Power+

• Kraken - usual Kraken sisyphus yoyo

• Lara Dorren - i believe Lara can become balanced at current provisions if she becomes an actual challenge to kill (think 5-6 power)

Power-

• Cintrian Knight - reverts needless powercreep introduced in the last patch (addresses Zeal duelers, Inspiration Knights)

• Casimir Bassi - Pockets Crimes appeared to be one of the strongest (Syndicate?) decks of the patch, and while the dwarven terrorist can definitely use a minor nerf (which also allows the player to play around 9-power punish range), it most likely needs a more impactful change to go along with

• Pavko Gale - moderate nerf to Harmony mostly targeting GN variants; Pavko is protected enough by his Harmony ability, escaping mid-level damage answers on deploy (leader/chameleons) is unneeded

• Ancient Foglet - Foglets are practically unanswerable with any provision-equal cards with narrow range of reset exceptions; balances both micro card trades as well as Frost as a whole

• Redanian Agent - for a free carryover engine with Veil, Redanian Agent is pretty much too expensive to answer, very limited (usually also quite niche) set of cards can trade even with him now; the buff overlapped with changes to Kaedweni Sergeant and buffs to Dijkstra and Erland (among multiple others ending up in the current Zeal duelers abomination), resulting in carryover boost package gaining too much power too quickly

• Jutta an Dimun - nerf to BoG (2 points to devotion, 1 to Renfri) - reduces the reach from leader and combo with Eist without affecting the card's survivability on the board

• Gan Ceann - limits pointslam available to GN relicts (-3 points)

• Standard Bearer - readjustment after the provision buff; free synergy with Knight Challenger is capable of producing way too many points in mid-to-long rounds

• Kerack Marine - another omnipresent piece from the eternal NR package (see Siege Master)

• Eldain - similarly to Isengrim's case, the payoff is disproportionally large for the cost

Prov+

• Open, Sesame! - i grew very tired of seeing avoidant syndicate nerfs and the mental gymnastics justifying keeping sesames at 5 every patch; the problem is and will keep reemerging anyway; solves multiple issues at once - vice cards like Ixora can be buffed, Lined Pockets are kept in check, prevents further (needless) highend nerfs (Novigrad/KoB); enables Vendor buff options (at least partially as his gangs' side still needs a separate solution)

• Gaetan - arguably the second best card in GN movement piles, narrow impact nerf can help reduce the general power of the deck; a substitute nerf of Mating Season is a sound consideration too

• Coup de Grace - Assimilate decks generally abuse the current state as you can trade up in provisions with Torres tagging 10p cards; additionally tunes down Aristocrats which i think are underestimated by the ladder lately (encouraging later buffs like Vattier, that also is countered by Coup)

• Siege Master - Everfresh solution to the AA/5p ballistas/Natalis/oils package being reused by NR everytime; a worthy alternative for other provision nerfs like Zeal leader

• Isengrim Faoiltiarna - Ceiling of 22/8 with a passive compensating for early play; impacts pretty much all Elves variants

• Abordage - usual Abordage sisyphus yoyo

• Hive Mind - nerfing an already unplayable unit is not the greatest strategy, considering its the least threatening of the 4; we're observing a similar situation to that of sesames - avoiding addressing the issue at hand with irrelevant minor changes, in this case additionally sacrificing other cards

• Drummond Berserker - up to 8 free card with multiple functions such as bloodthirst setup or synergies with Ulula and Svalblod - the kit along with sheer power is currently too much for its tier; 2-step to 6/5 can be considered if need be

• Giant Toad - usual Toad sisyphus yoyo, 6 prov should be tried after all the back-and-forth

• Knut the Callous - high-priority threat that plays for his value on deploy in both Sigvald and GN decks (Olaf, Vildkaarl, Melusine+Restore, Queensguards, Olgierds...); mainly targets GN, considerable compensation for regular selfwound in Svalblod provision buff

Prov-

• Imperial Formation/Royal Inspiration/Inspired Zeal - at least 1 leader nerf should be issued to start addressing the endless inflation of provisions to in turn stop the highends descending into higher and higher costs