Obviously Jax's Origins gonna be something like Kayn's Cultists, but did u notice? They're both no-Bandle double region units! Now i want them to update Senna to be Shadow Isles/Demacia, please, i need her with her husband.
By the cards, both r cute, low cost things of a new mechanic, generally being the best in the archetype or the good fodder for the deck, the double-regions are weird but cool, Fireth has sense being epheremal who is a thing in both regions lets say, and the hookmaster is good lore, daughter of a noxian invader and a ionian fisherman? Love that (?
Im so excited about this! TCGO in phones, when it worked, was very shitty, and now this, with a VERTICAL mode (who makes all sense in a Pokemon TCG game) in phone is great! With this and YGO Master Duel all the big three has a true digital platform, who is great! They getting rid of Legacy is very sad, but idk, i suppose some day... *wink wink*
In the morning (here in Argentina) when the announcement was made, i telled my little brother about this (His favorite card game is Pokemon) and he was very excited too!
Isn't just really dumb for Blizzard to put a preorder on a card game who nobody never played except them, then publishing the price of the individual packs? like Flux sayed, is really weird how bad Blizzard is making announcements, and i not say it in a pejorative way, her me out, only it confuses me, and then makes me sad, idk. Btw, out of all the sh!t who Mercenaries (including the announcements, the prices, the bundles, etc.), the game mode/game (cuz is just a so much different game to HS, overpassing the BG to the moon) seems pretty fun, so that i may think reinstalling Hearthstone and play some Spell Hunter in wild waiting for the Mercenaries in October.
Also, im so into it, that im studiying the Mercenaries game mechanics/engine and balancing my own take on the game, im making it D&D themed so its going to have, instead of characters, Classes, and each class is going to have a spells equipped and passives and magic items and all of that weird stuff.
I just gonna ignore all and try to make a physical version of this game. I tried with Hearthstone and it ended very well, and this seems very physical-friendly so am gonna try.
Edit 3/9/21: I have a playable demo! I made Rokara, Xyrella, Milhouse and Cariel!
Now talking seriously, out of memes, lets recap the "nerfs", who for some cards are mere needed balances.
That's exactly what a nerf is supposed to do, bring overpowered cards into a balanced stat.
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Merciless Hunter: The nerf affects it? nope, it stills being a 3 mana 4 damage beatstick with better challenger and fearsome. The possibility of being worse is true, but only for people who think in trading with it. The true solution for me is that she and arda cast a Bounty HunterBADCARDNAME-like effect or destroying it. (making she 5/6 mana or making she a 2/3.) Also, is part of the everlasting-multiple Shurima engine who makes it the best region.
Yes the nerf does affect it. Now the card dies to more removal cards like Mystic Shot, Darkness, Fleetfeather Tracker, Laurent Protege, Avalanche, Blighted Ravine and can no longer trade favorably into some champion like Fizz, Akhsan or TF. Is the card still good? Yes but now more deck can deal with it in a cost efficient way.
Your just saying that Shaped Stone is now better than a garbage combat trick that nobody used in the first place.
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Flurry of Fists: I know that is in much lists of decks but i don't see this card anywhere playing. So idk, i like the card and i think is strong having the possibility to make ANY quick attacker into a doble attacker, but for 4 mana… and having his first effect being a strong but weird and now expensive combat trick…
It was part of a stupid OTK that involve giving Sivir elusive with Ghost and double attack with Flurry of Fists plus some other combat tricks. For most decks the OTK was impossible to interact with due to both spellshield and elusive, you can see it here starting from the 20:00 mark.
Take it easy man, it was my take and recap of the nerfs, not saying that is mY oPiNiOn but it is, you don't need to recap all i said, be gentle daddy. So, you have all the reason, simply. Its true that Merciless Hunter now is more vulnerable to 10 thousand sh!ts (who is good!) but i think still a exaggeratedly/broken card, simply that. Over the other cards, what i said about Shaped Stone is that stills a good card, that's why i compare it to the sh!t of card that is Radiant Strike. I've seen and playing vs. Sivirs, but never with Flurry of Fists, that thing is nasty man.
And i know what is a nerf, im from the time where "nerf" meaned DESTROY OLAF AND MAKE IT UNPLAYABLE, so must than nerf, for me is better calling it Balance, i associate the "nerf" word with something more violent, thats why i say it like that.
