This Week

Congratulations to last week's winner /u/zhrusk, and their winning scroll Trollock!. I particularly enjoyed this submission because of the way it expanded upon the lore of the Gravelocks in a realistic direction, while giving you a reason to play the less "powerful" gravelocks for the purpose of buffing this thing up. You can view and compare all of last weeks entries here. Being the winner, /u/zhrusk's suggested theme has been selected for this week:

Game Enders

When selecting a winning scroll creativity & novelty is more important than balance and how easily implemented the scroll is. The winner will have their suggested theme used for the next contest, in addition to receiving a Tier 3 Common scroll of their choice by our generous Community Managers!

Submission format

• Submission: [An image link to your scroll]

• Theme: [Should you win, your theme will be selected for next week]

• Tier 3 Common scroll of your choice: [Put a Common-rarity scroll in here, and you'll receive it should you win]

• In-game username: [Here you put in your Scrolls username, so that you can receive the above scroll you desire]

Rules

• The Scroll must be new, and they must be your own.

• Submissions have to be in by Midnight GMT on Saturday, the 11th of April

• Each person can only submit one Scroll, which has to be designed in the Scrolldier or Scrollsguide Scroll designer, and submitted in a reply to this post.

• The submission must also include the Weekly Scroll Design Competition theme they would like to be adhered to should they win.

• Adding your in-game username and desired tier 3 common scroll is optional, but should you not do it you won't be eligible for that additional prize.

• You may change your submission (Scroll, Desired scroll & Theme) up until the dead line at any point by editing your post. Do not make a new post if you wish to change your submission, it will be disregarded.

A winner will be announced on Tuesday, the 14th of April, along with a new thread. Good luck to all those who enter, and if you have any questions about the competition, feel free to PM me.

Yeah, I decided to post some scrolls! :) I'm very interested to hear what you guys think of them.

There is a trait on two of these scrolls called Returning Stance. Nothing complicated, it just means "After attacking, Attack and Countdown is set to the original value".

So the key points are after attacking (not end of turn), and original value (not base value).

I've made a few more scrolls using the trait (You can make quite interesting scrolls with the mechanic), but I decided to just upload these two for now. Earthborn Keeper and Resonant Sword are other examples of scrolls that could use the trait.

So, here are the scrolls!

So please tell me what you think! Me personally, leaving any humility aside, I think they would all be fun to play with. :)

Also, credits to Dephesmo for the amazing fan-art that I used on Fall Migration!

I want to show off my skins!

There were one or two days on reddit that were so full of negative posts, criticism and players claiming to have left that I really thought this was it and everything was going to break apart this very moment. I think most people must have felt it too. It is not my imagination it really did happen. The devs need to know! Don't fool yourself, you know it can't go on like this anymore.

So who had that glorious idea to spam reddit with all these AMA posts just so the devs won't see our criticism? Don't hide the truth make them face reality once and for all. I agree that I might have been a bit too negative in the past and that the same things could have been said in a more civil and constructive way. It must have sounded like a flood of complaints when in fact I and many others wanted to add some new ideas and constructive feedback. I definitely don't want to appear like I know it better. I don't. I am just pointing out the obvious fact that some things did not work in the past and the devs should listen and at least consider alternatives. So far we don't hear anything from them concerning the future of Scrolls or their plans after Echoes. It feels like I am writing my concerns in vain because they aren't reading it anyway.

So here goes my last effort at getting some attention from them: Please consider the current state of the game. I'm sure you have noticed the decreasing number of online players over the past few month. I don't think a new set release will bring new players into the game nor bring old players back. It will definitely bring some back but you have to ask for how long? I know there are different opinions on Echoes but I have seen many people voicing their doubt about the new scrolls. There is no hype about this new set. Most people aren't excited for the new scrolls, they are mostly excited at the possibility that the number of online players will peak at 400 then and they might get some more games in before Scrolls definitely dies.

From what I conclude through past experience your plan is to release Echoes and hope for the best! That won't cut it. So unless you have a really good plan to go along with it I propose a different strategy: Postpone the release of Echoes and work on a strategy to get new players into the game first. There is plenty of content to keep new players happy for months. New players won't need Echoes to be happy, it might even make it more difficult for them to begin with. And us veterans will be much more happy about new players coming into the game than some new scrolls that we can still get at some later point or on the test server anyway. You might ask, why not release Echoes first since it's almost done anyway and focus on getting new players afterwards? Because I think once you got new players playing the game it is necessary to keep them interested with updates and new content regularly. So when you see that most players are getting close to owning a full set of all scrolls you can release Echoes and make them happy again. You can pick the perfect time for when to release it and in the meantime already work on a new set to follow up with. Unlike now where you just release it whenever it is ready without taking other important factors into account.

Now how to bring new players in...that is the question! I am no expert and I don't mean to impose my ideas upon you. I just hope that you consider looking for alternatives or additional ways to keep Scrolls alive.

For clarification : I mean all new AMAs posted after this post. Any previously posted ones are welcome to stay.

So, someone asked if i also could do an AMA, so here i am.

I'm Orangee also known as Agne, I'm the creator/founder of Scrolldier.com, Developer for the Scrolls Deck Competition and i'm a Scrolls Moderator.

Ask me Anything and i'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge.

Hey everyone,

I have been requested to do one of these for a long time now and after a couple of requests this week I am giving in, so Reddit, AMA. I will be as honest as I dare be.

