Jeff Jones reviews Elestrals!

Today Jeff goes over the new card Game Elestrals, made by the popular KZbinr ADrive

[@aDrive]

Hey Jeff, thanks so much for reviewing Elestrals! I wanted to address a few of your concerns! We take this feedback very seriously! - You're 100% right on the rune icons. In future prints (Starting this summer) we're adding the text for the Runes to clarify what they are. I sent you a picture on Twitter! - Appreciate your thoughts on templating! We purposefully went with more simplistic language and we're reinforcing our judge team to ensure better consistency and templating in the future. - Noted on your feedback regarding removal and special casting game design! Will keep that in mind! Sincerely, thank you for taking the time to review! I value your feedback a lot and can't wait to show you our improvement over the coming months!

[@kg8996]

Hey Chief Creative officer of Elestrals here! First of all thank you so much for the kind words and taking time to review our product!! Regarding the symbols for the rune cards, we actually made a slight change to the card template for set 3 and on, we added small title to the side of the symbol stating what the symbol means, to help newer players and make it easier to catagorize the cards in general!

[@blackrosed8068]

omg this was so cool. I could listen to you talk about card design for hours.

[@anyadocious]

Great observations and insight.

[@flip_9696]

It’s very interesting listening to you discuss game design

[@_map217]

talking about general card game design is sick, big fan of content like this.

[@GrievelornTCG]

Great video! Something that doesn't work for me if the Life being the Resource. It feels like it will always be a razor's edge of card balance. Because a direct attack has significant value in this system compared to others, it seems like games will boil down to taking the lead and then just coasting while your opponent needs to "overspend" to get back into the game/parity. It means you can also "overspend" as the winner to just keep the lead. It seems like card design is going to need to fairly swingy to make sure the game appears to be even in a match. Do you have any deeper thoughts on their life as a resource system?

[@MaiHead92]

The mic quality is not great but i love listening to Jeff talk.

[@LMJeffJones]

WELL THANKS I GUESS ILL ORDER A NEW MIC NOW 😭 (it comes tomorrow lol)

[@Bleexx]

ahh idk... like for me the art looks like soulless ai generated fake pokemons and thats a huge downer for me. but maybe thats just me!

[@LMJeffJones]

Not everything is for everyone, that’s completely understandable. Some of the Elestrals art works great for me, some of it not so much, but I feel that way about Yugioh too haha