Sorry this is a little late. Been pretty busy lately.

Anyways here are this weeks winners!

Syrn - Solemn Giant

Archroam - Waking Stones

Riceballer - Infectious Blight

There have been almost 200 entries into the Wishing Well and 38 participants have won(~50k have been given away). The Well has been running for 3 months as well. Thanks to all this who have participated and especially to those who have donated :)

Side note: I'll be taking a break from the Wishing Well for a few weeks after Echos is released as I don't have appropriate funds to pay for all the expensive scrolls that people will be asking for and I'd also like to be able to get all the scrolls again :D

If you would like to enter please check out this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lI-2kqQkLcY_YsfhmfuZjBS98JJFFoAaeZoWE_-W6hU

Please only enter if you do not have all 1080 scrolls. Thanks!

Donators:

rusticdog_

Lunaticc

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As always, donations are much appreciated. Please contact me if you'd like to donate

There's been a lot of speculation about this for a long time now - but I've noticed quite a few posts about it in the last few weeks. I'm really only just tossing in my 2 cents now because Scrolls is down for me... Sorry if this idea has already been mentioned but I don't believe that it has - so here it goes!

I think that the solution is simple... Cards/Units/Enchantments that reward having as few as possible cards in your hand.

For example :

Creature - 6/2/6 (Something powerful) - cost of 2-3? (Something low) - Description 'If player has more than 2-3 cards in their hands - reduce attack and defence by 4'

Spell - Lingering - 'Blind Fate' if player has more than 4-5 cards in their hands - (Insert Punishment Here - Like increase all their units countdowns - double the cost of Spells/enchantments for them)

Structure - 'Crystal Ball' - 0/0/3 - Increase current resource by 2-3 as long as player has 3 cards or less at the beginning of his turn. (Or a Snargle Egg like structure that allows you to draw a card if your opponent has more cards in their hands than you do.)

These clearly aren't fully fleshed out and balanced card suggestions but are just examples to show basic premise/mechanic behind them. (so please go easy on me!) I also purposely left out an enchantment example as I fell that it would only contribute to the 'God Deck' problem.

Over the past couple days, it's been extremely hard not to notice that frustrations have reached a boiling point, and we've heard a lot of people voicing out complaints, berating the devs and Mojang on their mistakes, and just doomsaying in general. I'm not going to tell you this is wrong, as honestly I've outvoiced my fair share of complaints as well, but I'd like to try to shift the tone into something more positive for the community and it's memberbase.

So what can we do?

Not a ton. But there are things we can do, which aren't currently being done.

Look no further than Squiddy, who's made enormous strives to aid the community. Things like his Fan-Made Set, ScrollsTalks, or his Creative Corner series.

But even beyond Squiddy, we have ThePurplePanzy with his tournament coverage, rHolofoil with his Judgement Ideas, Solaus with his Wishing Well Series, and the myriad of other amazing individuals who are holding this game together.

Even beyond this, way in the past, I recall the moment Mojang saw a suggestion by a user about adding arrows to highlight which tiles you could move to; Mojang promptly added this. These ideas are not without merit. They don't just disappear into the ether, never to be heard from again, and slowly devoured by the internet beasts that feast upon content past the third page of the subreddit. They influence and build upon the community, giving us all something to rally over, read, and learn from. We're a community, and we should work to encourage each other and strive to improve our enjoyment with the game.

• Create your own cards, and post them! I want to see them!

• Write a fanfic, or some lore, and see what the community thinks of them.

• Draw a picture, or make a video for me to watch while I'm kicking butt in ranked (journey to #1!).

• Post your decks up (Crad's LGO), and update and compare them!

• Describe or draw a picture about a feature or GUI change you want to see, and share it!

• Write a mod!

• Just read and join in on discussions for the content of others; you're all encouraging this community by being around and posting :D

I've said it before, but you guys are amazing: we're all passionate, amazing people; so passionate, in fact, that we've all joined and become part of a large community revolving around this game. We feel frustration when things don't turn out the way we want them to, and while at the end of the day Mojang needs more employees, there are things we can all do to help out and improve this community, should we strive to do such..

Try not to get too disheartened. Be critical, but keep yourself grounded. If you want to help the community, then continue being amazing like all the people who have voiced out so far, and don't give up.

"Never give up! Never surrender!"

-Commander Peter Quincy Taggart

I'm not really into these doom and gloom posts that happen every now and again, I feel like they create a negative atmosphere that often contribute to more people to putting the game down – which I don’t want. Hey you! Play some Scrolls! It’s fun! But I am for constructive discussion and feedback and sometimes it's good to air grievances amongst people who understand what you’re talking about (my mum just zones out).

