We even have a couple of spoiled cards, including one pretty cool Hydra with a mouthful of a name, Polukranos. My fifth-grade root word lessons in Latin and Greek are making my spider-senses tingle in anticipation of this new set. Get ready to look stuff up!
What I'm really excited about is this article, "The Path of the Hero" over at Daily MTG. I'm excited because there's a chance we are going to see some kind of co-op / group encounter variation on Magic.
Cooperative games, where all of the players are fighting together instead of against one another, are cool in their own way. There's (almost) nothing worse than sitting down to a new game with an experienced player, having your ass handed to you, and then never playing again because who likes that? Ah, but if it's me and you working together, explaining the ins-and-outs, now were on to something.
At this point, the article makes it sound like more of a gimmick, that there will be these special Hero Cards you can earn through achievements at certain events. Okay, great. And at the end, there will be some kind of epic encounter called a Challenge Deck. The example they give is a Challenge Deck called, "Face the Hydra" where, "the Hydra follows a predetermined sequence of casting cards from its shuffled deck and blasting you for damage. The goal is to eliminate all of the Hydra heads before it eats you."
In and of itself, this doesn't sound all that exciting, especially if it really is predetermined. But, there is promise in this idea. Will there be other Challenge Decks? Maybe even multi-player Challenge Decks that a group of Heroes can face together? How cool would it be to shuffle up your Commander deck (now a Hero deck) and face some epic evil together?
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