 7: So actually I did not play in every single round
33:52
Speaker 7: because of my opponents were I was there. I was
33:56
Speaker 7: there for every single round, but for two of them
33:58
Speaker 7: my opponents did not show up. I think cole at
34:01
Speaker 7: at some point did open it up to or people
34:03
Speaker 7: found it rather on the uh the altered you know,
34:08
Speaker 7: turn tournaments. Yeah, and so yeah, I think around the
34:13
Speaker 7: match one. In match three, my player did not show up.
34:15
Speaker 7: But what was really nice about the system was that
34:18
Speaker 7: after five or ten minutes, I think it was closer
34:20
Speaker 7: to ten, it declared me as winning and moved me on.
34:24
Speaker 7: As far as the games themselves, as soon as your
34:28
Speaker 7: opponent was done, you could fire right into that next game.
34:32
Speaker 7: That was it.
34:34
Speaker 5: He was referring to it being a single elimination and
34:36
Speaker 5: in some ways that we had in the past for
34:38
Speaker 5: some other event sites like you would have to wait
34:40
Speaker 5: for all around one to finish. You did not have
34:43
Speaker 5: to do that the way BG has it set up.
34:45
Speaker 5: If you're the person you're pair two is done, y'all
34:48
Speaker 5: got paired immediately you started. Those really need to see that.
34:52
Speaker 7: And if you were done, you could go in and
34:55
Speaker 7: spectate a match that was still continuing, which was really
34:57
Speaker 7: cool because in the second tournament that I'm going to t about,
35:00
Speaker 7: we actually there was a lot of people that were
35:02
Speaker 7: watching the final match. But yeah, with the the Texas
35:05
Speaker 7: Altered Season zero, I thought it ran very smoothly, the
35:10
Speaker 7: you know, for everyone learning for you know, Cole said
35:12
Speaker 7: that I think this was the first one that he
35:14
Speaker 7: had set up. It it ran very well. Couldn't be
35:18
Speaker 7: happier with the uh, the gameplay, the outcome and the
35:21
Speaker 7: matchups and stuff. And in the fifteen minute Swiss chest timer,
35:24
Speaker 7: I thought that was that was nice than that too,
35:28
Speaker 7: So big ups Cole, good job.
35:32
Speaker 4: So what's a what's a typical tournament for Altered? Is it?
35:35
Speaker 4: Is it single limb? Is it?
35:38
Speaker 5: Well? Zach talk about the next one.
35:40
Speaker 7: So the other one that we were well that all
35:43
Speaker 7: five of us here that played in was the Altered
35:47
Speaker 7: Weekly Online League or a Wall, which I really liked
35:51
Speaker 7: the name that one was. That one had a lot
35:55
Speaker 7: of people. I believe it was eighty six total signed up.
35:59
Speaker 7: This one was people from all over the US, all
36:01
Speaker 7: over the world. I remember seeing some Canadian players, some
36:05
Speaker 7: Italian players, some French players in there based off of
36:09
Speaker 7: their their line on or their flag rather on their
36:14
Speaker 7: bg A profile. The this tournament was ran with Swiss,
36:20
Speaker 7: and so this was you weren't single eliminated. You got
36:23
Speaker 7: to play multiple rounds and it kind of did the
36:26
Speaker 7: pairing as any kind of Swiss matchups would, so you know,
36:30
Speaker 7: half the players won, they're going to be matched up,
36:32
Speaker 7: the losing players they're going to be matched up, and
36:33
Speaker 7: so on and so forth. In this specific tournament, I
36:38
Speaker 7: did finish third. I My only loss was to the
36:41
Speaker 7: second place player. Again, the top four decks in this
36:47
Speaker 7: one were Waru Warru Waru, which, again, if you're not
36:53
Speaker 7: seeing already a connection with that, that is part of
36:55
Speaker 7: the ortisfaction. That is part of the faction that the
36:58
Speaker 7: Qutsquaddal that Ogre was talking about earlier belongs to. It
37:02
Speaker 7: is a it is a very powerful hero to play with.
37:09
Speaker 7: It's it's very interesting to play because there's a lot
37:11
Speaker 7: of decision points where you have to make based off
37:13
Speaker 7: the hero ability and just what you're playing. But it
37:16
Speaker 7: goes with the y of the factions, right, It's it's
37:20
Speaker 7: a lot of fun for me. I like it, Yes,
37:24
Speaker 7: to win. No, it's more so that I like to,
37:27
Speaker 7: you know, make people suffer that I play against. No,
37:30
Speaker 7: that's not. One of the cards that I'm sure will
37:33
Speaker 7: come up is the robin Hood card that either makes
37:36
Speaker 7: the characters or cards in general, that your opponent's play
37:40
Speaker 7: cost one more. With the war Room macability, allowing your
37:44
Speaker 7: character to put them asleep means that that ability is
37:48
Speaker 7: still in effect for not the round that they're played in,
37:51
Speaker 7: but also the next round when they actually awaken. Their
37:53
Speaker 7: stats count for the when you do the comparing statistics
37:56
Speaker 7: at the end. So with that, yeah, so the second
38:01
Speaker 7: place guy beat me. There was, I mean, playing a
38:05
Speaker 7: very similar deck, a little bit of a tweaks that
38:07
Speaker 7: I wasn't expecting, but that had really affect anything. The
38:10
Speaker 7: biggest thing was that he got out his discount card
38:13
Speaker 7: faster and then his make my cards cost more expensive,
38:16
Speaker 7: like one turf faster, and each of those and it's
38:19
Speaker 7: hard to come back from that as any of these
38:21
Speaker 7: other guys kind of test to. And then the first place,
38:24
Speaker 7: Pluca was the one with the broken what's the tuddle
38:26
Speaker 7: card that allowed him to potentially draw five card or
38:29
Speaker 7: twelve cards over the life of the game. Potentially even
38:32
Speaker 7: more too if he's running another card Sandman to put
38:35
Speaker 7: him back to sleep. He also was playing very very well. Yes, yes, yeah,
38:41
Speaker 7: Pluca played very well. And so back to what I
38:45
Speaker 7: was mentioning earlier, with VGA and the software that they run,
38:48
Speaker 7: you can live watch any tournament or any game that's
38:51
Speaker 7: going on. It's very quick. It has all the brackets
38:54
Speaker 7: and stuff. You can kind of just go in and
38:56
Speaker 7: see what you know, if a game is live or not,
38:59
Speaker 7: you can go in there. And so like the last
39:01
Speaker 7: game with Luca and Maddis Faction who was second place,
39:05
Speaker 7: it had like ten spectators at the end, which was
39:07
Speaker 7: really cool to see because like that was the match, right,
39:10
Speaker 7: you know that both those guys had won the entire
39:12
Speaker 7: way up and that was the make or break. But yeah,
39:18
Speaker 7: a lot of fun.
39:19
Speaker 4: So at the current time, what is the game plan
39:22
Speaker 4: for like an organized play for Altered is it up
39:27
Speaker 4: to the stores where they had it.
39:29
Speaker 5: With this they have like adventure points. Honestly, some of
39:33
Speaker 5: our castmen's probably know a lot more about that than me.
39:38
Speaker 2: It's again like because official like the more competitive side
39:44
Speaker 2: of organized play, they've been saying for a long time
39:47
Speaker 2: now that they're not really going to be delving into
39:50
Speaker 2: that until twenty twenty five. Right now, I think a
39:53
Speaker 2: lot of people are just kind of testing things out
39:55
Speaker 2: and seeing what feels right. Like, we don't know if
39:57
Speaker 2: it's going to be single a limb until you get
39:59
Speaker 2: to a top sixteen and then maybe you go to
40:02
Speaker 2: the doublem or like this.
40:05
Speaker 5: Good there is something that's super important that would be
40:08
Speaker 5: attractive to some people that have not yet decided to
40:11
Speaker 5: get an altar. There are stores that can sign up
40:13
Speaker 5: for a store account and altered sends them an OPE
40:19
Speaker 5: kit that doesn't have like a matt or Bobbles or whatever.
40:22
Speaker 5: If you play in an event, just for signing up
40:24
Speaker 5: for an event from the OPA kit, you get an
40:26
Speaker 5: OPE booster. Pac has three cards in it. One of
40:31
Speaker 5: the three cards is guaran, one of them is a
40:33
Speaker 5: special art token, and then one of the cards is
40:38
Speaker 5: guaranteed to either be a promo hero or a unique
40:41
Speaker 5: straight up.
40:43
Speaker 6: So the Argan shows, Yeah, are very good. I've played
40:49
Speaker 6: twice at a local event and gotten a unique both times,
40:53
Speaker 6: so they're very good. The official stands for now, I
40:58
Speaker 6: think is they want to let the stores decide how
41:02
Speaker 6: to run organized play and how to do you know,
41:07
Speaker 6: any prizing or things like that. But they have that recommendations, but.
41:12
Speaker 5: They're giving them something of value to me.
41:14
Speaker 4: So they're giving them the tools, which is the important part, right.
41:19
Speaker 2: And one of the things that that's uh without like
41:21
Speaker 2: going into because anybody that's that's listening is going to
41:24
Speaker 2: want to do Obviously, we're we're glossing over a lot
41:27
Speaker 2: of like the basics of how to play the game
41:29
Speaker 2: and the basics of you know, how it's distributed and
41:30
Speaker 2: all these kinds of things. But Altered has some unique
41:34
Speaker 2: infrastructure in terms of your account and what you're going
41:38
Speaker 2: to be able to do with it in the future.
