Q: Someone claimed that, in the upcoming core set, Rock Hydra is to be recognized as the most awesome hydra in its flavour text. Is this WotC's official opinion?
A: Bitch, please. Everybody knows that Clockwork Hydra has way more style.

I am unsure why he was channeling Samuel L. Jackson when saying that, but there you go: straight from the horse's mouth.

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 21:49 GMT

#223

I am proud to say I am a product of magic, not science.

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:03 GMT

#229

Just a heads up. We will be using heads instead of hands, due to the shortage of limbs and abundance of teeth.

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:04 GMT

#230

Also, swamps rock. Artanis wanted us to start with a forest, but forests are for pussies.

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:17 GMT

#236

Here are my policies to live by this game:

All hydras must always sign their posts. Hydras are going to be confusing enough as it is. If, in addition, we have no clue who is writing what posts, then confusing ideas just get even worse. Always sign your post. If you forgot, I prefer you ebwop in a signature than you leave us to guess.
Between hydras, a very non-standard setup, and some of the most prolific posters on the subforum (myself included), without some restraint this game thread is going to turn into a giant shitfest of spam and I don't feel like sifting through that to analyse people. Do NOT make frivolous posts. Almost everybody here has a hydra head. Discuss stuff with your alter ego before spamming up the thread with every thought that enters your mind.

I WILL attack people who I feel break these policies (looking at you for the second one, Prom).

Magic policies:

Let everybody develop their deck. If you drew a wasteland, do not use it to destroy someone's turn 1 land. It is pointless. We make destructive decisions like resetting the board with a Wrath of God (not in my deck) together.
Don't waste power plays on people until you are quite sure they're town. I am not going to enforce something like a lynch vote, but unless you have convincing arguments that someone is scum, do NOT attack him, disenchant his shit or do other stuff to weaken him. If you have something like a goblin lackey that needs to get through, ask politely. On the receiving end, don't just kill that shit because you can: the more decks develop, the stronger town's position is. Our force is in numbers.

~both Acro and Dandel

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:22 GMT

#242

Signing is important so we all know who wrote what.

And so that you can't excuse contradictions with "oh that was my other head l0l0l"

~Dandel

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:25 GMT

#245

I know we're all excited to get this started, but can we please get over the trolling phase?

And, honestly, yes, signing IS important. Firstly there are umpteen hydras here and I don't even know which hydra belongs to whom. Secondly, your train of thought should be clear. It's unfair not just to me, but ot others in this game who may not be as familiar with most of you.

Also, assuming the first game did things right is a gross misrepresentation of that game. I read it at the time, and it was a concatenation of mistakes. Partially because people got setup speculation wrong in the beginning, and partially due to just plain bad play.

Scum won that game... and they won for a reason. Lets not repeat it.

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:25 GMT

#246

EBWOP: lol. /Acro

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 28 2013 23:59 GMT

#257

On January 29 2013 08:42 (DontFear)ThePoster wrote:

Show nested quote +

What trolling phase? Who is trolling right now?

Bin and AS were.

What do you think were the "mistakes" town did in the previous game and the "reason" scum won that game?

Well, you mentioned quite a bit of it. They/you spent a LOT of time bickering about useless stuff (not just setup, but completely pointless stuff about setup) and town didn't play as a team (mainly due to everybody mistrusting each other for stupid shit). This game is fundamentally different from normal mafia games not just in that we kill with magic, but because we don't actually have a town-controlled KP.

It is thus twice as important to be an active townie, because we are a town TEAM. We need to work together, because our strength is in numbers. This turn people may be able to play one creature, which is a bit of a wimp. But if next turn we can all attack one player with wimps, that will be a healthy chunk of damage. If everybody goes off attacking their own favourite target without reasoning it out properly (like happened in the first 3 turns or so of the previous game), then we have lots of players at 16 life and one dead townie due to mafia creature. That is pointless, and last game was in fact harmful, because the mafia creature could one-shot people sooner than should have been possible (although mafia derped too when they missed an attack).

Do you agree with my commandments or not? (short answer please)

Yes, they're more elaborate forms of our own policies, with some stuff we forgot about.

/Acro

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 29 2013 00:05 GMT

#260

On January 29 2013 08:56 (DontFear)ThePoster wrote:
Hey I'm no egghead! > : (

Anyways I said what is needed to be said.

As a first step: I don't like Clockwork's "verbose" entrance into the game.
He seems to be hung onto the "hydras should sign their posts" thing too much.
In fact he seems too hung on the hydra aspect of the game, rather than the game itself.
Not alignment-indicative (at least not that much), but slightly weird.

Convince me you are town CW, come on.

Lol. Gonzaw calling someone verbose.

Anyway, I said what needs to be said. You DO need to sign your posts. Scumhunting becomes utter hell otherwise. It will be bad enough in any case with so many hydras (one filter with two different opinions and posting styles is hard enough to figure out even if you DO sign it).

You seem to be active and want to scumhunt, yet are trying to make your work harder. Why is that? Why do you NOT want to go to the little bit of trouble to sign your posts, in order to save yourself immense amounts of effort when reading someone else's filter?

/Acro

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 29 2013 00:07 GMT

#261

On January 29 2013 08:42 (DontFear)ThePoster wrote:

Show nested quote +

What trolling phase? Who is trolling right now?

What do you think were the "mistakes" town did in the previous game and the "reason" scum won that game?

Do you agree with my commandments or not? (short answer please)

/GW

On January 29 2013 08:45 (DontFear)ThePoster wrote:
Aperture, will you troll the whole game like this?
If I want I could start fucking you up right now, I even have a card that can do it.

BinOnFire, you there? Wanna post about something?

rhetorical questions, already? huh.

As for your points, they're fairly straightforward.

The thing about #4 (also kinda applies to #5):

Sure it's a townies job to establish his townieness - but if everybody did that properly, we wouldn't need any policies in the first place, now.

I shall be reluctant to participate in plans when they result in a favorable position of somebody whose alignment I have no clue about. And I advise everybody to use the same caution in regards to this.
On the other hand, I won't have any problems cooperating with people whose townieness I am sure of. (or at least if acro is, that's fine too)

~dandel

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 29 2013 00:08 GMT

#262

I have no problem with 0/X creatures as long as they are stuff like ornithopters, blood artists, or other such things.

I would rephrase Gonzaw's objection as: anybody playing creatures that serve no purpose other than blocking.

@RockHydra: do you have walls in your deck?

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 29 2013 00:17 GMT

#266

: /

stutters always lurk, never post

stutters come talk with us
I'll give ya a hug if you do

~dandel

Clockwork Hydra

Uzbekistan442 Posts

January 29 2013 00:33 GMT

#277

On January 29 2013 09:25 (DontFear)ThePoster wrote:
The guy posting before you was Oats then Bin?

Didn't seem to "Oatsy" to me.

And THAT's why you sign your hydra posts

PS. I had him down as Oats. Aggressive noobie entrance into the game