Since the buff, NR has become very strong, however, I feel like they are no longer unique at what they do anymore
NR was all about keeping their engine alive, and get snow balling if they success, if not, they lose horribly
But now, with damage units nerfed and NR bronze units buffed, keeping engines survive is no longer a problem, but the problem is, NR is not a slow paced faction anymore, they bronzed are quite identical with NG tactic machines and SC elf/dwarf bronzes (sword dancer and crossbow), and their "snow ball" gold cards, like John Natalis, Foltest Pride etc, are gutted (on side note the SC snow ball Anglais remained)
There is just no countering to NR especially Foltest anymore, their major play (blue stripe summon, Pavetta, Dragur) require almost no set up and their engines are garanteed to survive because the only way to get close to killing them is to use the bronze neutral bombs, and using those prevent you get a body on board therefore you can't set up your engines
Honestly with this change I feel like most everybody is basically building their own board now, the interactions are quite limited because control is too underpowered (except high provision neutral ones like Geralt, due to the menacing NR buff deck and DJ townfolk both being tier1)
NR was all about keeping their engine alive, and get snow balling if they success, if not, they lose horribly
But now, with damage units nerfed and NR bronze units buffed, keeping engines survive is no longer a problem, but the problem is, NR is not a slow paced faction anymore, they bronzed are quite identical with NG tactic machines and SC elf/dwarf bronzes (sword dancer and crossbow), and their "snow ball" gold cards, like John Natalis, Foltest Pride etc, are gutted (on side note the SC snow ball Anglais remained)
There is just no countering to NR especially Foltest anymore, their major play (blue stripe summon, Pavetta, Dragur) require almost no set up and their engines are garanteed to survive because the only way to get close to killing them is to use the bronze neutral bombs, and using those prevent you get a body on board therefore you can't set up your engines
Honestly with this change I feel like most everybody is basically building their own board now, the interactions are quite limited because control is too underpowered (except high provision neutral ones like Geralt, due to the menacing NR buff deck and DJ townfolk both being tier1)