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The artwork is pretty amazing. really shows off alot of characters in a magical kinda way the games just don't seem to do anymore.

The art probably improves since they got the new guys(points to the tumblr link I got last page) who aren't obligated to do illustrations that are all-purpose and need to fit everything related to marketing them; so there's more freedom do present them in empowering(Ninja Strike, Jinxed,Grinnade crushing a Scorncrow in his teeth) if not straight up comical ways(Chill Bill pushing SE off a cliff or Hex being hit in the face by starfish come to mind).

I'd totally buy merch with this art though <3

Also, does anyone think that the 10-crystal card (Showdown?) is a bit OP? You'll take the end of the game to use it, sure, but if your current frontline enemy is at defeating point you can literally win the game in two moves even if you were about to lose it. Feels like it should be random chance, not guaranteed kill.

We'll have to wait till we try it, but I don't think its that bad at the moment . But I don't remember exactly what it does lol .

But I spose its draw backs are that you wouldn't want to put more then 1 or 2 in a deck coz you'll probably be able to do nothing if you managed to pull 2 in the first few turns.

So you wouldn't rely on it to win most games unless you built your deck around getting mana/ stalling etc.

Also I think that if your versing a pretty aggressive deck, getting to 10 crystals might be rare in this game a lot of the time.

Jojopet showing a few digital booster packs -

Well, since Jason's unboxing has pretty clear view of cards, I'll count the new cards he found there out since they either have simple descriptions or he read them aloud nicely. On that note--

• Is it me, or Sabotage/Nether Warp/Mood Ring always roll on a digital booster pack,even if scattered? The first pack is the same as what he rolled during the livestreams,tho, if not outright the same recording and he just edited it in shamelessly.
  
• Ride the Wave(Water spell),Unstoppa-boulder(Earth spell,not a recolor of Fireball but pretty much same effect),Backblast(Countdown spell),Traptanium Arrow(Snap Shot spell,ooh first non-enemy mute spell!),Restless Spirit(Timed revive Undead spell - you have a single turn to heal them over 150 or back down they go)
  
• Couldn't see Forked Lightning clearly on the other videos. So Whirlwind can use eletrical moves and not just rainbows and wind,huh. And there's Whirl and Swirl which straight up sucks people's lifeforce with wind.
  

New video from a kid who can't keep the camera still because they keep kicking it? You betcha!

• Healing Rain(water spell, it's very rarely seen as enemy card on footage - also with accurate use of Ankhs just like the Healing Elixir!),About to Blow(Countdown spell),Thunder and Lightning(very very frightening),5th Degree Burn(Fire spell, sheep abuse).
  

New update, still no release date. Seems to be just bug fixes,hopefully they fixed the Undead background.

Well, I now know 140 of the cards in the set though some I am not 100% sure if specific or not. Seems to be 4 specific cards per skylander and maybe 12 generic element cards and then of course generic non-element cards.

I noticed one important thing in that video. He got Heat Stroke twice. Once was listed as golden rare, once was not even listed as epic. Maybe its now many levels built into the card to determine its rarity. I think that is more of a digital reality, I think with the physical cards, it will be what it is in the packs. Time will tell.

Week was dry as it gets for a game that's just been out,but no longer!... More video from kids, now with 50% more static.

• Take it for Granite(Crusher spell),Soda Fountain(Pop Fizz spell), jesus christ kid leave the card on the screen for a whole second I hope I didn't miss some.
  

Kinda bummed on how fast the coverage for this game disappeared; no more streams, even the LPs with parts which I was looking foward to because someone rolled a Hex just stopped altogether e_e I can only hope the WW release is very soon.

Another day, another kid, my phone soft locking because the Youtube player suuuucks.

• New spells are Fire Hose, first seen in the trailer, Chuggernaut(Pop Fizz spell),clear look at Mind Reader, Grape Shot(Food Fight spell and kinda family unfriendly reference).
  
• Chuggernaut might be the official name for Beast Form? It is the only spell that uses it.
  

I'm not surprised videos died off. New Zealand has got to be one of the smallest marketed countries.

I really was expecting a release date by now.

There's only a month till a big year of pokemon releases start , I would've thought they were trying to get this out before hand

New update in the iTunes version adding the Earth Realm and daily prizes.

Someone in the Wiki said it's out in another country,could someone with an iOS check if they can download it now?