41:40
Speaker 2: So Ze mentioned very briefly these adventure points. This is
41:44
Speaker 2: a system where for just showing up. Right, like we've
41:48
Speaker 2: we've all played video games. We know what a battle
41:50
Speaker 2: path looks like, love it or hate it like it's
41:52
Speaker 2: it's a way to reward you for for going and
41:54
Speaker 2: doing the thing. You were going to do already, We've
41:56
Speaker 2: altered from around the world, right, because this is a
42:00
Speaker 2: global thing. They can just get the numbers of people
42:05
Speaker 2: that are going in and participating in events, give you
42:08
Speaker 2: levels on this battle pass whatever, and who knows what
42:10
Speaker 2: it's going to look like eventually, but for now, they
42:13
Speaker 2: can reward you directly into your account with the digital
42:17
Speaker 2: like promo card or anything really and then once it's
42:21
Speaker 2: in your account after print on Demand gets released, that's
42:27
Speaker 2: a way to like more so than any other game,
42:30
Speaker 2: that's a very cost effective way to distribute prizing and
42:36
Speaker 2: like incentivize league play and in store play that some
42:41
Speaker 2: games just don't, yeah, don't have available to them by
42:45
Speaker 2: vision of what the how the rest of the system works.
42:48
Speaker 5: And our local that we play just got approved as
42:50
Speaker 5: a print on demand delivery point last week, like so
42:54
Speaker 5: maybe they're going to bulk ship print on demand orders
42:57
Speaker 5: to keep their cost down. Equinox will and the story
43:01
Speaker 5: play at will be where we pick the stuff up
43:03
Speaker 5: that we print on demand.
43:05
Speaker 7: It is.
43:05
Speaker 5: It's pretty cool.
43:06
Speaker 2: It's very exciting, like the things that they'll be able
43:08
Speaker 2: to do with that, like in any other game, Like
43:10
Speaker 2: let's say that I wanted to maybe like a Halloween
43:14
Speaker 2: promotional card. Right, If I want to get that into
43:17
Speaker 2: the hands of the players, I have to first of
43:19
Speaker 2: all pay the artist. I have to get that through
43:24
Speaker 2: printing and cutting and organizing and everything else that's going
43:28
Speaker 2: to get it ready to ship to people, which I
43:30
Speaker 2: then have to do. And then I've got to get
43:32
Speaker 2: that in the hands of people that are going to
43:33
Speaker 2: be able to give it to their players. It's a
43:35
Speaker 2: very long, great convoluted process, and we've all seen like
43:38
Speaker 2: how many problems that can pose a company. They can
43:46
Speaker 2: do that first part where they get an artist to
43:49
Speaker 2: draw something like really gorgeous.
43:51
Speaker 5: They or like art backgrounds like, that's.
43:55
Speaker 2: Then right, and then they could just distribute it to us,
43:57
Speaker 2: and the next time that you place your order, Hey,
44:00
Speaker 2: i've got that Halloween promo that I got for going
44:02
Speaker 2: and doing that cool event at the store. Let me
44:04
Speaker 2: get a copy of that printed so that I can
44:05
Speaker 2: have it to play with not just on BGA, but
44:08
Speaker 2: when I go out of my local shop as well. Obviously,
44:12
Speaker 2: like we don't have details on what that's going to
44:13
Speaker 2: look like two years from now, but for me anyways,
44:16
Speaker 2: the things that they could do with that are very
44:19
Speaker 2: very exciting. So I'm it'll be cool to see what
44:21
Speaker 2: they do with that in terms of tournament prizing and
44:24
Speaker 2: everything else as we go.
44:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like the most competitive ones, the ones that
44:27
Speaker 5: are going to really grind out a ton of games,
44:30
Speaker 5: are going to be playing a ton of games on BGA.
44:32
Speaker 5: So like they'll get to see their promo, like you
44:34
Speaker 5: just said, if it's like a you know, a winter
44:37
Speaker 5: holiday one, they'll get to see their like you know,
44:39
Speaker 5: quetzacuddal Santa Claus or whatever, if they decided to do something.
44:44
Speaker 4: My biggest disappointment is I finally found this quetz tocadal
44:47
Speaker 4: and I'm disappointed it's not a quetzacaddle.
44:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
44:52
Speaker 4: Do you know what a quetzal coadle is. It is
44:57
Speaker 4: a real live creature. It's like a like a tiny salamander.
45:03
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's a dragon. This is not a dragon.
45:08
Speaker 4: It doesn't have what would.
45:10
Speaker 6: We call so altered is also based on myth and legend,
45:15
Speaker 6: so it's also based off of like the legendary quosicono.
45:19
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I think it's based on the meso American.
45:24
Speaker 7: The Feathered Serpent deity, which it does say that it's
45:27
Speaker 7: a deity in the card. It's a character bureaucract deity.
45:29
Speaker 7: I just wanted to tell.
45:30
Speaker 2: And also, I think I think you're you might be
45:33
Speaker 2: you might be thinking maybe, don't worry. I've got one
45:37
Speaker 2: of those for you to meet me over an axiom land.
45:40
Speaker 2: We we have them, We're ready to go.
45:43
Speaker 4: I like rolling dice.
45:44
Speaker 7: I just I did want to bring up two more
45:47
Speaker 7: things about the BJA tournament thing that we had, all right,
45:50
Speaker 7: And I don't I don't want to step on Cole's
45:51
Speaker 7: I know he's talking about the actual Yeah, but one
45:55
Speaker 7: of the nice things about BJA tournament software was that
45:59
Speaker 7: it does, as Cole pointed out to us on the
46:01
Speaker 7: altered tix of server, was that it does allow us
46:04
Speaker 7: to kind of see the strength of schedule or how
46:06
Speaker 7: you know, how they're basically ranking for final rankings within
46:10
Speaker 7: the system, and so it shows you, you know, how
46:12
Speaker 7: many points you earned based on wins, how many games
46:14
Speaker 7: you played, skipped opponents points, and then your opponent's average ELO,
46:19
Speaker 7: which is their ranking system for Arida play on BGA.
46:24
Speaker 7: The second thing that I want to do is that
46:25
Speaker 7: somebody did break down the top the top decks, the
46:29
Speaker 7: ones that got four or more wins, and there were
46:31
Speaker 7: twenty seven people that did end up placing within that bracket.
46:37
Speaker 7: Fifty five percent of those top decks. The four plus
46:42
Speaker 7: win decks were Ortis, which is a you know, it's Sigasmar,
46:46
Speaker 7: It's Warru and go ring. Now Sigismar and Rover we're
46:49
Speaker 7: both tied for about seven apiece. Again, that is showing
46:52
Speaker 7: you where the meta is at right and that's how
46:55
Speaker 7: it's going to be. The next place was Lera at
46:58
Speaker 7: which I think is the one that you're talking about, Bookie,
47:01
Speaker 7: fourteen point eight percent. So it's a very strong distribution
47:05
Speaker 7: about where one people think the meta is and to
47:09
Speaker 7: where the meta truly is right now, and it is
47:11
Speaker 7: in Ortis, it is in Sigismar, and it isn't Waru.
47:16
Speaker 8: I think that was pretty much the case going in.
47:19
Speaker 8: People saw the starters. I don't think that competitive scene wise,
47:24
Speaker 8: the starters were a big deviation from that, except for
47:28
Speaker 8: minus Lyra, because Lyra, honestly, that was a terrible starter deck.
47:33
Speaker 8: Does anyone to start with you will get stopped. That's
47:38
Speaker 8: just the support was not there compared to the other
47:42
Speaker 8: decks that were very much pick up and play and
47:45
Speaker 8: ran smoothly for the most part.
47:47
Speaker 3: Right, We're definitely going to.
47:49
Speaker 8: See more of the control decks coming out to see
47:53
Speaker 8: how people tech in to go up against Sigismar and Waru,
47:57
Speaker 8: because now people are finding out can actually go up
48:01
Speaker 8: against Waroo pretty well. If you're using Coda, Kojo and Buddha,
48:05
Speaker 8: they they match up pretty well.
48:08
Speaker 3: We got a guy in our discord, uh.
48:11
Speaker 8: He's a buddy of mine, not a piece of meat
48:13
Speaker 8: like he He went back to back against Warouz yesterday
48:18
Speaker 8: and pretty much beat him almost every time, even on
48:21
Speaker 8: back to back robin hood.
48:22
Speaker 3: Drops, you know, so it can.
48:24
Speaker 8: It's we'll see where the meta shakes out in the
48:27
Speaker 8: next two weeks with big events around the corner. But
48:31
Speaker 8: I think we all touched on it a little bit
48:33
Speaker 8: with yellow rank games and all that. It's amazing that
48:37
Speaker 8: none of that is actually behind the paywall like some
48:39
Speaker 8: of the other board games that are on VGA. So
48:43
Speaker 8: for the benefit of free to play and not wanting
48:46
Speaker 8: to spend like three dollars a month or whatever on
48:49
Speaker 8: the premium. Uh, it's it's huge for players that just
48:52
Speaker 8: want to get on there, play some ranked games and
48:55
Speaker 8: things like that, or just play casually and see where
48:58
Speaker 8: they stack up and not have the hey for that
49:00
Speaker 8: kind of information, seeing your deck breakdowns, your wind breakdowns,
49:04
Speaker 8: your losses and percentages and all that stuff.
49:06
Speaker 3: Like especially with all that.
49:09
Speaker 5: The instant deck connection, like the automatic load of your
49:12
Speaker 5: deck is amazing, Like you have to do zero work
49:16
Speaker 5: if you have it in your account, you already made
49:18
Speaker 5: a dec it's there. Period.
