Jakob says that there will be 90 scrolls in the Alpha version. The poll has ended, thanks for voting!

24/03/2012: Amount of Alpha scrolls given, the voting has ended and the results have been posted!

06/12/2011: The poll has been created!

Speculations:

MasterofWindandKoopa: 50 to 100

ShdwFlm: 60 or 90

kbasten: 150

Violix: 100

Venser: 500+

.sQuare_: 300

emperorloaf: 100 to 125

Blithium: 300

Begin with? 90.
After a week? 120.
Halfway? 150.
By the end? 180.

Just rough estimates, and probably far higher than we'll be lucky to see.

'REALISTIC' estimate? Start with maybe 60, end at about 90 at most.

Hm... Jakob said somewhere the closed alpha will start with 1000 scrolls. I can't remember the interview exactly, but I'll look it up for you.

Yeah you told me that, but I couldn't find it anywhere...
Maybe we misunderstood.

1000? I think that might have been the number given for the full release.

If that is for the closed alpha, I'm not complaining.

Yeah, 1000 is a nice amount.

Just 'nice'? 1,000 would be FORMIDABLE!

I'd be pleased with an eighth of that! (125)

Haha, you're right. 1000 in the CLOSED Alpha only! FORMIDABLE!

Hey everybody... there is a little information about how many cards Mojang aims to introduce with new add ons... So with this information we can conclude how many cards there will be with the release.



So probably there will be about 100 cards per new release/add on. Arguing on that there will be only 1 release for the alpha, I actually think there will be about 100 cards then...

And as there may be 1 or 2 new releases for the beta, there will be about 200-300 cards for the official release of Scrolls.

Kind regards,
Vio

This kind of makes me sad, as 200-300 cards is not very many. Not for the start of a game, at least. I'm certainly expecting 500+ for the start of the game.

Well, pokemon could manage with 151 creatures, about 5 energies and a few trainercards
I guess 300 cards will be a nice amount to start, since you'll probably have a deck consisting of about 40 cards, there will be lots of options.

I suppose that's true.

I guess I'm still trying to compare this to M:tG that has something like 13,000 different cards. Ha ha.

EDIT: Here's the thing, though. For Pokemon you only need to get a few Pokemon that you like and some potion cards and some energies. In a more strategic game (like M:tG) you need to get cards that combo well together and that achieve an overall purpose.

I also figure that they aren't going to release this one before it's done so they'll probably have a while to create/test more cards and such before they decide to launch it.

Hehe, I understand your point, sort of... of course I also would like to see some more cards. And I guess the first thought of most people is: The more the better. However if I think about that issue a little more, that's not my cup of tea anymore...

I think 200-300 cards is by far enough to start with, since Scrolls will be a completely new game and first we have to get comfortable with all the game elements and yeah... simply understand how that game works in detail slowly. The more cards you have the more complicated that will be, so in the end you won't really be able to concentrate on the game itself if there are instantly hundreds of new cards.

Don't worry, new cards probably will come quite soon after release. MtG is 18 years old now (wow O.o that's actually older than I expected) and perhaps in 18 years Scrolls will also provide an total amount of 13000 different cards

Kind regards,
Vio

Ok so the Alphas xoming out in June im guessing theyve made about 20 so far, and theyve only released 4 so far to build hype. I think therell be any where from 100 to 125 cards released in Alpha. By the end of Beta im assuming therell be around 300, and when it realesses im assuming therll be 450-500 cards, and from therell it will only raise. Im hoping to get the feelling of a cross between magic the gathering and Starcraft, and to do this right therll need to be as many cards as in magic the gathering, so i dont think theyll ever stop adding cards to the game, hopefull therell eventuly be 10s of thousnads of cards to choose from.

One thing to add: Since I am so excited for that game, which will be absolutely amazing for sure, and look forward to play it from the very first second, I also want to play that game very intensely and with a wide knowledge of all the abilities of the cards and combos and so on...

I mean, Scrolls will be like my game, which I was waiting for such a long time and which I do not only want to learn, but to master! And at that point 100-200 cards make that a lot easier in the beginning than for example 1000 to start with. There will be enough updates on it in the future, so there's no need to worry about too few cards in the beginning, it's OK.

Kind regards,
Vio