I got the update on 2/2 in iTunes in Sweden.
Version 1.2.2104
/Roger

I hear the Itunes app that costs $5 is out in the UK as well.

Huh,I thought the full version was free...?

Well, as long as it's out before the packs are out - might try my luck at getting the Hex deck digital before risking real money.

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Huh,I thought the full version was free...?

Well, as long as it's out before the packs are out - might try my luck at getting the Hex deck digital before risking real money.

The full version ~is~ free, based on the listings on the Swedish and New Zealand iOS App Stores.

Definitely not available in the UK, I think they've got confused between "Battlecast" and "Battlegrounds" (of which, Battlegrounds is about £5 over here)?

Battlegrounds definately shows up where it shouldn't when looking for Battlecast sometimes, forgot about that. It's USD 6.99 on the iTunes page,so seems about right.

Jason put up a bit of footage from the new update in Skylanders Inquirer; no Earth Island pics but I love the new UI. The daily wheel looks a bit too risky though, random cards or 30 gold loss hurts a bit when 150 is usually the daily payout.

Big new update! Tech Realm and tons of tweaks, including better training mode!
FREE CARDS YEAH

Quote:

What's New in Version 1.2.2371
- New basic and advanced training experience.
- New 30 card set for all players after basic training!
- Tech Realm has been added with 8 new missions.
- Get one free Daily Spin every day with a Super Spin on Day 7 with lots of cards, coins, and booster packs available! You can also purchase a second spin per day for even more prizes.
- More quests added with bigger and better rewards.
- Lots of pesky bug fixes and numerous enhancements

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Big new update! Tech Realm and tons of tweaks, including better training mode!
FREE CARDS YEAH

Quote:

What's New in Version 1.2.2371
- New basic and advanced training experience.
- New 30 card set for all players after basic training!
- Tech Realm has been added with 8 new missions.
- Get one free Daily Spin every day with a Super Spin on Day 7 with lots of cards, coins, and booster packs available! You can also purchase a second spin per day for even more prizes.
- More quests added with bigger and better rewards.
- Lots of pesky bug fixes and numerous enhancements

Are you in USA and if so, using IoS? Its not on my android yet.

Nah,checking the NZ itunes page. It shows up on google whenever it updates and since I use it to look up news and videos I'll find it the same day.

Gotcha. Yeah, Sweden and New Zealand have them with IoS. Am jealous but it sounds too difficult to get it to work on my system, though am tempted to try it if I can find a way.

Thx for the info about the update.
The total cards in game is 288 now after I updated, I have 99

/Roger

I got the game now too Roger, I had to channel my inner Kiwi.

Am at 65 cards right now but 100 coins from another battle pack. I was able to picture scan the 4 existing physical cards too.

Loving the game so far even though I wish I had better cards and could buy the physical ones.

FINALLY someone posted more pack openings on youtube. I'll edit with link and new finds, currently on the phone with super bad internet.
This guy has good quality and all!

New cards are: Loco-potion(Pop Fizz, subdue effect?), Raise Your Hands(Krypt King, best art),Pump it Up(life spell),My Father's Hammer(guess who, first one with an ingame upgrade I think),Rippling Pulse(magic spell),Mad Energy(Hot Head, might've listed this already but forgot),Close Shave(RB spell),Mermasquid Buckler(Wash Buckler), Stroke the Flame(fire spell),Overflowing Fountain(water relic). Tons of new stuff, huh.

If you want a complete list of all the cards, I have all 288 in a spreadsheet along with all the villain cards (well that are known so far) and all the villain special spells and abilities cards.

Wish I had Krypt King, have so many of his special move cards, its taunting me to not have him.

That guy still has a lot of coins to spend, every time I get 500 coins, I spend it on a pack.

I'm not looking for names,just the amazing art - even the relic cards are beautiful :U I was hoping the artist would post more but he kinda stopped at Ninja Strike, possibly because he was told the game wasn't coming out that soon.

I love the artwork too. What is cool though are the sound effects sometimes. I only have 10 of the 24 skylanders but I love the sounds that say Hex does with her unique spells. Roller Blade has just awesome cards and stuff too. The Topps trading cards were just the same card front every card. Snap Shot may have 10 different cards but they were all the same picture. They are not so here.

For example, Chef Pepper Jack has 4 different cards and then the villain himself. All different artwork. Much better than what they did with Topps.

