Huntik TCG Discussions

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966558 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:34:38 GMT

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UK Huntik Seeker League

3039666 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:35:28 GMT

Calling on Huntik TCG players, we are Chimera in Ripley, Derbyshire, looking for any players interested in joining a regular league playing their favourite card game.

Where: Chimera, 7 Church Street Ripley, Derbyshire, England, DE5 3BU

When: Every Alternative Week Starting 30th September

Cost: £2.50

Prizes: There are loads of goodies for taking part in a huntik hobby league, including Playmats, flip coins, t-shirts and exclusive promos. As well as extra giveaways for completing you Logbook.

Contact us with any questions and to book your place in the league:

Call: 01773 747849

Email: chimeraccg@googlemail.co.uk

Web: www.chimeraccg.com

Or Follow us on Facebook search: Chimera Leisure

Huntik Foundation Events

3039666 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:23:03 GMT

At Chimera we are now running Huntik Foundation Events, there will be on a month:
October 17th
November 14th
December 12th
and then in January there will be a grand final dates to be announced!!

Where: Chimera 7 Church St Ripley, Derbyshire, England DE5 3BU
When: 11.00 Registration 11.30 Start
Cost:£2.50

There is Prize support up for grabs, including Hats, promo cards Mats and t-shirts and more!!

Contact us to sign up and book in:
Call 01773 747849
Email Chimeraccg@googlemail.com
or follow us on Facbook Search Chimera Leisure

Defoe, Out For Revenge

1223749 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:44:16 GMT

I've just been looking over some of the cards from OAL and i noticed the new Defoe is classesd as a Swara Titan. Is this correct?

Clonemask

1771105 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:09:49 GMT

Free action -

Search your deck for a hero card that has the same name as a target card in play or in a discard pile, reveal it and add it to your hand. shuffle your deck.

So does this mean suit or its "ms" or "mr" names -

so i could have a minor suit and search for major ect

Promotional Missions

931423 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:03:31 GMT

Historic—All cards are legal.
Standard—Only missions from the two latest sets are legal.

As we can't seem to get an official answer I want to check what the popular view is. Can Promotional Missions not released in sets be used in a tournament where you bring 3 missions? I've listed the most likely possibilities, and these possibilities can be combined. Personally I think it's B and C.

A. Promotional Missions cannot be used.

B. Promotional Missions can be used when the TO sets the mission.

C. Promotional Missions can be used in Historic tournaments.

D. Promotional Missions can be used in all tournaments.

Phoenix Games Leicester - Huntik Tournaments

2532512 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:48:30 GMT

On Saturday the 3rd of October the Sneak Peak for the next Huntik set will be taking place at Phoenix Games Leicester.
Entry fee is £10 and for this you will get 5 boosters to build a 25 card deck.
At the end of the tournament every player will get an extra booster and the players in 1st and 2nd place will get additional prizes.
Signing up starts at: 10am with boosters being handed out at 11am.

On Saturday the 10th of October the first Huntik Foundation Qualifier will be taking place at Phoenix Games Leicester.
Just bring your constructed deck and try and get a place in the finals to be held in January.
Signing up starts at 10am, first round at 11am.

Phoenix Games Leicester
51 Church Gate
LE1 3AL
Leicester

Huntik in the USA

1613097 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:10:38 GMT

Can anyone tell me what the status of Huntik support and events in the USA is? I don't have a local anywhere near my house, so I have no idea what is going on, but I like the game.

What's after nationals??

1740573 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:05:36 GMT

Hello all

Just wondering if anyone heard anything, or if there is anything official about what's happening with huntik tcg at the moment? I think just about all nationals are over everywhere now. I am quite happy to have a couple of weeks or so when we just play the game as usual, but after that, we kinda need something new to look forward to. The official reference guide's card have all been released now (well, not many people have dark study yet, but i was promised that will be send to my store soon)... so i am guessing the new set should be round the corner. I am in the uk, anyone know when the release date is / sneak peak is? I also know there is a new starter deck too, any news on that?
Would there be any big-ish toruney coming up as well?

I am currently doing create your own mission at my local to keep it fresh.. and people seems to be quite happy with it. I am sure we all thought about it at some point! So post yours on my fan-site's forum!! Its under huntik news.

