Relaunch idea – Packs could contain only 1 faction.

At the very least, it would be nice if whatever crew were included in a pack were guaranteed to match the ships they came with, especially named crew. Generic crew could be changed to true generics without nationality requirements so they’d be a non-issue.

Single nation packs would kill the “game in every pack” marketing claim, but when was the last time *anyone* actually played the game against someone else using only the contents of a single pack?

(I’d rather the game have a “starter set” or two with pre-determined contents that included everything needed to play a simple two-player game, like most of the other WK games did. The individual packs could then be slimmed down to just the cards themselves, with at most an extra island, so you don’t end up with large piles of garbage whenever you open a dozen packs at a time.)

Tiffany O’Brien discussed distribution in the podcast. She mentioned working on different ways to distribute the packs from tins to boxes and how the color of the packs were more important than the names at times. Had Wizkids continued making the game I imagine variations on the packs would have been a logical step. I don’t play magic but it is to my understanding that you select the type of packs you buy based upon what you want/need for the deck you are building. So this idea is implemented successfully with other games.

So you could keep the starter packs as the “game in every pack” variant where islands, crew, and random ships are all included but then other packs that are cheaper to produce and do not contain everything could be sold separately. Those could be the single nation, or crew only… ect options available.

The logistical and distribution nightmare that may cause would probably require a larger company than what O’Brien seemed to indicate worked on pirates.