It's always a bumpy road when a game experiment with a new type of card or mechanic but in the end that what keep the game fresh and interesting, at least in my opinion.
The spellshield is focus speed, so snap vengeance snap obliterate fish, snap will of Ionia all are solid counters to a deck that only has one wincon.
That's where you're wrong the deck has another win con in Void Abomination and good luck removing that when it hit the board with spell shield, barrier, scout and elusive.
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Now if they wait till turn 6 to play her and back up with a deny, does that mean your deck has no proactive moves till turn 6 thats problematic regardless of opponent.
Not trying to be mean spirited here but that's such a dumb thing to say. Your talking as if Kai'sa decks do nothing until they play their champion which just plain wrong, they run cards like Blinding Assault, Petricite Broadwing and Merciless Hunter to control the board in the early game they just need to bank 3 spell mana to have Kai'sa+rite of negation on turn 6
Sounds like you're an Annie Tf main tired of getting countered. You know there's a lot of other decks out there that are easy to play.
Illoi Bard for example just go big and then their tempo doesn't matter.
Triferian has never been a meta slave.
The problem is by giving a region both spell shield and counterspell you make their win con near impossible to interact with for most decks, leaving you with only one option, play aggro and kill them before they can set up their win con, which sucks because I am pretty sure that most people on this forum aren't big fans of aggro.
Care to elaborate? Because as far as I am concerned that card is just worse version of Kalista and Kalista herself is just decent.
In what way is it worse than Kalista?
Kalista won't even do anything until you've leveled her up. Dancers have no requirement.
Kalista cannot revive champions
Kalista only trigers the first time she attacks.
How is that better than dancers?
She is 3 mana cheaper that alone makes her better, Dancer can grow in attack but she doesn't have any evasive key word which mean she is just getting chump blocked her ability to revive an ally is good but that require step up beforehand.
From what I have seen there are a couple of good Gwen decks and none of them are using this card the only deck using it is a Noxus/SI combo deck that tries to abuse dancer effect for free attacks and rally but that's just a meme deck.
Out of the new champions Kai'sa and the evolve mechanic are my favorites, thematically it fits the void and I do like having control over which keywords I can give my unit's rather than just hoping that I won't get screwed over by RNG.
An intriguing design, outside of the obvious synergy with Kai'sa, I think that she would pair well with either Nasus or Kindred since the archetype revolve around summoning and killing husk tokens.
Edit: It turn out that a unit consuming a Husk don't counts as slay trigger, this pretty much kill any interest I had in this champion.
So for those who have looked at the stats lately they will know that Annie and Bard are the two highest played Champs in the game in terms of the number of high tier lists they are present in.
I've already spoken about why ravembloom is a problematic and poorly designed card in its current iteration aka should buff spells not creatures, both is too powerful for a 1 mana landmark.
Ravenbloom is neither problematic nor poorly designed, currently the card is only being used in one meta deck and said deck winrate and playrate are both reasonable, and while the landmark itself only cost 1 mana you still need to play the 6 mana Tybaulk to get the buffs so that 7 mana in total. Limiting the buff to spell only won't change much since that deck tend to kill you with burn damage anyway.
I don't see anything wrong with Annie. She can't be traded by 2 defense guys, but she also can't block and trade with anything. It honestly feels like Annie is a card used to level up RavenBloom, rather than the opposite. If Tibaulk was a 5/5, it would still be worhth playing, same if he didn't gave overwhelm.
The main issue with Bard as you said, is that you get value essentially for free. You don't really have to do anything, and it can create board states that are impossible to deal with early game. SOmething as simple as Bandle Commando coming out as a 3/4 or even 2/3 has a pretty huge impact.
Basically, Bard allows you to have underpriced, over the curve units...for free.
Annie not being able to block is not a real weakness, Annie/Jhin is a burn aggro those type of deck don't look for trades they only care about pushing damage since you are never beating them in race, as for Annie/TF that deck has enough removal to get rid of your unit.
I do however agree with everything you said on Bard.