Uk Nationals Report

1771105 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:00:13 GMT

Well here it is guys, sorry its not as detailed as im sure jesus's will be but heres what i remember/wrote down -

Friday

Left Grimsby at 8.30 to pick Jason up for louth, got back to Andy's for 9 to pick him up - He looked shattered as he had been up the previous night working. Grabbed a maccies breakfast, and then left for Birmingham -

Arrived at 12.30, Checked in and then since the room wasnt ready headed to the bar/lounge area to find all the scottish guys had arrived allready and were play testing for their WoW. Had some WoW cards with me from my epic quest to pull loots and managed to sell a few off then got playtestin some huntik's while waiting for Mike Hooten (Head Judge) to arrive. Once he arrived, we were all hungry so headed off in search off food and found my favourite, subway at the train station. After that we headed back again (good thing about this was only a 3 min walk) and then i had to go back again to meet Aaron from the train station.

By that point Jesus + crew (sorry for lack of names) arrived, and said hello and then the rest of us playtested for the rest of the evening. Had Food that night with the judges, playtested some more, said hello to the "Comic Culture team" then got a early night.

Saturday

Got up at 7.00, Andy grabbed some breakfast and then we went to the venue - got there later then expected since the sat nav sent us in the completely wrong direction, but after jason spotted a sign in the middle of no where, we were pack on track. Was a important day for Andy, as since it was his 1st biggish huntik tournament ( He had onl played in 1 huntik tournament before this, A store championship in Ripley) and needed to qualify.) He went off while me and jason waited for side events, and once we recieved our coins/deck boxes / liches everything kicked off)

After going 0-2, then just not turning up to the last round, my "Road to the nationals" wasnt off to a great start. The opposite could be said for Andy though, as he went undeafeted in the qualifer, thus making it too day 2.

At that point we all just chilled out and lunch time arrived. We didnt really like the look off the venue's cafe, so i made a dash to subway with myke and simon.....after getting a order list from 8 of the judge team. Wasnt a fun experience, we arrived at subway with no one in there - started to order and slowely the queue grew, and with just 1 person working there on a saturday afternoon (lol?), by the time he had a nervous breakdown, the queue was 8 - headed back, sorted food out and stuff, watched some moree huntik games, and did a couple more side events (still loosing badly), we left around 8ish to the hotel for some more practice ( at that stage i needed it.) Ordered a few pizzas for 9.95 each! (3.49 at tesco, its true ask Andy) then called it a night.

Sunday

Got up at 7, no breakfast made it to the venue ok this time and i had to deciede between the good deck i had built or the net deck expandable help. Filled out the decklist, all the players were seated, (53, then 3 more entered after the 1st round/during 1st round?)

Round One

Dean Fisher (Good Deck)

His 1st play was summoning venadek (sas) had me worried. I started the match thinking it would be a easy win, since he didnt look a threat, and he got his qualification place via a pass down at a regional. Having a hand off heroes with good effects if used against me, i was wetting myself and played over cautiously, thinking he would pull out a switchsoul on me - which never happened, I won on Round 6.

1-0

Round Two

Nathan Pang

Most of saturday nights play testing was done with the MFM guys (Props to vini/Ryan/Nathan) so we knew each other's decks qutie well, and sat down for a quite light hearted game. I wasnt sure if he had a bad hand and muliganed into worse, or just made a misplay, but knowing his deck was expandable help / sandsnakes , i managed to beat him quite easily by round 3? (He never activated expandable help)

2-0

Round Three

Vini Gardner

Again, Another MFM player. Was a bit more serious then the last round though as we both wanted the win, and full credit to Vini he didnt make it easy at all. He managed to Switchsoul his caliban with my LGS Zhalia moon and pulled off searching for his copy of Shadowpoint twice. Near the end i thought i had lost it, but 3 Sabriel plays kept me in the game, and won 7-0 point wise.

3-0

Round Four

Tom Marsh

I know Tom from the Ukay Pro championship, since at fanboy we had a few games of huntik on the friday night, and the sheffield regional (which i beat him in swiss), and mansfield which he beat me in swiss. I knew he was a very skilled player and he took care with each of his moves, but we both made mistakes. I cant remember what he did/thought he did, but i knew he was playing evil so tried to play like i was playing a pure expandable help deck - which it wasnt so being over cautious round 1 didnt help me at all. He used 2 Promo Braehes, and 2 shauna and winds against me, (which i touchram'd twice), which eliminating his minors kept the amound of cards we had equal, and i just nipped the final point to win by 1 point, and having the closest game of the day i was beginning to get nervous about my upcoming rounds.

