4E FAQ, ERRATA and PROMO LEGALITY
Here are few items collected that despite taken utmost care have gone wrong.
The Official Game Rules can be downloaded here. NEW The Warlord 4E Floor Rules for tournament play are ready for download.
All rules questions should be asked in the Cardmasters Rules Forum. Answers, even from Rules Team members, elsewhere are not binding.
FAQ
Are boosters gone for good?
In the foreseeable future, yes. The production of randomly sorted starters and boosters is prohibitively expensive at the print runs we do.
Why did you have to make Warlord so expensive? My friends cannot afford it any more…
Actually Warlord overall became cheaper. Taking out the random distribution (boosters) was the only way to control the risk of producing too many cards.
What you get now is two tournament legal decks for $31.99, including 20 rares for which you would have bought 2 starters at $12.99 + 14 boosters at up to $3.99 before. That’s $81,84.
While having boosters at first makes sense, they are obsolete once you have a certain amount of cards. For 4E they are pretty much obsolete from the start, because nearly all of the commons and uncommons are reprints from earlier editions, which you can get easily from other players for the most part.
So if you consider the rare cards only now a rare card costs you $1.78 (even excluding the Warlords!), whereas before you needed a booster for each rare (at $3.99) - and had the risk of getting everyone but the one you needed.
So, eventually the game gets cheaper, but starting out seems more expensive. Yes and no. By the time you decide to start playing Warlord, you should already have played a game or two - either with a friend’s cards or with the downloadable demo decks. Playing Warlord takes a certain amount of investment, but then every TCG/CCG does. Producing a game like this continuously doesn’t come cheap either and from what we hear, so far the game is as balanced and as much fun as ever!
Suggestion #1: Find a friend and split a set. Each gets a fully tournament legal starter. From there it’s easy to fill out your collection.
Suggestion #2: Trade away the cards in your set for the cards you want.
Suggestion #3: Ask veteran players for 4E legal commons and possibly uncommons. Many Warlord players are willing to share their old cards, especially if they have bundles of them
Errata
Banish the Wound should be #178 in the 4E base set.
Loki is changed to “Ranged Strikes and save DCs from actions performed by Loki from items gain +2“.
Rabinus the Elder now reads: “React: Once per turn, before target character you control…”.
Ring of the Savant now read: “…and succeed with a Scribe check (DC 22) to retrieve and attach the spell as if scribed, otherwise remove it from the game.”
Scyrax’ Spear Streamer should read: “…After target character is hit with a ranged strike by Scyrax’ Spear Streamer: The strike…”.
Sir Robert of Andover has 4 Hit Points and his order now reads: “Order: Twice per turn: Until end of turn, target adjacent Free Kingdoms has an additional melee strike (base = target’s primary ATK) when he attacks. If Sir Robert is in the first rank the target may perform an order.”
Smoke Imp has 10 AC, when it is a character.
Squire Cambrie should be #012 in the SE expansion set.
Submerge now reads: “React: Before target opposing character moves without spending or stunning: The target does not move. This rogue may move forward or backward one rank.”
Tass’daesh has his ATK reduced to +2
Troas’ Pawn shoud read: “…lower level adjacent characters you control gain *Powerattack +2* for each Instructor’s Set item he has equipped.”
Validan has 2 Hit Points.
Warmaster Sceth now reads: “Order: Once per turn, ready target non-stunned Siege.”
Xantin’s Ward should read: “…lower level adjacent characters you control gain *Riposte +2* for each Instructor’s Set item he has equipped.”
