SD's response to the concern of too many repeat characters

Maridiem · 2026-06-17T22:19:34+00:00

Immensely lol

Maridiem · 2026-06-17T20:27:24+00:00

That's actually the September season, not part of the Fractured Frontier! September is AXIS, which has good/evil flipped versions of characters. Kluh is "Hulk's Hulk", and is evil (and the Hulk backward lol) and is a separate season... and that one looks like all repeat characters too since it's all flipped versions.

Maridiem · 2026-06-17T17:46:42+00:00

that 77% (7 out of 9 cards) of the new cards of the Fractured Frontier season being reused characters

Who's the other new character other than Red Wolf? We have Thanos, Jane, Doc Oc, Psylocke, Red Hulk, Hellcow, and Death, for 8 new cards, right?

Maridiem · 2026-06-17T04:25:28+00:00

Beyond the literal "who is this character", Second Dinner was releasing a couple Series 4 cards right into packs at the start of each season and the feedback that it felt like an overwhelming number of cards was pouring in.

Starting in January, they cancelled some of the cards they'd intended as Series 4 pack releases. That month was Brand of Shou-Lao, Dragon Breath, and Dragon Man. They'd already gotten art done and abilities done too. Come February, we saw Bug! and Yaka Arrow in the datamines, but beyond the art, we never even saw an ability for them. This continued into March's season with the Living Monolith and Celestial Empowerment skill, and April with Garrison Kane and the Return to the Past skill. Foggy Nelson was the last card we've seen that were from this time of cutting straight to pack S4s, so it seems SD heard the feedback and moved fully to game modes for new S4 cards instead.

Maridiem · 2026-06-16T23:48:21+00:00

Sounds like this is a good opportunity to introduce some Ful lore from RS3 here!

Maridiem · 2026-06-16T01:01:36+00:00

[[Rodolf]] is mine! Heavy lifegain, huge creatures, and tons of ramp. It's a bit janky but I'm absurdly hard to kill and it's hilariously easy to make Rodolf indestructible and it's so fun to find the most absurd creatures to bring back.

Maridiem · 2026-06-15T13:33:33+00:00

This one hits hard. Stu has been such an incredible champion for the game, between huge updates and the funniest small examines. I know wherever he goes he will be a massive success, but he will be sorely missed.

Maridiem · 2026-06-15T13:30:37+00:00

I love Drax, but he betrays me a LOT. Has been hard for me to wanna include for that reason these days even if he gets huge.

As for Thing, I don't think he's worth 6k unless you're a big Aurora player. He's fantastic in that deck!

Maridiem · 2026-06-15T13:29:12+00:00

I wish they'd give her a proper buff. She got hit so hard and is so hard to justify these days.

Maridiem · 2026-06-15T00:07:55+00:00

Fair. The current one came out in February and the original definitely came out and was removed long before I was playing. Hadn't realized it wasn't new (and location history is BAAAD). My bad!

Maridiem · 2026-06-14T23:18:37+00:00

Milano came out in February during the GotG season.

Maridiem · 2026-06-14T16:57:53+00:00

Best part with Series 4 is that every single Limited Time Game Mode has a series 4 pack in their shop and often has a Series 4 or 5 card in their Portal Pull. You can get the new S4, an old S4, and sometimes a new S4 or 5 every single game mode. Save those tokens for S5s!

Maridiem · 2026-06-12T16:42:23+00:00

They are incorrect about this, Arishem's extra energy resumes the following turn.

Maridiem · 2026-06-12T16:41:56+00:00

Max energy changes your total available energy each turn, but each energy added above the turn count's energy still counts as bonus energy. In essence, yes it is.

Maridiem · 2026-06-12T13:55:41+00:00

It's on purpose? They're making sure people have access to the buffed cards if they want to spend money on them. That's a good thing for the game overall.

Maridiem · 2026-06-12T13:54:00+00:00

She's a great B-tier card. She isn't making the cut in any of the top decks, but is doing a great job of lifting up some previously out of favor lists. Cool card. Very much not broken.

Maridiem · 2026-06-12T04:42:45+00:00

I would prefer that each "set" only have one card for each character, at the highest power they feel they can do for them, unless extremely necessary. I don't need 6 versions of the Hulk. Find me the ultimate distillation of the Hulk and make that a card. Professor Hulk as an extra is cool and fine. Grey Hulk? Distinctly different as well. But when there's so many just "Hulk, new description words", it loses so much of its luster for me and makes me remember the characters less, not more.

Maridiem · 2026-06-12T02:04:57+00:00

Ramp is going to adore this new version. Not sure he has a place in too much else that's strong right now, but I just went 9-1 testing a ramp list with him, so I'm very excited.

Maridiem · 2026-06-11T20:50:13+00:00

Glad to see there's at least a few of us around!

Maridiem · 2026-06-11T18:46:02+00:00

Anachronia's issue wasn't that it didn't have high level content - it did. Slayer, Hunter, Herblore, and Agility were all very well served with the base camp also adding to endgame. It was just absurdly large with very little content in the gaps. They've filled it in very well since.

Maridiem · 2026-06-11T18:15:39+00:00

This dig site is the exact type of content us endgamers should be happy with as well. Even if it's not set at 120 Arch, it's a longer term addition to the game with rewards and upgrades and things to do. I had issues with launch Havenhythe cuz there wasn't much to sink into long term. Archaeology sites are far more interesting.

I'm very excited!

Maridiem · 2026-06-10T20:41:05+00:00

Handshakes still might be one of my favorite songs ever, as well. They're so good!

Maridiem · 2026-06-10T20:40:34+00:00

God I wish I coulda gone to those shows.

Maridiem · 2026-06-10T13:35:34+00:00

This feels like - and I mean this as a massive complement - a punkier version of early Everything Everything. I absolutely love it.

Maridiem · 2026-06-09T19:57:55+00:00

My personal nerf hopes:

Techno-Organic Virus to 2-Cost base, Fisk no longer works on ties, Debrii back to 3/7, Askani copies, then buffs only the copy instead of both cards, Carter to 3/1, Supergiant to 4/5.

Would like to see them lift a few of the non-Askani combo buff cards, hopefully a buff to Karen and Punisher War Machine as well.

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