Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - Collectible card games for Windows Phone!

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

Hell yeah, I opened just 2 packs on Friday and got a Fire Demon

First of all, thank you sparkie. But really, I didn't expect a detailed suggestion like this when I said that =))
Still, do you think a tundra-mountain deck would suffice? Since you know, building a whole new tundra deck is too costly. I'm thinking of mixing 5 mountain card I already have with 5 tundra: Glacial Interceptor, Polar Bearborn, Terra cotta warrior, Arctic mermaid and... The last one I don't really know, Snow Lotus Sprite, Arctic wizard, Crystal golem or Frost troll mage (mage has only 1 advantage, which is she's already lv6) ?
For the runes, should I go Arctic freeze and Permafrost instead?

Btw, does Reflection counter skills like Smog and Toxic cloud? I really hate Reflection, it trashed my AOE deck back when I played map 7. Since then I have to turn from AOE to concentration X_X

Congrats on the fire demon - it's a worst nightmare even for the leveled up gamers. The only good card i got from booster pack is Taiga general. Even the drop rate of special cards from special booster packs are very rare.

You can also consider Taiga cleric against the mountain deck. It not only damages 3 of the opponent cards, but possess Mountain glacier 6 and Reanimation, as an added advantage. Also don't go for a Tundra only deck unless you possess:
- Ice dragon (Immunity)
- Arctic Cephalid (Dodge)
- Taiga general (Exile)
- Arctic drake (Arctic Guard & Concentration)
- Coiled dragon (Northern Force & Concentration)

and other tundra cards.

In addition to Avalanche rune, you can also equip Ice wall rune, which put a magic sheild around your cards limited to a max of 80 damage, in case of Fire/ice/lightning/blood.

 

[slickxsparkie]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

Hell yeah, I opened just 2 packs on Friday and got a Fire Demon

First of all, thank you sparkie. But really, I didn't expect a detailed suggestion like this when I said that =))
Still, do you think a tundra-mountain deck would suffice? Since you know, building a whole new tundra deck is too costly. I'm thinking of mixing 5 mountain card I already have with 5 tundra: Glacial Interceptor, Polar Bearborn, Terra cotta warrior, Arctic mermaid and... The last one I don't really know, Snow Lotus Sprite, Arctic wizard, Crystal golem or Frost troll mage (mage has only 1 advantage, which is she's already lv6) ?
For the runes, should I go Arctic freeze and Permafrost instead?

Btw, does Reflection counter skills like Smog and Toxic cloud? I really hate Reflection, it trashed my AOE deck back when I played map 7. Since then I have to turn from AOE to concentration X_X

Man, this API Tapatalk issue is annoying me! I would respond sooner but the app on my phone still isn't working. Jumped on my PC just for you (;

So, ultimately, you're going to need to have different decks with different combinations, eventually. Early on, i would focus on what you currently have or what you would like to move towards. So it looks like you have tundra ready and on hand, so lets stick with that. Generally, you want to enchant cards you see yourself using in the future. I don't see very many people play glacial interceptor, arctic mermaid, crystal golems, or frost trolls late game. However, there will be some challenges that require "Use 2-3 star cards..etc etc" so think about what would be useful in the long run (personally I have Arctic Wizard and Snow Lotus Sprite ready for use for Tundra....and a few other 3-star and 1-star cards). If you have any delicious food, I would save them for 5 star cards like Taiga General, Aranyani, or the Immunity Dragons (or something you buy from booster packs (Fire Demons).

So what can you do with a Tundra/Mountain Deck?
With what you have, it seems like you have some immunity from destroy,exile,teleport,&magic attacks with Fire Demons and Terra Cotta Warrior. Everything else is susceptible. And those other guys are AOE CC (crowd control) cards. The AOE is useful but depending on what the enemy has. As you mentioned, a Reflection opponent would make you commit suicide.

You can't really go wrong with a Concentration deck. If you load up with Polar Bear Born, you'd have better chances against that reflection deck. Plus they have 60% dodge, so you could withstand other concentration decks. The downside would be other AOE/stun/freeze opponents, but you have some cushion with Fire Demon and Terra Cotta.

RUNES:
To keep your fire demon alive, you would need Blood Stone. Having 2 Mountain cards out would activate heal (even though FD has immunity, it works) and it would heal all your other cards too. You didnt mention any Ressurection/Revive cards so I would assume you don't have any. In that case, Lore would be a good rune to use. When you have 3 Mountain cards in the cemetary, you get increase in attack if the other card has higher hp (it's also very good for DI decks so it's a great investment). If you want to further heal your cards, go with Clear Spring. It might be a good idea to heal a lot because you dont have Resurrect cards, so whatever you have is what you have. The last rune can be situational depending on your opponent, as i mentioned in my previous post. Early on, dont be afraid to have a mixture of cards. You might even throw in a couple forest cards. You should have your Fire Kirin, and it is still good to have in your deck. (Strong attack and resurrect). Then you can activate Thunder Shield with 2 forest on the field and become even more dangerous.

