Ouch. Are you… should I call someone?

Here, put this back – it looks important.

Nevermind, it stopped beating. Anyway, gotta go.

Check your safety

Our Echoes scroll this week is a bit higher in magnitude on the explosive end of things. If there’s one thing Energy decks enjoy, it’s making things stop being things.

Potency Burst

Fair enough, Enryk. It’s important to note that the rarity of this scroll, as with all Echoes scrolls revealed thus far, is not yet determined. We’re looking to give you small tastes of what’s to come as we are able to, and often times it’s in a very raw form.

Echoes is a set where many of the scrolls are designed to work together, or to foster decks that build themselves around one creature subtype or the other. Many players seemed less than thrilled about last week’s scroll, and it’s understandable. A scroll that gives +1 Attack may not seem very exciting on its own – but when the entire set is consumed as a whole, it’s a lot more digestible and makes more sense.

For example, as currently designed, the previously revealed Controlled Lightning spell has a sister unit that should make for very interesting play together.

It’s important to understand that each individual scroll revealed here on the blog is part of a larger whole. We could give you the whole pie at once, but that wouldn’t be as fun – especially considering it’s not done cooking. Scrolls is, in a large part, a card game – and not every card can summon an orbital death cannon, or it would make orbital death cannons generally a lot less exciting. Please note: There is no Echoes unit called Orbital Death Cannon.

Minecon tournament

Though we’ve hinted a few times before that we are planning on organizing a competitive tournament leading up to this year’s Minecon, it hasn’t been mentioned yet here on the blog. We can’t make any promises yet, but it’s something we’re deeply interested in. If everything works out, you can expect a few qualifying tournaments beforehand with finals occurring at some point during Minecon itself, with players participating remotely.

I say these things while carefully donning my bullet-proof and bear-safe hazard outfit in case something goes terribly wrong.

*zip*

Prototyping

Being part of the Scrolls development team means being a Mojangsta – which carries all of the duties, responsibilities, and privileges therein. From time to time, the entire studio of Mojang pools the collective creativity of every individual together to work on ideas for new projects and games. It’s an important activity for professional development and often results in really cool things. This affects all Mojang development teams, not just Scrolls – but if you sometimes see a slow week in Scrolls specific news, it might be that prototyping is occurring, as it was this week.

From what I’ve gathered, Måns has helped create a board game with Scrolls artist Bomb Boy in which you play as a full-sized giraffe and crawl through a dungeon. There are also apparently ghosts. No word yet on giraffe ghosts – maybe next expansion.

Community spotlight

Zylus : A Scrollsguide and in-game moderator, you may recognize him from his support of the recent flavor text contests over on the Scrollsguide forums. Having worked with him closely the past few months, I can say first-hand he’s extremely dependable and an all around great asset to the community.

: A Scrollsguide and in-game moderator, you may recognize him from his support of the recent flavor text contests over on the Scrollsguide forums. Having worked with him closely the past few months, I can say first-hand he’s extremely dependable and an all around great asset to the community. riceballer : Riceballer has picked up where danatron1 left off, delivering consistent daily strategy guides for the Daily Hard Trials at the Scrollsguide forums. Reliable, helpful content like this deserves recognition – thank you, riceballer !



Here’s his guide for today, April 24th.

Is there someone you see contributing in a big way to the community that we have missed? Please email me at atmaz@scrolls.com, and we’ll try and fix that.

Tournaments

Whew, that title is a mouthful. This Sunday, ESL’s current Scrolls season continues with cup number three of five. You have three more chances to gather points and earn your spot in the playoffs.

View the current standings here, courtesy of DaOvalord.

As always, signups are available well in advance on ESL’s website.

Hang in there, Scrolldiers!

-Gary (@Atmaz)