Also… they gave an actual reason that makes sense for why they haven’t been doing the normal balance updates? Cause of the work on the champion expansion
Here’s hoping the low quality of recent patches is just because of the work on the champion expansion like they said and not their design philosophy moving forward
For my champ proposals, dimentio from super paper Mario or shovel knight from shovel knight would be nice, or if you aren’t familiar with either of those it’d be cool to see a champ that synergizes with shuffling cards into your deck
Was 8-18 in three days of being in gold. About 8 or 9 of those losses came from Az / Ire. made a Az / Ire deck today I’m 7-2 do you think I got that much better over night?
HEY RIOT YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO ELDER SCROLLS LEGENDS AFTER THE OBLIVION PATCH............ yah they merced their own game.
playing Az / Ire isn’t fun to me but I’ll ride this dumb shit to plat if it will help them convince to nerf this crap. I
Yeah but that applied to almost every other meta deck in runeterra. There’s a reason why they are the meta deck lol
This is really cool, but I noticed a small missed opportunity in the time traveler/warlock dual class cards, you could’ve had an effect where you discard a card than add an exact copy to your hand, for both quick time and discard synergy
Zola the Gorgon seems a little too powerful, simply because if you get two of them you now get infinite gold minions, and you can keep getting the “Discover a 6th tier minion.
I really don’t understand the problem, your problem seems to be it... gets used in a variety of decks over the lifespan of the game? You named 3 absolutely unique decks, and 3 of the decks were similar but still different. How is that worse than a card showing up in exactly 1 meta deck patch after patch
The reason the min sets haven’t worked that well so far is that they haven’t designed the expansions around mini sets, they designed all the cards and than changed how release schedule would work, which meant some archetypes were designed in a way that leave them feeling broken until all the cards come out. However it is likely that the next expansions will be designed around it and will be much smoother
I feel like casual already fills this niche? You can play whatever you want on casuals since wins and losses don’t actually matter. You could argue people ruin it by only playing meta decks but the exact same thing could happen here. Except unlike casual mode, you might be forced to play a meta deck, which is the opposite of what you want from designing this game mode
Finally, a reason to run a full on Freijord stall/control deck
Finally a reason midrange players to drop the region entirely you mean ^^
Why would you stop playing a deck type because cards were added to the region that didn’t support that archetype? It’d be like if I stopped playing sea monsters because other bildgewater and shadow isles archetypes got supported
Ok, question regarding Amalgams: does Whatley search first for minions that are just one type, then look for amalgams? Or does he just grab one of each, meaning you could draw fewer cards if, say for example, you only have one pirate in your deck and he draws an amalgam instead?
That level up requirement is so steep, 10 cards with different name as I'VE SEEN? and I thought TF was hard to level..
level one she is like a Teemo.. yes, creating a Behold the Infinite (restricted to 3 or less) is probably much better than planting shrooms but Teemo doesn't see much play cause there are too many 1 damage pings in the meta too..
I think she is awful cause of that 1 hp.. you need to have freljord and an elixir of hand at all times or something to be able to protect her..
the reward for doing so is probably winning the game? you need varied keywords too.
I think you need to jump over too many hoops to level her, she also seems to be tied to Viktor.. at least on her level up requirement.
Not necessarily. I can see her working in mono Targon invoke, p&z heimerdinger or Viktor, or bildgewater TF. Of course I’m bad at knowing how the meta works so I’m probably wron
I always give Live Design the benefit of the doubt -- they do fantastic work -- but I'm really scratching my head how this can be a 3 mana slow speed spell in a world were RubinZoo thinks Ravenous Flock is well balanced at 1 mana fast speed.
Is one of Targon weaknesses removal? That’s all Ive got for reasons they might consider it balanced
Man I really hope that that Riven won't depend on recall to work, Noxus ( or any other region that isn't Ionia for the matter) doesn't have any recall cards, which mean that Riven would unplayable outside of a Noxus/Ionia deck.
I bet they could make her synergistic with recall just by giving her a powerful play effect
I dislike how Riot makes keywords like Deep and Augment so limited instead of making them like Plunder or Nightfall. For example, this card could be Augment: Grant me +1|+0, which would allow cards like "Augment: Heal your Nexus 1" or "Augment: Give me +1|+1 this round." Maybe they can still have some of this design space by making cards with "When I gain Power, do X" or "Once I have 5+ Power, do X."
Luckily since this is digital card game, nothing is set in stone so they might change it to your idea someday
This all looks great, the cards, hero, and lore is all great
Also… they gave an actual reason that makes sense for why they haven’t been doing the normal balance updates? Cause of the work on the champion expansion
Here’s hoping the low quality of recent patches is just because of the work on the champion expansion like they said and not their design philosophy moving forward
This looks super cool!
For my champ proposals, dimentio from super paper Mario or shovel knight from shovel knight would be nice, or if you aren’t familiar with either of those it’d be cool to see a champ that synergizes with shuffling cards into your deck
Yeah but that applied to almost every other meta deck in runeterra. There’s a reason why they are the meta deck lol
This is really cool, but I noticed a small missed opportunity in the time traveler/warlock dual class cards, you could’ve had an effect where you discard a card than add an exact copy to your hand, for both quick time and discard synergy
Zola the Gorgon seems a little too powerful, simply because if you get two of them you now get infinite gold minions, and you can keep getting the “Discover a 6th tier minion.
I really don’t understand the problem, your problem seems to be it... gets used in a variety of decks over the lifespan of the game? You named 3 absolutely unique decks, and 3 of the decks were similar but still different. How is that worse than a card showing up in exactly 1 meta deck patch after patch
Instant Centuries seems... interesting to me, to say the least. How much value do you really get out of a random countdown landmark.
The reason the min sets haven’t worked that well so far is that they haven’t designed the expansions around mini sets, they designed all the cards and than changed how release schedule would work, which meant some archetypes were designed in a way that leave them feeling broken until all the cards come out. However it is likely that the next expansions will be designed around it and will be much smoother
I feel like casual already fills this niche? You can play whatever you want on casuals since wins and losses don’t actually matter. You could argue people ruin it by only playing meta decks but the exact same thing could happen here. Except unlike casual mode, you might be forced to play a meta deck, which is the opposite of what you want from designing this game mode
I love how creative this card is. I never would've thought of it but the effect feels so natural and accurate to the lore.
Why would you stop playing a deck type because cards were added to the region that didn’t support that archetype? It’d be like if I stopped playing sea monsters because other bildgewater and shadow isles archetypes got supported
I do believe that for all interactions in this game regarding those situations, it targets non amalgams first, than amalgams
Not necessarily. I can see her working in mono Targon invoke, p&z heimerdinger or Viktor, or bildgewater TF. Of course I’m bad at knowing how the meta works so I’m probably wron
Is one of Targon weaknesses removal? That’s all Ive got for reasons they might consider it balanced
Did nightfall decks just get a massive boost or am I just clueless on how the meta work
I bet they could make her synergistic with recall just by giving her a powerful play effect
Luckily since this is digital card game, nothing is set in stone so they might change it to your idea someday
No idea if this is balanced..... but its still worth throwing out into the worl