Some other cards to consider are
Headless Horsemen. Cheap and very effective (you can also use this for DI *hint hint*)
Electric Eel (even though it's a 1-star card, it can do A LOT. I have 2 at level 10!)
Statue of Light (you'll need this for the HP boost for Tundra and global heal, but you wont use it much later on, just sometimes)

If you're in a clan and have some Honor Points from kingdom war, you can pick up Arctic Drake and look out for Frostree-Folk.
And finally, No. Reflection does not counter smog or toxic. Only immunity would block those.

Lumio is also right about Ice Wall if you're fighting a Mountain that is using spells on you (Inferno Rune).

And Thanks dKp1977! I'm too lazy to write an official guide, but I'd be happy to grind my gears and come up with strategies to help people out (;

 

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

Is Elemental kingdoms better than Magic realms?
Because EK's facebook page is more lively and has many events/promotions than MR.

 

[slickxsparkie]

Is Elemental kingdoms better than Magic realms?
Because EK's facebook page is more lively and has many events/promotions than MR.

Lol, we both know it's the same. I'm hoping that we'll eventually get the same stuff. They get stuff a little bit earlier than we do. In the meantime, we get Alpacas

Sorry I've been taking everyone's thieves

 

[Kak13]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

First of all, thank you very much for these very detailed advices. Both of you are always very helpful.
Just that, it seems like I made you guys get my post wrong lol. :grincry:

My main deck is mountain - forest and atm I have no intention of creating a pure or hybrid tundra deck. The tundra thing is only for the last stage of map 8, since Sparkie did say that tundra would work best against this stage. So all those crystal golem, artice mermaid, etc will be one-use only (ofc, if higher stages require an all tundra deck or some 3-star cards, they can come into play again). The tundra/mountain is ofc not my main deck. It, again, is for the map 8, to reduce the cost since builing a tundra deck just for this map would be too costly.

Actually, I have a bunch of resurrection cards: fire kirin (ofc), demonic imp, necromancer, bronze dragon,... The only problem is I've only level fire kirin and imp. And I shouldn't have much gold after I up both Fire Demon and Aranyani (just used honor to get her ) )
As for runes, I do have Lore and Bloodstone atm. I have enough shards for a Permafrost+Arctic freeze combo, so I wonder if those 2 will be better than Avalance (the one you suggested, Sparkie). Also, now that I have all the 3* runes, what is the use of those blue shards?

I think I'll skip the event. Gold chests just don't seem all that appealing.

 

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

Lol, we both know it's the same. I'm hoping that we'll eventually get the same stuff. They get stuff a little bit earlier than we do. In the meantime, we get Alpacas

Sorry I've been taking everyone's thieves ��

Ya. It's same, but the events/promotions are more in EK than MR. New cards every week.

In EK, for instance,
Sep 5- Sep 8 = Arbiter of war
Sep 9- Sep 11= Rose Knight
Sep 12- Sep 16 = Red banded dragon & Ancient one
Sep 16 - Sep 17 = Goddess of Order

What do we get ?
Sep 12 - Sep 15 = Omniscient dragon
Sep 16- Sep 20 = Enticing Alpaca

and sometimes just fragments for a card like leprechaun.

Congrats on your thief raid - I will never make it to within 100. I will just defeat a thief for the thursday event to get 300 gems.

 

[slickxsparkie]

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First of all, thank you very much for these very detailed advices. Both of you are always very helpful.
Just that, it seems like I made you guys get my post wrong lol. :grincry:

My main deck is mountain - forest and atm I have no intention of creating a pure or hybrid tundra deck. The tundra thing is only for the last stage of map 8, since Sparkie did say that tundra would work best against this stage. So all those crystal golem, artice mermaid, etc will be one-use only (ofc, if higher stages require an all tundra deck or some 3-star cards, they can come into play again). The tundra/mountain is ofc not my main deck. It, again, is for the map 8, to reduce the cost since builing a tundra deck just for this map would be too costly.

Actually, I have a bunch of resurrection cards: fire kirin (ofc), demonic imp, necromancer, bronze dragon,... The only problem is I've only level fire kirin and imp. And I shouldn't have much gold after I up both Fire Demon and Aranyani (just used honor to get her ) )
As for runes, I do have Lore and Bloodstone atm. I have enough shards for a Permafrost+Arctic freeze combo, so I wonder if those 2 will be better than Avalance (the one you suggested, Sparkie). Also, now that I have all the 3* runes, what is the use of those blue shards?

I think I'll skip the event. Gold chests just don't seem all that appealing.

Oh right! Yes, so for Map 8, I would choose lightning/stun over freeze because the lightning has a better chance at hitting. So your arctic mermaid and arctic wizard would work. I would probably do a forest-tundra deck if you had thunder shield rune available. As for using up your gold and purple shards, both arctic freeze and permafrost are excellent. However, since your main deck is forest-mountain, I would go for lightning rune and thunder shield if you don't already have it.