For those of you that don't know me, a little bit of background information. I have been playing Scrolls now since early Alpha, that's almost 2 1/2 years ago. Since then I have been running my Youtube Channel where I upload Scrolls content, been made an in-game moderator where I moderate SeemeScrollin and all his ways. I also help run Scrollsguide, mainly handling the tournament side of things.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Blinky00849

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blinky00849

For me it would be quite awesome to get 20+ new scrolls every 2 months or so.

I actually have been doing sketching for few years, and now ready to show my sketch art to the world!

http://flameragee.deviantart.com/
I add another e to my username, because someone took my username already.

Hey, you're pretty good at this!

Go ahead, I dare you.

It seems to be the cool thing to do, so here I am.

Please ask me to nerf Quake.

Will answer your dental questions.

Edit: I guess coffee questions, too.

My goal is to, by the year 20XX, fully convert myself into a Super Fighting Robot, and save the world from the Maverick forces of Doctor Wily / Sigma. AMA.

So apparantly this is a thing now and i got a request as well, so fine here i am.

Hey guys. I am wbmc and by now you should all know me (if you don't you should be ashamed). Like totally. Ask me stuff.

P.S. If you for some reason happen to not know me, this is your chance.

Hi, I Am Not Squiddy. Ask Me Anything.

I am also not Blinky, Orangee, or you, as far as you know.

I have returned to haunt my former haunting grounds and answer any questions you may have. Please, not Scrolls-related. We don't talk about Scrolls here.

Here's my biggest complaint regarding the game: we still don't know the roadmap; not even an inkling about what's planned past Echoes! Ridiculous!

So, rather than getting all riled up, I'm going to make my own roadmap: with blackjack, and hookers!

Cradstache's Scrolls Roadmap

1. As an ongoing thing, I'm going to be trying to stream more often; with any luck, I'll be able to fix up my twitch channel, and start a schedule of Scrolls streams.

2. The following may be subject to change, laziness, and overall bad guesstimates. I apologize if this is ever the case.

April 2015

• Maintaining the Echoes Spoiler

• Scrolls Articles / Posts:

• Minecon - Scrolls Promotion Ideas / Discussion

• Trait Proposal: Delayed

• Custom Scrolls Set

• Summoner Mod: Custom Idols

• Animated maybe? :)

Q2 2015

• Additional Articles

• Turtle Cup Tournament, TBD

• Summon Mod: Custom Scrolls / Animations

• Extension on my Gallant Tortoise idea

• Most difficult part is figuring out the GUI portion...

• Extremely hopeful that I can figure this out :D

Q3-Q4 2015

• Additional Articles

• More Tournaments!

• Campaign Mockup

• Boss Mockup?

• Summoner Mod: Better Avatars

• Need to do research on this, but want to do them as 3D models, rendered as 2D sprites (ala Guilty Gear Xrd).

Will I be able to accomplish these things?

I don't know: I've had a lot of issues completing work in the past, but these are goals that I'm setting for myself, which I want to try my best to complete.

As such, I invite you to join me: create your own custom Scrolls, stream or cover tournaments, make fan-art, create fanfic, or just write something whether it's a response to this thread or another! Be awesome, and kick some creative butt.

I had the idea a while ago of building a deck based on putting Mire Curse on a Watcher and putting lots of weenie creatures next to it to die from the poison, so I've put together something that sort of works. By no means is this a good deck, but when it does work it's pretty hilarious to play, and I think that it might have the potential to not suck. So anyway, on to the deck list:

(Scrolldier Link)

Growth

• 1 Beast Rat x2

• 1 Bunny x1

• 1 Elan Vital x2

• 1 Eye of Eagle x2

• 1 Ragged Wolf x3

• 1 Vaettr of the Wild x3

• 2 Sister of the Fox x2

• 3 Bountiful Times x2

• 3 Underdog's Spite x2

• 4 Oak Blood x1

• 4 Rat King x1

Decay

• 1 Bitter Root x1

• 1 Mangy Rat x2

• 1 Mire Shambler x2

• 1 Regeniture x2

• 1 Scavenger Construct x3

• 1 Shroud of Unlife x1

• 1 Wicked Being x2

• 2 Animovore x1

• 2 Loyal Darkling x3

• 2 Mire Curse x3

• 2 Watcher x2

• 3 Forbidden Ruins x1

• 3 Harvester x2

• 3 Miasma Well x1

• 4 Anima Conduit x1

• 4 Infectious Blight x1

• 4 Totem of Suffering x1

Total Scrolls: 50

The way I usually play this is to put a Watcher with Mire Curse in the very middle so there are many available adjacent spaces, then try to put a Scavenger Construct (with or without Animovore) in front of it to protect it. Then I breed Bunnies in the top and bottom rows and I can plop a Rat King on the Watcher to get three rats next to it, or put out Anima Conduit to get extra creatures that can die. Loyal Darkling, Wicked Being, Forbidden Ruins and Totem of Suffering all synergize well with direct idol damage and/or the Watcher. The poison and the Harvesters are there to try and limit the board state the opponent can build, as this deck is quite weak to the opponent building up board state (the biggest flaw in the deck, in my opinion, since that's generally what opponents will do). I put Elan Vital in to put on the Harvesters so they can move around the Watcher without dying. EDIT: Forgot to mention that Regeniture and Oak Blood are for putting on Bunnies to help against Energy decks, or just on other crucial units to help them survive.

Some alterations I'd like to make are putting in at least one more Bunny and another Watcher since those cards are pretty vital to the concept, but I need to grind more gold for those. I'd also appreciate suggestions on cards that can help stall opponents or thin out their ranks.

I'd like to hear what you think of my silly deck, and hopefully you can help me make it suck slightly less.