4-0

At this point it was lunch time so ate the subway i had bought on the way to the venue that morning (Sorry judges, not today), and finished it just in time for round 5 pairing's being put up.

Round 5

Andrew Thompson.

Again, we had playtested together on the friday, but i wasnt sure which deck he decieded on to use, which turned out to be a good deck. There was alot of laughs, as in the top4 of swiss it was him, his 2 team mates and me and the 1st round we all had lok lambarts out and scolopens out. He took the game quite easy i felt, making the most of playing his 3 King basilisk's (LGS)

4-1

Round 6

Reece Halt

Even though i had lost the last round, i was still quite confident going into this round, so found my opponent sat down and started. He was using a good deck, and after abusing sabriel usng 2 everfights, i took the game quite easily. Recieved my 1st warning off UDE tournaments in 4 years, for making a mistake after a combat and thinking it was my turn, so tried to play my everfight, which he very quickly tried to call a judge on me for.

Took it on the chin, as i admitted it was a mistake, so it was repaired, and play continued, till the point of complete ownage. (lol)

5-1

Round 7

Jesus

I was a bit stressed out by that point, wether it was the business in the last round or the nerves off being 5-1, or both but it didnt help when i checked the pairings to find i was paired against the person i dreaded playing the most. He was using a good deck, and his tech (i think he was the only one i saw using it, major lok lambart) to completely destroy me. By the time our game had finished, we had several people, including judges watching us, as Jesus finished me off with 2 major loks and 3 minors in my zone 1.

5-2

Round 8

Ryan Pang

At this point i was beginning to get worried. Jesus was on 7-0, so was now going to be in the top8 what ever, so he had a load of pressure taken off him, and i still needed to win a couple more, as i thought my loosing streak had started.

We sat down, and after some joking around about how he was going to revenge his brother, and win i was worried. I knew he was running expandable help, and he was very succesful with it in practice against me the previous night. I kept my cool as much as a good, and after opening scolopen and research into a breakspell, and drawing a second, i comfortably took the game.

PANG-PANG

6-2

At this point i was very nervous. I needed to win to make sure i was in the top8, and if i lost i was hoping on tie breakers. Pairing's were put up, and i was playing the 3rd and final member of "sins of scotland"...

Stephen Brockie

I didnt make any notes on thsi game as i was focusing on the game and after some close plays, i just got the win. Oh and he was running good.

So, after finishing swiss on 7-3, i had made the top 8. Andy finished on 5-4, and Jason 6-3. Overall some good results.

Top 8 was announced as followed -

Gareth Shaw
Jesus
Nathan Pang
Ryan Pang
Reece Halt
Andrew Thompson
Dan Snape
Dan Bentley

After we all sat down together....we had our decks collected and deck checked. There was a issue with one of the deck's after the checking, but i wont go into it.

Top 8

Nathan Pang

So, we faced each other again. Win

Top4

Andrew Thompson

Again, i didnt do notes, we played in the swiss and he beat me, and now it was my turn. I remember a touchram and a shadowpoint helped. The toughest game of the day, and i really enjoyed it even though it was very tense - im sure the video of this will be put up

Final -

Me v Jesus

After the opening hand and muligan i got one major hero - LGS zhalia which i tried to bait his caliban out with, but he never fell for it. Over all he had the perfect plays, discarding a caliban for his caliban and stuff, but general made no mistakes at all and just out playd me with the cards we had.

a very well played game, and a much deserved win for him.

Overall a good weekend, best major tournament finish. Till next year!

Props -

Andy/Jason
UDE Judge team - Mike/Aaron/Dan and the other UDE's judges on the wow event - great seeing everyone again
17.50 a night in the hotel
Coming Second
The Scottish
The MFM players
3 min walk to subway
Dan Nelson's pro tip of Megapunching my own cherit

Slops -

No other cheap choices of food
Not winning

Sorry if i missed anyone out/things out - you are all amazing!

