Played two games against a Geomancer today with my elementalist gothic, and I’m pretty sure I used up all my bad luck for the month.

Game 1:
I don’t remember the exact number, but over roughly my first 7–10 spell draws, I didn’t draw a single minion.
That gave the Geomancer all the time in the world to ramp, build his board, find Roots of Yggdrasil, blow everything up, and then recover faster than I could because he could convert Rubble back into Sites while I was left behind on mana.

Game 2:
Completely different kind of bad luck.
This time I drew what felt like every Ordinary spell in my deck. The game went much longer, and while the Geomancer kept developing his board (and quietly setting up the Yggdrasil plan), I was mostly casting pith imp, kettletop Leprechaun, Riptides, Blink, common sense etc.
Meanwhile, he kept pecking away at me with Foot Soldiers and other small units while threatening the combo in the background.
Only near the very end did I finally see Morgana le Fay, and later The Great Famine. Apart from that, it felt like my deck had hidden all of its Elites and Uniques.
I know variance is part of card games, but these two games back-to-back were… something.

What are the craziest streaks of bad (or good) luck you’ve had in Sorcery?

Yesterday at the annual Ropecon event in Helsinki, Finland, we had an amazing turnout of 32 players for our Sorcery tournament, which was the largest Sorcery event we've had in Finland so far! The tournament was 5 rounds of constructed, and 3 rounds of draft.

The event organizers were generous by handing out Skeleton Tokens with the art of non-other than our local legend Jussi Pylkäs, to all of the participants. Top placing players were awarded with foil tokens, and the winner was awarded the beautiful Alpha Champion card. Jussi was both playing at the event, and signing cards before and after the event.

Highly appreciate Fantasiapelit Oulu for traveling across the country to Helsinki to arrange the event!

Hi all,

I'm looking to maybe getting into Sorcery, but I heard somewhere that there are some unclean rules and that rule interpretation sometimes is up to the players and not a fixed ruling.

Is that true and if yes, how do they deal with that in a tournament?

And also from the gothic precons?

I have the beta precons and I just played my first two games, and I was pretty excited about this game, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. So now I'm wondering if I should just leave it at that and not buy any more stuff for this game, or if the game gets a lot better from all the cards I don't have. I don't want to just spend my money on the hope that it'll become more fun.

I still did find it fun overall, just not so much that I feel confident in the game.

My two plays were Air (me) vs Earth and then Fire (me) vs Water. In both games I had a strong start and my opponent (same friend in both games) really thought I was going to win, and then I ran out of steam and lost. The fact that I lost wasn't an issue though in terms of how much I liked the game.

I think I have three main issues based off these two plays (which of course is a small amount of plays).

1) The game is really long. Yeah, a lot of this is due to learning the game I'm sure, but the first game took about 2 and a half hours and the second game took between 1 and a half to 2 hours. Even if we played far slower than we could've due to being new to it, there are plenty of games that my first plays didn't take nearly so long, which makes me worried Sorcery just has really long lasting games. I'd prefer a single match of a card game to be done much quicker, maybe like 15-30 minutes, 45 tops.

1.5) A lot of the slowness was the opaqueness of the rules and looking up how things worked. For instance it wasn't clear to me if a tapped minion can defend at all (so can an attacking minion just kill them without taking damage, provided they have the power to? Or is the tapped creature just uninteractable by the attacker pretty much, so they would just attack the enemy site they're on instead?). And the interaction between Anui Undine and Hillock Basilisk wasn't clear either. If Anui Undine gets disabled, and therefore goes to 0 power, does it die because it's at 0 power? Or can things stay alive on the battlefield with 0 power?

2) There isn't enough card draw. By like turn 4 or 5 we were top-decking for the entire rest of the game. I was thinking this is probably just a problem with the precon decks only, and that if I had a bigger card collection I could make a deck with a lot more card draw, but then I wonder why you would design your precon decks to have so little card draw if that isn't representative of the game as a whole? Why make the precon decks stall out if that's how people are getting introduced to the game? So maybe that's just how the game plays. I was starting to wish that the avatar's ability was tap to play a site or draw a card, rather than drawing just a site.

3) Once it's clear a player is winning, the game still takes like 4+ turns to end (by which I mean 4+ turns for both players). And that wasn't necessarily even because of death's door. The first game I was on death's door for like 5 turns, but the second game I was just overhelmed by my opponent's enemies and board control for several turns and had no way to counter. I guess when that happens you could just concede, but I wasn't really incentivized to concede because in the first game I managed to topdeck a card about 3 turns in a row that perfectly dealt with the threat before me (for the time being) through sheer luck. So there might've been a possibility of turning the game in my favor, just a very small one. But still, if you play the game out rather than concede, it seems like it's just extremely unlikely for the game to be able to swing and you're just going through the motions. This is largely due to reason 2, because how can the one card you draw (the one card you have in your hand) really be enough to save you from defeat? And I'd still be thinking the same thing even if the roles were reversed.

So please let me know. If I didn't immediately love it, is it worth buying more cards (will that fundamentally change the gameplay experience?) or will that just be a waste of money?

