This will certainly shake up the meta — but in a way I dread. I really applaud most of the changes to existing cards; the cards become more interesting and more useful. And I like the support to devotion which has already almost been powercrept out of contention. But, almost without exception, I hate the new cards. If they are not outright OP (e.g. Brouver Hoog, or Eist Turseach), they are very binary in that they become “remove or lose”. I expect they will still further reduce deck variability by forcing every deck to carry heavy removal, reset, and purify to get through defenders. And, course the stupid tutors necessary to access them as needed. We already have only 25 cards in decks — we don’t need 5 of those cards to be“mandatory includes” to be viable.
Finally, I don’t like the ratio of legendary cards to other card values in the “between expansion” card releases — it really interferes with card collection strategies needed by the newer players to the game. For example, I have saved up about 160 keys, which I expect I can convert to about 60 kegs, from which I will get, if I’m lucky, 3 legendary cards — two or more of which will be old cards. Without spending scraps, I will be lucky to get 1 new card that I can use with my current collection. So I am either uncompetitive for several months until I can get the new, OP cards, or I spend my scraps crafting cards — which increases the probability with every keg I open, I get useless duplicate cards resulting in needing a lot more kegs to expand my collection.
