A demo deck in the works?! Kupo!

Well, I figure I've made you guys listen to my ramblings long enough without actually playing the game for yourselves.

I'm starting work on a demo deck, it will include every non-Cid card revealed so far.
(Cid is a little niche, so he wont do any good in a non-specialized deck.)

As you've been noticing lately, there is a lot of official art on the cards, when I mentioned the initial idea of fanartists doing the art.

Well, the official art is just a placeholder. I'm interested in seeing how the game plays, and grows, and sometimes I just want to stick a card out there without committing art theft. You wont see a non-official card up here that I haven't already asked for permission to use.

Anyway, lets talk about Kain and Cecil.

Dark Knight Cecil seems like a popular choice for most people, so I wanted to make him as accessible of a card as possible. He's a powerhouse for sure, he breaks the rule I said I would never break... a ranged character with an attack of over 1400, which means he can take out most front ranged fighters with his attack.
Giving him ranged represents the old Dark Wave attack he had that hits all enemies with his HP as a cost.

The thing I wanted to capture with Dark Knight Cecil was the futility of using the powers of evil to fight evil, the whole reason he became a Paladin in the first place. Sure, he breaks the game rules, but at great cost.

With every attack, Cecil dooms the top 4 cards of your character deck, which brings you a step closer to a TKO every time he attacks. Four cards is a pretty large amount, and if you aren't prepared for it, he could even be a liability. The ability to destroy full blown fighters from the back row is nothing to laugh at though, we'll see how it plays out.
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Kain is very similar in application as Cecil is, but less solid all around, he's your exterminator, a one-shot to take care of the problem character in those hard to reach spots. Sure, once he's out, he's sub-par, but with ways to return him to your reserves, Kain becomes a serious threat. His ability used to be triggered when he came into play, but that ended up breaking him, when he could phoenix down back into play and kill any character on the board. His new wording seems to balance him out some.

I also revealed these two cards to illustrate a new way to word character abilities. They are now structured like this: "Name: Cost: Effect"

Name is purely descriptive, Cost tells you when the ability can be used, and effect describes the ability.

Triggered abilities effects are pre-empted with "he may" or "she may" to show that you can choose not to trigger the ability, Kain is an example of this. Cecil is not, you have to discard the cards every time with him.
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Well, besides that, any other characters you guys are dying to see in the demo decks? I'll see what I can do for everyone that reads this blog.