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I can’t believe the tutorial walks players through purchasing jokers and handing scrolls directly to opponents, which are ridiculously inefficient! Worse still, it fails to cover how noble cards work or the stealing mechanic—these core tactics are genuinely powerful, yet the guide completely overlooks them. This tutorial is a disaster! Awful!

The tutorial should show the rules, not the strategy.

I cannot agree more! The tutorial even teaches the player to buy 41 joker with 4 black tokens and a pearl at the very beginning of the game, which is obviously non-sense. Worse still, it teaches you to pick three black tokens and give a privilege freely to your opponent and then buy 41 joker, which misleads the new player to focus on these REALLY INEFFICIENT and USELESS jokers.

Yuhuangdadi wrote: ↑05 July 2026, 14:17 I can’t believe the tutorial walks players through purchasing jokers and handing scrolls directly to opponents, which are ridiculously inefficient! Worse still, it fails to cover how noble cards work or the stealing mechanic—these core tactics are genuinely powerful, yet the guide completely overlooks them. This tutorial is a disaster! Awful!

Doctor Dottore wrote: ↑06 July 2026, 08:05 I cannot agree more! The tutorial even teaches the player to buy 41 joker with 4 black tokens and a pearl at the very beginning of the game, which is obviously non-sense. Worse still, it teaches you to pick three black tokens and give a privilege freely to your opponent and then buy 41 joker, which misleads the new player to focus on these REALLY INEFFICIENT and USELESS jokers.

You just completely ignored Jellby's comment that the purpose of tutorials are to introduce you to the rules of the game. Period. A side benefit is that it shows you how the interface works so you can get used to it before you have to use it in a live game.

They are not strategy tutorials. In fact, the guide for building tutorials EXPLICITLY SAYS:

Focus on rules, not on strategy tips

For the most part, they are neither produced by BGA nor the developers of the game. They are created by community members. A great number are produced by Nekonyancer who volunteers untold hours creating them.

If you are unsatisfied with their work, have at it: https://boardgamearena.com/tutorialfaq

It's sad that we have two people whose very first forum posts were not about positivity, but instead were used to trash the volunteer work of someone who has contributed greatly to the BGA community, and one of the critiques was about not doing something they aren't even supposed to be focused on. It's fair to comment on rules that they got wrong or were overlooked. But the tone of this was mostly about trashing the work, I guess because you assumed that it was done by BGA so you thought it's ok to be a jerk about it?