Today I got to crack my first ever Altered booster display! This was an order from a retailer; I’m still waiting for my Kickstarter order, Gamegenic accessories and all.
Some thoughts after opening the box:
I found opening a unique to be the most fun booster pack experience I’ve had across any card game I’ve played. On the other hand, unique-less packs are less exciting than the average pack from another TCG. I’m okay with this tradeoff. Scanning cards using the app was very fast. I appreciate that it displays the total number of cards scanned so you can verify that you haven’t missed any. Foils look excellent. The foil and non-foil features are customized for each card, and I didn’t notice any curling whatsoever. I’ve heard that boxes tend to have a high concentration of uniques from one particular faction due to pack collation. My experience supports this. Moreso than in other card games, opening uniques made me want to build decks where they will shine. It’s less like opening a chase rare and more like opening a bomb in a limited environment. How can you leverage an advantage only you have? Uniques Without further ado, here are the uniques I opened and my initial impressions of them:
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