Recently CDPR tried to give a boost to Vampires, one of the most underplayed archetypes in MO which at some point seemed it was good in the past. The two cards released seemed powerful and fun, specially Unseen Elder, which got an extra-effect if you run a Devotion list. So MO cards where the first I crafted. I went with a Caparace list to put Unseen Elder and its copy (with Caranthir) out of removal range.
The deck was almost not bad at all. The problem showed when I queued into a Kelly deck. I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that this is a 100% lost game if you're running a devotion list. Not 99, it's an autolose if the Kelly player knows what he's doing. I mean, apart from getting quite a ton of removal and having almost no units or veiled units that gives 0 targets, when they drop defender+kelly there is nothing you can do apart from losing. Some could argue that you can add cards like Bruiser or Drowner to move Kelly, but these two cards are antisynergetic with a Vampire deck so you need to tech for just a few matchups which makes your deck really worst. Also, devotion removal like Parasite or Imlerith Wraith is insufficient to deal with these. The only chance is keeping your purify card for defender, then move Kelly. But anyway your getting no units from them to bleed, there are just no points.
Isnt that a bad design or just intended? I stopped playing Vampires same moment I was queued into such a binary match. I mean, I am ok with matches my list is not favoured, but come on, give a chance, that's just unwinnable.
Conclusion: Vampires really need better tools to defend these matchups, allowing some of the existing vampire card to move units and maybe getting better devotion removal options. It's totally normal that people are not playing them the way it is right now.
The deck was almost not bad at all. The problem showed when I queued into a Kelly deck. I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that this is a 100% lost game if you're running a devotion list. Not 99, it's an autolose if the Kelly player knows what he's doing. I mean, apart from getting quite a ton of removal and having almost no units or veiled units that gives 0 targets, when they drop defender+kelly there is nothing you can do apart from losing. Some could argue that you can add cards like Bruiser or Drowner to move Kelly, but these two cards are antisynergetic with a Vampire deck so you need to tech for just a few matchups which makes your deck really worst. Also, devotion removal like Parasite or Imlerith Wraith is insufficient to deal with these. The only chance is keeping your purify card for defender, then move Kelly. But anyway your getting no units from them to bleed, there are just no points.
Isnt that a bad design or just intended? I stopped playing Vampires same moment I was queued into such a binary match. I mean, I am ok with matches my list is not favoured, but come on, give a chance, that's just unwinnable.
Conclusion: Vampires really need better tools to defend these matchups, allowing some of the existing vampire card to move units and maybe getting better devotion removal options. It's totally normal that people are not playing them the way it is right now.
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