[Shadowverse] Feb 26 Update

[Trebuchet MS]

https://shadowverse.com/news/important/news-0074

 

Important things:

• Piercing Rune will downcost to 2PP instead of 1 when your follower evolves, reducing the strength of the turn 4 Levi-Piercing tempo swing.
• Goblin Mage now can also grab 1PP followers, destroying the consistency of Miracle Roach.
• Expansions to Story Mode for certain characters.
• Elite 2 AI and accompanying gold achievements.

Discuss.

[Not-so-Radiant Arin]

• Piercing Rune will downcost to 2PP instead of 1 when your follower evolves, reducing the strength of the turn 4 Levi-Piercing tempo swing.

YES!

 

• Goblin Mage now can also grab 1PP followers, destroying the consistency of Miracle Roach.

NO! MY BATS!

 

:(

 

I still think Levi deserves to get a hit, too. He should at least be a 3/3 instead of a 4/4 when Evolving AND getting a card that instantly deals 3 damage. Being able to swing for 9 damage just from Spells and a Follower on T4/T5 is still not okay.

 

Also, can we just talk for a minute about a nerf to that funking cancerous card Dimension Shift? Should be cost 99. Would be fair and balanced then.

[Wizarus]

Honestly deleted Hearthstone and saw this couple of days ago. Downloaded it, forgot to reroll, cleared Rowan story, and went on reddit to see the community. Read all of those OTK threads and I was like "nope, not investing in this". But good to see some changes.

[Not-so-Radiant Arin]

The game's not OTK centric. There's only one Deck that really OTKs and it gets shut out by Aggro Decks more often than not. Since most Aggro Decks win by T5 anyway, and Roach actually needs time to fish for all their Roaches, Aggro Decks just completely shut it down 70% of the time (depends on if they draw into Will of the Forest or not). And with the recent nerfs to one of their key cards it's honestly not OTK centric anymore. People on Reddit complain a lot because it's bad for the game, and rightly so, but there's still lots of things CyGames needs to fix before the game can be considered "fun" to play again.

 

I still kinda hate how the game has become Aggro meta. It's still a step in the right direction nerf'ing Roach and nerf'ing Piercing Rune to being somewhat more stable, but CyGames needs to take a look at REAL problem cards that are cancerous for the game. Like Dimension Shift. A card that you can't see coming and that immediately OTKs you while not giving you the chance to counter it is unhealthy for the game.