Cycling has existed in many iterations in this game, and each one of them past vanilla has been problematic from a balance perspective

1. Yoink

Play a creature and steal a card from your opponents deck the original OP Cycling mechanic that was so strong midrange plunder was a tier 1 deck for longer then memory serves.

2. Invoke

Play an expensive creature to get a card, now we no longer need a pre-condition we just spend 1 mana more. People are generally okay with invoke, tempo is an easy thing to balance and while there have been OP Targon decks invoke has never needed adjustment directly.

3. Darkness

What if every creature gave you removal and was fairly costed...hmmm yes now we start to see that we no longer need to pay for tempo or pre-conditions

4. Manifest

What if you could play a creature that gave you answers to things your deck wasn't built for? Yep Mogwai had been the most vocal for the nerfing of this mechanic and it finally happened a bit this patch.

5. Counters?

There is no hard counter for card advantage except for combo decks. Lee Sin offering otk options isn't great he can be removed. Ezreal/Carina is a control card he can be out card advantaged in situations he should be favored.

So finally we have mono shurima a midrange (landmark) based combo deck that is actually good and doesn't care about card advantage.

Cycling for the first time ever since LOR has existed is now being hard countered...and people are pissed.

Welcome to how the rest of us have felt as you yanked, invoked, and manifested to victory winning games you shouldn't, with nothing the other player could do.

Have fun for the next month till the end of April and mono Shurima gets gutted again because people can't auto-cue and auto-win with pure card advantage anymore.

Just a threat to give some insights, discoveries, non-obvious interactions, etc.

TIL that in order to play tradeable cards you need at least one card in your deck.

This is undoubtedly the healthiest meta movement I've seen since bandlewood released in LOR so one year let's say.

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/stats/archetypes

Why do I say that oh mono Shurima is OP no it isn't its at 52%

What people really mean is that a lot of the value grinding lists that were oppressive are now bad.

Darkness while never OP did start the trend of play a creature that give you a free card, rinse and repeat till win.

Now we are seeing these "cycling" decks fall below 50% because even if everything cycles and they have infinite value they will still lose to mono shurima which is good 

Ramp decks are back at 54% winrate whens the last time we saw that?

Pantheon is still good for those that like him at 54%

Aggro still does aggro things.

So across the board the "decks" are getting better and the "card piles" are getting worse 

I view that as amazing, but the people who have gotten used to this game being this way for so long will hate it.

worth to read (hint: it was posted yesterday!) :)

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23765271/22-6-1-1-1-1-patch-notes

Yesterday I had a Deep Breath task for Onyxia and a "deal damage with Blazing Song" for Chi-Ji. So I set up Cookie's target dummies and shot with Chi-Ji on Onyxia. Now the important observation: Deep Breath is supported by the heal power, therefore heals a lot! And next turn you have 30+ fire spell damage. I had to make sure not to one-shot Onyxia with Blazing Song.

Could this work in any PVE or PVP comp? E.g. making some of thr boss fights easier?

I'd like a way to save drafts. I'm working on something that'll more time than I can dedicate to writing in one day.

Card game is dominated by HS and that's period. Is there anything new digital card game on a horizon? Can't find anything on Google tbh.

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23765271/22-6-1-1-1-1-patch-notes

Lots of QoL changes, like this one:

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• Fixed a bug where certain accounts would always queue into unfavorable matchups.

So mono shurima is an archetype that I have experience with long before it was playable.

Here's a list of counter decks beyond the obvious, landmark removal lists.

1. Nasus slay, otk options are dangerous against mono shurima because of a lack of hard removal. So creating a champion that is 20/20 representing fast speed lethal is very dangerous back up by your own counter spell. Also quite agressive traditionally.

2. Swain represents strong removal options but also stun lock endgame with lethiathan, always a valid option he's never out of style.

3. Burn aggro, compared to the board reliant all in play styles of spiders that will struggle going into the buffed quicksand, sitting on the sidelines and slinging spells whether that's prankster ephemerals with monkeys or a more direct approach should be effective.

4. Dragons, strong challengers with cheap demacia removal will present a problem for mono shurima when they have none of their own. Then you can ramp into Asol and see what wins.

5. Rally/predict/sandman/scouts extra attack phases have always been extremely problematic for mono shurima to deal with. Just because they are a little faster now doesn't change that.

6. Deep/lasandra hard to win without a deck God emporer or no he's not immune to mill.

***the meta is changing time to change back with it, to high synergy decks with unique wincons and not just value vomit***

Do that and you'll be fine.

Here we have two decks to show you which is better against Shurima.

One is your standard value grind that is effective in the previous meta and the other is an even older school build that is fast and effective against high synergy brews should they get popular again.

Neither one is inherantly better then the other, they just serve different purposes and learning the difference will make you a better player, and you'll spend less time arguing on Twitter about buffs to weak high synergy decks.

So here we have the buffed deck why is the faster high synergy burn list better then the control list.

Because they only have the following lines of play, play creatures to stall, burst speed interaction to stall, rite of the arcane, and counter spells.

None of that is great at dealing with low curve fast win cons with a burn finish.

Option 2 if you don't want to go under with high synergy, you go over with high synergy

Turbo ramp into an Asol, or obliterate their deck, or play an old fashioned war mothers is honestly to strong for them to deal with

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