What stage are you on btw? So I can peek and help you out better

 

[slickxsparkie]

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Ya. It's same, but the events/promotions are more in EK than MR. New cards every week.

In EK, for instance,
Sep 5- Sep 8 = Arbiter of war
Sep 9- Sep 11= Rose Knight
Sep 12- Sep 16 = Red banded dragon & Ancient one
Sep 16 - Sep 17 = Goddess of Order

What do we get ?
Sep 12 - Sep 15 = Omniscient dragon
Sep 16- Sep 20 = Enticing Alpaca

and sometimes just fragments for a card like leprechaun.

Congrats on your thief raid - I will never make it to within 100. I will just defeat a thief for the thursday event to get 300 gems.

Yeah i think EK came out way earlier than MR. So I'm guessing that down the road, we will also get the exact same lineup. It just doesn't parallel exactly. But I'm just guessing.

I'm deciding whether iit's worth it to get 2 Alpacas. Probably not since i will eventually get it from maze fragments. The only nice thing about it is 300HP boost. Against swamp and tundra, you a little below 1000 dmg.... Maybe that's good too... I can't decide!!! Lol

 

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

Yeah i think EK came out way earlier than MR. So I'm guessing that down the road, we will also get the exact same lineup. It just doesn't parallel exactly. But I'm just guessing.

I'm deciding whether iit's worth it to get 2 Alpacas. Probably not since i will eventually get it from maze fragments. The only nice thing about it is 300HP boost. Against swamp and tundra, you a little below 1000 dmg.... Maybe that's good too... I can't decide!!! Lol

Yes. EK came way back in 2011.

Defeating thiefs for Alpaca is a tiresome strategy. You spend your gems, capture the thieves to alpacas and on the next week, it will drop as fragments from mazes. "Thunder dragon" (TD) is a best example; People went crazy on WT event to rank up for getting 'TD' (I know what you did sparkie ) , and now TD fragments drop from maze. I've already have around 60+ fragments out of 120 for alpaca, so i will just wait, gather the fragments and craft the card by myself.

 

[slickxsparkie]

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Yes. EK came way back in 2011.

Defeating thiefs for Alpaca is a tiresome strategy. You spend your gems, capture the thieves to alpacas and on the next week, it will drop as fragments from mazes. "Thunder dragon" (TD) is a best example; People went crazy on WT event to rank up for getting 'TD' (I know what you did sparkie ) , and now TD fragments drop from maze. I've already have around 60+ fragments out of 120 for alpaca, so i will just wait, gather the fragments and craft the card by myself.

Haha something about these events that make me strive! "I wanna be, the very best. Like no one ever was!"

 

[amangup009]

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Hey if anyone want to use mah character in MR then they r welcome
Mah username: amangup09
Password: wwf123

 

[slickxsparkie]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

I did peek to see what stuff you had and also what level your thief was...

 

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

Hey if anyone want to use mah character in MR then they r welcome
Mah username: amangup09
Password: wwf123

You got some good cards (Aranyani, TG, FK, Fox tail Nymph, Taiga cleric, Armored sumatran, etc., ), Hellraiser . Too bad, we can't exchange. It will be really good, if there's a system like this.
At least people leaving MR can give away the cards to others.

 

[slickxsparkie]

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I would have 10 fire kirins in that case....

Btw, kingdom war seems to have issues on the elite version. So use the old country client

 

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

I would have 10 fire kirins in that case....

Btw, kingdom war seems to have issues on the elite version. So use the old country client

Ya. Lots of people in chat saying the same. But why the devs published half-baked MR:EE and pushing people to switch from the old stable version..
:/

 

[slickxsparkie]

The only benefit is buying gems on the EE. You get more bang for your buck.

Anyway, I got my Alpacas and the other yummy feast cards!

Now, shall we have some KW discussion?

 

[Lumio]

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^ You got 2 alpacas? I've 64/120 fragments.
So what's with the KW? We sucked on KW this week, coz CFH leader didn't register for their clan. Usually CFH comes first in KW as they've top level players in mountain.

 

[slickxsparkie]

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Yeah CFH is crucial in these fights, but we can also strategize and become more efficient. I know we take black city really well when it's down, but I keep asking people to push horror or take that back asap also because losing crater means we're going to have a hard time getting it back. It has 400 node points while most others are 200, so it takes more to capture.

 

[Kak13]

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Oh, so that's why mountain went down so fast. Personally, I tend to attack more than defend since I'm afraid that my deck is too weak and by losing a defend match, I will cost that stronghold 5 pts X_X I wonder if this kind of unbalance exists in EK or not.

What stage are you on btw? So I can peek and help you out better

I plan to use Thunder shield - Lightning / permafrost-arctic freeze for 8-10 easy, should be ok, right?

 

[Lumio]

Re: Magic Realms and Lies of Asteroth - The best collectible card games for Windows Phone!

So, here's the complete map from EK for a better understanding.