Back for the last time before the 2023 Flame Tower Event in Dallas Texas. We continue this time reviewing some of the card Erratas that will be important to this special Flame Tower Format.
Erratas are text corrections to printed cards. The Errata List can be found in the MetaZoo Rules Index and contains revisions that impact a Page’s functionality. Erratas for a Page in one edition may not be present in a future edition once they have been corrected.
Please make sure to read and check in on the official documents regularly at the MetaZoo Games Gameplay website!
Official MetaZoo Rules Index 6/26/23
Jack-O-Lantern Bomb (NF 90/163)
○ Original Text: “If you control a Beastie with “Headless” in its name, this card costs 1 Aura
to Contract.”
○ Corrected Text: “If you control a Beastie with “Headless” in its name, this Page costs 1
[Flame] to Contract.”
Tower Info: 75 Damage and burn is powerful with a reasonable 3 Flame Aura Cost. If you choose to run Headless Annie to help deal with burn counters make sure to take advantage of this synergy!
Merging Flames (UFO 82/165)
○ Original Text: “Target Beastie or Caster loses 10 LP and is inflicted with Burn (1). Then,
you may move any number of [Burn] Counters from any Beastie or Caster to another
Beastie or Caster already inflicted with [Burn].”
○ Corrected Text: “ Target Beastie or Caster loses 10 LP and is inflicted with Burn (1). Then,
you may move any number of [Burn] Counters from a Beastie or Caster to another Beastie
or Caster already inflicted with [Burn].”
Tower Info: With all the spells and beasties that deal burn damage merging flames can help take the edge off the counters staking up. This Errata helped to clarify that you may only move Burn counters from “a” singular Beastie or Caster to another. You won’t be able to reassign all the counters in the area were ever you wish.
Merging Flames has good synergy with The Green Fireballs to move to burn off the opposing caster, and triggering The Green Fireballs arena effect to deal 25 damage.
Casey Jones (SNC 13/165)
○ Original Text: “(Power)[Cannonball]: Send a Beastie you control to your Afterlife. Target
Opposing Caster is dealt 100 Damage.”
○ Corrected Text: “(Power)[Cannonball]: Send a Beastie you control to the Afterlife. Target
Opposing Caster is dealt 100 Damage.”
Tower Info: Casey Jones is a hard but expensive hitter that we may not see much play in the Flame Tower. This Errata clarified that Casey does not go into the controller’s Afterlife but the (card owner’s) Afterlife. When cards leave the Arena to the Limbo, Cemetary, Afterlife, or Spellbook they must go into the original owner’s locations.
Volcano Woman (NAT 58/174)
○ Original Text: “A real volcano is considered to be within eyesight. If real lava is within
eyesight, this Page costs 1 less Aura to Contract.”
○ Corrected Text: “ARENA: Whenever a [Earth], [Flame], or [Forest] Beastie with an Aura
Cost of 2 or less is Destroyed, target opposing Caster is dealt 30 Damage. A real volcano is
considered to be within eyesight. If real lava is within eyesight, this Page costs 1 less Aura
to Contract.”
Tower Info: This Errata moved the real volcano and real lava 4th wall activations into the cards “ARENA” effect box. These two 4th walls will already be active for the entirety of the Flame Tower so nothing concerning here.
Do expect to see Volcano Woman at Flame Tower! With Defender, and Stoneskin she will be a challenge to get rid of. Her Arena Effect will be increasing the damage done by beasties such as Exploding Rabbits as they get destroyed as well!!
A reminder to always keep an eye on the #gameplay channel in the Official MetaZoo Discord as well as the Changelog at the end of every MetaZoo Document for up-to-date notes on the document’s edits!
Rules Index Changelog
06/26/2023
Page 6: Hoop Snake (CN 54/159) Clarification
Page 9: Wapaloosie (CN 9/159) Clarification
Page 11: Dampen (NF 65/163) Clarification
Page 19: Wood Devil of Coos County (NF 13/163) Clarification
Page 21: Spirit Veil (WN 129/165) Clarification
Page 35: Fulgurite Fusion Aura (NAT 41/174) Clarification
Page 36: Gaint’s Blood (NAT 32/174) Clarification
Page 36: Iktomi (Nat 84/174) Clarification
Page 37: Yehasuri (NAT 116/174) Clarification
Page 39: Effect Text Box and Effect Text – Clarification
Page 40: Effects that Include “Up to the target Beasties…” – Clarification
Page 42: Non-Status Effect Indicators – Clarification
Page 52/64: Hoop Snake (CN 54/159) Clarification
Page 74: The Columbia River Sand Squink (NF 110/163) Errata