49:21
Speaker 6: Not to mention editing on the fly, which I did
49:23
Speaker 6: three times before we started talking to my one deck,
49:27
Speaker 6: edit it and then jump into a game.
49:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, I edited from my phone, probably more than I
49:31
Speaker 5: should for but like it. And it takes a lot
49:35
Speaker 5: to get there because I have to get off of
49:37
Speaker 5: the Wi Fi and blah blah blah. But yeah, it
49:39
Speaker 5: still happens. You have that idea, it is like, well
49:41
Speaker 5: maybe I should try this card, and then you know
49:43
Speaker 5: you want to put it in a deck. It's it's crazy,
49:46
Speaker 5: it's fun.
49:48
Speaker 8: And you just hit the nail on the head right there,
49:50
Speaker 8: ze with with and then Cole was editing decks on
49:54
Speaker 8: the fly right Like no other game allows you to
49:57
Speaker 8: play test this quickly in this fast with your collection
50:01
Speaker 8: rather than like buying, Oh I need to buy this first,
50:04
Speaker 8: I can test it out or I need to do
50:06
Speaker 8: this first before I can test it out. You can
50:08
Speaker 8: build on the fly and it immediately links like in
50:11
Speaker 8: a snap, and you have the ability now to test
50:15
Speaker 8: right before tournament if you needed to, you know, and
50:19
Speaker 8: you'll find a game no matter what.
50:20
Speaker 3: It's pretty amazing.
50:22
Speaker 5: Fifteen hundred people, well no, I'm sorry. Three thousand people
50:25
Speaker 5: fifteen UNDERD games. They're just right now.
50:27
Speaker 3: It's just climbing.
50:29
Speaker 5: Yep.
50:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been playing. I've been playing Star Wars Unlimited,
50:37
Speaker 6: and there's a very good developer who's making a solo client,
50:42
Speaker 6: hollow Net. But even that, like Star Wars Unlimited, is
50:47
Speaker 6: much further along, but they don't have a officially supported client,
50:53
Speaker 6: and I don't have anyone in my you know, vicinity
50:56
Speaker 6: that wants to play it with, so I'm reliant on
50:59
Speaker 6: digital clients. I mean so yeah, altered it's just already
51:03
Speaker 6: ahead of the game and even even magic like there.
51:08
Speaker 6: When I play Commander, I play on tabletop simulator with
51:11
Speaker 6: friends and yeah, I can access any card, but it
51:16
Speaker 6: there's some work.
51:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hate tabletop TTS sucks.
51:24
Speaker 2: I can't get on this bandwagon as a sometimes TTS developer.
51:28
Speaker 3: But.
51:30
Speaker 5: Listen, it's great scripting environment. Yes, there are some really
51:36
Speaker 5: great things that are scripted a lot in TTS, but
51:41
Speaker 5: if it's not that way, I will not play it.
51:45
Speaker 5: So if you're talking about the stuff that is like superscripted,
51:48
Speaker 5: those are fine.
51:50
Speaker 6: The way that BGA works is just exactly what I
51:53
Speaker 6: need head empty to care about anything but trying to win.
51:58
Speaker 5: It's even getting better with the pass triggers like that
52:01
Speaker 5: this week. Today I didn't have to pass on something
52:05
Speaker 5: that was I had to click the pass on it,
52:09
Speaker 5: like three or four days ago, something about like tiny
52:11
Speaker 5: gin you had to like click to confirm even that
52:15
Speaker 5: there was no choice. He had to go there because
52:17
Speaker 5: he was boosted. Today it was automatic. It didn't ask
52:20
Speaker 5: me anymore. So like they are working on it constantly.
52:23
Speaker 7: I was gonna say, there's one thing, there is one
52:25
Speaker 7: trigger that I that has come up that I don't like.
52:28
Speaker 7: And I think Dexter actually mentioned this the other day too.
52:32
Speaker 7: When it it doesn't exactly tell you, it tells you
52:36
Speaker 7: what trigger you're doing, But if you have multiple the
52:39
Speaker 7: same cards or multiple the same effects, it's very difficult
52:42
Speaker 7: to tell which one's going to effect. In Dexter's case,
52:45
Speaker 7: I think it was two toths and he didn't know
52:47
Speaker 7: if it the single recruit or the double recruit. One
52:49
Speaker 7: was triggered at that moment. It tells you after the fact,
52:53
Speaker 7: I believe, But as far as like that first like
52:55
Speaker 7: when you go to select it, it just says trigger
52:58
Speaker 7: this ability, you know, thoth and then it's like, oh yeah,
53:01
Speaker 7: and then you know it's the second tooth or whatever.
53:03
Speaker 2: But that listen at these bureaucrack complainers, Oh, it's so
53:09
Speaker 2: hard to tell where my infinite free soldiers are gonna
53:12
Speaker 2: come from.
53:13
Speaker 5: And yeah, it probably didn't even matter.
53:17
Speaker 7: It didn't matter in his in yes, in Dexter's case,
53:20
Speaker 7: he was like, oh, I guess I'm gonna put them
53:21
Speaker 7: both in the same side anyways.
53:22
Speaker 5: But exactly, it doesn't matter. You're just it was like,
53:27
Speaker 5: I want to be winning by a little.
53:29
Speaker 2: Bit more.
53:33
Speaker 7: One other thing. It's that's all good. I'll take the hate.
53:36
Speaker 7: You play. You gotta play the top deck, you know,
53:38
Speaker 7: you gotta be you gotta be up there. Even in
53:40
Speaker 7: the board game Arena Headlines Altered is like the third
53:44
Speaker 7: fourth story down, like a huge thing about it, so
53:47
Speaker 7: like they're covering it big two, like putting it out there.
53:51
Speaker 7: It's one of the top top new games. So it's
53:54
Speaker 7: it's great, like a lot of a lot of exposure.
53:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't I don't know who they are in
54:00
Speaker 6: Connection Tech Quenox exactly, but I joined the alpha testers
54:06
Speaker 6: for Altered and there's a separate discord and there's a
54:10
Speaker 6: couple of them in there that are Altered players and
54:14
Speaker 6: also working directly on the BGA instance, and they speak
54:20
Speaker 6: French and English, so there's like both sides there. So
54:24
Speaker 6: it's it's been super awesome to kind of see how
54:27
Speaker 6: well they've been working. As we kept saying, and uh
54:32
Speaker 6: for for you, Zach, I got the top decks from
54:38
Speaker 6: the season zero for Altered Texas, so Parson, second, waru
54:43
Speaker 6: waru uh, and then third was Siggi and then fourth
54:50
Speaker 6: was actually a Tasia, so nice.
54:54
Speaker 2: And that's that's pretty like we're we're learning to expect
54:57
Speaker 2: to see those names, right, Like.
55:00
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get Crowbar there happen, Let's go, Crowbar are
55:04
Speaker 5: pretty good.
55:05
Speaker 2: I Am not going to be surprised at all when
55:06
Speaker 2: we start seeing that name up in the headlines as well.
55:09
Speaker 2: It's not ready kind of happening, all.
55:12
Speaker 5: Right, I think what's next, Wookie, who you got next?
55:15
Speaker 4: We are up to event news with Cole.
55:20
Speaker 6: Amazing. All right, so in future instances of this segment,
55:27
Speaker 6: I'll probably get a little better on what's going around
55:30
Speaker 6: specifically in Texas. For now, I will say, seek out
55:34
Speaker 6: the Altered Texas Discord. You're in the main Altered discord.
55:39
Speaker 6: It's in the community links. I believe if you google
55:43
Speaker 6: Altered Texas Discord you'll find it pretty easily. We have
55:48
Speaker 6: all of the local events pinned in each of the metros.
55:52
Speaker 2: Well, if you're.
55:53
Speaker 6: Only looking for online events or things coming up, there's
55:58
Speaker 6: a good amount. This Sunday, we're doing no ortis Sunday,
56:05
Speaker 6: which I I don't I don't expect this to be
56:12
Speaker 6: out by then. So what I'll say about that is
56:15
Speaker 6: I like doing weird things. I think it's fun, yeah,
56:20
Speaker 6: to do things that aren't the standard. So I am
56:23
Speaker 6: looking to do more of these things. This Sunday is
56:28
Speaker 6: obviously no ortis allowed. I think it's really cool because
56:32
Speaker 6: it's gonna show what other decks are like against each other.
56:37
Speaker 6: Right now, there's not enough people to play in it,
56:41
Speaker 6: so hopefully more people sign up, but you know, in
56:44
Speaker 6: the future, maybe it'll be like only the least used
56:51
Speaker 6: heroes allowed or something I.
56:53
Speaker 2: Think all outsidy all the time. Yep.
56:57
Speaker 6: And I mean if we go back to the A
56:59
Speaker 6: Wall tournament, someone broke down the stats further. It was Kisslanka.
57:06
Speaker 6: In the A Wall tournament. There were a Arak, Lindwey,
57:11
Speaker 6: and Sierra decks. They were all below four wins. But hey,
57:17
Speaker 6: maybe a tournament using decks like that would be fun.
57:22
Speaker 6: We talked a little bit about big tournaments coming up
57:26
Speaker 6: and how that will shake up the meta or solidify
57:32
Speaker 6: it really, which is what I think will happen. A
57:35
Speaker 6: Wall is back next Wednesday, which proves to be a
57:39
Speaker 6: big you know, maybe one hundred people this next week.
