Rience
To my mind his deploy is kind of situational. You can prepare your deck via top-deckers (
Vicovaro Novice, Blightmaker, Tactical decision leader) to know what you get and in the end you can use one of your deck units to destroy another unit with equal power. Here one should highlight that in the deck builder there is a incentive to use no specials and no artefacts.
Are there currently any NG playable cards which benefit from being in the graveyard?
Madoc (as a 3 damager)
Phoenix (as a 4 damager)
So when you manage to take this, you basically do not lose the card but it can be used again. Alternatively you can also simply get rid of your bronzes. Here maybe
Nilfgaardian Knight offers the most value (7 damage for 5) and another of those Knights can be used to prepare the Rience damage.
As already mentioned I consider
Rico Meiersdorf also a valuable target as when he is one of your 3 top decks, Rience can target many units with Rico after being played by your opponent (except: behind defender, units were boosted later or on their deploy)
His order is very strong but you really want to play him in round 1. Then you probably have 15 units in your deck (10 in your hand and 1 in your graveyard). Best order targets might be cards like
Menno Coehoorn (+13),
Sweers (+12), opponent spies (+14), a Geralt (+12/13) or a cow from
Germain Piquant (+14). As already mentioned i possible to increase the boost by cards like Assire or Yenn´s Invo
There´s no doubt that he needs to have a defender for protection.
So some it up:
His body: a 5
His damage: Maybe on average a 4 (if you mange the Nilfgardian Knight combo a 7)
His order: Maybe on average a 11 (if everything goes perfect even a 15)
So he would be an on average 20 for 13 provisions His cap will be 27 and his floor just 5.
=> He really perfectly fits into the whole Price of Power Idea. He can go very tall but requires set up (drawn in round 1, defender in round 1, luck or well top decked deck for the deploy, valuable target for the order boost)
=> Nevertheless, playing him is very risky and draw dependent. So I would think that he has huge MEME potential but would not expect him to be used in tournaments often.
=> Honestly I would prefer a small buff of this card (e.g. Adrenaline 4: Gain veil and 2 armour) and a nerf of the two new bronzes in return.