goferchan posted:

50% chance of getting one from the caches. After CL1000 it goes down to 25%

Waffleopolis posted:

stev posted:

gently caress, I was hoping I might have until next Tuesday to hit 1000. So close.

CitizenKeen posted:

I was mostly hoping somebody would point out a Pool 3 archetype I both had and also didn't know existed.

But I'll settle for pity and an acknowledgement that I have lovely luck.

Ubersandwich posted:

I just learned mysterio's illusions become real when combined with patriot, at least think that's what happened.

doingitwrong posted:

Leech deck loses to “dumbly out good stats through to turn 5”. If you are ahead on board when they invest a full turn on Leech, then all that’s really left is to think about where they’ll put Leader.

LGD posted:

what? like half of the changes here were directly aimed at Shuri decks

Shuri isn't running a crazy value engine or shutting down your opponents game plan, it was just an accumulation of some of the strongest cards in the game + had the potential to just create too much power for other decks to beat with its good hands, so all these changes chip away at it by making it less consistent/more prone to opposing interaction/less overwhelming in the amount of power generated

generating a lot of power is something other decks do well, just not as well, you don't necessarily need drastic changes to bring Shuri down to a range where other things can compete

these things also work in combination - i.e. the Red Skull change doesn't really nerf it in isolation, but that's fine, Shuri->Red Skull for effective 22 power (24 with shuri) to likely win a single lane isn't actually that unreasonable (compare to stuff you can do with Dracula, Devil Dinosaur/Mystique, etc.), where it gets broken is with Taskmaster who then adds +30 power to a different lane, this cuts that line down by 4 power and makes it more vulnerable to disruption (via shang, aeroing the red skull into fisk tower, etc.), which significantly increases the chances other decks can compete

this is exacerbated by the she-hulk and aero changes also cut down on the decks' power with less ideal hands (and with cards that had been identified as being a bit strong even in other circumstances)

all of this might very well not be enough (I think it is likely shuri zero is still a top deck), but it's clearly an effort at reigning the dominant decks in without destroying them - I think it's reasonable to let the meta fall out a bit before crying that the nerfs weren't sufficient

e: I am excited for High Evolutionary, strength aside it'll be fun to have something else to do with the vanilla cards beyond Patriot, especially some of the ones that don't usually see play even there

the_american_dream posted:

Yea I flipped to that mode today and dusted off shuri.

If you’re up against a half decent player then your hope is early leech, lucky cosmo snipe, they miss cards or the locations are in your favor. Otherwise play it out until they snap :/

I get wanting to slow play nerfs but still cannot get over how poo poo this patch was. If I didn’t have shuri myself it’d probably be time to find another game at least until the next patch