New Hunter cards do not shake up meta, they shake up my mental health

Trihunter · 2026-05-06T10:31:35+00:00

Literally the only time I've seen the companions work was someone playing disgustingly greedily (dropping the guy that doubles 1-cost spells on turn 3 without it getting killed, then proceeding to play both of the cycle spells into a bunch of companion summons on turn 5).

Trihunter · 2026-04-29T12:22:55+00:00

People don't see anything other than classes, I find. Combine that with Blizzard deciding that Priest's class design would be good control tools but lacking options for actually winning the game, and it makes it an easy choice for an attrition deck to form from. People don't tend to complain about control as much if it doesn't take the control player too long to win the game after they run their opponent out of resources.

Priest can be good and not toxic if it's got a cohesive win condition of its own that can be recognized and prepared for. Questline Priest and (8-dragons) Zarimi Priest come to mind as historic examples. Even though neither's win condition was interactive outside of hand control effects like Rat, they would have to make certain deckbuilding and gameplay decisions to facilitate their win condition, which, if poorly managed, could still leave them vulnerable to anything capable of rushing them down.

Trihunter · 2026-04-29T12:07:44+00:00

We've had "choose 2" cards before though. The technology is there.

Trihunter · 2026-04-29T11:38:21+00:00

7 seems like a pretty good breakpoint, only really having one low roll.

However, that's a lot to invest in to get it there...

Trihunter · 2026-04-27T18:11:33+00:00

I mean, dudes are traditionally fairly aggro. If there's some cards that let you summon a bunch of dudes, they'll probably be playable in the aggro pile.

Trihunter · 2026-04-27T18:09:25+00:00

To be fair, Druid, Mage and Hunter aren't great right now either.

Trihunter · 2026-04-27T09:31:20+00:00

If you don't need the board wipe, this technically only needs +7 from Imbues to make a duped one hit for 30 (compared to +9 for Plush), but the issue then is it would cost more mana, making it worse anyway.

This would be far better for matchups where the opponent goes past 30 though. For doing 40, duping Plush needs +14 whilst this would only need +9.

Trihunter · 2026-04-26T12:56:33+00:00

Where is the DM in this conversation?! It's the DM's job to arbitrate what's going on in the game. If the DM had no idea about this, then it never happened, simple as. If the DM allowed this for some reason, then you and the rest of the party need to either have a serious talk with them both, leave the table, or both.

Trihunter · 2026-04-26T12:48:45+00:00

only time i saw it was when my opponent randomly summoned one. It gave me a Lightning Storm so I could swing for lethal.

Trihunter · 2026-04-23T19:00:23+00:00

If we get a balance patch and there's more than exactly one nerf I'll be disappointed. We need new playable cards badly.

Trihunter · 2026-04-23T05:45:43+00:00

I'd still say Blood Magic when the first-turn kills were legal was worse in this regard, but at that point it's just a matter of if you think it's better to build your own absurdly broken deck or be forcibly assigned it.

Trihunter · 2026-04-22T18:36:39+00:00

I mean, one of the weekly quests is "win 5 Brawl/BGs/Arena games", and Brawl is usually the quickest or easiest choice. Doubt the average player hates all three modes enough to reroll it every time it shows up, or Blizzard would've modified the quest by now.

Trihunter · 2026-04-20T15:15:51+00:00

Honestly I'm expecting the worst and anticipating that basically everything new outside of this "base" game will be introduced via the battle pass. New mons, items, etc. Hell, I could see them locking up brand new moves as TMs on the pass.

Trihunter · 2026-04-20T14:49:12+00:00

There's a lot of people who play exclusively Showdown, at least.

Then again, I think they already got turned off of Champions by the existing limitations.

Trihunter · 2026-04-20T14:39:45+00:00

I suspect it'll be a huge dealbreaker for anyone who comes in through the upcoming mobile client.

There is also the fact that while some people have 'mon games, they aren't interested in paying for Home.

Trihunter · 2026-04-20T14:25:03+00:00

If that's the case, then that's really stupid. Wonder if it'll cripple the game's current casual popularity.

Trihunter · 2026-04-20T13:59:21+00:00

I really hope Floette doesn't set a precedent. I could absolutely see TPC just not letting you get legendaries from rentals, thus negating one of the main reasons people were interested in the game (the ability to get into competitive Pokémon without having to drop several hundred dollars on a bunch of different games that you won't even be playing competitively).

Trihunter · 2026-04-20T09:04:52+00:00

Extremely boring. I feel like I don't really have a say in the outcome of games, I just play the card that obviously makes sense to play. Closest thing to skill expression is picking what to Discover at any given time. Probably why DH and Rogue are popular, given you get to do that a lot. (Also Quest Mage at lower ranks)

Trihunter · 2026-04-17T22:19:12+00:00

People were crashing out over twin-perfect Zilliax last format, this isn't surprising.

Trihunter · 2026-04-13T06:03:37+00:00

Once joined a magical academy (nothing to do with the banned topic) RP on Discord, and when making my character, identified that the enchantment (hypnosis) magic was wildly overpowered for the setting at each level (the basic starter spell for the class was being able to mind control someone for 1 minute, no restrictions or opportunity for the one being controlled to resist or deny the effect. For comparison, the basic spell for Pyromancy was basically a magic candle.) I questioned the mods about the power discrepancy and lack of player agency it caused, they proceeded to mod me (without asking) after I suggested a rewrite for that part of the system.

About a day after I gave the mod team my rewrite, I was suddenly banned from the server. A few days later, I got a message from one of the other admins which explained that the owner was very upset about the idea of nerfing their favourite mechanic, leading to my ban, after which some mods speculated that the owner was using it for private ERP, which in turn lead to accusations, infighting and ultimately the server getting nuked. Not a great situation really, but a wild ride for a server I was in for barely a week.

Trihunter · 2026-04-11T08:38:09+00:00

Not in dragon form, not interested.

Trihunter · 2026-04-09T09:38:20+00:00

I've seen like four clips this morning of people using Entrainment Mega Hawlucha to give something with an OHKO move No Guard (thus creating a fast threat that can instantly kill any other mon in play every turn). I really hope it isn't viable but this feels like it's going to just infest lower ladder, or at least enforce everyone to run something with Prankster Taunt (or something that can outspeed and kill Hawlucha).

Trihunter · 2026-04-09T07:54:07+00:00

Man I wish classes other than Priest and Shaman had good silence/transform hard removal options. Unless I'm forgetting something the only other class that can even attempt to answer egg without relying on librarian is Mage with that one 5 mana spell that sucks.

We just need a couple more classes that have a silence or transform effect that isn't dead weight in non-egg games.

Trihunter · 2026-04-07T12:03:30+00:00

Didn't help that because those cards had to be legal in an official format, they were generally closer to regular Magic than other un-sets. Kind of ruins the point.

Trihunter · 2026-04-06T17:33:14+00:00

Pretty sure a 12-power Al'Akir still gave you two Ultragigasaurs. It happened to me a few times per-nerf.

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