You clearly have a point, but Merciless Hunter being a 4/2 is still very very good. Chum the Waters is a interesting case of being basically the same effect but having a little tweak (1 mana of cost and being in another region) makes a very different card in the meta.
Now talking seriously, out of memes, lets recap the "nerfs", who for some cards are mere needed balances.
Merciless Hunter: The nerf affects it? nope, it stills being a 3 mana 4 damage beatstick with better challenger and fearsome. The possibility of being worse is true, but only for people who think in trading with it. The true solution for me is that she and arda cast a Bounty HunterBADCARDNAME-like effect or destroying it. (making she 5/6 mana or making she a 2/3.) Also, is part of the everlasting-multiple Shurima engine who makes it the best region.
Flawless Duet: At least a nerf to Blade Dance (F*ck You Blade Dance) and all that archetype who ended being very strong. Now having other problems (the new Elusives decks who play to Rally / Nami) it may down in the metalist, but idk, i like the nerf, they can't nerf the spellspeed for the form of how Blade Dance works (F*ck You Blade Dance) so... i think the cost is the best form of nerfing it?
Ruin Runner: This is like the Merciless Hunter nerf but more important. Now Ruin Runner can't survive the trades of his turns (at least you make some unit A GIFT FOR RENEKTON, RIGHT ARDA? and you have the luck of your opponent having a 2 or less attack unit and no combat tricks in hand.), thing who is important, cuz you want to hit with she at least two times and if shit is good, win-blocking one time.
Flurry of Fists: I know that is in much lists of decks but i don't see this card anywhere playing. So idk, i like the card and i think is strong having the possibility to make ANY quick attacker into a doble attacker, but for 4 mana... and having his first effect being a strong but weird and now expensive combat trick...
In a fight, who wins, the virgin Puffcap Pup, or the chad, malvinas and vietnam-veteran, war hero, the Gunner Pup?
Its good that in the roadmap theres so much rewards being Epic cards, being the most niche rarity being very bad or FUCK!NG necessary, is very pleasing to see more free Epics. I was crying cuz i dont get the free 3 Kadregrin the Ruined last event, i was 3 pieces short, and he is Rare, imagine losing an Epic... by the way, that card is not example of a ultra necessary card, lol
Just upload it on Imgur then paste the link or use the "Insert/edit image" function, putting the link in the source. I think that may work? So good that you already figured out how to use Taric and Poppy to some extent, they're both so cool but weird champions.
Well refined Poppy decks are gonna pop, Poppy isn't the best champion of the expansion, but have so much potencial in general, so the decks are gonna be late, but im sure they're gonna be at least Tier 2. Poppy is a very interesting form of the classic zoo/aggro beatdown classic archtype of a card game!
Truly i dont know what to build, from all, Darkness Control its what give me the hype to this day, but idk. Sion seems to be the most easy and cheap to build and play! i say it cuz i dont have many wildcards or shards, i barely have to make 3 champions i think, then some epic, rare and common wildcards, i can't play so much cuz of my work, but anytime i can, i play from the phone, who saves my runaterra play experience!
Thanks! English is not my mother language btw, so the compliment is x2 to me. The "writing style thing" i think is just my argentinian over-the-top style of talking translated to english i suppose.
Why even bother giving Targon and Ionia a single card lol. Just seems weird.
Loping Telescope is also Targon, so Targon 2, Ionia 1, Targon being better than Ionia in something, im impressed. (And technically, Hungry Owlcat is Ionia/Bandle City, but it doesn't count, is a token (?)
Veigar don't have any connection with Shadow Isles either nor does Teemo with P&Z or Lulu with Ionia. They are probably just gonna add a line or two in their flavor text to justify their presence in said region.
Veigar has the connection of being tortured by Mordekaiser for years at least, who made him mAd & eViLLLL, Teemo is easily connected to PNZ because the shrooms, and Lulu can be in Ionia, cuz she enter a magical forest in his lore, who can easily be in Jonia. Ziggs doesn't have a thing to in Shurima. Only bombtesting, who they made he do, so...
Veigar : So what if he was tortured and became evil ( well as evil as Yordle can get ), you don't belong in Shadow Isles because you are evil, you need to have so connection to the black mist.
Teeno: Teemo puffcaps growing in P&Z was only added in Legends of Runterra.
