Great general qualities and tucks from the deck, not your hand. Currently, this is the only way to recover discarded bonus cards. Or, you may have ditched an early bonus card because it wasn’t useful, but you ended up regretting that decision. Your opponent may have discarded a bonus card that was bad for them but amazing for you. It even enables you to discard bonus cards you already had in your possession, which lets you ditch a crappy card you may have picked up from your opening hand. Abbot’s Booby breaks the mold of traditional bonus card birds by letting you see three bonus cards before discarding two. Furthermore, the OE metagame shifts people toward playing more birds, which directly increases the power of a bonus card’s ability to score points. Scores that break 150+ are done on the back of a lot of lucky bonus card draws. In the last few months, its become clear how impactful bonus cards are on the highest scores people achieve. My best score is currently 150 points and I did that on the back of a Chiffchaff mass tucking engine (Core Set + European Expansion only). When properly supported with single-mindedness, this mass tucking bird can push scores up to rediculous levels. To veterans of the physical board game, its no secret how good this card is. You could do a lot worse than a five point bird with a one egg nest that has decent bonus card interactions. Its probably the “worst” of the three birds with this power but its not horrible. This one is harder to drop from your opening hand since it costs two fish, unless you are playing with Nectar. Paying one more food slows down your early game tempo a bit but this is still a pretty good card. It plays nice with several good bonus cards and even picks up two points from Omnivore Specialist. For one more wild food, you get an eight point bird that can do the same thing but also has the option of being played in the Grasslands. This power is probably a superior “draw gambit” option when compared to the Ruddy Duck archetype. On top of all that its worth three points and has a four egg nest to serve as a decent egg bank. This is pretty significant early game card advantage. From the Wetlands, you draw one, two if you chuck an egg, refresh the tray, look at three cards, and pick one to keep. A food cost of Fish + Worm is easy to drop out of your opening hand and have food left over for a Forest bird. Beta testing the European Expansion on Steam has really given me the opportunity to put this archetype through its paces. This doesn’t change the food efficiency of these birds. Inflated food availability may cause these birds to lose out to bigger point birds at times. Many of these birds qualify for Rodentologist, Falconer, Food Web Expert, and/or Omnivore Specialist, which makes playing them incredibly efficient if you have those bonus cards. Birds worth four points and cost one food have been promoted up the list.Star nests are a bit less valuable due to the slow down of egg production and an overall lower percentage of round goals/bonus cards that check eggs and nests.Large nests are a bit less valuable due to the slow down of egg production and an overall lower percentage of round goals/bonus cards that check eggs and nests.Bonus Card acquisition has become more valuable since you generally end up playing more birds and focus a bit less on engines.Playing birds has become more effective due to a general food surplus from a buffed Forest, nectar, and an increase in shared resource effects.The Evolution of the Oceania Expansion Metagame Special thanks to Reddit users Scolipass, jK49ERFAN, and KakarikiNZ for their input. The complete tier list is available here: Wingsplain Card Tier List Here’s what’s changed in the Wingspan Tier List Update for Version 2.3
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