And they got new people for them too(which are the Hearthstone artists iirc?), and unlike the start of the comics and some of the SF UI artwork they nailed them perfectly. Nobody looks too out of style or proportion, and usually look even better than the official stuff.

New update in the game. There are now 300 cards instead of 288. Most seem to be in the generic category but have not checked them all yet. You can now buy individual cards if they are in the weekly random feature. Stuff looks different in some fonts and looks.

Also won a free booster pack but it did not save. Blech, also got a free super spin that apparently was not free, so I lost 150 coins.

Update game to version 1.3.2619
News,
Magic and air realms with 16 new mission and 4 new boss fights.
Daily featured cards for sale in the shop
Now playable on ipad2, iPad mini and iPhone 5
Localized for spanish and italian languages

Well, if it's being translated, at least the devs are making progress. Hopefully we can at least have the game come out this month, cards or no cards?

Card feature seems like an awesome thing too, you never know when you just need one more to complete your gimmick deck but you keep rolling dupes.

These Realms also sound pretty awesome - with all the new ones out wish someone at least had picturea of all of the islands unobstructed on YT so they could be put into the Wiki early.

Oh yeah, did not even notice the new air and magic arenas, that is cool.

However, new update is glitchy. I was supposed to get 20 coins for 3 stars in the first magic arena. 5 coins for the 2 stars and then more for 3 stars. I only got the 5. I have multiple times a fight where I cant attack. The battle pack I got yesterday did not save.

Wish there was a way to let them know this new update is a bit glitchy.

Advisor_Orville would probably be okay with a PM or two, I don't think he looks at the news topic since it's not supposed to be out yet. I asked him a few months back if he'd help with bugs on Battlecast and seems like that's the case.

Thanks, will probably do a little bit of testing first. It does seem to work in the new air arena, so it might be just affected in the magic arena. Course, only can win a battle the first once so only can test so much.

Yep, it quite clearly is only giving the first reward in the magic arena. If 2 stars gets you 5 coins and 3 stars gets you 15 coins, if you do it in one shot and 3 stars the first time, it only gives you the reward for 2 stars, not both together.

Well, have thrown away coins knowing this, but at least I have replicated this bad result.

New FAQ up in Activision Support and possibly on the official site since Google says it got updated.
Getting Started and Glossary which doesn't explain the status effects. Still wrapping my head around this subdue effect.

Oh, thanks for clarifying. Pop Fizz's is the only card I saw with that effect so didn't have much to go off of.

So is Battlecast coming out in March? I haven't been on the forum in a while and I missed a bit of news.

If its coming out in March, there is nothing official. Packs are coming out 3/30 in Sweden, but no news for USA. Its just Sweden and New Zealand so far confirmed. After that, your guess is as good as ours. I do see they are tweaking the app a lot so maybe they are fine tuning it.

My biggest wonder are the cards. NZ is already out, been for a while, that mean they will be the same cards inside as everyone else when they get them? Game originally had 270 cards, then 288, and now 300. Maybe only so many are in the physical packs for 1st release.

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So is Battlecast coming out in March? I haven't been on the forum in a while and I missed a bit of news.

What lamoracke said. Game seems good to go from the looks of things and gets updated weekly, but no news are coming out. Someone even reported in the subreddit that a recent article listed Battlecast as 'late 2016' but that's be bull**** of the highest degree from Activision so holding out hope it's really up in the air for now.

Minor news for people without the game, the awesome Vincent Lin guy uploaded a showcase of how the Daily Spin works in the game. He got a level 10 Impending Doom but because the animation had it bob back and forth it's why I didn't make a gif of my avatar on sight(don't worry I'm trying anyway). Another new card is 'Boo!', Undead spell with the world's cutest Spiderlings in it. Too bad it's not a Moon Widow,it'd match my custom figure of it nicely :C

Well, you can get a level 1 Impending Doom too. I got it as a basic and I love that spell, its now level 20 for me. Getting a card already at level 10 or 20 is not that big of a deal, its not hard to level up cards anyway and no real incentive I have seen for doing so, minus getting coins if you get the card again.

One little tidbit I have learned. Many of us are having trouble with the quest to get victories against other players. I have now gotten 2 out of 3 wins. Both times it was when the other player dropped out. Have probably won like 50 times in player vs player but the only 2 wins I got when they disconnected. I occasionally take longer to play to be annoying hoping my opponent will drop out (assuming these are humans) but so far, no one is dropping out so I can get my 3rd one.

