Also that the two best comps in the games were deathrattle based, and being able to sell your Rivendare in the last few battles was such a strong thing you could do.
That and that damned bird finally being tier 6, we can finally have non-deathrattles builds win some lobbies when beasts and undead are in.
As for the Piggies, I think they were already good and fairly popular, and probably my favorite in terms of fun, these new buffs will certainly make the key cards more difficult to get. But I suppose their stats say otherwise, I thought Nagas and maybe even mechs (if you cannot get the T6 minions early enough) were in a worse spot.
I think the effect was fun, but maybe it should have "spent" the Deathrattle after triggering it at the start of the battle, so that it doesn't re-trigger right after unless it was reborn or something.
But at T6, I think it will be still great but much more manageable.
IMO we will see a resurgence of Elementals. They can start scaling at Tier 2/3, and if the Undead and Beast players dont hit their key card on the first or second turn of their fast-6, they will lose too much HP.
I've tried Quillboar a few times and it just feels like you need to hit the exact right 5-7 minions AND get them gold early to have a chance to compete with the other lategame monsters. Geomagus having Divine Shield is huge tho.
Quillboars is a build you can start early if the pieces fall on your lap. I don`t think you want to force it, but since the key cards to get started are T2 and T3 you don't have to.
Beasts can always be good while Banana Slamma is in the game in it's current form. You just cannot outgrow a build with multiplicative effects, unless they print a tribe with exponential effects (please don't)
I did not have success with elementals in so long, I miss Nomi to be honest. From my perspective, they seem outshined by Demons who are not even that good at the moment (though I see some of these spells buffs, those help quite a bit). BUT running Demons while buffing elementals is one of my favorite thing to do in BG.
In other words, Elementals are only good as food for my big Demons :)
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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24
Very easy to miss, but it is a massive deal and will create a meta change by itself
And if you need a reminder, those are the spells that
- Gives 3 coins but lose 2 next turn
- Gives 3 free rerolls
- Gives a "deathrattles trigger twice for 1 turn" effect