New Ways TO Play AOTP

1. Shuffle Play: Put all the squad creatures/heroes face down in the middle. At the start of your turn, you draw the top card and can either reveal and summon them or keep it hidden.... For now. You can summon creatures outside your color, but if you're Chandra and the card says "enchant target squad" and you only have zombies on the field, you can't enchant them. The other player draws from the same pile

2. Multiple spawns: When a squad is destroyed, they can be re-summoned once, as if you had two copies of that card.

3. Eldrazi Neutral: Start of the game with the Eldrazi in the middle with all it's abilities, except it never moves, just sits there causing problems unless something kills it.

4. Teleportals: I have some old Heroscape tokens and sometimes we'll play that the tokens from Heroscape are "portals" and figures can go into one and come out of any other. It adds an element of mobility to the game that wasn't there before.

there's a couple I just came up with. They aren't amazing, but hopefully they will give you some ideas

Narrative based play. Try this scenario:
Treasure hunt
for 2players
two planeswalkers are trying to find an artifact and retrieve it.
Set up the board in a mutually agreeable way but do not place glyphs. After the battle field is set shuffle and place all the glyphs face down.the glyphs won't buff armies in this scenario(see objective) Each player brings a 500 point army.

Objective: to locate the Artifact (represented by the knowledge glyph.) And return it to your board edge. Or opposing planes walker is defeated.If the artifact is not recovered after 20 turns the winner is the player with the most points on the field.

To locate the artifact move on to a glyph space and end movement and turn over if it is not the knowledge glyph then remove from play. No bonus is recoeved for the glyph.
If it is the knowledge glyph then it moves with the figure until they take a wound in combat or move adjacent to a friendly figure and end turn by declaring the handoff to the adjacent figure. Planeswalkers may not cast spells or summon if they have the artifact.

In the Treasure Hunt scenario, a further variant would be having to deliver the artifact to your opponents starting edge of the board instead of your own. This way players are encouraged to plan both offence and defence and are forced to try and break through their opponents defences to win. Sort of an 'American football touchdown/English rugby try' kind of thing.

I agree with you bluecloud, however I have an idea, but you'd need a large table.



Line the board pieces up long-ways in a sort of corridor only one board wide. You'd have to start at one end and get the glyph all the way to the other. So there would be no real way to go "around" the opponent, you'd have to go "through" their rank and file with the glyph. This seems like it would have some more back and forth action.

My wife came up with the idea of being able to MOVE two squads, but only one ACTIVATES. i.e. Both Jace and the Leyline Phantoms can move, but they can't both attack or use special abilites, the player chooses which one gets to do those things. It allows for more synergy with your troops

: Use the flyer only to move Gideon into Melee, then activate Gideon and attack

: Now both Nissa AND the archers can move together, working together more effectively.

: Move the Illusionary Phantoms, then Activate Jace, teleport him through a phantom, and wreak havok

: Get those Reavers in close, and let your zombies attack the weakened enemy

: Phoneix move all over, grabbing glyphs and high ground while Firecats slice through enemy front lines

Just a few tactics

Me and my gf play with a 1000 to 1500 point army we have all 3 sets and play where you can use 2 or 3 armys per turn it think it fits the lore better