Daily Card Discussion - February 23rd -

[seraphicreaper]

I was honored enough to have @Ryvirath request an attempt to bring a daily card discussion to the forums. To return that honor to the forum users, I thought it best that I started off on the right (or left!) foot. I present to you the Card of the Day for February 23rd!

To start off the discussion, here are some questions of consideration:

What makes Serpenti so Serpenti-ish?
What is your opinion about this card?
What stands out most about this card to you? (Whether in-game, animation, art, etc.)

[whyb0t]

You had to start out with Serpenti… nothing serious will follow…

I liek him nekk.

For real though he’s a satisfying meme to pull off. Unplayable card, but if he sticks 7 frenzy damage is no joke, and combined with Astral Phasing or Zendo mmmmmm tasty memes, funny animations

[bublublub]

I remember doing a daily challenge where you get your Serpenti to fly with Aspect of the Drake. Maybe you can build a deck around that.

[whyb0t]

Too situational, need multiple targets and/or multiple spells to combo.

[bublublub]

as if Serpenti isn’t situational to start with

[overcharge]

That 1mana minion that nulifies spell damage might go super useful, and getting into position with magnetize/juxta/mds can be devastating if the serpenti was left unanswered.
Sadly it still falls into Makantor no matter what you do, unless you really want to drop it way outside the vunerable spots (Jaxi might be a valuable friend for this)

[whyb0t]

7 damage isn’t exactly situational, frenzy or not. What makes Serpenti bad isn’t that he’s situational, it’s that he’s too easy to answer. 6 mana that’s answered by Holy Immo/Makantor/Cryogenesis/kiting/two 2 drops

[bublublub]

Then place him out of the answer range. Like put him in a corner or smth
Then bring him into the fray with Paddo or Ghost Lynx, or Magnetize.

[overcharge]

Even though someone can play super safe and force proceed to eliminate Serpenti, given the fact that ‘placing on safe spot’ is often going to be followed by any reposition cards, and also one can try to sack everything and go all-in to your general.

[narasimha]

The problem is for that much effort you may as well just play a regular minion without all of the hassle.

[whyb0t]

I’m not saying there’s no possible way to use him, just explaining why the card is bad.

[dewize]

Makantor does not accept the Serpentis’ very existence, I hate them all!

Okay for real, I never played Serpenti becauss of my experience with Frenzy. At first I thought Frenzy would activate on counterattacks too.
It didn’t…
Makes Serpenti extremely useless. He’s easily removed, his effect is almost useless unless there are multiple units and he doesn’t get removed.
At this point in the game, if Serpenti isn’t insta removed or there isn’t one miniom to block him, well it means you’re playing in Silver.
Because of this, I NEVER played Serpenti.

But I like his face

[largebanana]

the only thing i want to know is that, since when and why is serpenti a meme at all?
yes the card is bad but does that warrant it becoming a meme card?

[isgopet]

Then bring him into the fray with Paddo

Meme-ception? Yes I think so.

[dewize]

I heard it was a dev who said Serpenti was a good card.
It’s now a meme?

[isgopet]

Listen here my dear child, for I have a wonderful tale to tell you…[quote=“excogitator, post:815, topic:319, full:true”]
History time!

Back in the day when you needed a code to play this game, one of the devs (Umbrella, I believe it was?) made a comment saying that Serpenti was a good card. Naturally, the community latched on to this, sarcastically commenting on the power of the mighty Serpenti.

Now, the meme sort of fixated in this community. The community still wastes no time bugging Umbrella with this, as seen on the last developer Q and A. This, coupled with the fact that Serpenti has a positively derpy sprite, with a long neck and odd attack animation, made Serpenti what it is today.
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There.

It’s also because Serpenti has the sexiest animation in any game ever.

[largebanana]

LOL i see, i guess everything has its own history, and thanks for that edit putting in serpenti sprite got a good laugh out of that.

[mrmana3]

Serpenti teaches us a very valuable lesson: the “Rush” keyword ability is worth at least -3 Attack power.
#HailMakantor