Having both blighted ravine and avalanche on 4 has always felt exceptionally awkward in Freijord and no amount of careful ratioing or tweaking solves the fundamental problem. The number of players that have felt comfortable just 1 drop, 2 drop spawn two bodies, jam a bunch a one drops on 3 and swing into this region is insane, and to be fair they were right to do so, because blighted wont land, and avalanche is a bad card. Well now you have ice shards for 2 that's amazing, and bam if it's late game destroy an equipment instead, instant 3 of for any ramp deck thank god.
Daybreak is already a really good grindy deck where you just play stuff until your opponent runs out of steam, and now they have another cheap tool, but to be fair I've never not seen leona level on 5 anyway, but I would probably drop the 4 mana life steal now, or the stealcorn.
Rumble is awesome, probably the most do something champ in LOR, and the added spellshield cuts down on interaction.
This provides a discard outlet that can also grant him elusive so he kinda does the husk nonsense now and that's great nobody is gonna say Rumble is op because it's not in pink region
Jhin buff which is nice he needed it, just more cheap skill procs all day long in case you whiff on annie
Riots worried about TF being op but honestly this is fine, TF doesn't level in most top tier decks he's just a low commitment cycle play like Akshan, or Nami, or just anything that's top tier right now.
Very problematic, pantheon fiora, or akshan pantheon are already amazing deck, low commitment, low interaction, high value like all the best decks and now they can burst protect for 2 mana. I think they must have printed this before that deck got meta because yeah its bad news.
Pushing that old school TF casino deck, where you hyper draw fleeting cards to level TF in like 1 turn, and now it has a late game pay off.
This is less hey lets rotate TF and more hey lets actually level TF for a change like he's a gold rarity card.
Instant 3 of in bandle, big problem with why mayor or Nora don't see as much play is because it's just food for your opponents challenger.
Now if you drag you better get ready to trade when that owl with spellshield instantly turns into a 5/5
P and z control is suffering in the face of ionia, where stall and denying interaction is more valuable then removal, and dmg based removal worst of all.
Flock, disintigrate coming in at 1 and 2 mana being hard to beat in this regard.
So yes give them more junk absolutely
As a freijord main this card is very good. Because usually copy effects are fleeting this is not.
So you get your frostbite one turn, and then get it the next this is awesome I would run 3 of this with 3 of three sisters.
more p and z control tools great.
If you jam catalyzer this will do 4 for 2 that's almost as good as flock without the dmg requirement but you need the equipment still good card.
remember when striking was a thing and you didn't just pressure your opponent with do nothing plays that forced interaction as a means of draining resources but legitimately represented a tug of war between players and wincons...yeah neither do I.
Basically pink region exists, so spending 5 mana to give your combat cook overwhelm only for your five drop to get bounced and your combat cook to get blocked by a low value card that also gets bounced and replayed means you already lost.
That being said in a perfect world this card would be great and useful
Like you can play him with targon and protec your swings and he can attac
but again pantheon already kinda does that and is in the right regoin
It could be that Varus represents better one shot potential that you can guarantee a swing win with enough tools to deny interaction again mostly in targon, or ionia.
The non removal based regions because at the end of the day denying interaction is better then interacting, and not doing anything is better then doing thing as the game plays currently at higher levels.
So overall yeah freijord got two good cards, and p and z got 2, and bandle got 2
On the boo side both Bilgewater and Targon got 2 good cards.
