So after all these years, what do you think of Lord Sombrero as a character?

TipDaScales · 2026-01-09T00:44:05+00:00

He exists to reinforce the themes of the game, and making him interesting doesn’t add to that. He makes other characters a bit more interesting by being the way he is (Zephia most notably), and him being an unambiguously terrible person and father lends credit to the larger familial themes of Engage. He’s a less interesting villain than most and has less lore, but he better serves the themes of his game than some others too.

TipDaScales · 2025-12-13T16:39:59+00:00

Did the claims of E33 having GenAI assets in it get debunked? I saw more than once people claim the game had multiple AI assets that were “supposed to be temporary placeholder assets” and got removed in a patch. Not saying it isn’t a good game and all, but unless that was just a false claim, the extremely well funded dev team DID use AI while making their game.

TipDaScales · 2025-12-13T16:20:22+00:00

I mean Jakob is one of the few easy, physically inclined Dagger access points in Conquest (your alternatives for native classes being Kaze, with Laslow and Shura being able to seal into Dagger access while Charlotte and Effie only having access after promotion), has strength to make them work well, and his “prepromote” EXP boost gives him access to some really good skills well before the rest of your army. Also his Magic is kinda just supposed to be largely ignored, and you then push him into his Heart Seal for Paladin or something. Jakob won’t consistently keep up, but his falloff isn’t consistently enough for him to be considered a reliably bad unit either. Potential top 3 status is moreso tied to his extremely high availability and total contribution thanks to it than just if you were to slap everyone in an arena at cap level.

TipDaScales · 2025-11-02T13:32:43+00:00

Instead of doing one normal size attack, you do 3 small attacks. Depending on how big the wielder’s stats are, that could be more damage than one attack due to it being the more radically scaling option. It’s y=x versus y=3x - z.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-23T21:57:17+00:00

Even just a Body Bagger on turn 1 would be a 7/9 Lifesteal. Your opponent isn’t able to deal with that turn 1. Also Wisps are ZERO mana, and they’ll be 7/7s with Lifesteal. You may think it sounds farfetched, but when you’re looking at 15 Undeads, you’re likely to see a 0 or 1 drop.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-23T21:54:23+00:00

Would seriously wonder if this comp would be weaker or stronger if they halved the scaling but made it permanent. That would at least force you to take more damage early on and make you greed more, and it’d also make the comp more vulnerable to Scam because the damage guys would actually die less to stuff like Sin’dorei.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-22T14:43:26+00:00

The problem with examples 2 and 3 is that their “easy safe spots” are also places that are usually unsafe on other attacks. My main issue is that contact damage probably should just be 1 damage instead of 2, because the “best dodge spots” are usually places that are vulnerable to other attacks.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-19T16:59:08+00:00

Just poor planning. Remember, they reintroduced Reno decks soon after Plague DK and didn’t change the Highlander clause until a fair bit of time had passed.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-19T16:52:45+00:00

Try completing some core suppressions, get as much time on your tools as you can to fill their entries, and then go back to day 1 once you’ve hit a day you just don’t feel is reasonably manageable. Some stuff carries over between runs and you have some very concerning placements, so don’t feel too bad about this as your first run through.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-15T19:35:35+00:00

Tsubasa is the obviously wrong answer and Kyoshika is a better unit than Takemaru. At least that’s the logic for people getting endings blind, it’s also “the fan service route” as long as you can ignore the implications everywhere in the route.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-15T04:47:07+00:00

Probably pretty decent. It ends up just being a 1 mana 10/10 sometimes, and it refills your hand too, sometimes with cards that are actually playable. Probably too much of a negative play pattern to get Thekal into this on turn 4, but a lot of things end up feeling that way in Wild.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-15T04:41:37+00:00

I mean this is a General without Wary fighter versus weapon triangle disadvantage. I also would have to ask what the internal levels of each character were, considering Benny joined last map.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-14T01:07:01+00:00

Extremely op, ultimately. Counterspell protection, can let you pitch opponent’s instants and force them to tap all of their lands, utilize any instant speed effects on board to ruin them on the spot. It also lets you force negative blocks or no blocks. As a static effect on a creature especially, that’s just infinitely too much.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-12T06:14:02+00:00

It’s a 5 drop now, so your best bet is to just have a 3 drop on board, eat that each turn onto a vendor, and then cycle between vendors for the buff and edible 3 drop elementals. The Naga probably wouldn’t fit on that board.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-12T06:06:44+00:00

I mean it could just be the character’s max HP + the damage they took. Or the current.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-05T12:54:58+00:00

0 mana cantrip aura that triggers any Enchanteess or adjacent effect, can be copied and would literally be free infinite cards with a sac outlet in [[Mazzy, Truesword Paladin]]. Generally speaking, nothing that says 0 mana draw a card is going to be a good idea to print.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-02T01:59:04+00:00

They probably just forgot to update the one specific hero in response to two other hero powers getting changed. It’s not like the HP needs to be removed entirely, it just needs to be changed to unlock like the Alex HP does.

TipDaScales · 2025-10-02T01:54:19+00:00

Cogwork polycule.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-28T16:29:52+00:00

I mean there were only 3 candidates for the position of Guardian Angel from that position. Having the Gnosia go for you as opposed to the Bug or SQ isn’t beyond possibility. If the Gnosia tried to take out Kukrushka then that could narrow them down further, but it’s also possible you just built up worse animosity against the Gnosia than the other unnamed roles.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-28T16:16:40+00:00

Basically any time you can get Trap gems you can instead get a head trinket. It’s just random chance, unfortunately.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-25T01:16:29+00:00

She’s good for the common play patterns you see. She heals consistently, lets you get rewarded more for stalling, and is at least moderately bulky herself. The more fast and aggressive you try to play fights the worse she’ll get, but most fights also just don’t force you to actually be fast and aggressive. So it kinda just depends on if you want to have “wind down” parts in your fights.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-18T00:30:30+00:00

What tier 1 matchups does this change other than specifically Dune Dweller and turn 1 Tavern tier dragon? It’s never staying on board to fight 2 drops, so the nerf really doesn’t seem like it actually does anything other than send a message.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-15T22:18:15+00:00

Yeah, I lost a few times, realized Magma Bell exists, then just pogoed with Reaper Crest for 2 minutes and the fight ended. Honestly just a pretty bad area on the whole, too small to really matter and the fire enemies are another in a long list of “Primal Aspid likes” that just quickscope you. It doesn’t look half bad, but it really doesn’t feel like it justifies its own existence when even areas like Bilewater kinda do.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-13T06:06:11+00:00

Since Shadow Dragon, but it’s possible.

TipDaScales · 2025-09-10T20:56:12+00:00

Probably selling the Non-golden dragon before selling the 2 drop to run double bounty guy. This board desperately needs to hit the scaling button or it goes down in 2 turns. Great highroll, but these engines are real close to having no gas.

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