I'd put that in the topic below pointing out glitches, it'll probably help if support drops by.

I know it's an easy card to find, but I don't have the game. Not like I'd have any means of recording that animation without massive lag on my phone, so YT is helping out a lot.

The player vs player glitch has been happening before and after the update though technically. I was thinking it was just about bringing new issues since the update.

I just managed to get my 3rd win in that mission today, the 3rd drop out and my reward was a booster pack, which was nice.

So, after someone in the bugs thread said that it's out on Android, I decided to check. Well will ya look at that.

Opening it on my phone says it's incompatible though...? I thought everything that loaded Cards to Life could get the full game? It's asking for 4.0 version or up and I have 4.4.4, so what the heck.

If anyone in the US can follow that link on mobile and download it, I think we can call a soft launch worldwide though. If it has the same issue,they might be preventing downloads on purpose.

Edit: Updated to 5.1, still incompatible :I

It would explain why potentially I see more users playing. Until a few days ago, I saw the same 10-15 names over and over when I did player vs player, now I see a new name like 90% of the time.

I still wonder if all these players are real players. I had 4 different games in a go have the opponent have the card "showdown". Seems unlikely they would all have it and I rarely see opponents use the main characters. Either game is played by more than I think or these players are not real. They also do not play well, like they load up the attack on their active character, have a lot of damage to hit with one turn, and then swap out. Would think a person would not do that.

Probably will never know. Either way, the online names we have for us are not ones we chose.

Bots running Showdown for win farming would be incredibly stupid for the guy trying to take advantage of a game that isn't out. Who you're going to sell accounts to if no one(at least until we confirm that Android link isn't worldwide) is playing outside of two countries and people with NZ/Sweden/Italy accounts?

I just wonder if they have accounts that are ready to play if no one is there to do 1 player. I pretty much find people to play any time of the day, any hour of the day. When I tried to play Flynn's Arcade on Disney Infinity, I could wait a whole hour to get a game going. I just think its so easy to find an opponent any time and the way the play and the cards they have...I just wonder if its not just automatically playing based on logic and either randomly generated accounts. Just my theory.

Really is not much value to have opponents, its just practice and you can level up characters a bit. You can do that in the story mode so its not hurting them to have opponents ready to play, if not real people. Only seen that one player vs player quest and as I said, it only worked if they withdrew or got disconnected.

The game is playable (at least for iOS) but there are tons of small tweaks/fine tuning before Activision hits the go button for the hard release. It seems like they're focusing all the efforts on the campaign and will likely draw their attention to the PvP once all the islands are unveiled. After winning a dozen or so matches with my Booster Pack Quest still incomplete, the PvP is certainly in need of a fix.

But I do appreciate you guys for linking my video, wouldn't had found out about this small village if it weren't for my curiosity.

The release date for the cards in sweden have changed to May 27

New video from JJAtelier, fixed game and more cards! I'm putting off homework for a few minutes for this but I seriously need busy work today, everything is diverting my attention.

• Static Pulse for Flashwing featured in the store. Really like that feature, even if you get dupes it's an easy level up and gold sink.
  
• Forked Lightning really likes Battle Packs,doesn't it? Rolled for Jojopetv, I think,and rolled for Jason as well.
  
• Magma Core(Eruptor, looks like the Gear),Douse(who cares if it's Water look at Hex getting owned by that starfish), Root(Life spell, might've seen this before), Vanishing Cloak(Undead spell, shouldn't it be Magic?), Collective Strength(CRAZY OP Life spell),Thought Theft(Magic spell featuring Wolfgang).
  
• Aren't Max Level cards supposed to be animated? Could be a glitch,or they turned it off for all but Golden because of the lag.
  

I still try to get my cards leveled up when I can because if you get a card you already have at silver (level 10), you get coins instead of it being added. Wow, 750 coins to buy an epic card in the shop. I shudder to think what an ultimate Skylander like Whirlwind will cost if she ever gets there or any of the ultimate ones.

I just wonder what pushing the cards back will mean. Will the cards in the packs change? There are already packs out in New Zealand after all, I wonder if they will be the same packs when all is said and done. Hope I get mine soon.

There are at least 22 new ones after release, though they could or could not be in the physical packs already. But if not, might be reasoning to hold them back.

Something is on the way. When I start the game I get a message saying there is maintenace going on.