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State of the Magmar thread

I don’t own Taygete yet and I honestly don’t like her because she sort of ruins Magmar’s aesthetic for me. I wouldn’t mind her being nerfed a little so she’s not an auto-include in every Magmar deck. Or maybe change the effect to, whenever an ally is dealt damage hit the surrounding enemies for 2 damage. You can still output a lot of damage but not to the ridiculous level.

Starhorn I still don’t think is super great but we’ll have to see what’s going to happen in Shimzar, but unless the buffs to minions are incredible I don’t see how paying to give your opponent a card will ever be good.

I agree that the Egg changes will be great, I already run Chrysalis Burst because I love the flavour of the card and it’s a great card to play when the board’s sort of clear so you either get good minions out of it or your opponent spends his whole turn dealing with it. The egg changes will make it far more viable and will remove the huge tempo loss you get from the eggs only hatching in the end. This will also allow you actually play Skorn or Plasma Storm during your turn when they hit your minions into egg-state. A minion I’d love to see now that eggs have been changed is a strong minion that if it dies spawns multiple eggs of smaller minions around the board or around it’s death.

I’d love for Grow to be viable, but I think even with the new cards that support Grow, the huge amount of dispell and its necessity in this game will forever make them really unviable. Earthwalker costs too much for its effect, if yo uwant to make it more viable but riskier make it a grow +2/+2, if you want to make it more solid, lower the cost to 2 and nerf it’s stats to 2/3 or 2/2 with +1/+1 Growth. Grimrock is okay but it competes with far too many and way better 4 drops to be put into the deck. Kollossus is pretty cool but again gets going really slowly and there are far better 4 drops and 5-drops that don’t cause tempo loss.

Again, we’l need to see what happens with Shimzar but I’d love for Phalanxar to become useful and not just ping-bait. You also hardly see any fractal replication or dance of dreams being played.

Vaath is fine, support-wise though he could do with a defense mechanism or something that isn’t earth-sphere, maybe something like an artefact that gives forcefield to your general. Starhorn I’d rather have a new BBS but we’ll see how it turns out with Shimzar.