Scioness Sajj and her State in the Meta

[tsevech]

Honestly, I think that the BBS of Sajj is strong. It allows her to remove minions from the board in exchange of her health and Falcius + BBS is 8 damage without taking damage back, which is very powerful.

To me, the main problem of Sajj is that there is no good way to regain the health she traded when removing a minion. Healing spells or damage reduction effects for Vetruvians would help in this respect.

Other than that, the two suggestions in the original post are very good. More synergy with the BBS and more low-cost artifacts would definitely help developing a control build, which is where you really want to use Sajj. Zephir is an awesome card for Sajj, but he dies to easily: giving him 4 health would help, as suggested in another post.

[phoinexflame]

@Aeruniel and @baharoth,
EMP is indeed rarely used at the moment, but that is easily explained by the fact that everybody is trying to have fun with the cards that UP brought. Once the meta settles down it will be a 2 or 3 of in most decks just like during the previous meta when even Vaath and Zir’an ran it at S-Rank/Diamond.

It is possible to make Sajj better, but it will be very hard to make her viable without making her broken. The best solution would probably be to buff her BBS so it is no longer a poor man’s Overload.

[baharoth]

Guess we are playing different games. Even in the prime of the Arcanyst meta i haven’t seen many EMPs and the few i saw were in Golem Decks. Certainly not in Vaath/Zir’an. This card is far too situational to ever become “Meta”. It’s a tech card by nature.

[phoinexflame]

A game I had today against Zir’an.

[phayze]

Ooooh… gimme dat emp

[baharoth]

And now? Do you want me to post screenshots of the last 10 Zir’ans i’ve faced who didn’t play an EMP? I mean i have to congratulate you on finding that one guy who actually plays this card in a Zir’an deck but imo this isn’t really a prove. Anyway, i can’t really prove the opposite either so unless CPG decides to release some statistics on that neither of us will ever know if he was right or wrong.

Statistics aside, i think you will have to agree that playing EMP in a Vaath/Zir’an deck is very detrimetal to it’s game plan and therefor not a good choice. And that’s the case with many current top decks. Arcanyst will never play this card. Obelysk Zirix will never play it. Most Songhai decks won’t (some midrange builds might but that’s not exactly the meta build). Abyssian probably won’t use him either, they have better choices for their 7 mana slot.

It’s certainly possible that we will get a meta at some point in time where this card actually sees a lot of play, but i highly doubt it.

[project2el]

As someone already said the problem is That sajj has no mininios That truly support her bar zephyr/incinera/Imperial meccanism. And all this minions are situationally good but not as much as they should. Combine that with the lack of healing and you have a very weak general.
So for me:

1. makes minions that are built for sajj stronger.
   2)print healing cards for vetruvian

[divinedevek]

Just Rework Y’kir to have +1 mitigations for every damage instance (no pinging off Vet Artifacts) but only on your opp turn and +1 attack on your turn (almighty 5/25 Sajj with 3 armors defense).

[phoinexflame]

I mean no harm and only wish to state my observations. This is not the only Zir’an I have noticed to play EMP, and while he is by no means a staple I find it rather alarming that he is somewhat commonly (at least in high diamond/S-rank) used by different players despite clearly hurting Healynor as much if not more than the opponent.

I agree with you that EMP seems bad in many archetypes which makes me even more concerned when I see such archetypes actually use him. You don’t see Magmar just randomly throw Nightwatcher in there deck due to obvious anti-synergy with Makanator, yet anti-synergy with Vaath’s BBS apparently doesn’t stop him from putting EMP in his deck.

I admit that after the expansion hit EMP has become less common and hopefully he will remain uncommon. I am finished discussing EMP for now as I don’t wish to derail this thread to much.