Mage Wars Academy - Tutorial & Playthrough

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This is a tutorial and playthrough of Mage Wars Academy from Arcane Wonders

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[johnroemeeks]

Thanks for the video btw! I just ordered Mage Wars Academy yesterday, so I will be playing it this weekend with my son. It looks very fun! I also ordered the Priestess expansion

[joconnor]

Very bloody good for learning the game

[Creshex]

Having just played Academy, I can say that this game is the most thematically perfect spellcasting game I’ve ever played. It’s jarring at first to realize when someone enchants your creature or pulls out a nasty piece of equipment that you can just reach for the counter spell right away. Feels like being a real thinking wizard. MTG always felt ridiculous when waiting for a “destroy enchantment” draw for many turns in a row. I don’t think the preparation step is a bad idea in arena. It prevents your enchantments and equipment from getting blown up TOO fast. A mage wouldn’t want to keep a counter spell prepared every round.

[johnroemeeks]

Hey guys, what's your favorite character to play? I ordered Priestess expansion, and the Druid looks interesting

[Cal_Coolidge]

So, it has now been about 2 years since you said this game was still being supported. Arcane Wonders has not released anything new in that time and they have allowed several of their Academy expansions to go out of print. I'm disappointed because I love both Arena and Academy. I wish these games got the audiences that they deserved.

[lastburning]

Have you heard of Codex by David Sirlin? It's my ultimate favorite of these types of 1 vs 1 games. It also uses card binders but you pick two cards into your discard pile (face down) each turn like a deck builder. It has a really cool fog of war element. In Mage Wars the binder works more like a hand of cards. You also don't construct your deck/binder one card at a time, but out of three different prebuilt chunks of cards. But you can also play with the default decks and they're actually strong right out of the gate.

[PMMagro]

Mage Wars without map, Magic the Gathering with spellbooks... I prefered the map version for sure, espcially with 4 players (teamplay) :)

[johnroemeeks]

What's up with the audio? It cuts off the audio everytime someone speaks