Decklist:

3 Sabriel
3 Zhalia Moon (LGS)
3 Fenris (LGS)

3 Scolopen
3 Freelancer (LGS)
2 Baselaird (LGS)
3 Dierdre
2 Cherit
3 Lok (SAS)

3 Research
3 Everfight
3 Breakspell
2 Touchram
3 Boltflare
1 Shadowpoint

Gareth Shaw

Escape with the Ring of Arc

2171717 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:36:36 GMT

with the Escape with the Ring of Arc can the defending player win if the real ring of arc on the hero carrying it is KO'd

master117

Player Management: Level 1
Rules Knowledge - Huntik: Level 1
Tournament Organizer: Level 1

Limited Play

2901824 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:33:54 GMT

If you want some help on sealed play, post up some 3 pack pools and lets see what all the other players think of what should go in the deck and what gets cut and why. On saturday we are having our first store quallifier and im going to try and get some players to write down their pools and what they played

Looking for Huntik players

1827923 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:22:47 GMT

Hi All,
I own a Hobby League Store in central Maryland, near Frederick. I have 3 people that play Huntik and want to get a bi-weekly or monthly tournament going.

My stores name is Thanks For Playing and my site is www.ThanksForPlayingTCG.com. Contact me if you live close and want to play Huntik.

Thanks,

Dave Gress

what promos are aloude to be used in the uk nats

2193402 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:47:37 GMT

hi im just wondering witch promos are allowed to be played in the uk nats just want to make sure my deck is finshied soon but just need to know that if you can make a list of the ones not alowed as well would be nice as well thanks for your time

Just how important is 3 def on a minor...?

2964358 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:53:12 GMT

Hey all,

I've noticed (both from my own games and from viewing other people's lists) that x/3 minors seem to be far more popular than their more damaging but lower defense counterparts, even in cases where the low defense heroes have some good abilities. For example, I tend to prefer the 3/3 vanilla suit over 3/2 redcap with dash. It seems to me that they trade better against other minors.

Obviously, I still run a few lighter guys because of their abilities - for example, I always run a scarabese with anubian and I'm partial to running a crashion or two. That said, in my evil deck, the core is going to be Bales (still need a third!), Dark Pharoah (yeah, some people hate him, I think he's epic) and Suit.

Do other people lean towards the tougher minors, or go for abilities or attack? I am well aware that if people always choose 3/3 heroes, there is little advantage in running 3 defense yourself and you can get a good advantage by choosing 3/x with good abilities.

huntik rankings

1740573 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:59:09 GMT

Hello

Just wondering, when is the rankings going to be up on Huntik, and are we actually getting any points for playing at the moment?

http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/op/rating_overall.aspx

I can see that huntik is one of the options, but it has been blank all this time when i load it up.. huntik, constructed deck, all territory.

quick question about tao

2193402 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:30:21 GMT

hi all long time no see im just wanting to know if tao can use his abilty if an other fight is takeing place that he isnt in cuz its dosnt say that it has to be his combat that he in a bit like breaker for evil but he worded like any combat i think reason that im asking is that a mate from the aus nats that one that got a game lose from the ude jugdes for his cards not being random enuff (still mad at ude for that) says that he can work like breaker just wanting to check

Quick question on Gencon Indy

1760088 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:25:29 GMT

I was trying to find this info though i cant seem to find it....but the T.O. of that event stated I would be given a pass to GenCon...of course thats not something that comes in the box of supplies....I was just curious if there is a US qualified list or something where I can ensure that this is indeed correct, or i would have to purchase a pass for the event.

Evil Deck Major Hero Staples

2964358 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:03:20 GMT

Hi all,

In the interest of trying to drive some discussion, especially about Evil (which seems to be less popular), I thought I'd throw out the question "what are the staple Evil major heroes?". If you were to build an Evil deck, who would you grab as a matter of course - I think it is fairly obvious which are the "go-to" heroes for good: Lok, Dante, Caliban, etc.

My thinking is that it matters what angle you're going for - if you're heavy on suits (grier/defoe) or snakes (kopesh/omeed), you'll want to build accordingly. For a general build, I'm not sure - I realise that, of course, there'll be variation if you "dip" into a few actions/minors that support the themes.

For me, the first ones that I'll grab are:

3x Dominator - 6/5 standard fatty

2x Anubian - 5/6... yeah, his drawback is annoying, but his 6 toughness makes him very difficult for Good decks to deal with. Running him kinda mandates running at least one Scarabese though, but I can live with that.

2x Rassimov - 4/5, untargettable, fetches Darkvoids. This guy seems to be really popular, I'd probably run a third if I had him. Stats-wise, he's solid, but his abilities rock.

1-2x Fireblade - 1/1, retrieves minors. Ok, not that exciting, but his ability is cool. I guess people might disagree with me here, but especially running the heavier minors like Dark Pharoah, he really does pay off.

