3v3 Alliance Band

[warlord1985]

Greetings!

So I own about 16 boosters. I've made a few warbands. This one pwned my friend chris savagely.

Highlord Bolvar Fondragon (Paladin) 10 Honor, Legendary
-Bolvar's Retribution
-Cleanse
-Blessing of Protection

Irana (Mage) 7 Honor
-Polymorph
-Counterspell
-Fire Blast

Phadalus the Enlightened (Shaman) 6 Honor
-Earth Shock
-Stoneclaw Totem
-Healing Wave

Things I learned from the rules:
For 3v3 standards you have 9 action bar cards split as you see fit. That changes ALOT. This gives so much more versatility.

This army has a BIG beatstick in Bolvar, hes a legendary character with Pally stats and huge 11 life to back it up. at 4 armor 2 resist hes a beast. Consecration ensures if hes in the VP zone damage happens, and his crit ability slaughtered an Archmage Arugal after Phadalus took a hit. The 2 support figs rock.
Irana is a cannon that can leap frog or "yo-yo" around the board. Her array of cards also also for heavy control or savage firepower. Her 3 resist is strong as she can go toe-to-toe with other casters.
Phadalus is amazing. He has a built in semi chain-lightning so he hit multiple chars or make a smack in close. Very efficient. His 3/2/8 stats are very sizeable. Earth Shock adds control, Healing Wave keeps people up. Stoneclaw Totem is deceptively powerful as I dropped it on the VP Hex and no one could come forward to attack or it was wasted, this posed a big problem to his band.

Bolvar soundly thrashed face while the other 2 healed and sheeped the opponents down. I really think this is a viable band for 3v3. Thoughts?

[Zxqueb]

Nov 30, 2008 6:42:09 GMT -5 warlord1985 said:

Things I learned from the rules:
For 3v3 standards you have 9 action bar cards split as you see fit. That changes ALOT. This gives so much more versatility.

You realize that even though you have 3 cards / character that you can take to a game, each one can only be equipped with 2, right?

I haven't played enough to see if legendary pieces are worth it (certainly Chen isn't, Bolvar looks better to me). My gut says once the game gets figured out a bit more 23 honor is too high to be seriously competitive, but we'll see.

[warlord1985]

Hunh, wow, upon further review I'm a dumbass, but not totally a dumbass. You take 9 but apply 2 per game.

100.2 For Constructed play, the standard party size is three characters, all of which must be from the same faction, and nine Action Bar cards between them.

101.2 Each player starts the game by revealing the characters in his or her party and their character cards.
101.2a If applicable, each player chooses a number of Action Bar cards for each character as specified by the scenario rules. In a standard scenario, each player chooses two Action Bar cards for each character.
101.2b Each character’s Action Bar cards are placed face down in its Action Bar next to its character card.

So I had it right, just not really right. f**k. I'll learn sometime. Better now than at a tourney. Please disregard the first post as intelligent. That is all.

-W

[Zxqueb]

I actually really like this system. The nice thing is that you gain a sideboard of sorts. So if you have something that you need against specific threats, you'll be able to see your opponent's team and choose your action bar cards accordingly. You can also do some more interesting shenanagans like if you only have 1 warrior on your team, you could still have up to 5 usable warrior cards to completely rekit every game (or more I suppose, but then your other dudes won't have 2 each which seems stupid). In a tournament where there is some scouting, that might be huge.

So back to your team -- what do you cut from the AB in a standard match? Which do you see as the most important cards? I imagine one control will go... maybe counterspell since you'll want polymorph on the MU and will probably want some offense capabilities. But then what do you drop from shaman? The totem or the heal?

Z

[warlord1985]

More than likely I would not cut anything, I would just have to choose going into each match what I need. I believe those are the best abilities I can use for each char based on what they do and are used for. Counterspell is actually more useful in most games than Fire Blast is, and Earth Shocks 2 range is limiting against other casters. What have you come up with?

[Zxqueb]

I'll post them later when I have the cards in front of me, but I haven't built anything new. My horde army is Wilton and Deylan with their -1armor crit ability and the uber horde shaman I traded from you. In alliance, I have double cat druid, one with entangling roots and one with a heal buff (restoration?). I forget what the third is... phadalus maybe? Monster team is Chen + Werewolf + Murloc Mage.