Lulu: The magical forest is not Ionia it's the Glade, it's a middle area between Bandle City and the rest of Runeterra
Teemo: Makes perfect sense growing the shrooms on PNZ, its the home of fellow yordles and the home of the science, and the fuck!ng exploding mushrooms probably come from the Runaterra version of Monsanto, would probably be in PNZ. (More of this at the end)
Veigar: Is not a need to be a Mistwraith to live in the Isles. Is a very powerful place magically talking, and you skipped the part of Mordekaiser torturing Veigar, and yes, Mordekaiser tecnically is a part of the pre-noxian folk (The Noxii) who live were now is Noxus (and being real, Veigar was imprisoned in the Immortal Bastion, and lived with the Noxii, so he can be easily a BC/Noxus) but he has a VERY strong conecction to the Isles, so i dont mind he being secondary from SI. Also, Veigar is constantly portrayed as the meme supervillain, so were you're gonna put it?
Lulu: You got me in there, the Glade is an ambigous place, but knowing that Ionia is the most-magical-zone you can stretch it and can be accurate to connect the dots and the Glade to Ionia.
Also, i thinked in the day and Riot with Ziggs demonstrated that the Regions really doesn't matter at all to them, they wanted Ziggs to have some landmark-destruction thing (who is very flavorful), so they made him Shurima, cuz Shurima is the landmark region and PNZ dont have landmark sinergy, and they justified it with all the desert bombtesting thing, who is neat, they did the same with Teemo and the shrooms connecting he with PNZ, and also with Lulu, putting all the fae-like things in Ionia. The real problem with multiregion cards is why Riot decided to make them only Bandle City exclusive, cuz much cards have potential to be double region and make neat interactions (For example, Senna being Demacia/SI, they would be funny and flavorful)
I don't know the lore for Ziggs but is there a cause for him being tied to Shurima from a lore perspective? I would have thought he'd be P&Z or something. I mean if there is a reason for it then that's fine but otherwise if they needed a champ for Shurima/BC I feel it would've been better to make an entirely original one.
Absolutely zero things who make Ziggs in Shurima logical. Ziggs may be in PNZ, literally he works with Heimerdinger. In LOR, they established Shurima as a safeplace for the yordles to make bomb testing i think, so is only for that, thing that to me, a lore fanatic and enthusiastic to the level of being barely and expert, makes me angry. And they dont have to make an original yordle for Shurima/Bandle, they got Amumu, who is confirmed to be a yordle, they got Rumble, who in a Universe story is in Shurima and in canon doesn't have a second region (He only lives in Bandle) and having the scrapyard mech + desert they could make a mad-max reference theme (Rumble also have's a skin of that!) and also, if they were insane, they could make Kled, being Noxus/Shurima, being Shurima for being conquering the newest Noxian lands! Ziggs is only Shurima by game needs, who makes me sad.
Amumu is not confirmed to be a Yordle, in the lore no one know his true origin, some Shuriman believe that he was a prince from the first imperial family while other think that he was a Yordle.
The Amumu lore is like the Fiddlesticks one, he is a like a folk-legend in Shurima, they're plenty histories and one is he being a yordle, also is very unlikely that having a race of little people they want to have Amumu being a dead child, it was the first idea and its a thing that only League have, but not making Amumu a yordle will be a very missed hit. I know for sure you seed the yordle-Amumu fan reworks, they're amazing, but i falls on being fan speculation like all what i said, but it will be very clever making him a yordle, idk, in my mind works. Also, something i dont said up, the effects on Ziggs are so "simple" that Amumu or Rumble can be him making his effect the Amumu bandage toss or the double taser for Rumble. Sorry if my english is bad.
Veigar don't have any connection with Shadow Isles either nor does Teemo with P&Z or Lulu with Ionia. They are probably just gonna add a line or two in their flavor text to justify their presence in said region.
Veigar has the connection of being tortured by Mordekaiser for years at least, who made him mAd & eViLLLL, Teemo is easily connected to PNZ because the shrooms, and Lulu can be in Ionia, cuz she enter a magical forest in his lore, who can easily be in Jonia. Ziggs doesn't have a thing to in Shurima. Only bombtesting, who they made he do, so...
Obviously Jax's Origins gonna be something like Kayn's Cultists, but did u notice? They're both no-Bandle double region units! Now i want them to update Senna to be Shadow Isles/Demacia, please, i need her with her husband.
By the cards, both r cute, low cost things of a new mechanic, generally being the best in the archetype or the good fodder for the deck, the double-regions are weird but cool, Fireth has sense being epheremal who is a thing in both regions lets say, and the hookmaster is good lore, daughter of a noxian invader and a ionian fisherman? Love that (?
