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Yep, it's inspired by Pokémon! Many games draw inspiration from each other. This was always my favorite ability in Pokemon, so I've adapted the concept to fit Algomancy's unique card game mechanics and ruleset.

Assuming you meant sleeving, I personally love dragonshield black matte for the game cards and dragonshield clear for the resources and tokens. Although sleeving the base game in dragonshield clear is a good option too, it makes them feel bigger since they don't have a border. That's easier since you'll only need one kind of sleeve for everything

@@CalebGannon TIL iPhones do not recognize sleeving as a word. Thank you for the tips :)

Working on it! :)

Haha awesome! If you do wanna help out in testing or chatting about expansions, feel free to hop in the discord. I'm actively working on the next set right now discord.gg/Sur3kSw8

@@CalebGannon Nice! Will do :)

Generally no. There are some marginal uses if you want a small hand size for certain effects or to avoid discard. But otherwise you might as well wait to make the resources when you can activate them.

Thank you! :)

Wooo! Hopefully soon! :)

Yeah it was definitely inspired by ninjutsu in MTG. The difference is that ambush uses the stack, targets and can be done on any unit. so it's more flexible but also riskier

I definitely misspoke. You would lose 2 (half rounded up). What I meant is that all 3 are able to be sacrificed

No, Im just having more fun with Algomancy

I'm gonna start posting Algomancy cube content once the digital client is ready

That's totally understandable. I do plan on hiring artists in the future when I can hopefully actually afford it, so keep a look out for that time I suppose!

@@CalebGannon That would be fantastic. This attitude, more than anything, gives me a lot of confidence that I'll be able to enjoy this game sometime in the future. Here's hoping it gets to that point :]

hey thank you! :)

I kept the foil samples outside in the garage unsleeved during the entire monsoon season and they still didn't Pringle lol

You're right, I must've missed that when I was doing the overlay

Yeah that's an interesting point to bring up, I could see us wanting to rename that card in the future. During development it started out being exactly the recall effect which made sense, but later on I added the life loss to prevent it from being too strong when looped and lean water into more tempo than control. Probably should have changed the name then but it wasn't something that crossed my mind

Thank you! 😊

Oh that's gonna be fun. Thanks for the support and I hope you have a great time playing it blind :)

Thank you! :) and don't worry, there are a ton of funny dudes :) look at bubb for example haha. No dragons yet though because dragons aren't a unit type in the game at the moment

@@CalebGannon I smiled when I saw Bubb for sure

That creature died from the fireball and I used flame shield to counter its trigger so I didn't die.

Hey awesome! :) Glad I was able to play with you.

Thank you! :)

Ayyy thank you sir :)

It really is though. Because of the graft mechanic that card sorta acts like past in flames, allowing you to rebuy used effects that have graft on them.

Yeah. I didn't know it at the time because we tracked life incorrectly during the game but I was real close to dying lol

Definitely will :)

Not yet, but that's a good idea for a future video that I'll probably make!

Yes it absolutely is lol

There are a couple things here: First, I will likely be making more cards for the game. The game is absolutely playable out of the box in the limited format, but I understand that in constructed people will want things to change over time. Second, because the cards are so cheap/easy to acquire we're gonna have a rotating banlist where the top percentage of cards will cycle in and out of legality (based on winrate, usage % and player feedback). So the meta should stay fresh basically always just from that. (The formats are gonna be similar to how Pokemon showdown does tiers with Ubers, OU, UU, etc. being sorta like our version of legacy, modern, pauper etc but they'll be based on card usage rather than when it was released or rarity). And lastly, the goal with the design of Algomancy for constructed is to balance it through card designs and the game mechanics rather than variance (which is what most other card games do). Basically, the game is intended to function even if both players could demonic tutor every card every turn. This way, it's more about how players navigate the games and their sequencing and skill, rather than just "did I draw my combo pieces". So ideally, even if we have a "solved" meta, that wouldn't make for stagnant gameplay since different sequences made by players would lead to vastly different games. Sorta how chess manages to be interesting even though all games use exactly the same pieces.

@@CalebGannon Thanks for the detailed answer! The main issue for me was consistency making the best decks better and worse deck not that much better, but I think the banlist is a nice solution and generally if something becomes a problem I am sure you'll be hearing about it hehe I like the idea baking consistency into the DNA of the cards and game, I have reservations of what that could form in terms of play patterns but you clearly thought it out and I need to see and play a lottt more before I act like I know anything Love the project overall, and I can't wait to see more of it and hopefully play soon! Card design is a huge passion of mine and it's really lovely hearing your process and seeing what was made 🥰

​@@aliceoftheabyssyeah I suppose we'll find out once the game is released if these ideas play out how I planned for them to :) Interestingly, I originally didn't even plan for constructed to be part of this game, but in testing I've actually been enjoying constructed more than limited (which surprised me because I don't really like constructed in MTG). The way I can describe it is constructed Algomancy feels more like a fighting game (like super smash brothers or Tekken) and less like gambling. Also if there is a major problem, we can also always adjust the constructed rules to make decks bigger or remove the drafting aspect of constructed.

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Thank you! Yeah it took a long time to get here, but I'm very happy with it as well.

Hey, thanks!

Yeah, I've got some other friends lined up with more complicated decks. This video was mostly just to demonstrate the turn structure with some basic interaction

Glad you like them!

Thank you!

I'm working on a digital client and should have a playable demo soon. You can wishlist it on steam right now actually store.steampowered.com/app/2948720/Algomancy/ As for decision paralysis, we didn't see that as much of a problem in testing with people from a wide range of backgrounds, largely because each player does that action at the same time so nobody is waiting around for them. It feels kinda like drafting in MTG in that sense.

@@CalebGannon oh wow that's awesome thanks, very excited for that!

Put your steam id, I want to play digital too XD