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Round Table of the Songhai Trinity - Storm Kage - Discussion 2.2.18

#1

First things first, I hereby announce the creation of a new God, one that will rival that of Manakator imposter, The Round Table of the Songhai Trinity. Very few know of this esoteric order save for religious Songhai mains such as @eurasianjay, @alplod, @kingw and @yerboijosh and even fewer know the identity of this Trinity, but just this once I will reveal them to you, but their names shall not be spoken:

The left hand, the one who watches over all:

The right hand, he who wages war upon the enemies of the Church:

Our lord and saviour:

Hey guys, so I was thinking about the new expansion and what sort of meta it might bring. I know, I know, wild speculation does no one any good, we must wait until March to see, but while thinking about it my mind wanders to the holy Grandmaster Zendo’s left hand, Storm Kage. First I weeped at his unviability and then wondered what are some ways he could be made better, but not just by fiddling with his stats/cost/effect, but by support from spells, minions, artifacts or generals.

Do any of you have any ideas to make him better or what can be made to do so? The only idea I could think of was support similar to what Grandmaster Variax has in Abyss, but there has to be better idea, is there something that could be released in the expansion to support him?

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#2

Just allow the thunderbolts to target the enemy general or reduce their cost to 0 so that you could make another mantra deck (albeit, standard mantra decks would still work just as well if not better than one that relied on kage for procs)

#3

The problem is his Mana cost, 7 is too much. They should make 6 or 5 Mana cost if they wanna make it viable

#4

Befitting our lord, but unfortunately is too holy for this world, with such abilities, the enemies will gather in droves to eliminate the left hand, this cannot be allowed to occur.

And should he receive such power, even members of the table will begin to resent him.

#5

thought it said Songhai Tiddy was sorely dissapointed

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#6

Us upper echelon of the table maintain spiritual closeness with the holy ones everyday, we can feel their essence guide us to peace and victory. Part of maintaining this closeness is by imbibing the Songhai holy liquids, so yes, we from time to time thirst of their holy “liquids”.

#7

Huh, well I guess it would be awfully weird if there was a Songhai Church about Potatoes. Seems starchy…

#8

Finally a worthy church!

Forgive me grandmaster for i’ve sin.

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#9

My child, repent of your sins and the lord shall show mercy, give secret prayer to the left hand, war chants to the right, humble yourself in front of the almighty and you shall be accepted.

Fear not, he is merciful God.

#10

As a devotee of the Church of Makantor, I denounce this religion as heresy, and proclaim all of its followers as enemies of the One True Warbeast.

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#11

HEATHEN!! Your presence insults the Trinity, your God is a false one born of dirt and so shall he belong!

Begone from this holy place lest you meet a terrible fate, we are merciful, but you test us with your sacrilege!

#12

Kinda on topic, I’d really want Sarugi+Kage combo to be viable. I tried hard, I even had a hillarious win against gate deck.

That win was smth. I had 4WM, Kage and Sarugi on board. He had gate and plenty of demons. Good for me, cause I blasted his demons 25 times (didn’t I mention he was at full health?) and that was my lethal. Twenty fckn five free Kage lightnings.

Not that I propose the idea or mean it is even close to viability. It is as far from common sense as one can get.

It was almost the only win with the deck and I gave up on an idea of synergy between two 7-mana minions.

I still have some hope, though.

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Just a record of unbelievable feats
#13

Wish I could’ve seen it, sounds amazing. I don’t know what kind of buff could be given to Kage to make him competitive, but I’m hoping at the very least that something in the upcoming expansion will help.

Maybe some ramp cards like if this minion backstabs, your next minion summoned from the action bar will cost one less and all kinds of janky combos with inner focus and ASS.

Dunno what, but something would be nice for a card with such a cool sprite. And above all, he is in the core set meaning he will be in the game forever, I would at least like it if he was competitive enough to be worthy of that status.

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#14

I agree, Storm Kage needs a major rework, because this card, literally has never seen daylight.

If changed, it would most likely look like a 6 cost 5/8

Kage Lightning - 2 cost
Deal 25 damage to one enemy.

Please CPG

#15

Although your, uh, suggestion there, um…needs work…you’re totally right about storm kages never seeing daylight ever. Just another waste of a cool idea.

What about storm kage as a five-mana 5/6, and kage lightning as three mana for four minion damage? You could drop him at six mana and throw a shuriken at something, and even if he gets removed you still have minion-killing ammo for next turn. Or at eight mana you could go storm kage, gotatsu, phoenix fire, and snag two kage lightnings. And any turn when you open with a storm kage on board, you can obviously go crazy and blow their stuff up without losing hand size. Yeah, three for four damage is a lot less impressive than two for five damage, but stormy’s also coming out two turns earlier, can’t be too powerful.

#16

While Storm Kage isn’t that good saying he has never seen daylight is a bit harsh IMO, Jogda took a deck built around him to S quite some time (a year?) ago.

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#17

There is only one true god and his name is Mankantor

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#18

Praise Makantor, he who saveth us from the distant fire and lightning!
Praise his Pup! he who resiths it by sheer cuteness!
Praise the Slasher, he who striketh down the fiends with holy strenght!
Praise Progenitor, who giveth the gift of life!

May Thunder and Fire never reign! May Makantor rush to you… again!

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#19

Beware thy nerfs coming for your gods.

#20

pls don’t nerf Warpup :sweat: