Way of the Witcher revealed!

[Markus_Wirth]

Yes, I thought the same think as soon as I saw the provision cost.

Given the limited ways to remove artifacts, I hope the new Scenarios (if the remaining cards are Scenarios!) are not too powerful.

At card ideas I thought about such scenario cards for WotW. Actually, I like the idea of having a positive effect at prologue a negative effect at Chapter 1 and a strong positive effect at Chapter 2. This would, to mind, make scenarios much more risky if they are removed after Chapter 1. All my suggestions below follow this logic. Would appreciate your feedback.

My idea for a neutral and SK scenario which would perfectly fit into the new WotW expansion.

Edit: Kaer Morhen: Chapter 1: Destroy an allied neutral witcher with the lowest body.

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[OneWhoCravesSouls]

Revealed by Garigari.

 

[Draconifors]

I wonder if the last 11 cards will all be revealed during Masters.
(11 because 15 were left this morning and one has been revealed since then, plus it's known that there will be 4 per day.)

 

[Markus_Wirth]

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A stronger Ofiri Merchant. Good idea. So you reduce the ramdomness of him.

 

[InkognitoXI]

Yes, however you'll need Luiza as well to pull that off as you'll have to pay the tribute twice.

Roland Bleinheim works as well.

 

[Gyg]

Viper Witcher Alchemist is interesting but whole combo with Poisoned Blades/Viper Witcher is a bit low tempo.

 

[rrc]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1334833300238635009

A very interesting card. You can literally swap a junk card with "whatever" your opponent has it as the top card. And if you want that to be of your choice, you have to play another low tempo card. Not sure how good is that. It has direct anti-synergy with Canteralla, right?

 

[InkognitoXI]

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It has direct anti-synergy with Canteralla, right?

I do not know about that one, both cards are almost doing the same.
That statement would imply that Cantarella has anti-synergy with Coup de Grace, given that the copy Coup de Grace spawns would do the same and thus compete for the target.
In the worst case of you wanting to do both you would just need to order them accordingly.

 

[Slizzl]

Revealed by Garigari.
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This is great to have. Having to rely on Ofiri would've been detrimental to the archetype.
I can already imagine a Viper Witcher Mentor+Operator deck where you place a big unit on top of your opponent's deck then just get enormous value if it's left there. Really looking forward to some proper deck manipulation with these.

 

[sfruzz]

At card ideas I thought about such scenario cards for WotW. Actually, I like the idea of having a positive effect at prologue a negative effect at Chapter 1 and a strong positive effect at Chapter 2. This would, to mind, make scenarios much more risky if they are removed after Chapter 1. All my suggestions below follow this logic. Would appreciate your feedback.

I like the idea of having cards with drawbacks and not just positive effects. Or even better effects that can have a positive or a negative effect based on the board state. Like Scorch! Sure, you can remove the tallest units of your opponent, but you can also kill your own units, if you play it at the wrong time.

For the custom card Haern Caduch, I think, here the negative effect is very small. Actually it can trigger Berserk. The Chapter 2 is very strong...

Haern Caduch; Chapter 1: damage an allied unit by 1. Repeat until target is damaged.
Haern Caduch; Chapter 2: damage an opponent unit by 1. Repeat until target is damaged.

 

[Markus_Wirth]

I like the idea of having cards with drawbacks and not just positive effects. Or even better effects that can have a positive or a negative effect based on the board state. Like Scorch! Sure, you can remove the tallest units of your opponent, but you can also kill your own units, if you play it at the wrong time.

For the custom card Haern Caduch, I think, here the negative effect is very small. Actually it can trigger Berserk. The Chapter 2 is very strong...

Haern Caduch; Chapter 1: damage an allied unit by 1. Repeat until target is damaged.
Haern Caduch; Chapter 2: damage an opponent unit by 1. Repeat until target is damaged.

Thanks for your feedback.
Haern Caduch is the weakest of my scenarios and should support the new "benefit from wounded units" archetype. This you can see at the provision costs.
Actually, it´s comparable to Morkvarg: Heart of Terror.

Maybe it should be reworked like this: Chapter 1: set the power of one allied unit to 1.
Then there would be way less synergies and more harm.

 

[Dark_Urizen]

A very interesting card. You can literally swap a junk card with "whatever" your opponent has it as the top card. And if you want that to be of your choice, you have to play another low tempo card. Not sure how good is that. It has direct anti-synergy with Canteralla, right?