57:43
Speaker 6: The Gamers Guild tournament in Phoenix is coming up. Do
57:47
Speaker 6: you guys know how many players are in that. It
57:50
Speaker 6: seems like they've been promoting it a lot, so I'm
57:52
Speaker 6: assuming it's not to their cap yet, you know, yeah,
58:00
Speaker 6: one point, it is the cap, but I wasn't sure
58:02
Speaker 6: if there was anywhere we could see how many they
58:05
Speaker 6: have signed up. It's an in person tournament. I know
58:08
Speaker 6: the Organized Play manager is going to be there, and
58:12
Speaker 6: the community manager for Altered are going to be there,
58:15
Speaker 6: and they have some great prizes. I don't think we
58:18
Speaker 6: know of anyone in Texas that is going because it's
58:21
Speaker 6: in Phoenix.
58:22
Speaker 5: Right, No, not going, but bit of a that's not
58:27
Speaker 5: that's not drivable.
58:30
Speaker 6: Yep. So hopefully some good stats will come out about that.
58:33
Speaker 6: But the big, big one coming up, and I apologize
58:38
Speaker 6: if I get any details wrong because it's all in French,
58:42
Speaker 6: is Ludo Trotter, which from what I can see, has
58:46
Speaker 6: one thousand and ten people signed up right now. Reports
58:51
Speaker 6: are saying ten twenty four, but that is a huge
58:54
Speaker 6: amount of people, and the developers are even looking at
58:58
Speaker 6: that and seeing what happens they consider maybe different things
59:03
Speaker 6: to change in the future.
59:05
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see the results from that tournament,
59:07
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping we'll be able to like see some
59:10
Speaker 2: live footage of play, because not only is it a
59:12
Speaker 2: huge tournament, right, it's also the French meta, which, because
59:17
Speaker 2: of like that's where the game was was developed and
59:20
Speaker 2: creative in a lot of ways, they're sort of a
59:23
Speaker 2: little bit ahead of us, like they've had a little
59:24
Speaker 2: bit more time to play with these cards and to
59:27
Speaker 2: sort of get familiar with it than we have, so
59:30
Speaker 2: we may see some some really exciting things out of there. Now.
59:34
Speaker 2: My personal stance I still think we're going to see
59:35
Speaker 2: ortists like just all over.
59:38
Speaker 3: It, but.
59:41
Speaker 2: I think there will play things that come out of it.
59:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you play early in the day on BGA,
59:48
Speaker 6: you're going up against French players, and nine times out
59:52
Speaker 6: of ten it's going to be artists.
59:54
Speaker 5: A bunch of bureaucrats.
59:56
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I I highly expect the top ten to
1:00:01
Speaker 9: all be artists, but maybe maybe a ran and or
1:00:04
Speaker 9: kid will sneak in, maybe something else you never have one.
1:00:07
Speaker 5: Thousand, twenty four. I think the top thirty two will
1:00:12
Speaker 5: be war not just artists.
1:00:15
Speaker 3: I don't know see the French.
1:00:17
Speaker 2: The French have some like very good players and some
1:00:22
Speaker 2: very good tage of players like they I've seen them, not.
1:00:27
Speaker 5: Just the numbers thing. It's like a massive for me
1:00:30
Speaker 5: in my head, it's just like there, yes, microbar deck
1:00:33
Speaker 5: can beat WARU, but it's like real close to like
1:00:38
Speaker 5: forty nine percent or something like that.
1:00:42
Speaker 6: Now, when is it that I think there's a prize
1:00:45
Speaker 6: and I think it's a bad prize like.
1:00:47
Speaker 5: Prize you're gonna see four hundred people show up with
1:00:50
Speaker 5: the Warrow decks. It's it's gonna be a thing.
1:00:54
Speaker 3: I want to touch on this tournament.
1:00:56
Speaker 8: Just a little bit, because you bring it up and
1:00:58
Speaker 8: we're getting into the details a little bit of it.
1:01:01
Speaker 8: So I'm not sure how many people were watching the
1:01:05
Speaker 8: anime during sen Spiel earlier, but this French tournament and
1:01:12
Speaker 8: the GGAZ tournament that's coming up. Eric, who is the CMO,
1:01:18
Speaker 8: he's already stated that the design team is already working
1:01:21
Speaker 8: on the artist situation specifically yeah, and specifically Robin Hood.
1:01:32
Speaker 8: They've already said that Robin Hood will get hit in
1:01:35
Speaker 8: some way that he doesn't know what the design team
1:01:39
Speaker 8: is gonna do yet, but they're waiting to see how
1:01:42
Speaker 8: the tournament shakes out, and they will hit Robin Hood
1:01:45
Speaker 8: in some way, whether it's removing the Bereaucrat label or not.
1:01:49
Speaker 3: We will see what happens.
1:01:50
Speaker 8: But this will have kind of made waves after the
1:01:53
Speaker 8: next two weeks.
1:01:54
Speaker 3: To be honest, m yep, yep.
1:01:57
Speaker 6: I was listening to it, and I think we're I
1:02:01
Speaker 6: think next I mean, I don't know if you know
1:02:03
Speaker 6: I have the authority to tease, but I think next
1:02:06
Speaker 6: episode we're gonna kind of dive more into the whole
1:02:08
Speaker 6: Robin Hood situation.
1:02:09
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, We're gonna go visit the Hood. I go
1:02:15
Speaker 5: there all right, So our next thing is so we
1:02:17
Speaker 5: talked about who we are briefly. We're all playing this game.
1:02:21
Speaker 5: I know wookie Is have been total.
1:02:23
Speaker 6: See you're forgetting one thing though.
1:02:26
Speaker 3: Well what am I?
1:02:26
Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, yes, I forgot I saved the best for last. Yes, yes,
1:02:30
Speaker 5: go like, I'm really excited about this.
1:02:32
Speaker 6: Go ahead, I'll split it with you since you know
1:02:35
Speaker 6: you're you're a big part of it as well. So
1:02:38
Speaker 6: the season zero was a test. I don't know me personally.
1:02:42
Speaker 6: I like to test things. I like to work out,
1:02:44
Speaker 6: you know, what is right what is wrong ahead of time.
1:02:48
Speaker 6: Now Season one is starting this Tuesday. Putting a date
1:02:53
Speaker 6: is probably better for recorded things. The eighth of October.
1:02:58
Speaker 6: It'll be great because if you're hearing it late, it's
1:03:00
Speaker 6: a jump in, jump out kind of seasonal thing. Texas
1:03:05
Speaker 6: Altered Showdown. We are going to have four weeks of
1:03:09
Speaker 6: single eliminations every Tuesday where you earn points, and we're
1:03:16
Speaker 6: gonna have prizes as well. I kept a lot of
1:03:19
Speaker 6: the prizing a little more vague for the moment because
1:03:23
Speaker 6: I want to make sure we get everything collected and
1:03:28
Speaker 6: then we reveal like, hey, this is the full price,
1:03:31
Speaker 6: but we are absolutely giving away some unique foilers and
1:03:35
Speaker 6: some other things, and I will let big Z talk
1:03:37
Speaker 6: about what he foresees with that and kind of his
1:03:41
Speaker 6: perspective of how we're setting it up.
1:03:44
Speaker 2: That's cool, that's the first time hering. But let me know,
1:03:46
Speaker 2: I've got a few unique coolers I wouldn't mind pitching in.
1:03:49
Speaker 2: If you guys are just building the.
1:03:50
Speaker 5: Pot, awesome. Yeah so we but first of all, I
1:03:53
Speaker 5: don't know. So it is online best of one. We're
1:03:56
Speaker 5: capping it. I think sixty four people just to keep
1:03:59
Speaker 5: the it's this is Tuesday at six pm Central for
1:04:03
Speaker 5: the States folks. It's not limit. People from Europe and
1:04:08
Speaker 5: beyond can come, but it'll be like one am for you.
1:04:11
Speaker 5: So I know some of you are playing all through
1:04:12
Speaker 5: that time because I run into you NBJA still so. Yeah.
1:04:18
Speaker 5: So there will be four weeks where we do that
1:04:20
Speaker 5: single lim tournament. The prizing during the four weeks, first
1:04:24
Speaker 5: place will get a unique foiler and entry into the
1:04:27
Speaker 5: final turning, which will be week five, and second place
1:04:31
Speaker 5: will get a rare foiler and they will also be
1:04:33
Speaker 5: entered in the tourney. No matter what, you get two
1:04:36
Speaker 5: points for playing in any of the single elimination tournaments,
1:04:41
Speaker 5: and then you get one additional point per win. After
1:04:44
Speaker 5: four weeks, we will only have eight people from the
1:04:46
Speaker 5: top two from the four weeks, and then the remaining
1:04:50
Speaker 5: eight people for our invite only through winning these points
1:04:54
Speaker 5: or winning the events will be come from the highest
1:04:58
Speaker 5: point accrueres from the four weeks, and you're seeding in
1:05:02
Speaker 5: the tournament will be based on the total number of
1:05:04
Speaker 5: points you've learned. So even if you did get an
1:05:07
Speaker 5: invite the first week, you could still come back and
1:05:09
Speaker 5: play some more of the next week just to get
1:05:11
Speaker 5: a higher seed to potentially play against a lower pointed
1:05:14
Speaker 5: player when you get seeded into the tournament on week five.
1:05:19
Speaker 5: And we are still working on what we're gonna look
1:05:23
Speaker 5: like as far as the champion tournament right now, I
1:05:25
Speaker 5: have put some Kickstarter edition booster packs into the pot
1:05:31
Speaker 5: and we're gonna talk and some others if anyone the
1:05:35
Speaker 5: prizing pot could be potentially more. There is no entry
1:05:39
Speaker 5: fee for any of these events for this go round.