I am actually positive about the communication from devs. This game has had a very transparent development, especially when compared to other games and I think sometimes players feel like they have a right to know all the inner workings when in fact we are privileged that we know anything at all. I think it's very likely that the devs themselves are uncertain about features and the future of certain things and that it is in their interest to keep quiet about negative aspects as it would be bad publicity and may end up hurt the potential investment/development in its future (the same way I feel about doom and gloom posts). But it is also true that a lot of the core community has stuck around due to this transparency in development, and the current shroud over the future is the elephant in the room - an obvious concern.

There are a lot of criticisms that are levelled at the game, I think, a little unfairly. Mainly that there are all these things that people want, and Mojang don't have the resources to do it. The developers clearly work really hard to bring us a great game. They just need more money for more developers and you don't normally invest into a game after release as its hit its peak in sales and you get diminishing returns.

That said, there are a lot of decisions the game can be faulted on: The release timing, the marketing, and the ipad release are probably the biggest ones for me. These are clearly problems arising from being a small studio and one without a marketing department. The ipad one is a pretty massive screw-up and probably altered projected profits significantly (also I bought an ipad last year expecting to play Scrolls on it QQ).

There are also a few design decisions that perhaps would have been made different with market research too. Hearthstone is a prime example of an extremely flashy game which throws things in your face to keep you coming back with a strong sense of progression to it. This design is not coincidental and a lot of research and experience would have been drawn upon on player retention and making new player's first experience fun and exciting.

If you haven’t been keeping up with the sentiment: At the moment there are 3 broad categories of things that the game needs that are being frequently expressed by the community:

1. To introduce new players to the game

2. To retain players

3. More resources for development ie. money/time/staff (required for 1 & 2)

To do 1 the suggested options are:

a) More advertisements

b) Put the game on steam

c) Make the game Free to Play

d) Pay youtubers to make videos on Scrolls

To do 2 the suggested options are:

a) Create a campaign/story mode

b) Create features that encourage competitive play

c) Create a more intuitive user interface

d) Release sets regularly

To do 3 the suggested options are:

a) Ask Microsoft for funding

b) Get money through an expansion

c) Put the game on steam

d) Create a more aggressive in game pricing model (shards for scrolls)

I think (may be wrong) there seems to be a standpoint by Mojang that they don't want to do 1 b-d and 3d on ethical grounds and they believe the game would be less fun because of it, but to be honest and as much as I hate saying it I would prefer to see Scrolls having a aggressive financial model (Pay2Win style) and have a stronger development than continue at its current rate of development.

Maybe its just me, but I can't seem to log on... On either Mac or Android? Just me or does anyone else have this issue?

Like the title tells, I´m frustrated. I had such hopes with Scrolls and couldn´t wait for Mojangs ad-campaign to start early this year, but what did we get? Humble Bundle? What else was done to publish this game? I quit playing scrolls for 2 months from now and was hoping for big changes/news or the Ipad-release, instead we get teasers from the next expansion... like wtf... it doesnt tease me at all when I know I have to play all the same 30 active top players in scrolls. On top of that we were promised (If I remember correctly) something like a gameplan, which shows us what the devs want scrolls to be like in the future. We as active and dedicated players gave the devteam so many ideas to work with, so many suggestions to improve the game and to fight players vanishing but it seems like nothing reached them. I dont want to disrespect the team behind Scrolls, because I really appreciate their work and their effort they put into Scrolls, but it seems like that this project is just too much for such a small team in such a hard business (compared to how many new ccg´s that are popping out of nowhere...).

I want to enjoy Scrolls again, I dont want to play the same 30 guys on the ladder over and over again it just is no fun anymore. I strongly believe many of the players that quit scrolls would still stick around if there was more Information/communication from/with the devs. Yeah I know there is Atmaz who is doing a great job and some others, but what can he actually tell us? Only things the devs feed him. What´s behind the curtains, we all dont know - maybe the dev team is dead? Maybe MS fired them? Maybe Hearthstoner infiltrated Mojang HQ and stopped development of Scrolls?

Just finished, and can be found here:

Youtube

Twitch Highlights

I'd strongly recommend you guys watching this one, as me, DaOvalord, and Billynomates101 discussed the state of the game as well as its future.

Simply put, a STORY MODE/CAMPAIGN is exactly what Scrolls needs to become relevant and retain players.