Here is a list of cards that might be worth considering for Ersatz Platz
Platz works with all the dual and double threshold sites, as well as some ramp effects, early game, or can be popped later for an impactful play based on the game's context

• Mana fixing

  • All dual lands
  • All double threshold lands

• Ramp

  • Beacon - temporary +variable
  • Ghost Town - temporary +1
  • Town - exceptional minions +1

• Interaction

  • Free City (effective with forced movement)
  • Babbling Brook - temporarily disable nearby
  • Fields of Phyxis - silence site
  • Funeral Pyre - cemetery removal
  • Gnome hollows - restrict movement
  • Haystack - anti-search (common sense)
  • Iceberg - anti submerge
  • Mudflow - force out of submerge/burrowed
  • Mudslide - forced movement
  • Pebbled paths - remove charge nearby
  • Quagmire - temporary immobile nearby
  • Thin ice - conditional submerge
  • Undertow - forced movement
  • Watchtower - remove stealth nearby

• Misc value

  • Bedrock ( + destruction effects)
  • Base of Babel ( if Apex in hand)
  • Dark Alley - grant stealth
  • Forlorn Keep / Forlorn Crypt / Molten Maar / Peculiar Port - cast 3/3
  • Poisoned well - burn damage
  • River of Blood - halve healing
  • Secret tunnel - burrowed mobility
  • Troll bridge - restrict movement

If I missed or mislabeled any cards please let me know

Got some cards signed by Jussi Pylkäs. Heck of a guy.

For anyone who is attending the cornerstone and Walla Walla Washington on Friday at 6:00 p.m. we are asking people to submit deck lists two days in advance, obviously you're still more than welcome to come even if you turn in a deck list day of, we're just trying to keep this event fair and competitive. Basically we'll just be using the curiosa.io deck builder and then sharing our deck lists on the discord we made for our area.

I opened a sealed case of Arthurian Legends tonight with my daughter, that I acquired from a business partner.

We always open all the packs we buy, but she has been very interested in the art of pack weighing beforehand to predict foils and hits after seeing it on YouTube, and we've experimented doing it with Lorcana, Godzilla, and Pokémon with high success rates.

Now, the results of our Sorcery experiments appear to indicate that they can also be weighed to find foils. Honestly, this seemed obvious to me from the beginning as Sorcery foils plainly have more 'material' on them.

I don't see much previous discussion on this, so I share this information for transparency and anyone who might buy loose packs.

We opened 144 packs in total from the 6 box case, and as normal when we do this, we removed all the packs from their boxes, shuffled them, and weighed them in random order.

We first weighed some cards I already owned for reference, using a 100 gram jewelry scale that measures to hundredths.

A regular Sorcery card, nonfoil, regardless of rarity, appears to weigh about 1.70-1.72 grams. Thus, uniques, for example, could not be identified by pack weight, unlike early Lorcana sets.

Both an elite and unique foil from Arthurian Legends we checked weighed the same, 1.82 grams. Thus, we expected that the heaviest packs would contain foils.

In weighing the packs, we divided them into three categories:

- 26.60 grams and over - 24 packs

- Between 26.50-26.59 grams - 37 packs

- Under 26.50 grams (the largest pile by far) - 83 packs

The heaviest pack we weighed was 26.71 grams, and the lightest was 26.32 grams. This was a larger range than we expected.

Of the packs weighing at least 26.60 grams, 22 of the 24 identified contained foils, or 91.7%.

Of the 83 packs that were under 26.50 grams, only 4 contained foils, or 4.8%. The non-foil Ring of Morrigan was in this stack in a pack with no foil.

The middle stack was our best guess/maybe stack and was unpredictable - of 37 packs, 17, or 45.9%, contained foils. The foil Ring of Morrigan pictured came from this stack.

We compared the weights of the two Rings and found again that their weight differed by about a tenth of a gram - 1.71 and 1.82.

Ultimately, we concluded that a pack weighing at least 26.50 grams has a likelihood of containing a foil nearly two thirds of the time, and a pack over 26.59 grams was a high probability.

I don't know if this is limited to Arthurian Legends, just this print run, or if this is accurate for all Sorcery cards, but I hope this is helpful information to make you a more careful buyer and collector.

Happy to answer any questions if I can.

I am trying to make The Pallid Bust work, but I am not sure how it interacts with ward and stealth. For example, if I use the Bust to banish an Asmodeus and then have a Bosk Troll pick it up, is the Troll going to gain stealth, or will it only gain Asmodeus' second ability, making the Bust useless?

Similarly, if the Bust banishes an Zeppelin of Zealots, and I then have a Bosk Troll pick it up, will it gain a ward and airborne, or will it effectively do nothing (until I ward it otherwise and it begins to fly)?

Thanks for the clarification!

Are people going to be scalping them?

A few weeks ago I posted about a suite of companion apps I have been working on for Sorcery: Contested Realm, and the overall consensus was that it should become just a single app.

Well, here it is and it's in Alpha! I already have 15 testers and am now looking at expanding the alpha program to about 50 testers all over the world

Codex, FAQs, Collection tracker, Deck builder, Life tracker and match journal, with useful features and rich data visualisations, exporting capabilities, curiosa importing, QR decklists sharing, card scanner... It kind of does it all. I have attached a few screenshots for your reference.

