I do not think there is any other exception to the rule that transformed cards maintain provisions, so I assume that is an oversight.
Yes Dragoon would work. Malena is too important to play to feed Saber. But I am not sure if I will add Dragoon to my GT deck.GT works for that, yes, but since you're not doing it in the same turn, why use GT at that point when you can just dragoon or Malena or MAKE A JOKE?
Speaking of jokes, I just looked and the beast is listed as 9p card, while the artiface is listed as a 10p card on the site lol
. But in fact, I might add Make a Joke just as a filler special. In fact, What the Bomb may find its place just because of Saber. Interesting thought.. I never cared or thought about Make a Crap until now, until after you mentioned!Makes sense. At 10P this would have been a total garbage.
At 9, it is a decent card. My very first thought was, this is a great card. But slowly realised that it is just going to get a 9 or 11 max. Which is decent. But not Fantastic.
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Makes sense. At 10P this would have been a total garbage.
I guess there is always removal and Cahir is also a thing, so at the very least this is not global, usually a good body and decks hurt massively by it can answer it. Maybe this is less binary and boring than I initially thought.
Not really, since it also affects its own row.
I like it. At least it also shuts down many decks that basically play solitaire.
Decks focused on it would not include cards that do that, also there are version of that ability in other card games that apply to both players.
That is one matchup and to my knowledge there are no Row locked boosting cards those SK decks would run.
8 is actually not THAT hard to kill, especially if the matchups hurt by this keep it in mind and do not mindlessly throw away their answers to big cards, like Rockslide, Anseis, CoC, Seltkirk, Heatwave, Triangle (if it sees play) etc.
I would assume not, given that Heal is a different mechanic and does not include boost as a submechanic it includes, which should also be clear from the fact that boost synergetic cards do not trigger from heal.
An NG card got stranded in the Skellige Isles.
Actually, intervening with opponent strategy is basically a NG stuff.
You cannot know what people will play, and the latter is not what you originally said.
Note I said especially. Besides, every faction has more than once deck and it's not hard to put in a single tech. A movement tech, for example.
Which is why I said somewhat. I'm aware of cards that can remove 8 or more.
So, basically a proactive Yrden for 9 Provisions and 8 strength.. why am I not surprised it is in SK. For MO, NR, SY and some ST this is a Yrden. For for decks which doesn't concentrate on boosting, this helps in keeping the Blood Thirst to a HUGE value as you can't boost them to be not in red. Such a multi-purpose, can-shut-down-decks-single-handedly card is just 9P with 8 body? Why the hell is any card having 8 body? Isn't all should-be-tough-to-kill cards at 7 strength? Yes, the answer lies with its color. Purple.
Well with Kambi ( OB Version even more than the current one, also happy that OB Kambi finally kind of returned with the Syanna Luiza and Salamander combo) and Artis SK already had some tools to mess with the opponent's plan so it isn't exactly something out of the ordinary and Skellige also has the most functioning Archetypes that don't really rely on boosts, so it makes totally sense that they get a Card like this.
I could have been more precise, these cards I was refering to are almost always just tools in aggro decks, so those decks hardly ever care about the cost. That was at the very least the initial association. Luckily Gwent has nothing as toxic as aggro decks so the comparison is not perfect.
Ok, that would support the binary aspect though, being extremely good against some and extremely bad against others.
Actually that was mostly a response to my initial post of it possibly being problematic (which I reworked, since in hindsight I reevaluated the card completely and changed my mind on it), which is why I responded by stating that decks hurt by it cannot really use the excuse that it would be too difficult to remove, which contradicts my initial point.
It is really not though, given that Yrden maximizes value by the opponent not knowing it is there until it is too late, while this card immediately reveals itself and as such the opponent will take the alternative options or focus on another row, if they do not straight up just answer it.
It cannot shut down entire matchups though, because a) you can answer it before it counters you (unlike Yrden), b) it only applies to 1 row and c) it has no surprise value (unlike Yrden).
Fully agreed. Very significant differences when you compare this to Yrden (which is mostly an unexpected Ice Bucket Challenge out of nowhere, with zero chance for any reactive plays).
You see, I find this a most common issue in case of these card reveals: most players tend to immediately dig up the worst possible scenarios that can ever happen in a match with said card, and take that as the baseline for any discussions afterwards (see Sukrus+Arnaghad interaction, almost as if the two cards would hit the floor simultaneusly with no chance to react).
Among the three, Vypper seems very bad to me as it has a lot of potential downsides. It shouldn't be killed, it shouldn't be locked and you need to build around Vypper so that it returns in R3.. it is pretty useless if not drawn in R1 and can be shut down by factions which needs their GY support. Ideally Vyyper should have been 8 points since it has so many disadvantages.
Would not say that MO is mostly hit. Ok, thrive will get more complicated for them as the bear can basically block a row, but MO strategies focusing on thrive have ever been vulnerable to Yrden to a certain extent.
