AvP Dark Siege and Dark Siege Aftermath Scenarios discussion

[Shaolin Yautja]

Dark Siege and Dark Siege Aftermath are the official Sealed Deck or Pre-Constructed Deck formats for Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game.

Click here to view the original source. Or look below for all of the information I've provided for everybody's convenience.

Please share your thoughts, idea, experiences, etc. whenever you get the chance to. This is the most budget friendly format and possibly the least broken format even if it is not the most balanced format or scenario for the game.

It's on a limited card pool with many restrictions towards more harder to find cards such as Rares, Uncommons, Promos.

It's also much more accessible since it's primary card pool are cards that are found and available in the 3 main starter decks for Aliens, Marines and Predator. So if you do not own many rares, uncommons, promos from the game or don't even own any cards from the Resurrection expansion, perhaps this is something you may want to try and experiment with?

[Shaolin Yautja]

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[Shaolin Yautja]

Please refer back to my earlier posts here regarding the Card Pool limitations and restrictions and how I wasn't playing this scenario correctly:

Dark Siege Card Pool Limitations and Restrictions Clarifications for all Uncommon, Rare, and Promo cards from Premiere Edition

Dark Siege Card Pool Limitations and Restrictions Clarifications for all Fixed cards from Premiere Edition

Dark Siege Card Pool Limitations and Restrictions Clarifications for all Common cards from Premiere Edition

Next, I will add and post the Aftermath variant of the Dark Siege Scenario. One of the biggest difference is that Dark Siege Scenario above at one point had been used as a format for sealed deck tournaments at local hobby and games. It was to try and sell and advertise the game as much as possible to newcomers and draw in new players that simply don't have a whole lot of money to spend on the game.

[Shaolin Yautja]

Dark Siege Aftermath variant or format of the scenario:

There are some noticeable differences compared to standard Dark Siege such as restrictions on Long Range Weapons are lifted, and restrictions on specific Starting Characters are also lifted, Predator players can have up to 2 Predators, more multiplayer support and same species matches as possibilities!

[Shaolin Yautja]

Click here to see the original source. I merely skipped all the background story and overview and jumped straight to the scenarios's requirements and set up for everyone's convenience.

So if you already own all 3 Starter Decks or have multiple copies of these Starter Decks maybe it's time to be creative with them and design and create your own Siege decks?

I'll also post another new thread for discussion the Pandora Crossover Scenario that combines the Starter Decks from The Terminator CCG. What's interesting about that is that similarly, that scenario is also designed in mind for use with mainly a card pool that consist of cards from the Starter Decks and does not permit many more powerful and broken cards of the Uncommon, Rare, and Promotional rarities.

[vixsundown]

Very cool!

[Shaolin Yautja]

If somebody is completely new to this card game and they have a very limited supply of Rares, Uncommons and Promotional rarity cards then these are the 2 scenarios I strongly recommend trying and playing.

They are designed entirely for using the starter decks. Are the scenarios perfectly balanced? Maybe not, but with card pool restrictions and limitations of the amount of Rares, Uncommons and Promos that one can put in their deck I would believe it reduces some of the more overpowered combos and other broken parts of the game.

It's the most budget friendly if not most beginner friendly scenario to learn the game. Decks are slimmer and smaller at just 25 cards instead of the standard 40 cards minimum per deck.

All cards from the Resurrection expansion are excluded in card pool of both Dark Siege and Darke Siege Aftermath.

Only a maximum of 2 Rares are allowed in a 25 card Siege deck. And they can't be duplicate or identical.

Only a maximum of 8 Uncommons are allowed in a 25 card Siege deck. And they also can't be duplicate or identical.

Don't think there was a maximum of Promos allowed in a 25 card Siege Deck but no duplicates rules also applies.

Commons from Booster packs are not allowed at all.

Only cards found in the starter decks can have duplicate copies, maximum of 3 copies unless if it is a Unique card, items can have unlimited duplicates in the same deck.

Other than the Pulse Rifles for the Marines, no other long ranged weapons are allowed except in Aftermath scenario.

Basically with these restrictions in place, some overpowered cards can't be spammed and some overpowered comboes cannot be abused easily or be brought into play as frequently.

And also, all factions must be able to evacuate in order to win if I remembered correctly.