Warlord: Saga of the Storm Misspellings, Oddities & Errors

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Hello everyone! My name is QTP (your favorite Warlord data miner), and I’m here today to talk about our wonderful game and the odd numerical and spelling mishaps over the years!

I’ve been a die-hard Warlord lover since its creation, and over the years I’ve noticed from amazing set to amazing set, things slip past through quality control, giving us some very interesting things in the final product. I’ve some of my favorite misspellings, oddities and errors!

 

SET: Assassin’s Strike

Our very first expansion after Saga of the Storm, we were gifted with a 108-card expansion that delivered amazing cards that most of us still use to this very day! However, we were also hit with our error: “Keziah’s Loris Daggers”. The card itself wasn’t……desirable to say the least, but players quickly realized that the symbol of rarity didn’t make much sense. Keziah’s Loris Daggers had a “Star” symbol, but we also got the actual “Rare” in the booster pack. It was changed when Keziah’s Loris Daggers were reprinted in Black Knives, where it reasonably became an Uncommon, but I can shamefully admit, that I was definitely duped as a young kid into trading actual rares for this card….

 

  • PROMO: Gelatinous Wall

During Nest of Vipers, 5 promos were released alongside the set, one of which was Gelatinous Wall. The oddity about this card, is the textbox! “Gelatinous Cube may not target ready characters with melee strikes.” Wait…Gelatinous who? Although the picture of the character is a cube, I could understand how this misspelling flew under the radar and making it way onto the card. Either way, have fun arguing with your friends that only “Gelatinous Cube” has to melee strike spent characters, not “Gelatinous Wall”.

 

  • PROMO: Tyrgen the Brave

Shortly after Nest of Vipers, AEG introduced the Bounty Hunter program, including the first promo Warlord, Tyrgen the Brave. I remembered when our group saw him for the first time, we all had the same question: “What is Bow?” Do we have to equip a “Bow” to use his Spend Order? Do we have to actually bow in our chairs to do it? Although we were initially confused, it was quickly explained by Legend of the Five Rings players at our local game shop. In L5R, which was also owned by AEG, tapping or spending cards was referred to as “Bowing.” My theory about Tyrgen? Someone was making cards for both games at the time, and confused themselves on the terminology. Regardless, I love reading his Spend Order because it’s a simple reminder of a great time where AEG had two wonderful games (and some other ones…) running at once!

 

  • SET: Southern Kingdoms

Southern Kingdoms was the first of the new “Campaign” format, which kicked off in earnest with the set “Campaign Edition.” Before we even fully reset, our new format got its first oddity! On every card from the set, we visually see that this card contains 295, the exact same amount as our original base set! This seems HUGE considering it’s 295 cards for a non-base set, and alas, it was too good to be true. This set actually has 158 cards, (a familiar number we see in other sets) and sadly the last card of Southern Kingdoms is Mothusi Rahsaan at 158/295.

 

  • SET: Death’s Bargain

Death’s Bargain was a set midway through Campaign Format and featured one of the weirdest misprints in Warlord. Weirdling originally caught my eye because it was first character we saw with 0 AC (we saw this again later with Revenant!), but what really stands out to me now is the symbol. Normally we see a circle symbol, diamond for uncommon etc, here we see what seems to be an amalgamation of diamond and star (maybe?). This can be hard to see digitally, so grab your copy out of its binder and take a look! We also see on the side of the card where the Set Name would be, in this case would be DB, we have SET in place of it instead. In my theory, I believe this is what the template of a card says before changes are made on it per set. Either way, it’s WEIRD…….

 

  • SET: Epic Edition

We’ve hit Warlord’s second reset: Epic Edition hit our store shelves in 2004, and of course a new edition brought us new misspellings! Epic Edition featured some new cards, but mostly reprinted cards from previous sets. One of which is Davignon…or Davingnon…uhhhh, this one is wild. A simple misspelling, Davingnon was somehow overlooked in his spelling from his previous entries in Tooth & Claw and Campaign Edition, making it hilarious to see that we can run 6 copies in our decks (yes, I absolutely stand by it!). 

 

  • SET: City of Gold

Okay… This set takes the crown on all kinds of oddities. City of Gold was one of our last official APS sets from Phoenix Interactive in 2011, which made me sad because the end of Warlord was drawing near (But not anymore!). The biggest thing that stood out to me with City of Gold was all the oddities! First, this set used A LOT of recycled art, whether it was zooming or changing the hue of a previous card, it’s safe to say that this was a way to reduce the cost of buying new art. I have a google spreadsheet detailing what art was recycled and reused in City of Gold. Also, like “Southern Kingdoms,” we don’t have the correct amount of cards. CoG says we have 179 cards, but we actually end up with 230 cards. Numerically we would have 231 cards, but we have another oddity here! Card 91/179…..or 91/231 doesn’t exist!! Yes, we have a missing card in the set! City of Gold was an amazing set with very strong and useful cards, but I would consider this set to be the biggest of oddities!

Warlord: Saga of the Storm is one of the greatest CCGs I’ve ever had the pleasure and excitement to play, but it’s always fun to look back and see that sometimes we don’t always get the “perfect” and “flawless” cards we may expect! What other misspellings, oddities and errors have you found throughout Warlord? Let us know! Thank you everyone for taking the time to read my article, and here’s to another great year for Warlord!