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Pilchenstein posted:It's about everything feeling good for the player using it: Toss would feel bad if you saw it throwing really good cards you were just about to draw, pilfering wouldn't feel as good if you weren't (potentially) preventing big plays your opponent was about to draw into. If we're going away from game feel and into balance there really isn't any pilfer decks that have been tier 1. Don't think the issue is it's too good.
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" it's that drawing 5+ cards from anywhere in a single turn and making them cheaper is an advantage that isn't adequately balanced by "well the cards might be poo poo, you don't know", at least in my opinion. If it was more common to only draw one or two cards in a turn instead of a full on looting spree, that would make it much less harsh on Freljord anyway.
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Pilfer has the same issue Ezreal decks do where it "feels" bad largely because it's a bunch of cheap cards dropped in a row, and most are played at burst speed so you just have to sit there and watch without being able to do anything in return. The normal back and forth is interrupted by "excuse me while I take half your deck for a round, no you don't get to play anything." I think the secret problem is actually Warning Shot. Being able to play a burst speed 'plunder turns on' 0 mana card means that plunder is... trivially easy to turn on BEFORE your attack round, and you can still play stuff like Riptide Rex on curve without having to bank mana. Like I'm not saying pilfer is broken or OP, because it isn't. But it is annoying and unfun to play against and there's probably ways to make it less so.
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Pilchenstein posted:It's about everything feeling good for the player using it: Toss would feel bad if you saw it throwing really good cards you were just about to draw, pilfering wouldn't feel as good if you weren't (potentially) preventing big plays your opponent was about to draw into. Toss would be better if it went from the top down since it would increase the probability of drawing a champion.
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Sedisp posted:If we're going away from game feel and into balance there really isn't any pilfer decks that have been tier 1. Don't think the issue is it's too good. neaden posted:Toss would be better if it went from the top down since it would increase the probability of drawing a champion. 
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Its kind of interesting right now you can take: Precious Pet Legion Saboteur Crimson Disciple Imperial Demolitionist Legion Grenadier Transfusion Noxian Fervor Decimate (optional) And mix it with pretty much any other faction and end up with a real deck. There's the obvious PnZ version everyone knows, you can mix it with Bilgewater for Fizz/MF/Jagged Butcher/Powder Monkey, with Freljord for Omen Hawk/Ruthless Raider/Fury of the North (I've been using this one a lot with Iron Juggernaut for fury value), with Ionia for elusives, Swim added this to an aggressive SI deck today with Hapless/Kalista/Elise/Ravenous Butcher/Cursed Keeper/Blighted Caretaker/Prankster, oddly enough it is the Demacia version that I have trouble making work (obviously you start with Lucian/Fleetfeather/Brightsteel Protector but I get lost from there). No Wave fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Pilchenstein posted:Well yeah, my whole point is that it not being a very strong play most of the time doesn't mean it's balanced on the rare occasions when it effectively ends the game with no recourse for the opponent. Nut draw gonna nut draw don't think it's a good idea to balance cards around extreme edge cases.
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Sedisp posted:Nut draw gonna nut draw don't think it's a good idea to balance cards around extreme edge cases.
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mistaya posted:I want to like this Sej/MF deck so much but I keep having the worst draws imaginable, is it a deck that just poo poo-draws out a lot or am I playing it completely wrong somehow? I wouldn't say it poo poo-draws a lot but, like Elites before it, it's a pretty linear deck that wants to get units out on curve and doesn't have a lot of comeback if your opponent can establish an early board presence and you can't. That makes the poo poo-draws feel a lot worse than other decks poo poo-draws, because you don't even get the false hope that you can still pull out a win. for me that's personally enough of a turnoff to make me play other decks instead. No question that it's strong though
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Jun 4, 2020 05:29
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Jun 4, 2020 05:58
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After listening to the voice lines I can't see Slotbot as anything but Slutbot. Just take a listen at 18:14 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFwE30Mebk&t=1093s
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mistaya posted:I want to like this Sej/MF deck so much but I keep having the worst draws imaginable, is it a deck that just poo poo-draws out a lot or am I playing it completely wrong somehow? are you playing the version with the plunder package, or the one with scouts? i've found the latter to be more consistent. either way, i prefer the sej/vlad or sej/ashe decks, as far as that champ goes
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Pilchenstein posted:I disagree entirely. Even when it doesn't draw a game ending combo, it's still overpowered to draw so many cards and reduce their cost so easily with absolutely no counterplay and "welp, you lost this game instantly" or "welp, you'll lose this game eventually due to your opponent's sudden huge resource advantage" aren't balanced just because "it probably won't do that next time it happens to you" Inconsistency is definitely an element of balance though. The fact that they can't do it consistently is a big issue with the archetype.There are entire decks where you either don't want to pilfer for a loooong time (Deep decks) or where 80% of their draws are dead draws (ephemerals) Besides maybe upping the cost of pilfer by one or drawing from the bottom I can't see how you change the archetype without killing it.
