After updating the prophecy scores and some cards, I am doing a playtest with a friend.
Live Notes
Purity of Evil might be too strong if you just get a bunch of Mastery cards with it. Maybe it should be an action instead of a boon. “You may play an extra Mastery from hand. This bypasses the limit of Mastery cards you can play”. Or it could be a boon that activates once?
Start of Turn: You may play more than one Mastery card this turn.
End of Turn: If you played more than one Mastery card, discard this.
I forgot to get the Middle prophecy on my 1st turn again.
Would Changer of Ways be better as a Start of Turn effect? Probably.
I forgot to get the End prophecy card on my 2nd turn again. I like the mechanic, because it allows you build out your strategy a bit more, but it’s easy to forget.
The Mirror Will Twist doesn’t give enough points. You lose a random card from hand to store it there, which is a hefty cost.
Witch’s Writing says to increase a mastery of level 3 or higher. You can’t be higher than 4, so it should just say “of level 3”.
Forbidden Lore says to increase your highest level mastery, but obviously you can’t increase a level 4 mastery. Should this card reflect that?
Black Moon really fun card.
I managed to get all of my prophecy cards to their max card count. They should either be harder to do, or they should always give more points for having more cards stored. As is, a prophecy could give 6 points for having 4+ cards, and then once you have it at 4 cards you just forget about it. That’s not very fun. Maybe each prophecy could have a “Every X Cards: Y Points” and then a “Z+ Cards: +V points”.
In general, I think more Boon cards are in order. They make you feel more powerful.
Post Game Notes
Going from two to three masteries felt better.
Slow reveal of the prophecies was good. They perhaps came out too quickly.
Perhaps you could fulfil a prophecy entirely somehow, and set it aside and draw a new one.
The Curses were fun.
He wanted to “daisy chain” some actions some more. Perhaps with more Boons.
The masteries could have permanent bonuses at level 2 or 3. You would lose the benefit if you advance to another level.
The background color of the card should match its magic type.
He looked forward to the Start of Turn and End of Turn effects.
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