Blisterguy just revealed a new Festival of Legends card: Chorus Riff
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What happens if you play your first Riff as a Finale?
no effect - in fact the card wont even glow if you have the finale lined up if its your first riff
— Leo Robles 💙 (@MyntyPhresh) March 22, 2023
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Feels like Libram Paladin and this might just work, I wish some of them had Fire to support previous packages.
yes, you can, because it's been known throughout history of HS how they make expansions. i'll only bother with handful of examples, i'm sure you can find plethora more: curses for warlock - no new curses will get printed. what we got is what we'll have until rotation. the same goes for relics and the same went for previous archetypes, like c'thun - no new cards were added for any class after the expansion. jades too. it's very safe to assume that no new riffs will be added after this expansion and its miniset... i do hope the expansion brings more riff cards, as chaining them might be good. core set should be more class defining than this expansion though.
Just from a flavor point of view, yes, you can assure there will be no more riffs after this expansion. This is the music-themed expansion, after all. It's the same reason why there have been, for instance, no C'thun-buffing cards after Whispers of the Old Gods, no Corrupt cards after Darkwood Faire, no Galakrond cards after Descent of Dragons, and so on. Some mechanics, such as quests, are more open to be reused in the future because they're more flavor-independent and thus don't feel as attached to the expansion that introduced them. But riffs are too music-themed (and specifically too rock-themed).
Oooh these cards are nice, great value generation but I am still skeptical of how difficult Finale's will be, is it worth dumping low cost cards to get that perfect curve? Of course the Hero Power helps to reduce by 2 mana but once you peak much higher it becomes a dump city.