Nilfgaard Archetypes
Nilfgaard is an interesting faction - the only to be added later than the beginning of Closed Beta, and that always seem to be involved in controversies and broken strategies in need of nerfing.
I've had a love-hate relationship with it ever since, with some of my favourite cards, but also certain decks i've always hated like spies (it's a personal thing), the NG knight buff deck and more recently, the alchemy deck (i loved until it was explored to become OP and it was/is everywhere!)
I think the faction offers a lot of archetypes, and so i decided to break down each archetype by the number of bronzes associated with it, to see how much CDPR "supports" it.
Note that i only used faction specific cards, since i think its more fair that way. For ex. Mahakam Ale is associated with Alchemy decks, but it isnt really a NG card, so it wasnt counted.
First of all, there are the 2 "official" archetypes of NG:
Spy - 9 bronzes
Reveal - 9 bronzes
No one complains that these archetypes are incomplete. They may be weak in certain metas in the past (or present), but they offer plenty of possibilities.
Then there are the "other" archetypes. Some of you might not agree with me that one or more of these is an archetype, but i think they deserved attention too:
Soldier/ Swarm - 7 bronzes
Alchemy - 3 bronzes
"Copycat"/ Mirror - 3 bronzes
Mill - 1 bronze
Its these numbers that deserve discussion, in my opinion.
Nilfgaard is an interesting faction - the only to be added later than the beginning of Closed Beta, and that always seem to be involved in controversies and broken strategies in need of nerfing.
I've had a love-hate relationship with it ever since, with some of my favourite cards, but also certain decks i've always hated like spies (it's a personal thing), the NG knight buff deck and more recently, the alchemy deck (i loved until it was explored to become OP and it was/is everywhere!)
I think the faction offers a lot of archetypes, and so i decided to break down each archetype by the number of bronzes associated with it, to see how much CDPR "supports" it.
Note that i only used faction specific cards, since i think its more fair that way. For ex. Mahakam Ale is associated with Alchemy decks, but it isnt really a NG card, so it wasnt counted.
First of all, there are the 2 "official" archetypes of NG:
Spy - 9 bronzes
Reveal - 9 bronzes
No one complains that these archetypes are incomplete. They may be weak in certain metas in the past (or present), but they offer plenty of possibilities.
Then there are the "other" archetypes. Some of you might not agree with me that one or more of these is an archetype, but i think they deserved attention too:
Soldier/ Swarm - 7 bronzes
Alchemy - 3 bronzes
"Copycat"/ Mirror - 3 bronzes
Mill - 1 bronze
Its these numbers that deserve discussion, in my opinion.