Wingspan Board Game

[burgera]

The Common Raven allows a player to spend an egg from another bird and get two "foods" from the supply. This is very powerful for the Oceania expansion with nectar. Basically, if you get this bird and place it in the yellow field you will almost always win. Does anyone remove this card when playing?

[Sturm]

Those birds are very powerful, arguably more powerful in the base game than subsequent expansions.


On the competitive Wingspan discord server the ravens along with the killdeer/gull are restricted from being played until Round 2 and from what I've heard the WBC (World Boardgaming Championships) are considering removing those cards from play entirely in their tournament format.

[AronFJenks]

Originally posted by burgera:

The Common Raven allows a player to spend an egg from another bird and get two "foods" from the supply. This is very powerful for the Oceania expansion with nectar. Basically, if you get this bird and place it in the yellow field you will almost always win. Does anyone remove this card when playing?

a lot of people remove them or nerf them.

Some say the food has to come from the feeder and not the supply. Or, restrict when it can be played, as mentioned above.

It's really irritating when it just gets two nectar every time while laying eggs.

[bshock]

I remove it if playing with a group of experienced people. I just played a game online where I drew the Franklin and Raven in my opening hand. Totally game breaking.