New Cards Rundown

Having both blighted ravine and avalanche on 4 has always felt exceptionally awkward in Freijord and no amount of careful ratioing or tweaking solves the fundamental problem. The number of players that have felt comfortable just 1 drop, 2 drop spawn two bodies, jam a bunch a one drops on 3 and swing into this region is insane, and to be fair they were right to do so, because blighted wont land, and avalanche is a bad card. Well now you have ice shards for 2 that's amazing, and bam if it's late game destroy an equipment instead, instant 3 of for any ramp deck thank god.

Daybreak is already a really good grindy deck where you just play stuff until your opponent runs out of steam, and now they have another cheap tool, but to be fair I've never not seen leona level on 5 anyway, but I would probably drop the 4 mana life steal now, or the stealcorn.

Rumble is awesome, probably the most do something champ in LOR, and the added spellshield cuts down on interaction.

This provides a discard outlet that can also grant him elusive so he kinda does the husk nonsense now and that's great nobody is gonna say Rumble is op because it's not in pink region

Jhin buff which is nice he needed it, just more cheap skill procs all day long in case you whiff on annie 

Riots worried about TF being op but honestly this is fine, TF doesn't level in most top tier decks he's just a low commitment cycle play like Akshan, or Nami, or just anything that's top tier right now.

Very problematic, pantheon fiora, or akshan pantheon are already amazing deck, low commitment, low interaction, high value like all the best decks and now they can burst protect for 2 mana. I think they must have printed this before that deck got meta because yeah its bad news.

Pushing that old school TF casino deck, where you hyper draw fleeting cards to level TF in like 1 turn, and now it has a late game pay off.

This is less hey lets rotate TF and more hey lets actually level TF for a change like he's a gold rarity card.

Instant 3 of in bandle, big problem with why mayor or Nora don't see as much play is because it's just food for your opponents challenger.

Now if you drag you better get ready to trade when that owl with spellshield instantly turns into a 5/5

P and z control is suffering in the face of ionia, where stall and denying interaction is more valuable then removal, and dmg based removal worst of all.

Flock, disintigrate coming in at 1 and 2 mana being hard to beat in this regard.

So yes give them more junk absolutely

As a freijord main this card is very good. Because usually copy effects are fleeting this is not.

So you get your frostbite one turn, and then get it the next this is awesome I would run 3 of this with 3 of three sisters.

more p and z control tools great.

If you jam catalyzer this will do 4 for 2 that's almost as good as flock without the dmg requirement but you need the equipment still good card.

remember when striking was a thing and you didn't just pressure your opponent with do nothing plays that forced interaction as a means of draining resources but legitimately represented a tug of war between players and wincons...yeah neither do I.

Basically pink region exists, so spending 5 mana to give your combat cook overwhelm only for your five drop to get bounced and your combat cook to get blocked by a low value card that also gets bounced and replayed means you already lost.

That being said in a perfect world this card would be great and useful

Like you can play him with targon and protec your swings and he can attac

but again pantheon already kinda does that and is in the right regoin

It could be that Varus represents better one shot potential that you can guarantee a swing win with enough tools to deny interaction again mostly in targon, or ionia. 

The non removal based regions because at the end of the day denying interaction is better then interacting, and not doing anything is better then doing thing as the game plays currently at higher levels.

So overall yeah freijord got two good cards, and p and z got 2, and bandle got 2

On the boo side both Bilgewater and Targon got 2 good cards.

The Unforgiving Cold activates twice at once if you equipped this game. it's effectively Harsh Winds that triggers spell effects twice which is still a really nice deal for 4 mana

Oh well that significantly worse. Typically you just want to frostbite one thing and then you lose the game because you chose to play a control region with 0 good card advantage tools.

Anyways speaking of good control regions let's look at more amazing pink region cards:

Unworthy soul - hey you know what would be good guys a will of Ionia for 3 mana that destroyed equipment and attached champions like kitty...yeah Riot that would be pretty good it would just be broken.

The witness: Hey guys let's print stun spider for 2 mana in Ionia as a 3/3  won't that be good?

Like the biggest problem in LOR right now at a competitive level is that swinging with potential wincons is impossible without spell shield period full stop, and they just keep doubling down on this at Riot.

Now you may say Nifty frejord has frostbite, yes but now imagine carefully that if instead of spending 3 mana to (remove) a card from the (game) you just kinda tickeled it so it kinda didn't want to attack anymore.

That would be kinda terrible right?

More variety reveals but mostly wamt to talk about Taylor Swift and her champ spell.

2 for 2 at fast speed is already okay 2 on one target and 1 on a second target is an amazing effect to double up on.

Essentially 6 dmg across two bodies for two mana, imagine if freijord got spells that good because honestly this will remake p and z control and ezreal by extension.

So yeah Seraphine amazing card, amazing champ spell that you actually want to 3 of in deckbuilding even without her.

Still sad Frijord remains the worst control region in the game by a growing margin.

Kinda interested in Seraphine. I'm not sure she'll be THAT stronk since her mechanic mean that she'll double each 2- spell only once (so her own spell will be boosted only once, nevertheless quite a decent card) and also because random generator isn't exactly a compelling mechanic unless you can have a 3-choice because so many spells are based on a specific playstyle. Still it's hard to ask more from such a premium body low cost card.

Not a game winner, but definitely a potent addition to any spell based card which want huge value at the price of consistency. I can very much imagine a Lee Sin/Seraphine deck when you deal with early game with cheap spells and bodies and finish with Lee with more cheap spell to easily trigger his effect. And well Ionia love Cascade.

And yeah The Expanse's Protection already need a nerf before release. So much of design space and needing a so called Rotation format.