one time it summonded two taunt minions for me. 1/2 poison snail 4/12 dragon
another time it transformed my 1/1 minion first turn into the 9/7 legendary that makes leper gnomes.
very usful random stuff
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one time it summonded two taunt minions for me. 1/2 poison snail 4/12 dragon
another time it transformed my 1/1 minion first turn into the 9/7 legendary that makes leper gnomes.
very usful random stuff
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Quote from endlesstides >>Just craft a Golden Whizbang the Wonderful. Job done
That doesn't give you a deck with only golden legendaries.
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Compare Dany's unexpected slaughter of the innocent King's Landingers to Joffrey's unexpected execution of Ned Stark.
Ned Stark's execution served to upend fiction conventions because he, the "protagonist" wasn't supposed to die in the first book. It was shocking for that reason. However, it wasn't shocking that Joffrey chose to have him executed as opposed to honoring the political deal. Joffrey's action was completely in keeping with the character that had been developed throughout the first book/season. The book had given abundant examples that he was vindictive and impulsive.
Now, Dany has vindictively and impulsively slaughtered the citizens of King's Landing. Many have argued the writers chose this in order to upend conventions: Dany, the "good" protagonist, would not kill innocents needlessly, ergo, convention upended. The problem is that Dany has continuously tried to help innocent commoners throughout the entire run of the series. Unlike Joffrey executing Ned Stark, Dany's action haven't been explicitly foreshadowed, and so many people are very unhappy about the seeming change in her character. She has been merciless to political opponents, while actively working to spare common citizens. That was her character. In the course of about five seconds, that second part of her character was completely reversed. That is shocking for the wrong reasons.
The slaughtering of innocents doesn't even upend convention in any meaningful way, so 0/0 for the writing team there.
Edit, also: If they had really wanted to upend conventions, then they should have let Cersei win. THAT would have been shocking for all the RIGHT reasonS.
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Quote from Shadowrisen >>
First of all, she absolutely did not sacrifice her child willingly. And I'm not counting threats; that can be posturing.
Oh really?
“You warned me that only death could pay for life. I thought you meant the horse.”
“No,” Mirri Maz Duur said. “That was a lie you told yourself. You knew the price.”
Had she? Had she? If I look back I am lost. “The price was paid,” Dany said. “The horse, my child, Quaro and Qotho, Haggo and Cohollo. The price was paid and paid and paid.” She rose from her cushions. “Where is Khal Drogo? Show him to me, godswife, maegi, bloodmage, whatever you are. Show me Khal Drogo. Show me what I bought with my son’s life.”
From the TV Show:
"Only death pays for life"
"My death?"
"No, not your death, Khaleesi" unsubtle plotting look "Bring me his horse"
She does then say "Show me what I bought with my son's life" upon waking, but it is clearly in anger, and doesn't have the build-up it does in the books. In the show, it is clear she is tricked by the Witch - there is no nuance of pretending that she knew what price she was paying, and she is simply asking to see what she got out of the deal she was tricked into taking.
(Watching episodes 9/10 to find those lines was weird. Seeing Jorah again, and getting glimpses of Catelynn and Robb as I skimmed through to find the rights spots).
Anyway, apart from that, the rest of your points are poorly thought out. Was she a weak-willed, benevolent ruler? No, she was tough and made hard decisions for what she believed was right. And her core belief before she set foot in Westoros was that she was doing this to save innocent lives.
She threatened her incredibly abusive brother and did not feel remorse when his sorry ass died. Tyrion has done worse. Sansa has done worse. Stannis has done way worse.
The vast majority of your next points can be countered with "She was freeing slaves, and killing people who had owned them". Like, it sounds like you think she should have just let these despicable people she killed go with no punishment or something.
The burning of the Dothraki leaders again falls under "killing abhorrent rapists/raiders who were set on keeping her locked up forever". I've yet to see the issue. Is it a violent approach? Yes. Is it unwarranted? No.