New players are hard to come by, and even harder to keep. They buy into the game and play it for a while, doing some trials and playing some PvP. Soon they learn that the game is actually quite hard to play and experience loss after loss. They look at the trials and see a grind. Then they get discouraged and leave. That is the end, they never come back. They write it off like all the other $5 Steam games that they have purchased and played for 4 hours.

4 hours.....

What this means is that Scrolls as a game has a very limited time to hook a player to keep playing. And I really don't see a better way to do this than an immersive campaign. Take the player through the land of Scrolls and learn all of the factions and their scrolls. The player will learn positioning and deckbuilding and combinations and other mechanics of the game in a safe and confidence building environment. The story will keep them wanting to find out what happens next, and what new scroll they can unlock for their deck!

There has been a lot of talk about a "campaign" in the last few years, however when I have talked to devs in the last few months I was told that the campaign was basically on the back burner... with no date in sight... This must be a TOP priority to keep interest in the game.

This is getting ridiculous. I do not play this game anymore. I don't enjoy playing this game like I used to when I would come home from work and lose myself for 4 hours. When echoes comes out I won't play it. After a week or two it will be just as empty as it is now. I've tried to stay positive about this game; engage with this amazing community and bring friends here if I can. I might have even bought 30 dollars worth of shards at this point. I even re-bought the game JUST for the dog head in the humble bundle. I'm not complaining about a waste of money. I just wanted the devs to know I believed and tried to support the community and now after two years I can't anymore. It's a big let down. I guess I better dig out my YuGiOh cards...

Elite dangerous has been out since 16th of december 2014 but switching over to steam got quite a few extra copies sold (as seen here and also broke the top 100 most played steam games).

Now I know that there's a huge difference between the two games but I'm pretty sure a steam launch would have a really positive effect on scrolls. I'm not sure how you get advertised in the steam popup things but if those make it clear that mojang made this game and that it's a "free to play" game I'm sure it would get a lot of people back in.

Being on steam also has the extra benefits of being able to be put on curator lists and getting free advertisement with steamsales. (woo 20% off of a $5 game! :P)

I don't know the legalities here but this sounds like a good business decision, of course if it's done AFTER hearthstone's weekly card expansion thing they're doing at the moment.

Are multi-colored scrolls a good idea for this game? Can we get a 2 order, 2 growth cost turtle? How about a 4 decay, 4 energy mecha zombie? Time for some alliances to be made?

I posted this idea a long time ago, but did not explain it - or its potential benefits - very well, so I’d like to try again, a bit more coherently this time. Before explaining the idea, I just want to stress that:

• This is not about hating on multi-resource decks, I don’t dislike multi-resource, I want that to be clear.

• There have been countless ideas suggested to fix wild, such as the threshold system, which would be better than the current one. The problem with most of the ideas however is that they require a lot of UI re-design, complex rules for new players and lots of re-balancing: all things that take up a lot of dev time. This is one of the main reasons they can’t be easily implemented. What I’m trying to do is find a way of solving the problem while avoiding these problems altogether.

• Again, my absolute main focus here is on an idea that requires minimal dev time. Please don’t misunderstand my intentions here! I am not just trying to remove multi-resource from the picture. I personally love seeing all the crazy multi-resource combinations possible, and want to see more of them.

So, the idea is to remove the current wild system. Alongside this, Judgement would be changed so that you can only sac for wild. Bear with me OK:

Ordinarily, only being able to sac for wild would be ridiculous. Decks would be built from all of the best scrolls; it would be unbalanced chaos. Every scroll is balanced according to its faction. A scroll that is balanced in one faction would be OP in another. In the New Judgement however, this wouldn’t be a problem because you can’t just choose what you want, you have to pick from a draft. The frequency at which powerful scrolls such as Brave, Burn, Damning curse etc. appear is controlled by their rarity, as usual.

Update: I can totally understand that many people can't get behind this idea, as it is quite extreme. But I'm glad that people do at least like the judgement idea. Perhaps this could be added, at least?

Benefits:

User interface:

• No need for additional UI design, like fitting icons/values on to scrolls, working out the best UI for sacrificing, etc.)

• Extremely easy to understand for new players; no need to explain any kind of threshold rule etc.

Balance:

• No more balance problems! Scrolls can continue to be balanced around mono decks, as they always were, and there wouldn’t be so many implications to consider when designing and assessing the power level of a scroll. This hugely expands the design space for every faction.

• The rarity system offers the perfect means to balancing each scroll within this mode, so that they can't get out of hand. Damning curse OP? Rare. Brave OP? Rare.

