Make Greatswords less great

[Khreygond]

A few more hate cards:

MO - Miruna, Morvudd, Ice Troll (under biting frost), Drowner (not very reliable but can move Longships), Monster Nest since it can spawn Drowner, Cyclops, Parasite, Striga (lol), Nithral, Caranthir (move the Longship and keep its health lower than any Greatswords on the row), Imlerith, Imlerith: Sabbath if they're not running Mandrake

Neutral - Vaedamakar

NR - Vernon Roche, Sabrina Glevessig, Vandergrift's Blade, Seltkirk, Dethmold

ST - Elven Blade, Ida, Iorveth, Cleaver combo, buffed Swordmasters, Schirru

Making GS reset once every three turns means weather decks have more room to deal with them. Right now, you have to do 6 damage to an 8-strength GS over two turns to kill it (weather provides the other 2). With one reset / three turns, 4 points are enough, which opens up significantly more counters.



Probably never or you are busted anyway, since you must've used Longships in rounds 1/2 and they're out of Mandrake range; meanwhile opponents with graveyard hate will be taking your Greatswords, not ships.

I did not count average control options on purpose due to the copious amount of revivals, only hard control options, ones they cannot easily come back from. But if you do play with lesser control options, you certainly need more of them.

See, I don't really know how to make GS more vulnerable to weather without killing the deck. It's an insanely proactive deck, which means that contrary to most, its very vulnerable to other engines. Even reveal's mangonels can crush it if you set up more than one, because they won't have enough time to put many units on the board, so the mangonels will target the greatsword more frequently. Fire Scorpions can finish the job if they leave it standing, and Scorch abuse (Yen: Enchantress, Villen) can also crush them.

The way the balancing was done was probably accidental but somehow brilliant. It might have nerfed Alchemy, NG's only top tier deck, but now due to the prevalence of Greatswords and Consume, another deck became good again. Spies. Even Reveal is better than it was really. Scorch abuse is useful against nekkers as well.