1:05:42
Speaker 5: We could potentially look at that in the future if
1:05:45
Speaker 5: we wanted to make some more interesting prizing down the road,
1:05:48
Speaker 5: but this one's all coming out of pocket and just
1:05:52
Speaker 5: giving something the community, something to do and we found
1:05:54
Speaker 5: the single elimination was super fast. I love how the
1:05:57
Speaker 5: pace of it was fun talking to people in the chat.
1:06:01
Speaker 5: People that are eliminated were sticking around his talk and
1:06:03
Speaker 5: you know, spectate the people that eliminated them, that kind
1:06:06
Speaker 5: of thing. Yes, yeah, it was fun. It was. It
1:06:09
Speaker 5: reminded me of the keyboard days, right, like back when
1:06:12
Speaker 5: I was really big in the events, and there's just
1:06:14
Speaker 5: a lot of communal you know, jabs have funds that
1:06:17
Speaker 5: had talk about decks, talk about how badly they got
1:06:20
Speaker 5: beat or rooting against for four people.
1:06:22
Speaker 2: It was.
1:06:22
Speaker 5: It was good times. And we're gon try to capture
1:06:25
Speaker 5: that weekly on Tuesdays.
1:06:28
Speaker 6: Yes, and we are all over the age of thirty
1:06:30
Speaker 6: at least, I believe.
1:06:32
Speaker 5: So all of you except for one that is not
1:06:35
Speaker 5: over here.
1:06:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, so all of you young kids that are like, oh,
1:06:38
Speaker 6: I want a best of three on a Tuesday night
1:06:40
Speaker 6: at six pm. No, you know what, No, we're too old.
1:06:44
Speaker 5: Like that's why kids. We also brought up a wall
1:06:49
Speaker 5: right like, like I think I saw a really good
1:06:51
Speaker 5: view of both of those events. A walls on Wednesdays.
1:06:55
Speaker 5: It's Swiss. It goes six full rounds. It's not best
1:06:58
Speaker 5: of three, but it is a much full, longer event
1:07:01
Speaker 5: that took roughly three hours our events on Tuesdays, but
1:07:06
Speaker 5: the whole thing was done in under two yep.
1:07:08
Speaker 6: And that that is one thing I wanted to note,
1:07:10
Speaker 6: so shout out to Simon. I think what I will
1:07:14
Speaker 6: say to people if they come to me and they're like, oh,
1:07:16
Speaker 6: I want best of three, I'll point them to a
1:07:19
Speaker 6: one and like here you go. So and having those
1:07:23
Speaker 6: two options and also technically not competing with each other,
1:07:27
Speaker 6: I think gives a lot of options.
1:07:30
Speaker 5: There's a lot of questions.
1:07:31
Speaker 4: You're going to be this is all online, correct, yep.
1:07:34
Speaker 4: So you don't have to be from Texas to join
1:07:36
Speaker 4: these No, it is central time that I'm assuming, Yeah,
1:07:41
Speaker 4: six pm Central time materia.
1:07:43
Speaker 5: We might actually need to consider something with the name
1:07:45
Speaker 5: of our serve.
1:07:46
Speaker 7: I don't know.
1:07:47
Speaker 5: I think we're going to get a lot of people
1:07:48
Speaker 5: in it.
1:07:49
Speaker 3: Even if we're going to grow very rapidly.
1:07:51
Speaker 4: Even if you're not central or even if you're not
1:07:54
Speaker 4: from Texas, you can join these events. Yes, yes, So
1:07:58
Speaker 4: make sure I will put something in our discord for this.
1:08:01
Speaker 4: Probably it probably is already there, to be honest with you,
1:08:05
Speaker 4: down in our altered section. Believe or not, we do
1:08:09
Speaker 4: have an altered section.
1:08:11
Speaker 5: No, I think I made it.
1:08:12
Speaker 4: You probably did. There's a lot of stuff down there
1:08:15
Speaker 4: going on right now, and then just real quick because
1:08:19
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people are going to have
1:08:20
Speaker 4: questions still like again, this is going up, but mainly
1:08:24
Speaker 4: a key Forge related show. What is your like? Okay,
1:08:28
Speaker 4: so not for the tournaments, but like, let's say I
1:08:30
Speaker 4: want to get into this game, and I'm like, man,
1:08:32
Speaker 4: I want to get competitive. The biggest thing for a
1:08:34
Speaker 4: person is always always always going to be what is
1:08:37
Speaker 4: the entry barrier? What does that dollar amount look like
1:08:40
Speaker 4: to me?
1:08:41
Speaker 5: Actually? Pretty low? Like if I wanted to build a
1:08:44
Speaker 5: metadeck comparable too, because I'm the constructor, right like, let me.
1:08:48
Speaker 4: Let me let me ask the winner.
1:08:49
Speaker 7: Hey Zach, no you can go? You can no? No, no, no,
1:08:55
Speaker 7: it's fine, it's fine. It's fine. So one thing that
1:08:59
Speaker 7: I don't like to do is construct decks. I like
1:09:02
Speaker 7: to play games, which is why I like keyboards so much.
1:09:05
Speaker 7: So I will defer to Big Z who helped construct
1:09:08
Speaker 7: the deck.
1:09:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, how much did Zach's deck cost?
1:09:13
Speaker 5: Well, honestly, like we do have the cards that are
1:09:17
Speaker 5: the best cards in it. As far as the uniques
1:09:19
Speaker 5: that are running, we opened to those, so just in
1:09:22
Speaker 5: the natural process of opening. But like, like, let's say
1:09:25
Speaker 5: I didn't open any packs and I literally just wanted
1:09:28
Speaker 5: to buy Zach's deck I or something really really close
1:09:33
Speaker 5: to it. The comments in the decks are basically free,
1:09:37
Speaker 5: Like there's no comment in this game that even costs
1:09:40
Speaker 5: a dollar. You get a ton of them.
1:09:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's we can assign a price to it, though, right,
1:09:45
Speaker 2: because we know that, like if you buy no packs,
1:09:47
Speaker 2: you only want to buy your comments.
1:09:50
Speaker 5: So let'say, let's say a quarter you need twenty one
1:09:52
Speaker 5: of them? Yes, five bucks, five five bucks, five dollars
1:09:55
Speaker 5: and twenty percents you have five dollars. Yeah, So the
1:09:59
Speaker 5: the rares in this game are roughly two to three
1:10:02
Speaker 5: dollars a piece, except Robinhood does cost more, even at
1:10:05
Speaker 5: the rare slot. So let's say you need to need
1:10:08
Speaker 5: twelve rares times three, that's thirty six, that's forty one.
1:10:13
Speaker 5: You could probably well, but robin oh yes, oh yeah aa,
1:10:18
Speaker 5: Robinhood as a rare, you could probably find it for ten.
1:10:22
Speaker 5: But let's say I wanted to buy this damn deck
1:10:24
Speaker 5: right now, you've offered somebody fifteen, you'll get you'll get three.
1:10:28
Speaker 5: That's forty five. Then you have three three uniques. Now,
1:10:33
Speaker 5: before I go on to what uniques can cost anywhere
1:10:35
Speaker 5: from the cheapest general unique you can buy is fifteen
1:10:39
Speaker 5: all the way up to six hundred. But if even
1:10:41
Speaker 5: if I just bought three decent artist uniques because they're
1:10:46
Speaker 5: ortists at fifteen each, that gives me only forty five
1:10:50
Speaker 5: more dollars. That's one hundred and thirty one dollars. I
1:10:52
Speaker 5: can I promise you I can win in an event
1:10:55
Speaker 5: with a deck that costs one hundred and thirty one
1:10:57
Speaker 5: dollars right now.
1:10:58
Speaker 4: So basically the short and skinny and I just want
1:11:00
Speaker 4: to put this out there for a lot of people
1:11:01
Speaker 4: under two hundred dollars.
1:11:03
Speaker 5: Your competitive Garrett like, ye yes, yes, yeah, yes.
1:11:09
Speaker 6: The other thing about altered and the huge digital aspect
1:11:13
Speaker 6: and you kind of touched on it is commons really
1:11:17
Speaker 6: are kind of free because if you join a good
1:11:19
Speaker 6: community and you're like, hey, I need this where we're
1:11:22
Speaker 6: going to help you out, yeah, and all we do
1:11:25
Speaker 6: is we say, what's your account unaltered? Okay, there you go.
1:11:30
Speaker 5: Commons common as tokens in fab or Land or Manna
1:11:34
Speaker 5: in Magic, yeah.
1:11:36
Speaker 6: And you don't even have to live near the person
1:11:38
Speaker 6: to get.
1:11:40
Speaker 2: And just like in any of those games, they're also
1:11:42
Speaker 2: the most common part of your deck, right like they're
1:11:45
Speaker 2: They're a huge portion of the cards that you need
1:11:47
Speaker 2: to put together to to to play anything. And I've
1:11:51
Speaker 2: got a whole row of them that sits in my box, unscanned,
1:11:54
Speaker 2: just ready to give to people that beat them.
1:11:56
Speaker 7: So we yep, yeah, yeah, same m hm.
1:11:59
Speaker 8: So going off the entry the barrier of entry or
1:12:02
Speaker 8: a point of entry a little bit here on cost,
1:12:05
Speaker 8: I do want to touch on what Eric the CMO
1:12:08
Speaker 8: set today as well during the ame. With the second
1:12:10
Speaker 8: set coming out on January thirty first, the set will
1:12:14
Speaker 8: be roughly fifty five percent smaller than the current core set. Now,
1:12:21
Speaker 8: the breakdown roughly is in one display, which is one box,
1:12:26
Speaker 8: you'll get an entire playset of commons already and they
1:12:31
Speaker 8: have it really yeah, it's all there. And then to
1:12:35
Speaker 8: get an entire collection, a full place set of everything
1:12:39
Speaker 8: obviously minus uniques, but a full play set of everything
1:12:42
Speaker 8: roughly three to four displays. That is a tremendously low
1:12:45
Speaker 8: amount compared to Magic to one piece compared to Lorcana,
1:12:50
Speaker 8: compared to SWU.