The first questionable thing she's done is burning the Tarly's (and even then, again we've seen worse from supposed good guys like Stannis), which in no way warrants the dramatic shift from "caring about saving innocent lives to the point of being distraught at the death of one innocent child and locking up her dragons for it" to "fuck all y'all, nobody has been nice to me since I got here and my one girl friend died so I guess you can all burn".
Mad Dany is fine, and I have no doubt that the books will set it up loads better (especially since they can offer far more insight into her psyche as she falls) but the abrupt shift of "Oh she's not having fun at this party, guess the Targaryen curse has kicked in" from both her advisers to try and start setting it up in time was jarring, no two ways about it.
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Even with Rogue being very overtuned, it's still a pretty good metagame. A lot of decks are ladder viable.
I think, with a few small tweaks we could be in a very good place.
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"Freya gained a following at her grade-school science fair when she managed to make a real volcano out of baking soda and vinegar."
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Reasons why this is better than you think:
1. Handbuffs
2. Synergy with cards that require you to play an Elemental last turn.
3. "At least I don't die immediately after being played..." Magma Rager
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You've made an interesting class concept here – a little lacking on the connection between 'attacking things' and 'casting mage-type spells' – and it has a lot of potential. However, I will point out some pretty busted combos with this class, that can be found in the early sets.
1. If you play Diffusion on its own, you immediately set the Attack of all minions to 0. This is a very powerful effect, as 0-attack minions can't do anything except exist unless they are buffed. If your opponent doesn't run buffs, they are likely to be stuck with the board they have and won't be able to use them to interact with your characters. It's dangerous to set a minion's Attack to 0, and so I think this effect could be tweaked to avoid that.
2. You do have a lot of 'give your hero attack' cards, somewhat diluting your design space. It goes beyond even Druid's number of attack cards, and sometimes feels tacked on to your other cards.
3. 2x Burning Hands without a weapon equipped is 2 mana for 10 attack. Not only is this on its own pretty broken, when paired with 2x Focus Beam it's 50 damage (if you attack afterwards). That's a 4 card combo for 8 mana. Even without Burning Hands, Infusion paired with a weapon will reliably deal an insane amount of damage.
4. Using 'ignores all minion effects' on a classic card is a little complicated for that set – the kinds of mechanics we see in KFT and RR about minion 'effects' (moreso enchantments) only started being explored in KFT and RR. If you look back at GvG and TGT for example – and even WotOG – you see Team 5 have a much smaller mechanical design space in mind. It's actually much more difficult to design cards for those wild sets than it is to design for the sets with more potential for complexity (e.g. MSoG, JTG, KFT, K&C, WW, RR, RoS).
5. I don't quite understand the subtheme of Freeze in GvG and TGT. You have no real synergies with the mechanic apart from "Can't be damaged by Frozen minions", which is in itself almost opposite the point of Freeze – the mechanic allows you to temporarily ignore minions, rather than to use the mechanic as a pseudo-immune effect for your own – and because it has no presence in the basic or classic set, you would have to reintroduce the mechanic on a rolling basis (much how Freeze Shaman in KFT was an extremely isolated synergy set that had no set up or follow up).
I will say that you have put a lot of effort in here, and that there's a lot of potential in the cards you've made. If you can refine the themes of the class beyond hero attack then you'll be on the right track.
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I personally think Paladin got some of the best cards this expension, so I guess it's very subjective.
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fun, I like
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If you feel your time is wasted, close the game and move on.
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Please use the appropriate thread for your salt, keep it civil and stop polluting the forum 🙄
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Insane value
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I'm sorry but Griftah is underrated. Vanilla statlines and if you're smart you get a better deal than your opponent. Definitely not on the same level as Duskfallen Aviana or Temporus. It's not among the greatest because it can sometimes screw you but it surely is not unplayable.
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Zentimo, fingers crossed :)
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INFINITE VALUE
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We will definitely still see combo decks. Just not the likes of "solitaire" OTKs that don't care what you do because you can't play around them. Expect smarter combos.
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I'll be happy to get this from Earthen Might