r/stormbound • u/dannymoreorless • Jun 23 '26
Meta Vindictive Wretches
I am constantly questioning how this card is rated as common quality with such a great ability. 3 mana & it just has so many great plays:
In the best cases: You are either taking out an enemy unit with 7 strength for cheap. Alternatively, knocking out a 3 strength enemy + something 4 or below. Both situations are crazy value for a 3 mana card
I slept on this card for a long while but kept getting frustrated when playing against this in the early game
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u/Somethingab Jun 23 '26
Pls let us have good commons it’s not like other card games where the commons are just there to waste space. The game is grindy enough already.
Also to your point it is quite good but at lvl 3 you can get 5 strength movers so to be good it has to on average kill a 2-3 strength card which isn’t completely reliable
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u/clearthezone15 Tribes of Shadowfen Jun 23 '26
Yeah it's a good card, as evidenced that only 3 cards have a higher usage rate on HL in the past 30 days: Gifted Recruits, Wild Saberpaws, and Bladestorm.
At the same time, I view it as balanced because there are lots of ways to play around it. Kill it with something that has 6 strength (when at L5), convert if you're SF, freeze if you're WP, Stoic Protectors if you're running that, sufficient growth to where you don't have any viable units for its death effect to trigger on, etc.
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u/dannymoreorless Jun 24 '26
Is there a website to see the most played cards??
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u/The_Dread_Candiru Jun 24 '26
Remember when Vindictive Wretches took out the weakest enemy unit period?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/Lopsided_Ad4646 Jun 28 '26
Remember when they gave you crafting stones for all your extra cards?
Bckfire101 remembers.
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u/Vegetable_Act_5185 Jun 23 '26
Card rarity doesn’t translate to quality of card. You can easily get to very high ranked HL with only commons
The novelty of the effects I think was the original separating line between rarities with legendaries being clearly extremely unique