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My favorite characters (out of the ten already revealed) are the Vampire Stalker and the Hypnotic Spirit.  The vampire stalker does 30 damage at the same time that he heals 10.  Concidering that he is level 4 this is a very good ratio.  And using some constitution order cards from the goblins he can either prevent 10 damage to every attack agaisnt him or do 10 extra melee damage.  He could also use the dexterity order cards from the drow deck that allow the character to make an extra melee attack in a turn.  And given that four of the eight revealed undead have charisma, it seems likely that we will have some new charisma order cards.  The designers of the game claim that this faction pack comes with intelligence, charisma, and constitution cards. 

The Hypnotic Spirit is a lot more specific in what she can do.  Her two special abilites are both powerful.  However, she only has access to charisma order cards, which limits her.  And given that there will probably be less than ten new charisma order cards, she is a little challenging to build a deck around.  Her greatest redeming value though is that she can prevent all damage from once source without using an order card.  And strength or intelligence order cards can both be used by nearby characters to defend her.  And the ability to move though walls allows for a lot of great ambushing or escaping posibilities. 

Just do what I do. Buy one set a month.

Nov 2, 2012 -- 9:47AM, Truthspeaker wrote:

The preview for curse of undeath is linked at the top.  Here are the names and statistics for the eight cards that are revealed there.  Sadly, no order cards have been posted yet. 

The newest card to be posted:
Skeletal Tomb Guardian. Level 3. Humanoid, Undead, Skeleton. 60 hit points. Constitution. Melee attack 20. Speed 6. Team Silver.
Special Ability:  Whenever this creature makes a melee attack, it deals 20 damage to each other enemy creature adjacent to this creature.

This might be the most effective creature in the set.  It seems to have the most potential for doing damage.  And if you can get him to make an extra melee attack during his turn, he can use his special ability another time.   Also, if you can move your opponents next to him, you can fully utilize his special ability. 

I listened to the dnd pod cast that was posted around November 5th, 2012. It had some information on the curse of undeath faction pack.   My complaint is that only two of the order cards were discussed in detail.   Fortunately, one of the creators of the game gives a basic run down on the general purpose of the order cards collectively.  What the cards generally do is allow the undead horde to move forward, while the spell casters do ranged damage.  This works out well, since most of the undead are cheap damage absorbers, while the expensive spell casters are too soft to place on the front lines.  

Here is the brief explaination of the two order cards mentioned. Call to Battle is a charisma card that enables you to immediately deploy new creatures as a standard action.  The Spaun of Kias order card is attached to one undead creature and it enables him to do some damage to enemies nearby at the start of his turn.

The commander cards were also revealed.  One of them allows one type of creature, for instance undead or adventurers, to avoid taking 20 damage by expending one moral and by tapping.  The other commander card starts with weak basic statistics, but for each opponent killed his leadship goes up by one.

The creator of the game said that the goblin and undead faction packs combine well since they both have a lot of charisma and constitution cards.  He also said that with all of the intelligence based order cards in this new faction that he is looking forward to recreating his intelligence based custom set.