HP TCG Tips
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May 10th 2004: Between 22 and 26 lessons is a good start for deck building. Depending on how
many high powered cards you have will be a big deciding factor.
May 18th 2004: Today I am going to talk about the different colors to play with in your decks.
Creatures are all about doing damage to your opponent. Charms is for mainly direct damage,
and hand denial. Quidditch has a lot of direct damage cards that have extra effects added in.
Transfiguration is for creature and board denial. Potions is for direct damage and doing damage
to creatures, but also has many other misc. cards put in that can be devistation.
The only problem with Potions is that most good Potion cards have you discard Potion Lessons
or return some to your hand to get the effect, but they are still high powered cards. This
should help you in figuring out which type of deck you would like to play, without having
to look through all of the cards in the Card List's.
May 27th 2004: If you are playing with atleast 12 Creatures in your deck, you
may want to consider a very good and cheap common card called "Steelclaw". Most of you
know that this card is sweet in Creature Beatdown decks. This card costs 4T and will
let all of your Creatures that are in play attack again. If you have a few Creatures
in play and 2 Steelclaws in your hands, you will be a feared man...or woman. Since
this card is a common and even comes from the Base set, it is very easy to get. One
of the very few "gamebreaking" commons of the game.
June 6th 2004: When you build a deck, you either need to focus on the colors
you want to play or a theme you want to build your deck around. When you pick a theme
or colors that you want to build with, the first thing that I would do is pick a character
that you would like to play. If you pick a Starting Character that provides a Charm,
Quidditch, or Transfiguration Lesson you wont have to spend any space putting those
that lesson type in your deck. If you choose CMC or Potions for your deck, and a
starting character providing a lesson for it, you still might need to put that lesson
type in your deck. The reason for that is because some CMC and Potion cards make you
discard a lesson to put that card in play. This lesson has to be an actual lesson card
in play. So you cant use that power provided by your starting character because it
is not a lesson. If none of your cards have you discard a lesson to play that card
then you wont have to put that lesson type in your deck. Which makes a lot of room
for the other lessons that you need to use so you dont run your lessons to thin.
If this happens, you may not draw a lesson card that you need when you need it. An
example of this is say you are using a starting character that doesnt provide you a
lesson, and you are running a 3 color deck that doesnt have a lot of high power cards.
Well you would probably want to use about 22 lessons in that deck. Well if you have
3 lesson types you need to put in your deck then you will probably put in 7 lesson
of 2 colors and 8 lessons of another. But if you had a starting character providing
a lesson, then you only need to put in 2 lesson types. So you could put in 11 of each
type. Its a lot easier to draw 1 out of 11 lessons then 1 out of 7 or 8. You dont
want to be sitting on cards that you could play except for the fact you dont have
that single lesson type in play.
June 13th 2004: For people who are starting out in this game and are wanting
to buy more cards for your playing pleasure, you dont have to spend much money!
This
game is not a very costly game to play. Only 5 sets were released and many of the cards
themselves are inexpensive. What I would suggest is to go to some of the Links I
provided under the "Buying Cards" Section in the menu. Cardhaus.com and
gatheringround.com are very good at keeping their prices low Harry Potter cards.
If you have just a little money to spend but dont want to get singles, what I would
do is order a box or 2 of some of the sets. Sets 1-3, which includes the Base
set
Quidditch Cup Expansion, and the Diagon Alley Expansion are fairly cheap. You can
can get a box, which contains 36 packs (each pack contains 11 cards - 6 commons,
2 uncommons, 1 rare and 2 lessons) for only $20-25! That is less than a $1 a pack!
Once you get to the 4th and 5th set, those boxes cost a little more. I think the 4th
set is around $50 a box and the 5th set is about $80. But the first 3 sets are very
inexpensive. So for those of you who are just starting out and want to expand your
collection, buying boxes of sets 1 through 3 might be the way to do it. Then just
buy singles of the rest of the cards you want.
June 23rd 2004: Playtest, playtest, playtest! Some decks can look very good on
paper but you really need to extensively playtest. It really helps to make sure that
you have enough lessons to support the cards your are playing, or you might even
find that you have to take some lessons out. Playtesting really does help in deciding
which cards work better than others.
July 2nd 2004: If you are thinking of playing this game but not sure how to
started then I suggestion going to your local hobby shop or going online and ordering
The two-player starter kit from the Base Set. The instructions are very easy to
understand and to follow as well. It comes with (2) 41 card decks. So you and a friend
can play each other right after you buy it. Then you can combine the 2 decks using
your favorite cards into 1 full deck. This is usually the best way to get started
cause everything that you need to get started is in that kit and you might be able
to find it for less than $10.
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