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Pilchenstein posted:I disagree entirely. Even when it doesn't draw a game ending combo, it's still overpowered to draw so many cards and reduce their cost so easily with absolutely no counterplay and "welp, you lost this game instantly" or "welp, you'll lose this game eventually due to your opponent's sudden huge resource advantage" aren't balanced just because "it probably won't do that next time it happens to you" Drawing from an opponent's deck is almost always worse than drawing from your own deck due to deck synergy etc. Of course, this is a game in which pretty much every cards played in Constructed are pretty good, so above effect is lessened. However, you do ignore the fact that Black Market Merchant has to already exist on board for opp to have the "huge resource advantage" due to cost reduction. Plus opp has to usually set up a turn or 2 in advance & even spend their own cards (eg. Warning Shot) just to gain this card advantage. Which, due to the random factor, may not actually be worth it at all. So yeah. Sedisp posted:Inconsistency is definitely an element of balance though. The fact that they can't do it consistently is a big issue with the archetype.There are entire decks where you either don't want to pilfer for a loooong time (Deep decks) or where 80% of their draws are dead draws (ephemerals) Upping the cost of Pilfer by 1 will probably kill it. Drawing from the bottom almost had no effects other than buffing Freljord. My proposal is to make the cards drawn from your decks to be known. That's all it takes to balance it I believe, since the reason why it's so good is because you simply don't know to play around what cards exactly. I think the devs should probably be more aggressive in making small changes like above in weekly patches, rather than waiting for 2 weeks to dump a whole lot of changes at once. Maybe only applicable to cards in the watchlist or something.
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Toss should burn champions. There ought to be a risk of decking yourself.
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doingitwrong posted:Toss should burn champions. No.
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Finicums Wake posted:are you playing the version with the plunder package, or the one with scouts? i've found the latter to be more consistent. either way, i prefer the sej/vlad or sej/ashe decks, as far as that champ goes I was playing scouts but I came to the same conclusion you did and swapped to the Ashe/Sej variant and I've been having a lot more fun/success with it. Sejuani rarely levels in the Ashe deck but you don't need her to because Ashe can carry a win on her own and adding a fat body with Icevale Archer's effect late game can often just force a surrender.
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doingitwrong posted:Toss should burn champions. There ought to be a risk of decking yourself. Hm, yes, I too would like for Nautilus and basically the entire Deep archetype to be terrible.
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:After listening to the voice lines I can't see Slotbot as anything but Slutbot. Naut's reaction to Fizz dying is great holy poo poo
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srulz posted:Upping the cost of Pilfer by 1 will probably kill it. I get that in top end play drawing five or six cards from your opponent while maybe making them cheaper (or even free) isn't super strong because of deck synergy but for average players it's a much bigger power swing and is far too easy to pull off. Making the stolen cards fleeting might be a good option, since it limits the effectiveness of spending all your mana on pilfer, unless you have multiple merchants on board, which is actually counterable.
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Fleeting would actually make it unplayable, congrats, you just played a merchant and got a unit from your opponent that is 1 mana higher then you can play it, you will get to die knowing he has one less card in his deck, hope you didn't have to spend any mana at all to trigger your plunder effects either.
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Jun 4, 2020 16:30
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Most of bilgewater's other draw is fleeting isn't it?
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Make Merchant a 2/3 and his cost reduction only applies to the card he draws himself. There. BMM's stacking is what makes the whole thing stupid.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Hm, yes, I too would like for Nautilus and basically the entire Deep archetype to be terrible. As it is, it’s just a boring race. Either you can power through their stalls, or they thin their deck to have only low costed big bodies with removal and evasion attached for the rest of the game. There’s no back and forth to the deck. If toss could burn champions it would still be powerful but there would be a small hope of coming back and decking them. Maybe I don’t get the vision of toss. It seems to me like it’s meant to be a risk reward mechanism where you burn through your deck and then have powerful bodies. But Nautilus and Maoki both counter that risk with their level up abilities, so maybe I don’t get the deck at all.
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Pilchenstein posted:Most of bilgewater's other draw is fleeting isn't it? The only fleeting draws are pool shark which is a on summon effect and pick a card which is a three mana for three. Both are for next round. Brash gambler is a draw two fleeting on attack. doingitwrong posted:As it is, it’s just a boring race. Either you can power through their stalls, or they thin their deck to have only low costed big bodies with removal and evasion attached for the rest of the game. There’s no back and forth to the deck. If toss could burn champions it would still be powerful but there would be a small hope of coming back and decking them. Kill them before they get there? Your suggestion makes the archetype worthless.