Deep dive? Deep support confirmed?!
"Bog" is also in the wordsearch and i thinked it was in the list...
Im so excited about this! TCGO in phones, when it worked, was very shitty, and now this, with a VERTICAL mode (who makes all sense in a Pokemon TCG game) in phone is great! With this and YGO Master Duel all the big three has a true digital platform, who is great! They getting rid of Legacy is very sad, but idk, i suppose some day... *wink wink*
In the morning (here in Argentina) when the announcement was made, i telled my little brother about this (His favorite card game is Pokemon) and he was very excited too!
Isn't just really dumb for Blizzard to put a preorder on a card game who nobody never played except them, then publishing the price of the individual packs? like Flux sayed, is really weird how bad Blizzard is making announcements, and i not say it in a pejorative way, her me out, only it confuses me, and then makes me sad, idk. Btw, out of all the sh!t who Mercenaries (including the announcements, the prices, the bundles, etc.), the game mode/game (cuz is just a so much different game to HS, overpassing the BG to the moon) seems pretty fun, so that i may think reinstalling Hearthstone and play some Spell Hunter in wild waiting for the Mercenaries in October.
Also, im so into it, that im studiying the Mercenaries game mechanics/engine and balancing my own take on the game, im making it D&D themed so its going to have, instead of characters, Classes, and each class is going to have a spells equipped and passives and magic items and all of that weird stuff.
I just gonna ignore all and try to make a physical version of this game. I tried with Hearthstone and it ended very well, and this seems very physical-friendly so am gonna try.
Edit 3/9/21: I have a playable demo! I made Rokara, Xyrella, Milhouse and Cariel!
Take it easy man, it was my take and recap of the nerfs, not saying that is mY oPiNiOn but it is, you don't need to recap all i said, be gentle daddy. So, you have all the reason, simply. Its true that Merciless Hunter now is more vulnerable to 10 thousand sh!ts (who is good!) but i think still a exaggeratedly/broken card, simply that. Over the other cards, what i said about Shaped Stone is that stills a good card, that's why i compare it to the sh!t of card that is Radiant Strike. I've seen and playing vs. Sivirs, but never with Flurry of Fists, that thing is nasty man.
And i know what is a nerf, im from the time where "nerf" meaned DESTROY OLAF AND MAKE IT UNPLAYABLE, so must than nerf, for me is better calling it Balance, i associate the "nerf" word with something more violent, thats why i say it like that.
You clearly have a point, but Merciless Hunter being a 4/2 is still very very good. Chum the Waters is a interesting case of being basically the same effect but having a little tweak (1 mana of cost and being in another region) makes a very different card in the meta.
Now talking seriously, out of memes, lets recap the "nerfs", who for some cards are mere needed balances.
Merciless Hunter: The nerf affects it? nope, it stills being a 3 mana 4 damage beatstick with better challenger and fearsome. The possibility of being worse is true, but only for people who think in trading with it. The true solution for me is that she and arda cast a Bounty HunterBADCARDNAME-like effect or destroying it. (making she 5/6 mana or making she a 2/3.) Also, is part of the everlasting-multiple Shurima engine who makes it the best region.
Flawless Duet: At least a nerf to Blade Dance (F*ck You Blade Dance) and all that archetype who ended being very strong. Now having other problems (the new Elusives decks who play to Rally / Nami) it may down in the metalist, but idk, i like the nerf, they can't nerf the spellspeed for the form of how Blade Dance works (F*ck You Blade Dance) so... i think the cost is the best form of nerfing it?
Ruin Runner: This is like the Merciless Hunter nerf but more important. Now Ruin Runner can't survive the trades of his turns (at least you make some unit A GIFT FOR RENEKTON, RIGHT ARDA? and you have the luck of your opponent having a 2 or less attack unit and no combat tricks in hand.), thing who is important, cuz you want to hit with she at least two times and if shit is good, win-blocking one time.
Shaped Stone: Still a better Radiant Strike in a better region. Next!
Flurry of Fists: I know that is in much lists of decks but i don't see this card anywhere playing. So idk, i like the card and i think is strong having the possibility to make ANY quick attacker into a doble attacker, but for 4 mana... and having his first effect being a strong but weird and now expensive combat trick...
-1 Health is nothing, just is going to continue with this...
25/8/2021: Day one of Bandlewood, i played four games, all vs Darkness decks. They destroyed my ass.
