I just saw that all boats like Leviathan or The Syren got a change from "summon" to "play".
I am just a casual but I play Swain really a lot so I wondered how much impact that has.
Can someone can explain to me the decisive difference or give some examples of why that matters?
THX
EDIT: Is it maybe that a "play" is faster than a "summon" and you e.g. get a Swain just for "playing" the Leviathan instead of having it "fully summoned" to the board?
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I just saw that all boats like Leviathan or The Syren got a change from "summon" to "play".
I am just a casual but I play Swain really a lot so I wondered how much impact that has.
Can someone can explain to me the decisive difference or give some examples of why that matters?
THX
EDIT: Is it maybe that a "play" is faster than a "summon" and you e.g. get a Swain just for "playing" the Leviathan instead of having it "fully summoned" to the board?
Any Play is also a summon, but a summon isn't necessarily a play. Plays only happen from hand, while summons are whenever it appears on the board.
Best example if Spectral Matron: As they are now, using it on a boat would make that boat would also draw you a card. If it's changed to Play, the draw doesn't happen.
Essentially, it's a nerf.
Good example.
Technically true -- on play is strictly worse than on summon -- but I can't think of any non-meme decks that are affected by this. The change would only be relevant if you had a way to either cheat out or resurrect a boat, and I've never encountered that in constructed. It makes me wonder if there's some upcoming power-combo with the about-to-be-released cards that they wanted to nip in the bud or if they just wanted to make the text more consistent.