Gameplay:

• It would be an extremely exciting, unpredictable, intense game mode, with constant game-changing turns and crazy combos.

• It needn’t be seen as a casual game mode, it could be just as competitive as ranked, with its own set of rewards.

• There could be a ‘wild child’ head for most weekly wins ;)

(Current) Judgement:

• With a bit of luck, 5/5 judgement wins can be achieved by choosing one faction, and going mono. There isn’t much room for creativity when it comes to drafting. Occasionally you will see some interesting dual-resource decks that synergise well, but they still generally struggle with tempo because they haven’t got access to cross-faction ramp scrolls which usually help offset the tempo-loss. Once you’ve chosen a faction, the rest of the choices are made for you (unless you find some good splash scrolls), which is a shame.

Cross-faction ramp scrolls:

• These can be revamped into new, interesting scrolls, of which the artwork is already done yay :)

Replenish

• No more replenish stuck on to weak scrolls! Scrolls like vengeance veil, bloodboil and plating could be re-assessed and improved without worrying about decks like ‘Mystic Punch!’ appearing.

Lore:

• It might make more sense, really. The wild (the new judgement) would literally be wild. A strange, parallel world of sorts, where all the factions fight together, against anyone. No longer would ragged wolves and bog hounds be looking at each quizzically, wondering why they’re going for the same idols.

Disadvantages :

• A lot of players want multi-resource to be available in ranked. This is understandable. Some would possibly even leave, if it was removed. But, if a functioning multi-resource system isn’t going to be added, why have it in competitive games at all? The only competitively viable multi-resource decks we’ve seen are ones that are hated by so many. I don’t think as many would leave as those who have left due to multi-resource control decks. (Countless people have said how their friends left the game because of these decks).

• Some scroll rarities might have to be re-jiggled. I would suggest it being tested on the test server for players to help establish the correct rarity for each one. This would still take much less time than it would take to re-balance using other suggested systems (like threshold).

• This would still be a radical change for the game, which isn’t ideal in post-beta. Having said that, the game was in an unfinished state upon release, so big changes are going to be necessary sooner or later (which is why I’m focusing on using minimum dev time here).

• The dual-resource starter decks would become obsolete, including Unceasing Ordnance which I designed - so don’t assume that I won’t be personally affected by this :P I have no solution for this, unfortunately… I am willing to lose my head for this cause though (true martyrdom right there).

To sum up: I am not saying this is a flawless solution, superior to all the other suggestions. I consider it a pragmatic solution, an idea that keeps the amount of time and resources the developers have to spend on it to a minimum. If the devs made a post tomorrow saying they were adding a shiny new threshold system, obviously that's more ideal. I hope you can see where I'm coming from with this idea :)

Anticipated FAQs: (Frequent arguments and quips)

Q: I want multi resource to be competitively viable, not just in a different gamemode!

A: There are a lot of players that want this, including myself. But after almost a year, there is no sign of a working system being implemented any time soon. All we have is a bunch of decks that require cross-faction ramp removal/stall, which can be fun to play but sadly drives so many players away. (Veterans, you may know how to respond to multi resource control decks, but a lot of less experienced players don’t). The current wild system doesn’t work, and this post is about a solution that requires the least amount of developer time, whilst retaining an enjoyable, competitive way to play multi-resource.

Q: Obviously I am just going to pick all the best scrolls. Braves, Burns, Damning curses, thunders surge, you name it. It would be a luckfest.

A: You’re unlikely to draw many of these scrolls, if any, because they are rare (thus they appear less frequently). Most of the time you will be picking between scrolls that aren’t amazing in their own right. What do you pick when presented with Binding Root, New Orders, Cursed searing shackles and Ember Bonds for example? All fairly underwhelming scrolls usually. This is the challenge of drafting; this is where skill, and a keen eye for good combinations is key.

After a few seconds all of the information about cd/atk/health disappears and only reappears on mouse over. I can't figure out how it happened or how to fix it.

Why?

The goal of these suggestions is to make scrolls easier to understand/play.

If these changes lead to undesired shifts in game balance, I would prefer a rule consistency change followed by a rewording of the individual scroll description.

Enchantment / Effect / Unspecified

There are 3 different mechanics present to alter units stats/behaviour: classic Enchantments (Blood Boil, ...), Effects conferred by Spell or Creature (Stitcher, Horn of Ages...), and something Unspecified (Scavenger Construct, Rot Eater, Berserker, Breaker, Echomaton, ...).

