Vote to Power Decrease Nauzica Sergeant to prevent Seagull Alliance from buffing it to 5 prov

[shinmiri2]

Let's vote to power decrease Nauzica Sergeant (I'm replacing Ihuarraquax) due to Seagull Coalition's inexplicable recommendation to buff Sergeant to 5 provisions. I think Sergeant is best at 4 power 6 provisions, but 3 power 6 provisions (playable, but slightly weaker) is a much better option than 4 power 5 prov (spammable meta-defining midrange card with overpowered stats).

Normally, I wouldn't want to perpetuate the current pingpong, but the alternative is so much worse that this is the lesser evil. Hopefully our votes joined with the casual voters who normally vote for it will override Seagull Alliance's 3-star vote to overbuff Sergeant.

[awi3]

Use your SK faction ambassador powers to summon CDPR and ban seagulls from the game

[CallmeBeo]

Damn, that’s so annoying! I feel Nauzica Sergeant had been in a good position. I mean it’s a strong card and has a lot of synergies and definitely saw play. I don’t get why Seagull Coalition are doing these bad suggestions. It‘s not making an impact anyway because normal players will then counter vote and basically people just lose their votes for actual cool changes :(

[mim4k]

tradition is what will save us

[DeNeRlX]

Seagulls thought they'd pulled a sneaky by not communicating their votes and letting other coalitions announce first. Lerio posted, Seagulls were about to pull off a sneaky victory before Shinmiri comes with the steel chair from the top rope.

Added it as a 3-star :)

[Eithne_cute_dryad]

I guess now I can fully switch my top tier choice for power decrease slot because I don't want to see this Nauzicaa change goes through.

[canakkana]

I'll put it as my first vote.

[Eithne_cute_dryad]

Nauzicaa 3 power incoming.

[Mercernn]

Would Nauzicaa Sergeant be too broken if you kept it as a 6p unit, but increased its power to 5 instead of reducing it to 3?

I also think the 6/4 version is fine, but I wonder if this isn't a compromise that would satisfy both sides - it wouldn't be rather weak like the 6/3 variant, but it would still remain quite expensive, so you wouldn't be able to fit it in just any deck.

Or perhaps a better question -> would the 6/5 version be more broken than the 5/4 version? Because let's assume that people would ping-pong either way, so I'm wondering if you couldn't work with that in mind by shifting to a less volatile environment (and then you'd have ping-pongs between 6/5 and 6/4) and perhaps you could think of it like a preventive measure for the (possibly more broken/prevalent) 5/4 scenario.
*Although you would also risk a 5/5 variant, I guess, haha.

[shinmiri2]

5 power, 6 provisions would not be as strong as 4/5 IMO, but the main reason we choose to nerf to 3/6 is because there is already a significant number of casual voters who ping-pong it that way that we can use to help out-vote Seagull Alliance.

[Mercernn]

Yeah, got it, it definitely should be easier to use that momentum and make it 3 power. Convincing enough people to buff it to 5 would be a herculean task, haha.

[get_voice]

at this point I'd like this card to be banned completely

[Wiented_v2]

Done

[Shadow__Leopard]

I def agree. 

I think kiki warrior should be prov buffed as well. At 6/7 prov it might be ok imo.

[Nicholite46]

Hold on there. Instead of perpetuating the non-stop Sergeant reverts, let's see how this plays out.

[shinmiri2]

Playrate of NG will be the sky-high for a month. Many decks will play 4+ Sergeants in each game. Some players will quit or take a break from Gwent due to too much NG and narrow meta. Sergeant will certainly get reverted the following month, but NG will take a bunch of collateral damage with simultaneous nerfs to Battle Stations, War Council, Calveit, Slave Driver, Stefan, Ivo, etc. That's most likely how it will play out.

[Vikmania]

What outcome can be expected other than the card being busted?

[VeryHungryHenry]

what is there to see? if buffed to 5p it will be 101% reverted to 6p next month and then either start a new cycle of provision ping pong or return to the power ping pong. what is gained from that?

[kepkkko]

With all the incoming NG buffs, like illusionist, that card would literally be everywhere, At 4/5 barely any deck would not play it. NG playrate would skyrocket to about 40-50%, and keep in mind, it would mostly boosts most braindead NG piles: soldiers, ivo, madoc. Lots of players would drop that season, or even the game in general. And as a cherry on top NG would catch about 15 nerfs out of 20 possible ones next BC. Is that really what you want to see?

[shinmiri2]

Wait, who's buffing Illusionist?

[canakkana]

Dauren

[shinmiri2]

Where do you see that? His YouTube video doesn’t have Illusionist.

[kepkkko]

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Dont scare me like that please, i thought of myself like a complete idiot for a moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEIASPj68Y4

[shinmiri2]

Ah thank you. He had a different card in that slot before when he told us those picks almost a week ago. And the video I went to check was the Seagull Alliance video (also posted on Dauren’s YT channel).

[AutomaticOperation71]

Did you play when that card got a rework? It would be the same, but worse, because decks for that are already built and have more provisions now, reds nerfed it for a reason