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Card Discussion 11/13/17 VALKNU'S SEAL

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Card Discussion VALKNU’S SEAL

VALKNU’S SEAL

Type: Spell

Rarity: Epic

Set: Rise of the Bloodborn
Cost: 4

Effect:
Summon an Egg that hatches into a copy of your General.

  1. Did the card match your initial impressions of it? Is it better or worse than you original thought?

  2. Does the cost this card make sense in your opinion? What would you have to change to make this card show up on ladder?

  3. How do you feel Egg support in the game? The changes before Shimzar was suppose to make it rebirth more viable. Do you think the changes did the job ?

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thought it looked neat, it gave me some ideas BUT it’s trash.

I wish there was more to say lol…it did get better when egg hatchlings got “rush” but still just bad. the 4 slot is so super strong for Magmar that this (and any other 4 drop for that matter) just has to have a crazy power level to even be considered.

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  1. Way, way worse. I thought it would be a general itself rather than just a minion. This is too much work just for a unit that can be removed for 1-2 mana.

  2. Well, obviously it would be better if the egg hatched into a general. I understand that you would get issues with to whom the BBS is attached and who equips the weapons. The other thing that could help is if there were more artifacts and other cool effects to copy with this egg. That feels like trying to win more after you are decidedly winning already.

  3. The egg support is there. I do feel rebirth is more viable than it was before the change. The reason why you do not see it as often is because the whole egg strategy is very slow and dispel is everywhere now that they printed EMP. Oh, and forcefield is just a better version of what rebirth is trying to do.

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#4

An awesome concept wasted on a horrible card. I really don’t want to think about it, because the idea is so cool that seeing it so badly realized makes me unhappy :smiley:

#5

  1. My initial impression was that it was going to be a fun card, but not remotely viable. It turned out to not even be a fun card.

  2. The card makes sense in the faction, being both a card that needs to build up its potential (birthing, grow, etc…) and benefits from your General improving. However there have been few cards created for Magmar after the initial set that improve the General. The ubiquity of dispel and removal also don’t help this card.
    It is too much effort for too little reward. Unless it becomes a second copy of the General I don’t see this ever becoming viable with the current crop of cards.

  3. No and No. Too much effort for too little reward is the key phrase again. Rebirth/Egg will never be viable as long as the Meta requires immediate value from cards.

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