I don't like the idea of giving different gendered pieces, otherwise similarly sculpted, different cards. We have two new Frost Giants that appear different from the old ones ONLY by gender, and my plan for now is that they may be reprints. I'd rather have one well-statted card that the design team is happy with than two similar cards that we add variation to in some artificial way just so that they can be 'different' from each other. Having two rares able to use the same card provides at least double the chance of getting a mini. Complicating this, the produced quantity is much less than in the old days, and it can become very hard to find specific rares a few months after they are produced. Frankly, I'd much rather have seen OTHER creatures with variation in hand weapon than the lycanthropes.Īn important point is, these are also one-off production runs. Right now I am planning on the wereboars having the same stats too, in the next set. They will, in the end, have the same stats. In ToA, there will be an Empyrion with hammer, and Empyrion with slightly different hammer. That's really pushing it, and now I am wondering if it was worth the experiment. In SKT, I tried to differentiate between a hammer and a mace. In the past, I tried to differentiate between sword and axe. You see, we have competitive play floor rules, which say that a figure can be modified, if it is still easily recognizable. Right, and that's how we'll do it going forward.