From there, I'm never really sure. I'd probably default go with Shauna/Wind and fill in the others with either Slitherfangs or Kopeshs, depending on the rest of the deck. Slitherfang seems like he'd be a staple for a lot of people, with good stats and a great ability - combos nicely with a lot of missions.

Anyone else?

Combo decks and should Cards be band?

2901824 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:23:29 GMT

Currently I know of 2 styles of combo, one for good and one for evil.

The good one can not be done til round 3 or later and requires 6 cards (2 doubles and 2 singles) to start and is easy to desrupt by attacking and KOing key parts, to me this is a fair combo

The evil combo can be done on round 1 on almost any mission, but on average is done on round 2 or 3 depending on builds. During play testing this deck wound go off on turn to around 70% of the time. Also once it starts it is very hard to stop it continuing even with some right answers.

At Aust Nats we had 2 different builds of the evil combo and they both were in the top 4, the only reason they did not win the day is the person who won had 3 cards to slow them down and 6 that could break the combo and was apart of a play group that new how to best take on the deck.

To me this combo could be clasified as too strong for the game, and with Huntik being in its early ages could put players of getting into the game. It is a card that once people realize how strong it is will get played in all evil decks. This will force both good and evil to run 2-3 cancel actions to stop this single card.

To weaken but not make this deck unplayabe only one card needs to be band, should this card be band???

Serious breach of integrity at Huntik Nationals event?

1119012 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:34:59 GMT

What is said to have happened:

a. player is selected for random deckchecking
b. judge finds 2 Redcap, 2 Shauna and Wind, and 2 Slipstream next to each other (separate pairs, not in a run)
c. judge awards a match loss for "insufficient randomization"
d. judge dismisses player's argument that this is a possible random outcome

This is nothing less than ludicrous, because

a. insufficient randomization is not in the UDE penalty guidelines
b. awarding a match loss in between rounds for an allegedly insufficient randomized deck goes far beyond repairing any potential broken game state and is not a penalty that a reasonable person would consider appropriate
c. it is possible for randomized cards to be next to the same copies of each other; precluding such combinations from satisfying a standard of "sufficient randomization" is not actually random
c. the pairings are not such as to suggest that the player would have deliberately placed them next to each other

The match loss awarded in this case was the direct cause of the player not qualifying for a top 8 cut.

At best, the tournament official was grossly incompetent - and at worst, this incident casts serious aspersions on the integrity of the game, perhaps suggesting some kind of impropiety on the part of the tournament official.

The tournament official's response has been underwhelming in the extreme, declining to satisfactorily address the player affected by his decision.

It is simply not good enough and it beggars belief that this can happen at a high-level event like a National Championship. I believe that this needs to be addressed as soon as possible in order to preserve the integrity of the Huntik organized play brand and the good record of UDE in managing organized play events in general.

I would like to ask UDE if;

they intend to investigate this particular incident and any possible misconduct of the tournament official
they intend to compensate the player who has suffered out-of-pocket expenses and had a promising gaming experience (the Nationals event) ruined by this incident

If a public response is not appropriate then please provide a private response (posting here if done through the private messaging system on this forum) and lock this thread.

Promos

864398 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:44:06 GMT

Does anyone know how to attain each one?

E.g. Shauna and Wind you get for playing Regionals.

How do I get the others, namely the Suit and Brahe.

National play testing in Aust Melb

2901824 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:45:47 GMT

A few of us are going to be in at Good Games Melb this sunday (26th of july) to do some play testing for nationals and it would be a great help if any one could come with their decks and help us play test and give some feed back on our decks and playing

Next Set

2964358 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:19:32 GMT

So, I was trawling e-bay looking for another Shauna and Wind (soooo fat!) when I stumbled across someone advertising a pre-sale of the next set.

So, it must be coming up soon, I'd guess - or its a scam. In any case, when can we expect it? What do people want to see in it?

I'd love to see, for evil, a more accessible major version of the Professor (the good one ;)), an evil version of hyperstride (such a good card - would be just crazy in evil), and just some more decent minors - maybe a couple more sand snakes (another sand snake major!).

Anyone else? Evil Caliban? ;)

Melbourne regionals report

2641454 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:04:09 GMT

The winner of Melbourne's first Huntik Regionals has posted a report.

For those interested it can be found here - http://gametownsite.com/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=494