1:12:53
Speaker 5: This is totally the lower you're saying is you only
1:12:55
Speaker 5: need to buy three displays to have three of every rare, like, well, yes, yeah, yeah,
1:13:00
Speaker 5: that's fair.
1:13:01
Speaker 7: To be fair, there are fewer cards in the second
1:13:04
Speaker 7: set that there were in this set. He also mentioned
1:13:06
Speaker 7: to get a full set of all the rares, you
1:13:09
Speaker 7: would need to open about eight to nine displays of
1:13:11
Speaker 7: this first set.
1:13:12
Speaker 3: Of the first set. Yes, and so continuously working forward now.
1:13:16
Speaker 4: To the next set. I just want to put this in.
1:13:18
Speaker 4: The first set is massive.
1:13:20
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, yeah. There are tons of characters, there are
1:13:24
Speaker 5: tons of stories. There are lots of lines of construction
1:13:28
Speaker 5: to develop for each faction.
1:13:32
Speaker 2: And the math that we're throwing out there right now
1:13:34
Speaker 2: in terms of like putting together a full place set,
1:13:36
Speaker 2: like needed to buy nine displays, right, that's if you
1:13:38
Speaker 2: need a full play set of every every faction. If
1:13:42
Speaker 2: you on faction like, you've got plenty to trade people.
1:13:47
Speaker 4: I'm poking around on the on the website, just kind
1:13:50
Speaker 4: of looking at stuff. There are thirty pages and each
1:13:53
Speaker 4: page has about thirty six cards, so it's a lot
1:13:57
Speaker 4: you can do. The math, it's a bunch.
1:13:59
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, all right, but thank you for Corabi breaking
1:14:05
Speaker 10: down the Texas Tuesdays events. I did want to go
1:14:09
Speaker 10: through each of us just to talk about with fact
1:14:10
Speaker 10: we play in card before Wookie closes us out, just
1:14:15
Speaker 10: to kind of give our audience to what we're playing
1:14:18
Speaker 10: on now.
1:14:18
Speaker 5: This is is definitely going to change as we go along. Zach,
1:14:24
Speaker 5: go ahead, what is your favorite faction and favorite card
1:14:27
Speaker 5: right now?
1:14:28
Speaker 3: Oh?
1:14:28
Speaker 7: Boy? Favorite faction? I don't know, there's so many artists.
1:14:33
Speaker 7: Is the one that I would always go to one.
1:14:36
Speaker 7: It was the one that I had looked at and
1:14:37
Speaker 7: you know, thematically, I really enjoyed it as far as
1:14:41
Speaker 7: like the law abiding order all that stuff. It just
1:14:44
Speaker 7: fits right into my personality.
1:14:45
Speaker 5: I can attest to that. When we kickstarted this game,
1:14:49
Speaker 5: he was saying, Ortis looked fun before having ever played
1:14:52
Speaker 5: anything this is not lies.
1:14:54
Speaker 7: And the first the first start deck that I played
1:14:57
Speaker 7: was Sigismar and it just smashes. So yeah, As far
1:15:03
Speaker 7: as my favorite card, I it's it's kind of silly. Well, no,
1:15:07
Speaker 7: I have two. I have the obvious one. It's Robinhood
1:15:10
Speaker 7: right like, it's too powerful, it's too oppressive making your
1:15:14
Speaker 7: cards or your characters whichever one it is makes them
1:15:17
Speaker 7: cost more. We pull then amazing, amazing unique one, the
1:15:22
Speaker 7: not the amazing to draw three cards every you know dust,
1:15:25
Speaker 7: but it's still pretty good. I would have to say
1:15:27
Speaker 7: that my second favorite card, though it's really close to
1:15:29
Speaker 7: Robin Hood, is the Waroo Hero himself. Like it the
1:15:32
Speaker 7: ability just to you know, like it's it's super strong
1:15:35
Speaker 7: as far as it's cleeping your units for you know,
1:15:39
Speaker 7: just the the stats don't count, but the effects do.
1:15:43
Speaker 7: Like that is so big, so so so big, so
1:15:47
Speaker 7: those are That's my favorite card, favorite fection.
1:15:49
Speaker 2: So you're a monster, then I really am.
1:15:51
Speaker 7: I really am.
1:15:52
Speaker 5: And yeah, it's like a dream demon. He's like Freddy
1:15:56
Speaker 5: Krueger Ogre talk to us.
1:16:00
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, I am a little bit closer to Z
1:16:03
Speaker 2: in terms of I'm a bit of a nomad. Like
1:16:06
Speaker 2: the way that I interact with these games is I
1:16:08
Speaker 2: like to roam around. I like to build and play
1:16:10
Speaker 2: in every faction and everything else. Currently, I've decided that
1:16:14
Speaker 2: with this season of BGA, I'm sticking in Axiom, which
1:16:18
Speaker 2: is the faction that's you know, mostly about like engineering
1:16:21
Speaker 2: and technology, and it has a lot of very cool
1:16:24
Speaker 2: like we've got We've got Doctor Frankenstein in our faction,
1:16:28
Speaker 2: and that's that's cool to me. The the deck specifically,
1:16:33
Speaker 2: I'm playing a lot of Traced because I think he's
1:16:36
Speaker 2: the coolest character that that we got with with the
1:16:40
Speaker 2: first three, and I think, honestly, I'm gonna put actually,
1:16:47
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna copy Zach. I'm gonna say he's
1:16:49
Speaker 2: my favorite hero, right and that got two cards YEA
1:16:53
Speaker 2: cheated and my favorite card in the faction to surprise
1:16:57
Speaker 2: absolutely no one that plays the game is the Bravos Haven,
1:17:02
Speaker 2: which is a card that we stole from Bravos, but
1:17:07
Speaker 2: it turns on every single card in our faction and
1:17:11
Speaker 2: it's I think we saw some numbers recently where the
1:17:15
Speaker 2: Bravos Haven in Axiom is literally the most played card
1:17:20
Speaker 2: across all games that include an Axiom deck on the
1:17:24
Speaker 2: other platform, which is exaltered. The creator was talking about it.
1:17:29
Speaker 2: That's hilarious to me, but it also makes perfect sense.
1:17:32
Speaker 5: It's also the most expensive rare in the game. It
1:17:35
Speaker 5: outpaces Robinhood as far as the value.
1:17:38
Speaker 2: Is that true?
1:17:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like everywhere, I look like it's sold out on
1:17:41
Speaker 5: the one place right now. You can buy stuff online
1:17:45
Speaker 5: and then in the boards, the one Discord place that
1:17:49
Speaker 5: is an absolute nightmare. I hate that thing. You can
1:17:54
Speaker 5: buy Robin around ten to twelve. The havens are like fifteen.
1:17:58
Speaker 3: Holy Has are up there. The havens are expensive.
1:18:01
Speaker 2: Well that's why I.
1:18:02
Speaker 5: Was trying to figure out if you gave it to
1:18:04
Speaker 5: Dexter or not. I was like, this thing you're trying
1:18:08
Speaker 5: to give back to me.
1:18:10
Speaker 2: That I well I didn't first of all, Like I
1:18:13
Speaker 2: just I know you didn't. I traded on the cheap
1:18:15
Speaker 2: for my Yeah, well it's a great card.
1:18:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, it turns out, well, that whole deck doesn't work
1:18:23
Speaker 5: without it, Like that is the deck.
1:18:25
Speaker 2: You could almost argue that whole faction at the moment,
1:18:27
Speaker 2: but well.
1:18:28
Speaker 5: They are the worst without it. Ah, it's true. You
1:18:35
Speaker 5: got no argument. Oh uh yeah, you joined this material.
1:18:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I joined a little late.
1:18:44
Speaker 8: I am one of the Discord mods in the official Discord.
1:18:49
Speaker 8: I got picked up, and you know, I interviewed with
1:18:52
Speaker 8: Loki and ran through the whole thing. I got a
1:18:54
Speaker 8: little blurb on the main page now, but I kind
1:18:59
Speaker 8: of went into it a little bit. It on there
1:19:01
Speaker 8: during my profile. But I'm running Lyra. It's a fun deck.
1:19:05
Speaker 8: It's different it's it's it's not your typical deck that
1:19:10
Speaker 8: you would see in any other game. Really, RNG isn't
1:19:13
Speaker 8: my my most favorite thing because r and Jesus can
1:19:16
Speaker 8: be good to you and can be really bad, you know.
1:19:20
Speaker 8: And so but at the end of the day, like
1:19:22
Speaker 8: I said, if you have your permanent out there, your landmark,
1:19:26
Speaker 8: you're pretty much.
1:19:27
Speaker 7: Good to go.
1:19:28
Speaker 8: My favorite card right now is actually the I pulled
1:19:31
Speaker 8: a unique Hijakina, but I also run the rare version
1:19:35
Speaker 8: because it's a a must deal with target. It's eternal,
1:19:40
Speaker 8: so it stays on the board, it has it's a
1:19:43
Speaker 8: big stat stick.
1:19:44
Speaker 2: But I read that card.
