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Yggdrasil
Forestcraft Legendary
7 pp 2/6
Drain
Fanfare: Choice: Add either a "Mother's Protection" or "Nature's Wrath" to your hand.

Mother's Protection
0 pp Legendary Token Spell
Draw two cards
Enhance (2): Draw 2 cards and add +2 to the number of cards played this turn

Nature's Wrath
0 pp Legendary Token Spell
Give all allied followers +1/+0 and rush.
Enhance (4): Then give them all storm.

1. I waited two years for them to release Yggdrasil, even though I knew it existed.
2. The Forest deck in the anime will be incredibly strong. An anomaly with storm, I've been dreaming about this for two years. It's a shame that the Wolf is being rotated out, otherwise everyone would be playing this deck in the meta as soon as they see Arisu.
3. It looks like Forest will also be strong in the rotation. The card is a bit slow and not great in terms of stats for an aggro deck, but it will be good in buff-tempo and control decks. And there's also the fairy dragon and other fantastical creatures.
4. By the way, it works well with enhance - the cockroach doesn't get much benefit from these cards. But the problem is that even without the cockroach, there are plenty of ways to spend 0-pp cards, and not just at the end of the round.

Swordsman Roy. Dragoncraft Gold 3pp 3/2 Choice : Add either a Lively Dragon or Dragon Sword to your hand

Lively Dragon. 2pp Gain an empty Playpoint

Dragon Sword. 2pp Deal 3 damage to an enemy follower, if a dragoncraft follower, deal 6 damage instead.

Not bad, hmm. But it's a shame that they're covering the 2 pp 3 hp damage with a choice, where the alternative will be ramp, considering that fervor is being rotated out.

Wings of Opposition. 4pp Silver Amulet Havencraft Countdown 2 Fanfare : Choice : Summon either a Pure White Bird or Fiendish Black Bird. Last Words If you have less than 3 cards in your hand, add a wings of opposition to your hand.

Pure White Bird. 4pp 4/3. Restore 3 defence to this follower at the end of your turn

Fiendish Black Bird. 4pp 2/3. Storm.

But why would a unit with 3 hp heal 3 hp? Unless you're using evolve. And it's not very good with the summit, because the attack is greater than the defense, it's not great.

Vlomak was going to post reviews, wanted to pull them from Twitter to avoid duplicating the same things over and over, but never mind. So, I'll just leave it here.



Also, has anyone played the new story mode? When will Albert finally drop? It's unpleasant to see that [DATA REDACTED].

Also, has anyone played the new story mode? When will Albert finally appear? It's unpleasant to see that [DATA REDACTED].

I played it, and it's surprisingly good (compared to the primitive vanilla single-player) - a beautiful map, new characters, and a focus on storytelling. There are 12 chapters, of which a couple or three are just plot without battles. The reward is only gold and cosmetics, without any crappy artifacts. [DATA REDACTED] is still a bigger jerk, and Arisa is still a cuter girl. There's a "funny" twist at the very end. If the developers put in the effort and write at least somewhat different stories for each champion, instead of iterations of the same story as in the vanilla version, then it could even be a relatively decent single-player experience within this kind of card game.

Yes, it's a nice reward. The AI's decks are amusing. It feels like they're experimenting with possible decks for rotation, using underplayed cards, and also checking out the top decks in the meta. Also, either I'm not doing something right, or something else is going on, but my aggro-based Sylvan deck didn't work well in all battles, but I easily won with a neutral deck. Usually, aggro decks perform well against the AI.

I had a very easy time with a budget aggro deck. I don't remember if I lost even once, but if I did, it was due to an extremely unlucky situation, a one-in-a-million scenario.

Yes, the new storyline is amusing. Compared to the dull "kill the thief three times," it feels like a significant step forward, in my opinion. I completed everything easily using an aggressive strategy, except for the final battle with [DATA REDACTED] – I managed to win on the second attempt with a neutral strategy, after catching a Sahazri (although, perhaps an aggressive strategy would have worked too, if I had stuck with it).

Does it annoy you more and more with each chapter, or do you just not want to spoil anything?

Compared to the monotonous "kill the thief three times," this feels like a real step forward, in my opinion.