Same reason why people aren't doing it now, with just 3 health ruin runner is easy to kill even with it's spell shield, Sivir deck who used Ruin Runner tend to use either Demacia or Ionia as secondary region because you need some protective burst speed spell to keep that unit alive.
Me : Yay!!! Bard got nerfed we can finally put that high roll nonsense behind us...
Norra : Surprise mother******
I like his new makeover, the champion himself don't look that strong but if I learned anything from Irelia and Ahri it's that looks can be deceptive.
Judging from the region and the esthetics the next champion will be Master Yi
So after the waifu expansion we are getting the edgelord one.
True, it would suck if they were to nerf some of the new decks just to go back to a meta dominated by tralls or Azir/Irelia.
I think that Ancient Hourglass should cost 3 mana now because the card already cost 2 mana
There are many ways I can describe Bard/Ilaoi or any Bard deck for the matter and fun isn't one of them xD
It's always a bumpy road when a game experiment with a new type of card or mechanic but in the end that what keep the game fresh and interesting, at least in my opinion.
They are targeting the right cards for nerfs hopefully this mean that Jayce/Lux will be playable again.
That's where you're wrong the deck has another win con in Void Abomination and good luck removing that when it hit the board with spell shield, barrier, scout and elusive.
Not trying to be mean spirited here but that's such a dumb thing to say. Your talking as if Kai'sa decks do nothing until they play their champion which just plain wrong, they run cards like Blinding Assault, Petricite Broadwing and Merciless Hunter to control the board in the early game they just need to bank 3 spell mana to have Kai'sa+rite of negation on turn 6
Triferian has never been a meta slave.
The problem is by giving a region both spell shield and counterspell you make their win con near impossible to interact with for most decks, leaving you with only one option, play aggro and kill them before they can set up their win con, which sucks because I am pretty sure that most people on this forum aren't big fans of aggro.
She is 3 mana cheaper that alone makes her better, Dancer can grow in attack but she doesn't have any evasive key word which mean she is just getting chump blocked her ability to revive an ally is good but that require step up beforehand.
From what I have seen there are a couple of good Gwen decks and none of them are using this card the only deck using it is a Noxus/SI combo deck that tries to abuse dancer effect for free attacks and rally but that's just a meme deck.
Care to elaborate? Because as far as I am concerned that card is just worse version of Kalista and Kalista herself is just decent.
Out of the new champions Kai'sa and the evolve mechanic are my favorites, thematically it fits the void and I do like having control over which keywords I can give my unit's rather than just hoping that I won't get screwed over by RNG.
That makes the two of us it look like they just decided to slap a random region on this card
An intriguing design, outside of the obvious synergy with Kai'sa, I think that she would pair well with either Nasus or Kindred since the archetype revolve around summoning and killing husk tokens.
Edit: It turn out that a unit consuming a Husk don't counts as slay trigger, this pretty much kill any interest I had in this champion.
The deck has multiple win cons Atrocity into Nautilus or any of your big sea monsters, striking the nexus with multiple Abyssal Eye or getting a Platewyrm Egg from a Shipwreck Hoarder.
Ravenbloom is neither problematic nor poorly designed, currently the card is only being used in one meta deck and said deck winrate and playrate are both reasonable, and while the landmark itself only cost 1 mana you still need to play the 6 mana Tybaulk to get the buffs so that 7 mana in total. Limiting the buff to spell only won't change much since that deck tend to kill you with burn damage anyway.
Annie not being able to block is not a real weakness, Annie/Jhin is a burn aggro those type of deck don't look for trades they only care about pushing damage since you are never beating them in race, as for Annie/TF that deck has enough removal to get rid of your unit.
I do however agree with everything you said on Bard.
There are fun shenanigans that you could pull with Evil Imperfectionist other than that that these cards looks underwhelming.
Same reason why people aren't doing it now, with just 3 health ruin runner is easy to kill even with it's spell shield, Sivir deck who used Ruin Runner tend to use either Demacia or Ionia as secondary region because you need some protective burst speed spell to keep that unit alive.