1:19:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, and in a Lyra deck, I've gotten plus twenty
1:19:50
Speaker 8: four plus thirty on it. It's and it's by itself
1:19:53
Speaker 8: on one side. It doesn't matter how many orders tokens
1:19:56
Speaker 8: you put out there, I am going to get forty points,
1:20:00
Speaker 8: you know. And so at the end of the day,
1:20:01
Speaker 8: that card is my wing con in my deck. I
1:20:05
Speaker 8: did pull a unique one. It's pretty insane because it's eternal.
1:20:08
Speaker 8: And then as long as I have one boost on it,
1:20:10
Speaker 8: I roll a dice and that's how many boosts I
1:20:12
Speaker 8: get every single turn.
1:20:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, which again he already mentioned that he's playing them.
1:20:27
Speaker 5: Well, it's also the rare in whatever it's called.
1:20:32
Speaker 2: Martin Gale, Yeah, Martindale, you can. You can get it
1:20:34
Speaker 2: on the cheap if you don't see it permanent.
1:20:37
Speaker 7: Yep.
1:20:38
Speaker 2: It turns out being able to roll plus six on
1:20:40
Speaker 2: a thing.
1:20:41
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kind of why I like it.
1:20:46
Speaker 3: That's my wing con. I gotta go with that one.
1:20:49
Speaker 2: And it's a dragon.
1:20:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a freaking green dragon.
1:20:54
Speaker 5: I'm next here. I uh, my favorite faction is it?
1:20:59
Speaker 5: Actually right? I like Bravos a lot. I do like
1:21:04
Speaker 5: where they were going with two out of the three heroes.
1:21:06
Speaker 5: I like a lot of the design of the cards
1:21:09
Speaker 5: it plays. It's it is kind of rough in the
1:21:12
Speaker 5: current meta right now, but I do like the way
1:21:15
Speaker 5: it is structured. I hope to see some more support
1:21:17
Speaker 5: for it moving forward into the next sets. I just
1:21:22
Speaker 5: really think that it's a lot of space there for
1:21:24
Speaker 5: them to work with. And my favorite card in it
1:21:28
Speaker 5: it's actually like not like the greatest, not the wind
1:21:31
Speaker 5: con for the set or anything. I love tiny Gin.
1:21:34
Speaker 5: I like all I think all three versions of tiny
1:21:38
Speaker 5: Gin are playable, Like you can play the common in
1:21:41
Speaker 5: different you can play the common in the Basira deck,
1:21:45
Speaker 5: you can play the rare plays really well into Kojo
1:21:48
Speaker 5: or Buddha whatever. The one with the dog and the coaches.
1:21:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a dog, the booze hero, it's a cheetah.
1:21:58
Speaker 7: It's fired cheetah.
1:22:00
Speaker 5: It plays well. It plays well with the fire dog.
1:22:05
Speaker 5: And if you flip over to the other side, uh,
1:22:08
Speaker 5: it plays where the really good with the muna girl
1:22:12
Speaker 5: that gets the out of faction, that boosts them when
1:22:14
Speaker 5: you play them. Asia, Yes, Tasia, tiny Gin is amazing,
1:22:20
Speaker 5: like that is the best case scenario of tiny Gin.
1:22:23
Speaker 4: I see, the more things change, the more they stay
1:22:26
Speaker 4: the same.
1:22:26
Speaker 5: Huh yeah. Yeah.
1:22:28
Speaker 4: So for those of you who don't know, mainly most
1:22:30
Speaker 4: people in this chat, there was always a inside joke
1:22:34
Speaker 4: of these cards have art.
1:22:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't actually talked about that year. A lot
1:22:39
Speaker 5: of these people love the art. I rarely look at the.
1:22:43
Speaker 7: There's there's art on these cards. No, it's just text. Man.
1:22:50
Speaker 5: They do actually have the good art when I look
1:22:52
Speaker 5: at it. We never talked to it on this The
1:22:55
Speaker 5: biggest thing about the art is there different in the
1:22:58
Speaker 5: iterations of them, like when they go from common to rare.
1:23:03
Speaker 5: Too unique. There are differences of the same card, which
1:23:08
Speaker 5: is actually kind of interesting. They like some of them
1:23:10
Speaker 5: tell a story. Kodama like literally tells a story of
1:23:14
Speaker 5: something being born. Weird, but it's fun to see. If
1:23:18
Speaker 5: you see it. Now a bunch of people learn to
1:23:19
Speaker 5: go look at this if they've not noticed it.
1:23:21
Speaker 7: But anyway, Yeah, I'm looking at tiny Gin right now,
1:23:25
Speaker 7: like and going from the common to the rare, he
1:23:27
Speaker 7: gains like a cape. The crystal ball in his hand
1:23:31
Speaker 7: is getting bigger, the flames and his hair are more pronounced, like.
1:23:34
Speaker 5: When you go from Atlas, like the common one, is
1:23:37
Speaker 5: it seasoned, and then if you see the rare one,
1:23:40
Speaker 5: the season changed and like the river's gone or something.
1:23:43
Speaker 5: It's it's interesting what they did with you. But yes,
1:23:47
Speaker 5: that is my favorite card. The card is not like phenomenal,
1:23:50
Speaker 5: it's not gonna win you games or anything. I just
1:23:52
Speaker 5: love the way you play tiny Gin. I like playing
1:23:55
Speaker 5: it from like the early game hand because it's cheap,
1:23:57
Speaker 5: getting the boost to flip the manu later getting that
1:24:00
Speaker 5: it's a fun. I think it is a very well
1:24:02
Speaker 5: designed card. Cole.
1:24:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, so now the person that's going to talk about
1:24:10
Speaker 6: themes and art, and that's what I play around. Ye,
1:24:15
Speaker 6: So first and foremost always always Muna. If people recognize
1:24:21
Speaker 6: my full name Courabi, it's a vegetable plants our life.
1:24:28
Speaker 6: So my favorite hero is actually written an orchid, and
1:24:32
Speaker 6: I think they are a lot of fun to play,
1:24:37
Speaker 6: and I will always have Muna being my favorite faction.
1:24:42
Speaker 6: But I am playing a deck right now I'm calling
1:24:46
Speaker 6: demon mode which is Bessira Bravos, and I'm trying to
1:24:52
Speaker 6: get it to work. So my favorite card right now
1:24:56
Speaker 6: is actually Bravos Blade Dancer.
1:24:59
Speaker 5: Yep.
1:24:59
Speaker 6: Fun part specifically the rare Yeah, if you look at
1:25:03
Speaker 6: the rare versus the comment the rare is just the
1:25:07
Speaker 6: art is so beautiful, the like ethereal hot swords and everything,
1:25:15
Speaker 6: it's it's great. It's a it's a really good looking card.
1:25:19
Speaker 6: And looking at it now, I think I just realized
1:25:21
Speaker 6: I don't have any any rare Blade Dancers, so I
1:25:26
Speaker 6: really need those as well, because not only is the
1:25:29
Speaker 6: art amazing, the card text is amazing as well.
1:25:33
Speaker 2: Yes, so that's another one. That's another one that tells
1:25:36
Speaker 2: a cool story as well, like the Blade Dancer in
1:25:39
Speaker 2: uh in the common like hasn't started a power upper
1:25:43
Speaker 2: swords yet, and then in the Rare powers them up
1:25:46
Speaker 2: and then if you get a unique Blade Dancer, which
1:25:48
Speaker 2: reminds me to show you mine so that I can
1:25:49
Speaker 2: make you jealous.
1:25:50
Speaker 5: Cool.
1:25:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've seen it, she.
1:25:54
Speaker 2: I think slays the creature that is stalking her in
1:25:57
Speaker 2: the background of of the other two cards mentioned.
1:26:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's yeah, that's nice.
1:26:02
Speaker 5: Well, and it's fully lit on flames.
1:26:04
Speaker 6: Yep, it's it's some weird like shadow, Snake, demon or something.
1:26:09
Speaker 6: And someone in the I can't remember if it was
1:26:12
Speaker 6: our discord or the main Yeah, they were like, I
1:26:16
Speaker 6: think this is the only card that has blatant violence,
1:26:19
Speaker 6: and I was like, you might be right, Uh, Krakens Wrath,
1:26:25
Speaker 6: are there people getting hurt?
1:26:28
Speaker 2: And look Simon on those tentacles when you get when
1:26:30
Speaker 2: you get a.
1:26:31
Speaker 6: Chance, all right, doing it right now? But yeah, Muona forever.
1:26:36
Speaker 6: But Demon mode is coming for you. And uh, I
1:26:40
Speaker 6: like playing weird stuff and themes and my wind record
1:26:45
Speaker 6: just about everywhere will prove.
1:26:47
Speaker 5: That, all right. Uh Wookie, Yeah, I know you've only
1:26:57
Speaker 5: towed Depp. Any of these actions sound feeling to you.
1:27:04
Speaker 4: First. When I bought into the game, I bought Navenka
1:27:08
Speaker 4: and Blotch Right, I'm pretty sure that's it. It rolls dice,
1:27:14
Speaker 4: it just does. I had fun with it when I
1:27:16
Speaker 4: played Domino with it, and it's something that interests me
1:27:22
Speaker 4: now looking at some of the cards, Vet and Crowbar
1:27:25
Speaker 4: are definitely something I want to look into once and
1:27:31
Speaker 4: once I get more accustomed to the game. I mean,
1:27:33
Speaker 4: you guys are running online stuff, maybe I pop in.
1:27:36
Speaker 4: I don't have much of a collection at the current
1:27:38
Speaker 4: time because stores in Wisconsin don't really have it.
1:27:44
Speaker 2: Luckily, you have some friends that have that have cards
1:27:47
Speaker 2: ready to.
