Nightfall is the newest mechanic to be revealed for Legends of Runeterra's Call of the Mountain expansion! Alongside the keyword reveal, we've got new cards too!
- Nightfall: Bonus if this is not the first card you play in a round.
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I'm not sure how the game mechanic relates to the meaning of the word nightfall. You play one card and suddenly it's nighttime?
The spells are very interesting. Somebody's going to figure out how to make a scary Encroaching Shadows deck.
I really want to see the full art on that Doombeast. Looks pretty cool!
The full art of the cards can be seen in the background of the reveal gifs on Runeterra's Twitter.
Why does Duskrider say “we” instead of “you”? Is the effect different from “each time YOU activated Nightfall this game?”
I’m curious to see how Hearthstone’s “combo” keyword works in this game, with all its back-and-forth play. In Runeterra, I have to worry about things like whether I’ll have time to set up the two-card combo before my opponent attacks.
It is the unusual and a little problematic (despite me actually liking it a little) way in which they phrase things. Having cards refer to themselves as if they are doing something themselves.
The name is kinda goofy for such effect
Someone will find how to break Encroaching Shadows, Probably with Hecarim too.
The main weakness I see is that Encroaching Shadows also effects champions. Currently, even champions like Hecarim would usually prefer to not have +2|+2 and Ephemeral. However, if Nocturne has Ephemeral or works well with Ephemeral, that could be a different story.
Easily remedied, and something people already do all the time. A Champion brought back by The Rekindler or Mist's Call would not be Ephemeral.
Yeah, good catch! Didnt realize that. Tho there are ways to remove Ephemeral and/or revive your Champions without said keyword. Might be too tedious tho.
So this is basically like combo from HS right, seems cool.
Aww; now you've ruined the aesthetic for me. :-(
So it is 4 Taragon champions then? Thought it would be 2 regions per 2 months.
I am glad we are seeing nocturne earlier but Taragon is gonna come out weaker.
Indeed--very interesting, and not at all what I was expecting. (That seems to be a common theme in these reveals...)
It makes me wonder if they might not release even more non-Targon champs / fewer Targon this month. I admit that fewer than 4 Targon champs at release will make the region seem very inferior compared to the others, but I already hypothesized that meant a hard limit of at least 5 and that's now gone.
The followers here seem all right to me, nothing too crazy but not too weak either. Passage unearned seems a bit too situational, but it can obviously be very strong in the right situation. Encroaching shadows is by far my favorite card out of these. I don't think it will be good but I will definitely have fun trying to make it work, probably in a deck with a lot of last breath and ephemeral synergies.
And since Nocturne is very likely to be the next champion, I am very curious and excited to see what he does. One thing we can probably safely assume is that he either has nightfall himself or synergises with other nightfall cards (maybe both). I also believe Nocturne will be the first champion added to Runeterra that is not currently assigned to a specific region in Runeterra (at least according to universe.leagueoflegends.com).
You are correct. I predict that Shadow Isles will become the defacto LoR region for all regionless supernatural/"demonic" champions--namely, Shaco, Aatrox, Evelynn, Fiddlesticks, Kindred; possibly Brand?--based on the fact:
what does include the sentence "summoned but not played"?
Played = units created by a unit card played from hand (and 'played' units also count as a summon for affects, but is not hit by Passage Unearned.)
Summon = units NOT created by a unit card played from hand
Summons units mainly include token units (like the token unit from House Spider or Zed) and all units created by spells (like Remembrance and The Harrowing).
It basically means the unit needs to enter the board in a different way than by being played from hand.
Effects like The Rekindler or Dawn and Dusk.