0:00 - Introduction 0:45 - Game Overview 3:26 - Playthrough

I backed the reprint while inebriated ages ago, and a shipping notification just reminded me. I am glad the game looks great!

The deckbuilding in this game is surprisingly deep. Looking forward to more expansions to increase the card pool!

SUPER entertaining to watch! thanks for making this!

Good playthrough. I enjoyed witnessing your defeat, lol. I have been playing Skytear Horde (solo) almost a couple of times daily since I got it and oddly enough, I am still unsure how I feel about it, which means I probably actually like it cause I keep playing it, lol. I find myself losing more than winning (on the second difficulty, ie. "Hard"). I started Constructing my own decks which is surprisingly a lot of fun and this is coming from someone who avoids deck construction in games, I do not find it overwhelming in Skytear Horde. The Castle Restrictions really help keep me from being overwhelmed with my choices. Overall, this game does a lot of things right even though there may be a lot of little things to nit pick at. When you die, you will likely die horribly, but so many times I have ended up snagging victory from a MOST satisfying Hail Mary turn/play situation and just obliterating all who opposed me. It's like Po pulling off the Wuxi Finger Hold, prefaced with a raised pinky and a whispered "Skadoosh!" . The synergies that can be pulled off are well designed IMO.

At 15:10 the Treachery card should have boosted the rightmost Monster, in this case the Onikai Minions. I believe this would be a permanent boost until the Onikai Minions were defeated. Not sure if it would clear if they are sent back to the back row at the end of the Pillage Phase.

Excellent review and points made.

Such a brilliant game

19:49 trample only occurs when there is excess damage after defeating an enemy (which this term is never defined in the rules - not sure if it includes the portal or not). Dragon Punch boosts your attack by +3. This should have gone all to the portal, there was no excess damage to trample with and therefore the minions would have remained alive.

So you can pull multiple minions into battle? I read the rule differently, but that would make things a bit easier for me! Thanks for the play through.

I'm on the fence about this one. Looks really similar to Fantasy Defense which I already own. Any thoughts on the comparison?

Oh, "tear" as in rip paper, not "tear" as in crying!

Hi Mike, what game gives more fun Skytear Horde or Aeons End?

How is the rulebook? I keep hearing about how the rulebook doesn't explain this and that. I also keep hearing this is a quick-play game but how long does it take the avg gamer (how many rounds) to get to that point? Seems like this would take several LONG games (with pauses and rulebook lookups) before this would become "quick" to play. So maybe 30 min avg time AFTER you know all the rules, terms, etc? But until then... 60-90 min a game, for 10-20 games before it becomes quick? I suppose that depends on which decks you use... so once you've mastered/learned one deck and get a quick 30min game time, you move to another deck and have to learn a bunch of new mechanics or keywords, so back to 60-90 min games, until you've mastered that deck. Repeat for next deck... I dunno... I'm on the fence. The token tracking with health and atk adjustments seems super fiddly. I'd probably use a bunch of say, red dice for health counters, white dice for shield counters, black dice for atk counters. Flipping dice or swapping out/placing tokens... fiddly either way.

23:59 you shouldn’t have lost a mana here. Your ally on the field should have lost one attack.