In order to swap a yunk card you have to put junk cards in your deck, it doesn't seem like a winning deckbuilding tactic. I you can change a 10 provisions gold for a 4 bronze it will be funny, but it doesn't seems to have any consistency.

It's the second card this expansion, the other one is vyper, that NG gets that needs to be drawn in round 1 to release it's full potencial. That's fell quite terrible for me. Round 1 is the less consistent one, if you fill your decks with cards that are garbage in round 3 you will get plenty of game with terrible draws.

I appreciate that the devs have tried to pull out a new strategy, but my prediction is that it will be a total fail and will only see play for the memes. I hope I am wrong.

 

[OneWhoCravesSouls]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1334850839651999744

 

[Draconifors]

I hate those reveals that only have a video. Here's the actual card:

 

[rrc]

My question is, why not this is in ST and what is it doing in NR? Manipulating opponent's rows is what ST is all about in this expansion and just the deploy of that ability itself (with 3 power) would have been a perfect fit for ST.

 

[Markus_Wirth]

Griffin Witcher Ranger:
Can be at max a 10 for 5. Next round you can carry over that boost to arch griffin (as mentioned in the video)

Still not thinking that this will be a competitive strategy. If you are lucky and you have those two Griffin Ranger and Arch griffin in round 1 and your opponent builds a build row. Then you play your three cards and have at max 29 points (4 body Griffin Ranger, 21 on arch griffin(5+8+8)). Then your opponent uses tall removal or reset power and you only have 4 points in case of removal and 9 points in case of resetting power.

Speaking in provision: In best cases you used 20 provisions for at max 25 points. in worst cases these are 20 provisions for 4 points. And you must be lucky that your opponent uses a row stack strategy. The more other boosters you use on Arch griffin, the bigger the potential damage is.

Then in round 2/3 you still have the problem to play him again. You can use Pincer Maneuver, Oneiromancy, Royal Decree or Alzur's Double-Cross. What does this mean in terms of provisions/value?
Total value will be 25 (round 1) + 21 (Arch griffin round 2) =46. For the provisions you have to add at least the ones from Alzur´s Double Cross. So you spend 28 provisions for 46 points (more if you invest more boosts in Arch griffin).

The main drawbacks of this strategy is:
1) You really need the right cards at the right time
2) You are encouraged to invest all boosts in arch griffin. This is very risky.

Synergies: Arch griffin; Maybe you can use Vernon Roche and Sabrina Glevissig to enhance rows a bit; defender. As mentioned by betraymechino Kerack Gity Guard to move units to a row (but then no more boosts for Kerack City Guard)
Antisynergies: Destroying and big damage

 

[betraymechino]

My question is, why not this is in ST and what is it doing in NR? Manipulating opponent's rows is what ST is all about in this expansion and just the deploy of that ability itself (with 3 power) would have been a perfect fit for ST.

Well, NR also have Kerack City Guard, a card that movement ST would love to have, so I guess it fits that NR is getting this one, too

 

[Markus_Wirth]

My question is, why not this is in ST and what is it doing in NR? Manipulating opponent's rows is what ST is all about in this expansion and just the deploy of that ability itself (with 3 power) would have been a perfect fit for ST.

Yes, this whole archetype does not really synergize with NR. NR has no huge advantages of tall units (no dominance). NR has not as many opportunities to swarm the other boards with spies (NG) and rats (MO) to improve Griffin ranger. Ambitious assault can not tutor arch griffin.
From my perspective this is just a desperate attempt to improve Pincer Maneuver. Then they add 3 cards which are basically like a trap. Encourage the player to invest everything in one unit which will very likely be punished. This will not help to improve play rates and win rates of Pincer Maneuver.

Better would be following rework of Pincer Maneuver:
Order: Draw a Northern Realms card of your choice, then shuffle a card from your hand back into the deck. Then gain boost charges. The amount of boost charges will be 11 minus the provision costs of the tutored unit.

 

[OneWhoCravesSouls]

That Ranger also has a nice synergy with a almost forgotten NR Witcher Card called Mad Kiyan.

 

[Markus_Wirth]

Hm that Ranger opens up some nice synergy with the almost forgotten Witcher Card Mad Kiyan.

Mad Kiyan is a unit I never really understood. When you do damage you basically want to elliminate a dangerous opponent unit and this is punished via destruction (deathblow!) which basically costs 6 points. Of course you can "prepare" a destruction and make the final kill with units like Redanian Archer, but this appears to be very difficult.