by Bryan Reese
Hello Samurai of Rokugan!
Excitement for Ivory Edition is building. As you likely already know, today begins the previews for Ivory Edition. We are kicking things off by giving you the first TWO cards on the preview cycle! That is not all, however. Today also begins the first part of our new series of articles, The Coming Dawn. Over the coming weeks, the Design Team will be releasing daily articles, Monday through Friday, discussing the Clans, specifically their themes in Ivory Edition. These articles begin tomorrow and continue over the next six weeks. So make sure to check back daily.
To kick things off, let’s talk about our general plan for Ivory Edition. As previously mentioned, we are breaking Ivory Edition up into two parts, each one year long. Likewise, we are taking the four themes per clan and also breaking them up, two in the first year, two in the second year. This will allow us to better focus on a particular theme, giving each theme more cards per set, allowing decks to have more dynamic options per set. This also ensures that there will be a constant rollout of new themes and decks to explore.
I have spoken about it previously, but one of the faults of Emperor Edition was giving the players all four themes on Day 1. This created a feast and famine aspect to the game, where players binged in early Emperor Edition, playing with all their new toys. As Emperor rolled along, however, this feast turned into a bit of a famine, as new decks did not come along, for the most part, but rather existing decks were upgraded or given new tools.
The Stronghold + Sensei system will ensure this does not happen again, as new Sensei will come out for your Clan in every set, giving you new decks to play with and try out every expansion. Often times these will be Sensei available to many Clans, though sometimes they will be specific to your clan, directly designed to give you a way to play your Clan theme, though we are certain our players will find unexpected ways to play their Sensei and their themes.
We will launch Ivory Edition with one Stronghold for each Clan, and one Sensei specifically dedicated to that Clan. In the second expansion after Ivory Edition, your Clan’s second Sensei will release.
This Stronghold will encompass who your Clan is, at its very core. It will also serve as the basis for your fifth theme, also known as your Clan Theme. This Theme will span the entire two years of the Ivory Edition arc and will not have any defining keyword(s), as is so common for the themes. Instead, it will simply deal with your Clan at its very essence. So for example, the Lion ranks count among them Scouts, Deathseekers, Kitsu Priests, Commanders, Tacticians, and many more. But the typical Lion boils down to a Samurai who loves to fight, places honor above all else, and knows how to wield this honor as a weapon. This is the type of deck you can expect to see with a Clan Theme.
We hope you enjoy this series of articles over the coming weeks and you will see what we have envisioned for you and your clan. We are certainly excited to see what you do with these tools and how you take them to places we didn’t imagine them going!
Hello Samurai of Rokugan!
Excitement for Ivory Edition is building. As you likely already know, today begins the previews for Ivory Edition. We are kicking things off by giving you the first TWO cards on the preview cycle! That is not all, however. Today also begins the first part of our new series of articles, The Coming Dawn. Over the coming weeks, the Design Team will be releasing daily articles, Monday through Friday, discussing the Clans, specifically their themes in Ivory Edition. These articles begin tomorrow and continue over the next six weeks. So make sure to check back daily.
To kick things off, let’s talk about our general plan for Ivory Edition. As previously mentioned, we are breaking Ivory Edition up into two parts, each one year long. Likewise, we are taking the four themes per clan and also breaking them up, two in the first year, two in the second year. This will allow us to better focus on a particular theme, giving each theme more cards per set, allowing decks to have more dynamic options per set. This also ensures that there will be a constant rollout of new themes and decks to explore.
I have spoken about it previously, but one of the faults of Emperor Edition was giving the players all four themes on Day 1. This created a feast and famine aspect to the game, where players binged in early Emperor Edition, playing with all their new toys. As Emperor rolled along, however, this feast turned into a bit of a famine, as new decks did not come along, for the most part, but rather existing decks were upgraded or given new tools.
The Stronghold + Sensei system will ensure this does not happen again, as new Sensei will come out for your Clan in every set, giving you new decks to play with and try out every expansion. Often times these will be Sensei available to many Clans, though sometimes they will be specific to your clan, directly designed to give you a way to play your Clan theme, though we are certain our players will find unexpected ways to play their Sensei and their themes.
We will launch Ivory Edition with one Stronghold for each Clan, and one Sensei specifically dedicated to that Clan. In the second expansion after Ivory Edition, your Clan’s second Sensei will release.
This Stronghold will encompass who your Clan is, at its very core. It will also serve as the basis for your fifth theme, also known as your Clan Theme. This Theme will span the entire two years of the Ivory Edition arc and will not have any defining keyword(s), as is so common for the themes. Instead, it will simply deal with your Clan at its very essence. So for example, the Lion ranks count among them Scouts, Deathseekers, Kitsu Priests, Commanders, Tacticians, and many more. But the typical Lion boils down to a Samurai who loves to fight, places honor above all else, and knows how to wield this honor as a weapon. This is the type of deck you can expect to see with a Clan Theme.
We hope you enjoy this series of articles over the coming weeks and you will see what we have envisioned for you and your clan. We are certainly excited to see what you do with these tools and how you take them to places we didn’t imagine them going!
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