Tappedout Force of Will Site is updated and running
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Posted on Aug. 26, 2016, 12:55 p.m. by Sollisnexus
For those who play Force of Will, our FoW portion of our site is up to date and will be maintained be me, Sollisnexus. Though I may have come and go at times on here I'm dedicated to helping this site expand!
I'll be on this side of Tapped out as well but my attention will be focused on the Force of Will portion. I'm available for messaging if you have any questions or are interested in learning about FoW.
This ends my Discussion but I'll leave this conversation with a direct link to the FoW Portion of the site for those who are lazy to scroll down and find it in the under page or for those who want to bookmark the link for future use.
PepsiAddicted says... #3
didnt play in months.. is abdul control still a thing?
August 26, 2016 1:09 p.m.
Sollisnexus says... #4
PepsiAddicted not in the current "Standard" but in another format it is I believe
August 26, 2016 1:17 p.m.
I already said it on the other site.... but huzzah!
For those of you who don't know about the FoW TCG here is is in a nutshell:
0: They are releasing a "Battle Simulator". basically this is MTGO but for the TCG Force of Will. Except it's free with the exception of foiling out your deck. Yeah. They make enough money off teh TCG that they are essentially giving away their online platform for free. It's in beta right now and not available but hey it'll be a great way to try out the game.
1: THe MTG "Stack" = "the chase"
2: Your "lands" are called "Magic Stones" and are in a seperate deck of 10-20.
3: Your main deck is 40-60 cards. (So pretty much 40)
4: You have a "commander" sort of concept called a "ruler" who flips over into a "J-Ruler".
5: The cost is about $100.00 for a "Tier one" standard equivelant if not less. And yes I mean lists that top world championships cost less than $100.00.
6: The game-play follows a pacing similar to MTG modern (not standard)
7: The game is about to release it's 1st set of it's 3rd block (block = clster in FoW speak.)
8: Standard = New Frontiers in FoW-speak. New Frontiers = current cluster (so current block) plus last cluster (so current block and last block.)
9: 
has ramp, some draw, and Cancel type effects. 
has draw, tap/untap, gain control, bounce. 
has kill spells, renaimation, discard, and life drain/gain. 
has single target resonator, player, and AoE damage, self deck exiling card advantage, some other stuff. 
has the most competitive huge creatures as well as small critters and some good control magic as well. Also life-gain. 
is mostly about "Machine" typed creatures.
10: The FoW company is dedicated to keeping "chase" cards form being a thing and has publicly stated they will not have a reserve list.
11: Opening a single box of a set gets you 4+ of every common, 3+ of every uncommon (with playsets of many of them), 2-3 of every rare, and usually 1-2 of every mythic. The only exception is the "Ruler"/"J-Ruler" card which is like your commander. Those are the only cards I would recommend ordering online or buying individually. For everything else (unless you just want foils) buy a box and bam you're 90% of the way to having 4 of everything.
12: FoW TCG starter decks are much "better" than MTG starter decks. WotC is changing this lately with their new P-Walker decks which give you GASP a P-Walker! (I love MTG but come on. They sell you bad starter decks because you're new and they can get away with it.) You get playsets of all of the cards in a FoW starer deck. Imagine if MTG made a starter deck with 4x Siege Rhino, 4x Hero's Downfall, 4x Fleecemane Lion, 2x Elspeth, Sun's Champion, 2x Anafenza, the Foremost... you get the idea.
14: You draw 5 cards to start (remember you don't have 2-4 lands though so you usually have more cards than if you were playing MTG). If you want to mulligang you takea free partial. You can only partial once. For this reason you _aggressively _partial away 3+ drops. This leads to pretty much everybody with half a brain cell having smooth games.
14: Last thing. Cards types were
- Chant: Instant
- Chant: Standbye
- Chant
- Resonator
- Regalia
- Addition: Resonator (meaning Aura)
- Addition: Field (meaning just an "Enchantment")
From the set releasing September 9th onward they are just putting the word "quick-cast" on Chants instead of making them "Chant: Instant". This is the same as if they put "Flash" on a "Sorcery" in MTG.
They are doing the same thing pretty much with the Additions. The subtype is removed and it says with keyword what kind it is.
Phew that's most of the major points. I've been playing MTG since 2011 and still love the game but it's like I got two kids to feed now. MTG is the fat lazy bastard child who eats triple what the other one does in groceries though.
The one downside to FoW is that it's only really a 1v1 game right now.
August 26, 2016 1:43 p.m.
@ PepsiAddicted - Abdul (and almost everything really) got pushed out in favor of a card known as "Reflect/Refrain". This J-Ruler was Jace, the Mind Sculptor on crack. They finally banned him last week. Lots of people stopped playing but held their cards waiting for his ban. The FoW company listened and banned R/R. Now people are excited about New Frontiers (standard) and Wanderer (Legacy).
TLDR: Right now we don't know what the meta is for Wanderer/Legacy and he's about to rotate out of Standard/New Frontiers.
August 26, 2016 1:47 p.m.
I mean, I know Force of Will is the holy grail of legacy players, but this is ridiculous.
August 26, 2016 1:48 p.m.
@ DarkLaw - Then wait till you see this! Is it Birds of Paradise or is it Squadron Hawk? We just don't know! (It's the FoW Squadron hawk...)
August 26, 2016 2 p.m.
kengiczar Yeah, that does look like a mixture of the promo art for Force of Will and Squadron Hawk.
August 26, 2016 2:49 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #11
Bro you may want to do something about that background, black on white on grey is hard on the eyes. I would figure out how to use the same brown-on-brown that the main site uses to keep on brand for tappedout.
August 26, 2016 3:13 p.m.
I would totally 100% quit magic and start playing force of will without ever looking back if the art style it used wasn't so terrible
canterlotguardian says... #2
Very sweet. I'll check it out momentrar.
August 26, 2016 1:06 p.m.