
I know most of you guys havent even heard of this card before and proably none of you heard of this card since the changes made to it.
What it does is that it gives a unit a buff permanently and gives the same buff to every copy on the board or created in the future.
In the latest patch riot decided that it was too rarely played and that doubling the effect (+2/+2 from +1/+1) for a higher cost would make the card more reasonable.
But as a compensation they nerfed it's speed from Burst to slow.
What was riot's problem with the card?
-It was very niche and therefore rarely played
- for them the card felt too unimpactful to justify playing it in a deck
Why will it always be a niche card?
The buff provided by the spell i quite small for it's cost (3 mana for +1+1 or 5 mana for 2+2+) so that if you affect only 1 unit by it its not good at all, affecting 2 units makes it okish but not good eighter and it starts getting really strong with 3 unit+ profiting from it's effect.
That makes it a exclusive card for token/ clone decks because you never will consistantly pull 3 copies of a minion anywhere else. (outside of 10 copy drafted expansion decks)
given that the majority of token decks use other ways to temporarily buff their tokens (because it is cheaper and higher tempo) and that you need to play around it, iceborn lagacyBADCARDNAME is easily skipped by most players
So why is the change so bad in my opinion?
Short: it didnt fix the niche situation of the card and made it even unattractive for decks using it
Long: The spell is usually used on token/cloned minions (like spiders) that are all low health and therefore are easy to remove.
Since the legacy is now a slow spell you run a huge risk that your spell gets cancelled by any type of creature removal or simply deny, destroying your deck's winconditon.
That scenario is very likely and COMPLETELY kills the card's and the deck's viability and will lead to even lower playrates of them.
It now is an card that is exclusively for expeditions and even there it will only be used to support decks that draft 10 copies of the same unit card (what should not be a thing in first place)
So lets revert the Changes or make it burst speed again (for 6 mana)