Fanboy

Hi there!

When I purchased the World of Warcraft ( I guess you would call these ) deluxe box sets ( I bought two of these for play test purposes ) I also picked up the ” Onyxia Raid Box ” set along with them.

I finally got the chance to play test the Onyxia deck against the two other decks that I bought.

The idea behind the Onyxia raid deck, is that it promotes multiplayer aspect. In other words, it’s one against at least two other players, but I think in order to take down Onyxia, it will take at least three well tuned decks.

Heroes play against Onyxia in three stages…

Stage One – Onyxia has 20 life points that you have to deal with, in order to move on to stage two. When I played Onyxia, my friend Chris, he took me out in the first round and was able to move on to the second round.

When he played Onyxia on the other hand, I was not able to take him out in the first round. As a matter of fact, he actually won in the first stage outlasting me.

Stage Two – Onyxia has 30 life points in this stage, and this was the stage that my fun began. I started to generate ” Dragon Welp ” tokens in this round, along with just destroying alot of his allies on the board.

I was going to win in this round anyway due to a card that I was holding till I had enough resources to pay for it ( 8 to be exact ), and the card is called ” Burninate ” which for 8 resources takes out everything on the board, heroes, allies, and equipment. If you are lucky and resourceful enough, than you get to face Onyxia for the final time…

Stage Three – Onyxia is at 50 points at this stage, and I say if you have made it to this stage, than you and your friends have played well and put together effective decks to play against the fierce Onyxia!

The Onyxia Raid deck set comes boxed in a slipcase, with the three versions of Onyxia, a regular deck and an event deck that is used as resources after you play them, and a ” Loot ” pack of special foil cards that are only available if you buy the” Onyxia Raid Deck ” box set.

It retails between $22.00 to $29.00

Gets your friends together and try to slay Onxia, I dare ya!

Okay, I went out and bought the game. Actually I went and bought the two starter sets that are specially packaged, along with the Onxyia Raid set.

The first thing that you have to realize is that all games owe a tip of the hat to the daddy of all of tcg games, Magic the Gathering from Wizards of the Coast. That being said….

Coming out of the Heroes of Azeroth special starter sets you get the following……

Either an alliance or a hoard set of cards, along with three over-sized cards, 2 booster packs, and all in a special hard plastic carrying case, which you can use to house your deck and extra cards.

First off, the first big difference between this game and Magic is the idea of using resources or mana. In magic you have cards that you can use to generate ” mana ” in order to play a card(s). The differences become clear right away ….while in magic, you can play a mana card right away, if you don’t have a card in your hand at the time that matches your ” mana source ” such as lets say a swamp card to play, you could be holding onto a card or two at least till you play a mana card that matches said card in your hand so that it can be played.

Not so in WOW. You can use any card in your hand right away as a resource, thus the only thing you have to wait on is having enough resources on the table to play the card in your hand. Have a two drop card that you want to play, you just have to play two resources and your good to go.

And game is a little quicker due to this.

Now the object in Magic is to get your opponent down to a zero life total. It is basically the same in WOW, the only twist is that your hero takes the damage not you, but the damage idea is just the same. Different heroes have different life totals.

Another difference in this game is that damage does not just go away, it stays in the game. So damage can be healed, and which can prolong your game, and your chances of winning.

Your hero also has a special ability that can be played once every game, and depending on what this ability is, can be a game winner for you.

The artwork rivals alot of the great art that I have come to expect on magic cards. And if you play the online game, I am sure you will want to collect your favorite online characters.

Upper Deck in support of WOW has a great website devoted to the game, a community forum, lots of articles about the game, and includes previews of new cards.

Upper Deck is also instituting a Beta Hobby League, starting in January, and WOW has been named new tcg game of the year from Inquest gaming magazine.

I will be staying on top of things happening in this game and I will be doing alot of playing also!