Xiathe’s Touch should read: “…lower level adjacent characters you control gain *Marksmanship +2* for each Instructor’s Set item he has equipped. …”
Xienar’s Guard should read: “…lower level adjacent characters you control gain *Defend +2* for each Instructor’s Set item he has equipped. ”
Promo Legality
A Time for Heroes - August 1st, 2011
Andover’s Quill - August 1st, 2011
Anselm Beaucourt - January 10th, 2009
Armlet of the Glades - August 1st, 2011
Baraz - August 1st, 2011
Blackstone Spaulders - August 1st, 2011
Blade Hag - January 10th, 2009
Blade of Syneri - August 1st, 2011
Blessings of Granite - August 1st, 2011
Blinding Beauty - November 1st, 2009
Bracers of the Fey - August 1st, 2011
Cairn Rowan - November 18th, 2011
Cei - March 1st, 2009
Chalice of Life - July 1st, 2009
Chill’s Razor - February 15th, 2011
Circlet of Veiled Sight - November 18th, 2011
Cutlass - August 1st, 2011
Dawn of the Dead - November 18th, 2011
Diadem of the Dryads - August 1st, 2011
Dragontear Shield - August 1st, 2011
Drasek the Furious - August 1st, 2011
Drasek the Resplendant - August 1st, 2011
Edge of Silverflame - August 1st, 2011
Envoy Soraya - November 18th, 2011
Eresh q’Shedim - November 18th, 2011
Flaming Long Sword - January 10th, 2009
Flesh Golem - September 14th, 2008
Fors - November 1st, 2009
Gethseme Steelshard - December 7th, 2008
Girdle of Fertility - August 1st, 2011
Glacial Axe - November 1st, 2009
Grimsteel - August 1st, 2011
Heat Metal - March 1st, 2009
Holy Warding - November 1st, 2009
Hood of Distraction - August 1st, 2011
Ice Elemental - February 1st, 2009
Imperial Scepter - August 1st, 2011
Ikzi - at release
Into the Breach - September 30th, 2008
Iron Golem - November 1st, 2009
Lothian, Law-Hammer - August 1st, 2011
Judge Aeacus - at release
Judge Dacaus - at release
Kerebrus - at release
Kess - March 1st, 2009
Limited Wish - at release
Loki - September 14th, 2008
Mace of Severance - February 1st, 2009
Mimik - November 1st, 2009
Mistress Dagani - August 1st, 2011
Moldering Cur - August 1st, 2011
Nellia Yscar - August 1st, 2011
Niobe’s Neckpiece - August 1st, 2011
Paymaster Corr - at release
Phoenix Feather - November 18th, 2011
Phoenix Rising - November 18th, 2011
Phraistos - November 1st, 2009
Pog’myrmex - August 1st, 2011
Pondstone Necklace - August 1st, 2011
Red Wyrm’s Mail - March 1st, 2009
Rica O’Shea - November 18th, 2011
Roona - November 18th, 2011
Roshni - August 1st, 2011
R’Veeka - November 18th, 2011
Sahuagin Raider - August 1st, 2011
Sal’Azar - December 1st, 2012
Sal’Azar the Gilded - December 1st, 2012
Scrap Golem - August 1st, 2011
Sea Wasps - August 1st, 2011
Seleesa - August 1st, 2011
Shadowhide Armor - November 18th, 2011
Sin-Marduk - November 1st, 2009
Sir Robert of Andover - March 30th, 2009
Sir Valance - August 1st, 2011
Spawn of Ellil - March 1st, 2009
Stone Golem - August 1st, 2011
Sylvan Crown - August 1st, 2011
Ta’anar Tol’son - at release
Taisia - September 30th, 2008
Takaxras - June 30th, 2010
The Biting West Wind - February 15th, 2011
The Conflagration - August 1st, 2011
The Cutting North Wind - February 15th, 2011
The Howling East Wind - February 15th, 2011
The Lost Bride - November 18th, 2011
Treasure Chest - November 1st, 2009
Tyrantslayer - November 18th, 2011
Valanthe Theridiae - November 18th, 2011
Verdigris - August 1st, 2011
Weeping Crescent - August 1st, 2011
Winter, Eternal - February 15th, 2011
Wisps of Fate - November 18th, 2011
The following ‘Common Treasures’ are play-legal:
2-Handed Sword - April 30th, 2009
Breastplate - April 30th, 2009
Buckler - April 30th, 2009
Flail - April 30th , 2009
Handaxe - April 30th, 2009
Leather Cap - April 30th, 2009
Long Bow - April 30th, 2009
Long Sword - April 30th, 2009
Main Gauche - April 30th, 2009
Short Sword - April 30th, 2009
Alternate art cards are legal when one of them is legal (Naram-Sin for example).
Treasure cards in general are not play legal, unless they appear in the above list or have a tournament-legal counterpart and until this blanket rule is revoked.
