Massive meta changing rulebook updates! Exciting start to 2024 for Sorcery: Contested Realm! 

💯. Good catch! Was just discussing this with a friend and we saw that too. I guess it was just my wishful thinking 😅. Pinning your comment so everyone can see it.

@ArchivesOfTheRealm I was hyped by the rules changes, and clarifications. I just put two infiltrates in my flamecaller and two phase assassins in my sparkmage.

​@csPOthr33cs I agree! I think those two are definitely going to see increased play, I'm also interested to see how sneak thief fares with these changes. Predicting more decks using watchtower to counter stealth too. Finally, I believe fade will have a bump in usage too, stealth plus card draw will actually be useful now

@ArchivesOfTheRealm I didn't even think of that. I'm excited for stone gaze gorgons to maybe see some play too.

I see it like this. When it is not the controllers turn they are not currently flying in the air. Like a bird will sit on the grass or in a tree. As soon as the turn goes to the controller of the airborne unit takes off and is now in flight to attack or other action.

Great point!

Totally! That exact scenario recently came up in a game I played, important to read the card's text closely. Another interesting play with placement on the void, if an enchantress animated the aura with parts in the void the minion would immediately be banished.

💯 agree with you, just reread the updated definitions and this is correct. Not sure how I reversed that! Thanks for pointing it out, I appreciate it 😁.

Welcome to the channel, and thanks so much for the kind words! Really happy to have you here 😁! I also appreciate EC's commitment to improving the game, instead of just capitalizing on hype and overproducing product (though I do wish our friends in Europe and Canada had better access). Your Megamoeba deck sounds wild, such a killer combo! The foil boots are gorgeous too. Thanks again for watching, I look forward to more of the good vibes in the comments!

Absolutely my pleasure, thanks for watching and subscribing too! Happy it was helpful 😁

Thanks for watching and for the kind words! Happy that the overview was helpful, and that's awesome you shared with your group too. Have fun contesting the realm, hope to see you in the Archives regularly too!

I agree, I'm already starting to get some ideas for new decks! Really happy with the changes, interested to see how the meta adjusts now. Thanks for watching too, always appreciate seeing your name in the comments 😁!

I totally agree! Overall, I am really happy about all of the changes, I think they will be really healthy for the game. I'm especially excited for the mill mechanic changes too, it really forces card draw decks (I'm looking at you Air Deathspeaker decks) to think hard about how many cards they want to draw. I'm also wondering what type of discard mechanics/cards we will see in the future. It will be an innovative way to force a win, and I see this as an additional benefit to Water decks now who run Sea Raiders and Baldassare but lack finishing blows for traditional deaths door scenarios.

Great questions! See my thoughts spaced out below for ease of reading 😁 Related to spells and abilities that target the grid square(s) like Major Explosion the Stealth minion is on, it's my understanding that as the ability is not specifically targeting the stealthed minion they would still be effected. If the minion survives, it would not lose stealth from taking damage. In the current iteration of the rules "minions lose Stealth after they activate a special ability, deal damage, or attack. When this happens, remove the Stealth token." They may also lose stealth from card effects such as those seen on Watchtower, Master Tracker, Hounds of Ondaros, etc... Regarding Rolling Boulder, you are correct about the minion still taking the damaged if it is along the boulders path as it isn't a projectile, though it wouldn't remove stealth if the minion survives due to the reasons listed above. Hope this helps to clarify your questions, and thanks for watching!

Right on, absolutely my pleasure! Thanks for watching!

I totally agree, I have been a huge fan of the changes! I love how, in addition to tweaking rules, they also editing for clarification in several sections. Have been really impressed with EC so far, can't wait to see how the game evolves! Reminds me of when MTG dropped mana burn haha.

I agree that this is a good rule to highlight too, I wish I had gone into more detail on this point in the video. This actually happened in a game I was playing last night, mechanicaly I think it strengthens control swapping effects significantly and it also makes sense from a lore/narrative perspective as the minions had already been summoned prior to the control swap. Thanks for watching and for contributing to the discussion too!

Great question! In the previous iteration of the rules I most often saw it (which was still only a handful of times) when the opponent was either close to or on Deaths Door and they decided to use an ability/card that forced card draw greater than what they had available to try to get a card they needed to try to clinch the win. There was also little incentive to not deck out if you were already on Deaths Door. I also found that in most of these situations folks often didn't know decking out and trying to draw would lead to Deaths Door. Agree about drawing the land sites too, that certainly would be a way to extend the game should a spellbook deck out occur. I think this change will probably have greater importance once we start to see more mill cards that force card discard from the spellbook or atlas, there are only a handful now, but I see it as being a potentially devastating approach to games now as they bypass Deaths Door (e.g., attacking with Captain Baldassare when your opponent only has 2 cards left in deck). Awesome comment and discussion points, thanks for watching!

Haha, absolutely my pleasure! Although I wasn't able to go over every single change in detail, I'm glad the overview was helpful! Make sure to check out the other comments for some clarification on a couple of concepts too.

This is a magical drown/earthquake situations. The earth/water rises up and swallows the minions affected.

birds can’t die in an earthquake or flood? come on

@@misterjackpots agree the narrative is a bit challenging to envision, perhaps its as Forked mentioned and there is a huge tsunami sized wave or massive schism that rends the earth apart preventing them from landing and they then die from exhaustion flying around 😱?

It’s easier if we imagine a Site as a “world” in a multiplanar void. Like the Boulder is large enough to smush airborne birds? Because it’s a near planet sized boulder. Drown is like a cataclysm that swallows the world. Bury is like Mt. Vesuvius (no birds survived that one IRL).

@@vc8963 I love this take on it, you've definitely enhanced my experience of the future "narratives" in my games. Thanks for the great idea and for watching 😁!