Come on, the thief was fun too, but more so in terms of his decks. The storyline is good, more interesting than what we had before, so we'll be waiting for the continuation. The new arena looks pretty good; it would be nice if they added it to multiplayer, although I'm not sure if they will.

I also played the first battles with the aggro deck, but I didn't really like it, so I played with the neutral deck or the elephant in all the other games, which were much easier.

The new arena looks decent; it would be nice if they added it to multiplayer, although I'm not sure if they will.

There used to be a checkbox in the options – a fixed battlefield, which replaced all the maps in matches with one additional map that was otherwise inaccessible. After the Chronogen update, I noticed that this option was no longer available, as was the map itself. I suspected that they might have introduced an official portal map into the card pool and somehow coded it in a clumsy way, simply replacing one with the other to cut corners. In short, I don't think they will bring back the old one or introduce a new one for ranked play. And if that's the case, it's a shame.

Yeah, the Rogue was also fun, but more in terms of his decks.

Oh, yes, the Rogue had fun decks. But I meant the plot specifically. The gameplay was fine even before.

Does it annoy you more and more with each chapter, or do you just not want to spoil anything?

I don't want to spoil anything + I just thought it would be fun to write this phrase as part of the conversation. I wouldn't say it annoyed me much before – except that it started to bother me in these new chapters. For most of the storyline, Luna was the most annoying character for me (that's probably why the Rogue episode came to mind as an example), but in the latest chapters, she seems to be more or less reasonable.

The new arena looks pretty good.

I had a funny thought: the Portal class arena was featured in the storyline long before the class was released. What if someday Nival Interactive introduces another new crafting item, and it will be its class arena? Unlikely, of course.

There won't be anywhere to put its icon. But the new field is cool.
It seems like Lunyasha was initially annoyed by the first chapters mainly because of the poor English, but then they fixed it, and it became much better overall.

There used to be a checkbox in the options - fixed battlefield.

I remember watching Tais's first stream of Heroes of Might and Magic, and he accidentally enabled this option. Half the chat was yelling at him to turn on normal battlefields, but he, of course, wasn't reading. Maybe that's why they removed it, because many people would enable this checkbox without thinking and then complain.

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By the way, I tried playing a few chapters of the campaign with the Japanese voice acting and realized that it's not for me. Although the original might better convey the characters, when the characters whine, lisp, and squeak, it's sometimes difficult to understand what they wanted to say from the written text. After that, I played ranked matches in English, heard Dashka, and realized that Locken was right. I'll switch back to Japanese, because if I play like that for too long, "wiz a bang and a boom" might happen not only on the game board.

I find this bang and boom quite amusing.

Likewise.

How about I bring you some reveals from Twitter along with my very deep, objective, and high-quality analysis.



For such a price, it's not shameful to give Necromancer and 1/2 these stats.



The now classic 2pp 3hp.





As I already said, it's a cool card; not a wincon on its own, but a quality support-tier.





It's sad that they locked the standard 2pp 3hp behind a choice where the alternative is ramp. Although the more I think about it, the more it seems like the card is good rather than bad.





I feel like this is something closer to t2; a bit too much healing for construct.



Off the top of my head, I can't recall what cool thing Shadow can reanimate at 3pp. Or at 5pp. But as a topdeck in t2, it's fine.



Mini-Odin. Well, we have FFG; it's worse, but cheaper and can work on units if necessary.



I always wanted Lily to work on amulets. This is something like Lily, but worse in my opinion — you can't bounce the spellcard or play it again.



Mega-Orc PDK support. I'm not sure Orcs can take off on their own, but a bunch of 2pp 2/2s in the company of PDK sounds very good. Again, a decent topdeck in t2. Also might be good for non-PDK aggro. In short, there is potential.



Who needs a 3pp 3/2 ward in 2018? Nowadays, only the laziest person doesn't have a 3pp 2/3 ward.



Normie. 2pp for Haven is nothing.






Well, Haven just got a cool new archetype. I don't know how to evaluate this properly; it all sounds very "druggy" (so, first I read "this round" and got scared, but I re-read — no, in this match, phew), but it seems cool, at least something fresh for this craft. Although I haven't played Summit, they should have supported him better.

A bunch of other druggy stuff dropped from other reveals, but screw that. For me, it's cooler to make big posts with a lot of reveals than to drag them one card at a time.