1:27:47
Speaker 7: Write to give you.
1:27:48
Speaker 4: So you guys have in a very unique situation, like
1:27:52
Speaker 4: very much. And I mean I'm I am on their
1:27:57
Speaker 4: like store locator and it looks like only one store
1:28:01
Speaker 4: anywhere near any anywhere near me is touching this game
1:28:05
Speaker 4: right now.
1:28:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they we should probably because I'm sure some
1:28:11
Speaker 2: of your listeners won't have won't have like gone out
1:28:14
Speaker 2: and listened to the AMA today. That is something they
1:28:17
Speaker 2: specifically like acknowledged and we're vocal about, is that they
1:28:20
Speaker 2: realize that the adoption in other parts of the world
1:28:24
Speaker 2: is crazy, like a lot of a lot of the
1:28:26
Speaker 2: European countries that have gotten involved are like it's it's selling,
1:28:30
Speaker 2: like Hotcakes. It's it's doing very.
1:28:32
Speaker 6: Well out sold out in franstributor level in Italy. I
1:28:38
Speaker 6: think it's sold out at stores in France, Spain and Italy.
1:28:43
Speaker 2: On the American front, it's it's been a little bit slower,
1:28:46
Speaker 2: but they did own up to that and they said,
1:28:48
Speaker 2: you know that they're right now they're looking at what
1:28:50
Speaker 2: sort of push they can make to sort of improve
1:28:53
Speaker 2: the marketing here to get more people involved into where
1:28:57
Speaker 2: both in terms of like you know what can be
1:28:58
Speaker 2: done online with with the tools that we've already been
1:29:01
Speaker 2: talking about this episode, and what they can do to
1:29:04
Speaker 2: make an impact in stores and and at the the
1:29:09
Speaker 2: LGS level, so that because the game is fantastic, you
1:29:12
Speaker 2: just have to get it into and then it wins
1:29:14
Speaker 2: them over without you doing any additional work.
1:29:17
Speaker 6: I have an idea if anyone from Equinox or as
1:29:21
Speaker 6: my Day is listening, hire me as the American community manager.
1:29:25
Speaker 4: They don't, they don't listen to this. They don't listen
1:29:26
Speaker 4: to this.
1:29:30
Speaker 5: Directly he hates us.
1:29:33
Speaker 4: Well maybe not.
1:29:36
Speaker 3: Real quick.
1:29:38
Speaker 8: Uh So today actually during the A M A the Eric,
1:29:43
Speaker 8: he did say that they will be sectioning off pieces
1:29:47
Speaker 8: of the US as in like west coast, east coast,
1:29:49
Speaker 8: you know, midwest, whatever, and they're going to start looking
1:29:52
Speaker 8: into having point people for Parisian to help expand and
1:29:57
Speaker 8: let them know what their region is looking for and
1:30:00
Speaker 8: needing as far as expansion is concerned. So they are
1:30:04
Speaker 8: looking into, you know, coal into tapping the community or
1:30:09
Speaker 8: basically being a liaison for them for that region, So
1:30:13
Speaker 8: it could happen.
1:30:15
Speaker 6: My friend, Yeah, I missed, I missed that part. Uh,
1:30:18
Speaker 6: I'm gonna see you at pack some plugged lookie and uh,
1:30:22
Speaker 6: we're we're gonna have words again.
1:30:24
Speaker 7: So I mean you did start off by asking which
1:30:28
Speaker 7: character drinks whole milk on there, ask me anything? And uh,
1:30:31
Speaker 7: yeah that that didn't seem to.
1:30:33
Speaker 6: I guess that's not a very like, uh a very
1:30:37
Speaker 6: mean base based thing in in France, because it did
1:30:42
Speaker 6: not They did not choke, but it was a very
1:30:46
Speaker 6: fun conversation in the main discord.
1:30:49
Speaker 4: So because what's what's more funny about that is I'm
1:30:52
Speaker 4: gonna assume in France milk is just milk, like I'm
1:30:56
Speaker 4: gonna gal multiple varieties. In the US, we like to
1:31:04
Speaker 4: convolute things, so they're just like, what do you mean,
1:31:07
Speaker 4: what does this whole milk you speak of.
1:31:09
Speaker 6: I am pretty sure unless I heard Loki incorrectly. He said, oh,
1:31:16
Speaker 6: that's Courabi. We should have left him at gen Con
1:31:19
Speaker 6: so they know who I am.
1:31:23
Speaker 4: Listen, you're fitting right here. You're fitting in real well
1:31:27
Speaker 4: on the AC staff. Because FFG hates US, which is
1:31:32
Speaker 4: part of Asthma Day. I don't know if FFG has
1:31:34
Speaker 4: a lot to do with this or if it's mainly
1:31:37
Speaker 4: Asthma Day. I don't know who's taking control of it
1:31:39
Speaker 4: in the North America region because that's a that's a
1:31:42
Speaker 4: whole Asthma Day debacle. FFG hates us a lot, like
1:31:50
Speaker 4: a lot, a lot.
1:31:51
Speaker 5: I probably don't even remember us.
1:31:53
Speaker 4: We're still well, you know what staff has really rolled over. Yeah,
1:31:58
Speaker 4: most of the FFG's were starting thresh walking with starting
1:32:01
Speaker 4: fresh altered corner.
1:32:03
Speaker 5: We're altering our and going and how long.
1:32:08
Speaker 4: Will it be before we screw this up?
1:32:10
Speaker 5: Is the main question to be decided to TBD.
1:32:15
Speaker 4: Well, we'll find it out later.
1:32:18
Speaker 7: It is very interesting about like you were talking about
1:32:19
Speaker 7: the regions for the US, even if you just look
1:32:21
Speaker 7: on the altered website just for the stores or the events,
1:32:25
Speaker 7: it is and they even said this, I think, and
1:32:27
Speaker 7: they asked me, Am, like, it's heavily or more invested
1:32:30
Speaker 7: in like the east coast, and you can see like
1:32:33
Speaker 7: from Texas eastward straight up, like that's where sixty seventy
1:32:38
Speaker 7: percent of the stores are popping up. You have a
1:32:40
Speaker 7: few out in California, San Francisco, you have some down
1:32:43
Speaker 7: in the LA and San Diego, then you have a
1:32:45
Speaker 7: few up in Washington. Other than that, it's very barren
1:32:47
Speaker 7: to the west.
1:32:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think most most, most most of the movement
1:32:52
Speaker 2: that we've seen so far, even here in Texas, it's
1:32:54
Speaker 2: been kind of grassroots, Like it started off with Materiel
1:32:57
Speaker 2: and Z and then the Cole kind of kind of
1:33:01
Speaker 2: came on board and started really pushing and connecting people
1:33:03
Speaker 2: as well. But it was just people in the community
1:33:07
Speaker 2: like bugging stores and saying, hey, we want to play
1:33:10
Speaker 2: this game.
1:33:10
Speaker 5: But at the time, yeah, so much.
1:33:13
Speaker 4: Like anything else. And I'm just looking at my map.
1:33:17
Speaker 4: There are a total of four stores in all of
1:33:19
Speaker 4: Wisconsin that are doing anything with this game at the
1:33:22
Speaker 4: current time. Two of them are in Madison, I am
1:33:25
Speaker 4: going to assume, and that's about an hour and a
1:33:28
Speaker 4: half away from me. And if I am right, oh,
1:33:32
Speaker 4: I am incorrect. I thought it was there are seven.
1:33:35
Speaker 7: There are seven stores in Wisconsin, Wookie huh. If you
1:33:39
Speaker 7: go to the stores and city events, there are seven stores.
1:33:42
Speaker 4: I want to see.
1:33:43
Speaker 7: Fo I see seven?
1:33:46
Speaker 4: All right, you're gonna happen to tell me where they are.
1:33:48
Speaker 4: There's one, there's one that's close to me, and then
1:33:52
Speaker 4: there's one that's again about an hour away. So depending
1:33:56
Speaker 4: on what days they do things, you know, well, we'll
1:34:00
Speaker 4: see and then Zach can teach me how to read
1:34:03
Speaker 4: a map here in about ten minutes.
1:34:05
Speaker 6: So with Wyoming, Wyoming, South Dakota, like, some of these
1:34:10
Speaker 6: states have absolutely nothing.
1:34:12
Speaker 4: So yeah, well they also have no people in them.
1:34:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, good point. Good point.
1:34:18
Speaker 2: I mean there's like, well, I've got a brother in Wyoming,
1:34:22
Speaker 2: thank you very Much's one of what three li there?
1:34:26
Speaker 6: Like, I won't make any states hate me during episode one.
1:34:33
Speaker 6: I'll save that for three.
1:34:34
Speaker 4: Or it's all right, I have a whole country that
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Speaker 4: hates me. So we're you know, it's all right, We're
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Speaker 4: we're fine here. But but that being said, I think
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Speaker 4: this is where we're gonna cut it off here and
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Speaker 4: we will see y'all next week.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, let's get it.
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Speaker 11: No mission to spice Betty, she bet but she totally nice.
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Speaker 11: White at the stool from alect for sure. But he
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Speaker 11: left with yeah we live and the time just saying
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Speaker 11: little man. But then and a wooman as Memphis to
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Speaker 11: buy and the guy who the cat in the scene
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Speaker 11: and you say like grand noble loop of machine and
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Speaker 11: like go on, you guy coming over the scene and Serene,
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Speaker 11: come most O the coop over the bfing the bin
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Speaker 11: your coast.
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Speaker 6: I got five for my name and got no stuff.
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Speaker 11: Comes to me just to see how my shoulder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they said that I couldn't do it.