In a fight, who wins, the virgin Puffcap Pup, or the chad, malvinas and vietnam-veteran, war hero, the Gunner Pup?
Its good that in the roadmap theres so much rewards being Epic cards, being the most niche rarity being very bad or FUCK!NG necessary, is very pleasing to see more free Epics. I was crying cuz i dont get the free 3 Kadregrin the Ruined last event, i was 3 pieces short, and he is Rare, imagine losing an Epic... by the way, that card is not example of a ultra necessary card, lol
Also the Wowza! emote is perfect.
Just upload it on Imgur then paste the link or use the "Insert/edit image" function, putting the link in the source. I think that may work? So good that you already figured out how to use Taric and Poppy to some extent, they're both so cool but weird champions.
Well refined Poppy decks are gonna pop, Poppy isn't the best champion of the expansion, but have so much potencial in general, so the decks are gonna be late, but im sure they're gonna be at least Tier 2. Poppy is a very interesting form of the classic zoo/aggro beatdown classic archtype of a card game!
Truly i dont know what to build, from all, Darkness Control its what give me the hype to this day, but idk. Sion seems to be the most easy and cheap to build and play! i say it cuz i dont have many wildcards or shards, i barely have to make 3 champions i think, then some epic, rare and common wildcards, i can't play so much cuz of my work, but anytime i can, i play from the phone, who saves my runaterra play experience!
Thanks! English is not my mother language btw, so the compliment is x2 to me. The "writing style thing" i think is just my argentinian over-the-top style of talking translated to english i suppose.
Loping Telescope is also Targon, so Targon 2, Ionia 1, Targon being better than Ionia in something, im impressed. (And technically, Hungry Owlcat is Ionia/Bandle City, but it doesn't count, is a token (?)
Teemo: Makes perfect sense growing the shrooms on PNZ, its the home of fellow yordles and the home of the science, and the fuck!ng exploding mushrooms probably come from the Runaterra version of Monsanto, would probably be in PNZ. (More of this at the end)
Veigar: Is not a need to be a Mistwraith to live in the Isles. Is a very powerful place magically talking, and you skipped the part of Mordekaiser torturing Veigar, and yes, Mordekaiser tecnically is a part of the pre-noxian folk (The Noxii) who live were now is Noxus (and being real, Veigar was imprisoned in the Immortal Bastion, and lived with the Noxii, so he can be easily a BC/Noxus) but he has a VERY strong conecction to the Isles, so i dont mind he being secondary from SI. Also, Veigar is constantly portrayed as the meme supervillain, so were you're gonna put it?
Lulu: You got me in there, the Glade is an ambigous place, but knowing that Ionia is the most-magical-zone you can stretch it and can be accurate to connect the dots and the Glade to Ionia.
Also, i thinked in the day and Riot with Ziggs demonstrated that the Regions really doesn't matter at all to them, they wanted Ziggs to have some landmark-destruction thing (who is very flavorful), so they made him Shurima, cuz Shurima is the landmark region and PNZ dont have landmark sinergy, and they justified it with all the desert bombtesting thing, who is neat, they did the same with Teemo and the shrooms connecting he with PNZ, and also with Lulu, putting all the fae-like things in Ionia. The real problem with multiregion cards is why Riot decided to make them only Bandle City exclusive, cuz much cards have potential to be double region and make neat interactions (For example, Senna being Demacia/SI, they would be funny and flavorful)
The Amumu lore is like the Fiddlesticks one, he is a like a folk-legend in Shurima, they're plenty histories and one is he being a yordle, also is very unlikely that having a race of little people they want to have Amumu being a dead child, it was the first idea and its a thing that only League have, but not making Amumu a yordle will be a very missed hit. I know for sure you seed the yordle-Amumu fan reworks, they're amazing, but i falls on being fan speculation like all what i said, but it will be very clever making him a yordle, idk, in my mind works. Also, something i dont said up, the effects on Ziggs are so "simple" that Amumu or Rumble can be him making his effect the Amumu bandage toss or the double taser for Rumble. Sorry if my english is bad.
Veigar has the connection of being tortured by Mordekaiser for years at least, who made him mAd & eViLLLL, Teemo is easily connected to PNZ because the shrooms, and Lulu can be in Ionia, cuz she enter a magical forest in his lore, who can easily be in Jonia. Ziggs doesn't have a thing to in Shurima. Only bombtesting, who they made he do, so...