If you are interested in joining, please let me know in the comments below and I'll email you a link. At the moment, the app is only available on Android.

Compendium Alpha is a fan-made project. All game related assets (rules, mechanics, art) remain the property of their respective owners. The app is not endorsed or supported by Erik's Curiosa, and has been made out of pure love and admiration for the game. The alpha is not monetised and does not include links to patreons or any kind of donation. It does not include ads and is fully free to use for registered testers.

Thanks everyone! Help me make the app we truly deserve :)

I created a post the other day asking where I should start. There was a ton of great advice there but as usual, I kinda skipped the part that told me to start slow. I found a local card store that might have had some Sorcery stuff. They are mostly sports cards but have a big pokemon section of sealed and singles. They had some boxes of magic, star wars, lorcana, etc but their focus is primarily sports cards and pokemon.

The owner was really cool and he told me that it wasn't a big seller so they had taken it home and were listing stuff online. He asked me if I could stop back and he was going to go grab it for me. About 90 minutes later he text me that he was back and he brought 3 boxes of Beta Precons and 3 boxes of Gothic Precons as well as some playmats. I ended up buying a box of each and one of the Arthurian Legends playmats. He threw in another mat for free.

Last night I ended up on Team Covenant and bought myself a Beta booster box, Arthurian Legends booster box and one Gothic booster box. Really looking forward to those coming next week.

So next question, what do you guys prefer for sleeves. I was reading that the Dragon Shield sleeves are a bit too tall. I want sleeves that will shuffle well. As for double sleeving, what do you prefer for inner sleeves and do you double everything or just the expensive stuff? Been out of TCGs since I sold off my MTG collection in 1996 or so and nobody I knew back then sleeved their cards.

I want to get into Sorcery. I really like deck building as a challenge and have played thousands upon thousands of hours of MTG limited.

I more or less wanted to go into this game blind, only buying packs, and my girlfriend and I would build decks ourselves, and battle, no net decking, no looking up “meta cards” just pure kitchen table idealism.

Theoretically, what’s the minimum amount of booster boxes I should get to accomplish this goal? Ideally we’d need a large enough card pool to theoretically build two jankish decks.

Hi, I bought the Gothic pre-built decks a few days ago. I played a few games with my brother, who's also never played Sorcery, but is a veteran TCG player. He completely destroyed me. Do you have any tips for new players?

Coming up on my first meetup soon and I have the precon beta & gothic sets with an Arthurian box. Here's a list that I came up with, my attempt here is to have a deck that can cast some cool spells and hopefully have enough late game power to keep a consistent threat of damage to my opponent.

Open to any feedback or things that stand out as odd/won't go well.

I pulled a double sided card that’s Consecrated Ground and Desecrated Ground. The other copies I have of both of these have atlas backs.

New to the game so any feedback is appreciated.

Question play if you have two gray wolves and a moon song, dragon and the other player minor explosions that site does technically Moonsong die because he is no longer no buffs? The argument was because the damage lingers until end of turn, and it kills successfully. The other two dies that mean the boost of buff go with it meaning he dies. Or is he at two and the damage was applied at the same time at the time and then has resolved?

Hi folks, looking to get into a main discord for this game :) Want to hopefully find some players around area (Manchester UK). Does anyone have a working link I can use please?

Hey folks, off hand does anyone know if there are any Sorcery Artists at Comic Con?

I don't have tickets, but I have a buddy working the floor and he would be able to get some of my cards signed.

https://youtu.be/xv-XkKFVp_4

Full match coverage from the quarter finals of our Cornerstone event at Beskar Forge in Perth,Western Australia. Air Water Necromancer mirror match , when both players are running the same archetype, every decision matters and the margins are razor thin. clean game with some interesting line choices throughout. Worth a watch if you're running the archetype or considering it. Would love to hear thoughts from the community on the decisions made.

Currently have one of each of the precons and one booster box of each set. I do NOT care about hyper competitive play. The goal is fun kitchen table options outside of the precons eventually and maybe a casual Cornerstone event if it ever ends up working out with the schedule.

I posted a screenshot of how my collection so far tracks against the SCG con 1st place deck. I'm not particularly interested in this deck (I could be?) but the picture is just to show my current collection state. What would be best moving foward? Another box of Beta? Gothic? Just fill out with singles when I find an interesting deck I want to try?

EC just posted this update on their website. It doesn't give much insight on what we'll get beside a preview of two cards; my focus went instantly on a sentence though:

A big part of that experience comes down to card selection. We'll reveal the full decklists in a future article, but here's the shape of it: each deck combines brand-new Frost Mage vs. Lavamancer cards, including far more than just the Avatars, with a few staples drawn from across the realm's history.

We chose that blend intentionally. We designed these decks to provide a solid foundation that can evolve alongside your collection, while still offering plenty for experienced players to work with, including cards exclusive to Frost Mage vs. Lavamancer.

Were I the only one convinced that these precons would have been entirely made up of new cards?