I have several hero cards across several decks in the base game that are curved. Hoping that isn't permanent. This didn't seem to strike any of the other boxes, at least.
The cards seem to be made from similar stock as MtG cards. In that I've had some cards bend and can get them into normal shape without much issue. As long as they haven't been completely folded in half you should be able to work them to being flat again.
It actually shocked me that I needed to post a guide on bending the decks back into shape on BGG of all places.
I found that shuffling the decks seems to do the job. My early reaction was unnecessary. :)
There's always bound to be a bout of bad luck. Today i was fighting omnitron in the ruins of atlantis, the kraken was out and then the atlantean font of power came out. Omnitron played terraforming, and terraforming proceeded to lead into 2 electro pulse explosive, proceeding to murder all of my heros.
If it took both EPEs, then it wasn't a one-shot.
Please, my best friends second game in the app was against Omnitron, first turn went as follows.
- Omnitron Flips
- Omnitron plays EPE
- Omnitron plays the other EPE.
All the heroes were dead at the end of Omnitron's second turn.
Ouch. I've definitely had the environment play an EPE before now. It's one of those times where you think you're doing okay, and then that happens, and depending on how far through the game you are everyone's suddenly at about half health, single figures, or outright incapped :(.
Tachyon with synaptic interruption is one of the only counter to those events just redirect damage on EPE: problem solved...
To a lesser extent signatured Writhe could achieve a close result to that
I think a Flak Jacket would do the job as well, even if you couldn't redirect the damage.
It would save yourself but not your team with a flak jacket, by redirecting an EPE's damage on itself you automaticaly destroy it except on the damage reduction side on advance were you leave it at 1 hp meaning MUCH lower damage to teammates. Tachyon just thrives on such high bursts of damage to redirect. And going from 15 to everybody to 3 to everybody in advanced mode because of writhe is also nothing to sneeze at.
Wrest the Mind turns EPE into a blessing; one game, I had Wrest the mind on the first turn, and Omnitron got Electropulse Explosive. Redirect all damage to Omnitron himself. Visionary redirected sixty damage over the course of game, making her the game's biggest damage dealer.
I did mention Wrest in my last post, but immediately went and edited it out because I realised that it's absolutely no use whatsoever if the EPE has entered play via the environment's turn - you wouldn't get any chance to play it (unless it got played by an Atlantean Font of Power right after said Font had caused the EPE to come out).