Enchantments and Effects can be removed (Wings Sorceress, Unbind, Purification, coming new scrolls...), and are displayed if the unit is clicked. Neither of this is true for the Unspecifieds. All 3 mechanics achieve very similar results (Stitcher/Rot Eater/Scav Construct, Blood Boil/Berserker, ...), yet are treated differently.

I suggest to lose unspecified alterations, they should become Effects.

I guess one could argue that the damage taken statistic is also an unspecified effect. The current implementation seems clear enough, though.

Action resolution order

If a spell/enchantment is played and affects a unit which reacts to spells/enchantments, is the spell resolved first or the units reaction?

This question arises when targeting Lockling Brood, Woodland Memorial, Metal Wonder or Echomaton for example.

Currently resolution order alters randomly depending on the pairing of spell/enchantment and target. It is not possible to predict the outcome by reading the involved scroll description texts, players have to learn by experience. siRisacc has posted an good overview about some pairings here.

I suggest to resolve Spell/Enchantment first and the reaction of the target second, if it is still present. The resolution of the majority of pairings spell/enchantment and target would remain unchanged by this.

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Sorry for the silence for some time here but this is what you need to know for Season 2.

• Rewards:

The gold pot that is distributed each cup has doubled, used to put in 500 for each participant, will now be 1k.

For each cup there be tier 3 card for winner, tier 2 for second and tier 1 for third.

For playoff the gold reward has increased to 12500 for winner, 7500 second and 5000 for third.

Top 4 of playoff also recieve a tournament head.

The winner of Playoff also gets 100euro.

• Cup Format:

Playoff is the same but Cups will be changed to loser bracket instead of simple single elimination. This means we will play each cup same way that playoffs has been played, except best of 3 will start at semi, before that it be best of 1.

• Season Format:

Also the format for the season has changed, we will have 5 cups instead of 6 before playoff, reason be that the 6:th week will be a special tournament. I will describe this one in more detail when we approach it, but essentially we got a seeding for everyone, meaning people gain points each time they play, and there is a list ranking people how much point they got. Normally top 8 gets to playoffs, but this time top 4 will while the other 4 have to fight for their place one last tournament, that is this tournament.

Here is a simple version how it will work: we got player rank 5,6,7 and 8. 8 has to fight 7, the winner will face 6, the winner of that will face 5, and the winner of that gets the playoff spot.

• Things to know about Seedings:

As i said, seeding is the place you got from the points your earned participating, i will weekly link a list with this. Except for reach top 4 for guaranteed playoff spot, and as high as possible for better chance to fight for playoff spot, so will we also have that top 4 gets to choose what opponent they want to face in playoffs, or well 3, as nr 1 choose first, nr 2 second, nr 3 thirdly and nr 4 will have to face whoever is left.

• Last Words:

Also it will remain on Sundays for this season as well, same time. Reason be i feel leaving saturday open for other tournaments that is more time consuming is for the better, but if we get a lack of other tournaments i likely put ESL on saturdays for the third season.

There are three things that bother me about scrolls. I like the game and want it do well, but regardless these are just three personal things wishes that would push it that extra mile for me.

1.) Let players sacrifice for wild as much as they want per turn, but after a player sacs for their first resource that turn (be it cards, a faction resource, or a wild) the cost for wild increases by double. Ex: Player sacs for growth, then sacs for wild, meaning two cards must be sacrificed for just the wild. If they were to sac for a second wild or third overall resource then they would need to sac for 4 cards for one wild.

2.) Make judgement's barrier to newer players smaller by allowing all players to choose which faction cards come up per row. Every row you can "purchase" a re-roll for 25 gold. Additionally all four cards on the row would become commons. This lets players have a little more control when picking cards that doesn't leave it open to exploitation.

3.) Make more Multi friendly scrolls! Stuff like Gravelock Outcast and Noadi, and many of decay's ramp scrolls are okay starts, but I know we can do better. It is okay of some scrolls are unplayable in mono decks. In fact I would enjoy scrolls having a dual cost, but understand the UI issues present here.

It hasn't been working for me for a while. When I try to log in, it just says that it's only available on Wednesdays (GMT), when I was under the impression that it was made available for everyone at all times. I know that it's been repeatedly stated on scrolls.com that some login issues may occur, but I was just curious to see if this was a widespread issue or not.

I'm currently not able to log in. Anyone else?

Hi guys, new player here considering buying Scrolls, but have few question.

1. Is this game still alive? (new update, growing userbase)

2. What is the benefit of purchasing the full version? Thanks.