What are the best cards in Wingspan Oceania? ft.  

Thanks for another most interesting and useful video. I really enjoy the relaxed, engaging styles of both you two gentlemen.

An underrated bird for the forest engine is peaceful dove! Getting eggs in the forest without giving any to your opponents is very strong. Pairs very well with other food generating powers :)

My favorite is the Galah. Can be played in forest or grasslands, 2 tucks from the deck, and your opponent isn't even guaranteed to get the seed. 3 seeds is expensive but worth it in my opinion if you have other good engine birds around it.

The best thing about spangled Drongo is that the other player doesn't even have to gain the nectar from the birdfeeder itself Willie wagtail is dangerous if you decide to reset the row and flop over a raven you can't pick up. I love the Blythes Hornbill, it feels like a harder to optimize EIE or Bonelli's point bomb, bit more point potential too. I love the grey Butcherbird, it's strong and hits so many bonus cards The raibow lorikeet is a great early bird it can mean an auto nectar win in the forest and more nectar to use elsewhere, but it falls off quickly if you don't play it early Kiwi is the best bird to play with a game end power IMO Little Penguin is my top bait bird in OE is the little penguin. It's so cute, and its power sounds so awesome that you just have to play it. But it just fails so consistently that it is very rarely worth a play being as expensive as it is.

Great video! If I can suggest a couple ideas for follow-up videos (from either or both of you): 1) a general guide to Oceania (expanding more on things you mention in this video, like how forest strategies have gotten a lot better while the grassland feels weaker), and 2) cards from base game/EE that got better or worse (maybe a list of the "biggest winners" and "biggest losers") The ravens definitely feel weaker in the new expansion (though still good), while some cards (like those that work well in grasslands engines, or lay eggs outside the grassland) seem to have gotten a noticeable bump.

If I may be so bold, the sleeper bird in Oceania for me has been the masked lapwing (when played, reset the birdfeeder and take 1 of each type available). It's useful at nearly all points in the game, it hardly ever gets less than 4 food, and it is an incredible tempo spike. Food generation is so incredibly valuable in the Oceania set. Severely under-rated bird in my humble opinion.

I have to agree with the rainbow lorikeet. I’ve got it early in three games, it’s strong. Always great content

I love the australian ibis. The game needs more interaction with the cemetry.

I found a crazy pairing with a frigate (similar to penguin) discarding fish and leaving one for a pelican to tuck

Don't sleep on the Tawny Frogmouth ...

Grey Shrikethrush is my favorite. It’s not uncommon to land 2-3 caches a turn. You will accumulate around 8 or 9 points a game from a one food bird u can play turn one. It’s absurdly good

Spangled Drongo is too strong in 2 player games - it's very oppressive. We've banned its play in 1v1.

Do y'all like Oceania? I've played maybe 5 games and I think I actually prefer the game without it. I don't like the nectar race and I think nectar trivializes gaining food to play birds too much