In practice, this bird feels overpriced at a cost of three food. Similar in function to Eurasian Tree Sparrow, the Eurasian Golden Oriole has the luxury of choosing between two different food types. Unlike the Shrike, there isn’t any particular bonus card that makes this an enticing play, although it does get you 50% of the way to the bottom three points of the Cartographer bonus card. Unfortunately, the wheat gain comes from the birdfeeder IF it is available at that moment, but at least it’s a more common food type. Your opponent just needs to take the Gain Food Action. The Eurasian Tree Sparrow card is Loggerhead Shrike with one less restriction to trigger its power. My “fix” for the Magpie would be to reduce its food cost to one wild food. One more point, two more eggs, and a star nest make this bird cost two wild food as opposed to the zero food cost of the Black Vulture. Its star nest allows it to qualify for all of the nest-specific bonus cards, and it also plays well with Anatomist, Cartographer, and Prairie Manager bonus cards. Omnivore Specialist makes this bird a decent play. Its two wild food cost is thematic for a bird that will eat anything. At least it has a three-egg star nest, so it has some potential to help secure a round bonus and qualify for all nest-based bonus cards. The issues that plague Turkey Vulture also plague Black Billed Magpie. The Anatomist bonus card likes this bird as well. If you have Rodentologist, this becomes an average play. This power is too situational to use effectively.Īt least it’s worth three points and has a four egg nest. Loggerhead ShrikeĪn opponent needs to take the Gain Food Action, AND they need to take a rat to trigger this power. The Cartographer bonus card likes this bird as well. If you have Rodentologist, this becomes a decent play, as the Night Jar becomes four points for one food. At least worms are among the most common food types. It has the chassis of the Eastern Kingbird.Īn opponent needs to take the Gain Food Action, and then you gain a worm IF there is one available in the birdfeeder. It’s much less effective in a two-player game, as a single opponent could likely ignore the Forest altogether depending on their cards.Įastern Kingbird works well with Viticulturalist and Cartographer, meeting 50% of the requirements to reach the bottom three points of those bonus cards, but there are still probably better options. You have no way of really knowing if this bird’s pink power will be effective in any given game. Your opponents will probably play a handful of Forest birds. At two points with a two-egg nest, it almost feels like an overpriced Vulture in practice. This bird’s redeeming qualities are that it’s cheap and flexible in both food cost and habitat placement.
The issues that plague the Turkey Vulture also plague the Black Vulture it’s restricted to the Forest, and for that, they gave it one more point. Birds with this power should be played as a direct counter-play to obvious predator use.Īs an aside, I think a good “fix” for the Vulture archetype would be to up their point value to three and change their power to trigger whenever an opponent plays a predator bird. At least it can be played in any habitat. To make matters worse, Turkey Vulture qualifies for very few bonus cards. Predator Powers traditionally have low success rates. That predator has to succeed with its power consistently.They have to use that predator consistently.
Their powers are very thematic (scavenging the scraps leftover from successful predators) but far too conditional. When designing the vultures, I think they overestimated how good a zero food cost was on these birds. Action cubes are far too valuable to spend on a bird with a payoff this small. A one-point bird with a one egg nest is not good, even at zero food cost. If a Wingspan pink power is situational, the bird it’s attached to needs good general qualities to make it valuable when it’s just sitting there doing nothing. Wingspan Pink Powers: What’s your favorite? 22.
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