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Sedisp posted:Kill them before they get there? Your suggestion makes the archetype worthless. Most of the Toss cards are fine-to-good even without deep turned on, though. That being said, just removing the non-champ clause from Toss would probably make the archetype pretty bad, yeah. The more appropriate change would probably be to do that, but shave power from Deep and make it easier to get Deep. The end result would be flattening the deck's power level a bit (as opposed to the huge power spike of Deep+near-instant "I Win" champs) which...I'm not really sure how I feel about. It's definitely frustrating to watch the deck jerk itself off for 5 turns then just suddenly become an unstoppable death ball but I also play Ez/Karma so I'm probably not allowed to be too salty about it.
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My quest today was a 1500 play 6 Demacia champs. I forgot how good the Demacia cards are, lol
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Jun 4, 2020 20:14
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protip: don't try to ladder while drunk lol
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Boxman posted:Most of the Toss cards are fine-to-good even without deep turned on, though. Uhhhh Not really. Their cards are all pretty below average till they go deep. Abyssal eye is probably the best one and there are definitely better five drops
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Sea monsters aren’t toss cards.
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doingitwrong posted:Sea monsters aren’t toss cards. I actually did mean cards with Deep (well, and the champs). EDIT: Forgot about progress day lol Sedisp posted:Uhhhh Oh there are definitely better cards at the price point (there had better be, since they have Deep), but my point is that you don't absolutely hate playing them without deep. Like, Devourer is going to find a target a pretty solid percent of the time, and you're playing Hoarder and Terror of the Tides for the effect as much as the body. It's not that they can necessarily win without going Deep, but they definitely have more than their share of ability to stall out while providing pressure. My point wasn't to say omg deep busted nerf now, it was to point out "lol just kill them" is a silly thing to write. It's not trivial. I'm still curious how the archetype would look if you just made the Deep condition less powerful but riskier and easier to get to.
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It's counter-intuitive but don't even consider decking to be a win con against a Deep deck. It's basically impossible to last long enough to deck them once they get into deep mode. You need to go faster than a deep deck to win, there is no slower.
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I think Deep and Toss on the surface look like mill mechanics but it's really, really rare for that to actually be relevant in-game (maybe more common in the mirror?) -- more so it feels like a way for them to add a new "resource" to the game in terms of the threshold mechanic of "how close is your deck to Deep?" -- outside of stuff like Treasure cards and Nautilus's level-up effect, the actual tossing itself is irrelevant to most games
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With all the random card stealing, random treasures, undyielding spirits and such, expeditions are a real pleasure to play lately.
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Man I just had super unlucky expedition game where I went 5 rounds with a heimerdinger in hand and not drawing any spells. My deck still had : Mystic shot x5 Flash of Brillance x4 Statikk shot x2 Gotcha Hextech Another heimerdinger Ezreal x2 I even played a backalley barkeep for a chance at a spell. Meanwhile my opponent drew three 5 mana 6/5 fearsome and then Darius. Oh well, so it goes.
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Boxman posted:
But... its literally how you win against late game decks in every single card game? Can you go bigger than them by playing slow? If the answer is no you have to go faster.
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Just got destroyed by a pretty great combo. Hecarim, untap, play Dawn and Dusk, attack with the copies. Two 14/5 overwhelms backed up by four 11/2s. Brutal.
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It's slightly less scarier then it looks because as each Hecarim attacks and dies the rest of the ephemeral's will lose their attack bonus. Course you still have to survive those first overwhelm attacks. Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Jun 6, 2020 |
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So, I'm just getting into this, and I'm having a blast just exhausting the dailies and managed to pretty quickly fill out the starter Spiders deck into something decent enough to win more than I lose in unranked PvP. My main question is in terms of of the most efficient use of shards: Should I spend them on expeditions, or save them for champs? From where I'm standing, collecting champs is the biggest barrier to making various deck archetypes buildable in the first place, but the rewards on expeditions are quite good if you do well, and they're super fun to boot. I'm just not sure if the gamble is worth 2k shards, is all, at least when you're starting out. It'd be nice to be able to do a run more than once a week without paying actual cash, though. What's everyone's thoughts on that here?
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If you really like expeditions, once you do 3 in a week you unlock open play for the rest of that week, which is unlimited expeditions for free with no rewards. It's probably more efficient to spend the shards on building a tier deck if you want to rank up though.
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Sedisp posted:But... its literally how you win against late game decks in every single card game? It's not impossible to beat by any measure, it's just obnoxious to play against because it feels like they built-in an out for every obvious weakness it might have had
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