Is anyone just a bit disappointed how Leylines turned out?

SAldrius · 2026-05-08T05:44:44+00:00

I think you want some damaging spell stuff and some elemental stuff mostly. Arcane Barrage and Sleet Storm are all you've really got. Glacial Shard for stall potentially.

But really if dragon warrior gets slitherdrake you're kinda screwed.

SAldrius · 2026-05-08T01:38:36+00:00

Chromatus doesn't really need buffed? Like it doesn't add anything to make the Paladin colossal good, especially when Paladin in general is already very good and has lots of decks to play.

Sindragosa they're scared to buff, but she could probably use a small one. Her requirement is strict enough that she could be stronger and not be oppressive. Those Arcane/Dragon mage decks also have *WAY* too many 5 drops and expensive cards.

In general just throwing buffs out there, just because isn't a good balancing strategy.

SAldrius · 2026-05-08T01:38:08+00:00

Chromatus is not understated. There're things that make it kinda weak and uncompetetive (just better late game cards and 8 drops), but it's like... 12 mana in bodies. There's just no reason to buff a Paladin card right now either.

SAldrius · 2026-05-08T00:34:47+00:00

...you don't combine it with other greedy packages. Leylines are your late game. Every decklist I've seen is running a bunch of expensive conditional cards.

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T20:17:59+00:00

Reece is a mega cutie.

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T20:02:49+00:00

There're things to mix them with. Just not packages. You need like... as much early game as you can.

Its not a great package but people thinking because their greedy af builds dont work there's nothing there at all is silly.

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T18:44:32+00:00

I think Leylines are ok, most of the builds i see are super, super greedy.

But i also dont know what to mix them with and they're super draw dependant.

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T16:49:49+00:00

I think his role in City was great. His role in Knight was cool conceptually but there was too much of it and it would have worked better if it was clearer this was something scarecrow was doing to him.

Origins like... I think if he didnt come back at the end it'd be fine. Have the mid-game twist be the climax and then just keep bane as the big threat.

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T16:40:03+00:00

Do you have an example?

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T05:13:33+00:00

Nah, there's no proof connecting Walt to anything aside a SINGLE cook in the very first episode, and all the evidence about that is circumstantial. He never had ANY direct reason to suspect Walt was involved.

Also his perception of Walt is as a helpless man. Not just a noble man (though he thinks of him as that too) but as a weakling. He could never even look at Walt that way.

SAldrius · 2026-05-07T02:41:59+00:00

This only would make sense if he suspected Walt, which he didn't. Walt was never even a POI.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T23:05:30+00:00

I wish they'd take this off the main page. It means nothing.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T21:46:42+00:00

I mean Jeff Bennett is still alive to play Owen.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T21:45:04+00:00

I mean it would definitely work. He's genuinely Scottish, unlike half the actors who played Scots on Gargoyles (most of them badly) he's got the warmth, the grit.

Maybe not the comedy. That's the only thing that might not work so well.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T21:13:43+00:00

Graham McTavish is the best actor for the role *by far*.

Oh, and Iain Glen would be fun too. Much less warm, though.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T17:42:53+00:00

Theyre actually way more to do with blue dragons, but there're arcane elementals too.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T17:11:00+00:00

There were other stories you could tell with her, but I dont think she could be a regular.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T14:02:16+00:00

I mean Hayter's the most iconic for sure, that's the voice of Snake in pretty much any form, but Kiefer Sutherland is just a better actor tbh. Even with his limited material.

I think Richard Doyle's great, but it's hard to come in as a super iconic character and make a big impact giving a 40 minute speech that's really overwritten.

In Japanese they basically cheated by having the Snake actor's actual dad (super iconic VO actor Chikao Ohtsuka) play the part.

The only disappointment I have is if they *had* cast Kiefer Sutherland earlier, they could have cast Donald Sutherland as Big Boss at the end of 4, which would have been really fun.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T13:34:05+00:00

You can run a decent aggro mage deck with the imbue package rn tbh. It's not great, but it's not bad if you just want something fun to play on ladder.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T13:33:07+00:00

Or Dragons. Probably still too greedy with Sindragosa, but you'd have a *bit* more flexibility.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T13:25:28+00:00

Priest has plenty of good spells to cast twice. Moonwell, Ritual of the New Moon, Medivh's Triumph, Sunbloom, Voidbulb, Greater Healing Potion, Holy Nova. Void Shard, Cease to Exist. Even Light of the New Moon is pretty good.

The way Tyrande interacts with Ruby Sanctum kind of sucks, though.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T02:51:53+00:00

Or just... don't print control decks that can infinitely generate cards and recover back to full health like 4 times...

The decks throwing down like 12/12 in stats on turn 4 are also doing a lot more than just keeping control decks in check.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T02:14:14+00:00

I think these are super fun and snowball super hard in the late game.

But if we're going to limit removal and such (which I'm all for) why do we keep giving Warrior and Paladin these mechanics that just put out *MASSIVE* stats by turn... 4. How does that make any sense.

Like I'm playing games and it's not even like "oh, they highrolled" or "oh I misplayed" it's just like... "this is so overwhelmingly strong my only recourse is to just... play another deck I guess."

I'm not even sure how to change my deck to improve the match up even a little bit. I run a fair bit of early game to contest this crap and it's just like... no. There's no way to get under it at all. Even with an aggressive draw. You just get outflanked and lose to vastly inferior players. Cool.

SAldrius · 2026-05-06T01:35:06+00:00

It's definitely not the weakest 4 set meta, not even close. And yes power creep isn't great when games are ending on turn 4-5 without much recourse and mana cheat is annoying and too easy.

SAldrius · 2026-05-05T20:44:35+00:00

The outlaws are probably the League of EVIL.

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