We've got more card reveals for Legends of Runeterra's upcoming Cosmic Creation expansion from the Seasonal tournament playoffs, this time from the Japanese stream!
UPDATE: European stream gave us the official translation for Weapon Hilt.
Reforge is a new mechanic that creates a random blade fragment that is still needed to "restore the blade". Once you've cast all 3 fragments, you create the Blade of the Exile.
The remaining Blade Fragment and the Blade itself were also shown on the Japanese stream without translations, before getting later revealed on Runeterra's Twitter.
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Let me guess what riven will be like:
Riven is a 4 mana 2/4 challenger:
"When you cast a spell- I get +2/0 until round end If I am the target of the Spell, also give me barrier""
Level up: You targeted me with spells 4 times
Leveled up Riven: 3/5 challenger:
"When you cast a spell- I get +2/0 until round end If I am the target of the Spell, also give me barrier"" and "if I attack a unit that i Challenged: Deal my damage to adjacent blockers aswell
So maybe Riven lvl up will be sth like "Cast blade of the exile to me" right? And her summon effect will be "Reforge".
With the reforge mechanic they clearly wanted to create a semi random mechanic which I am not sure what to think about.
It is the middleground between the interests of competetive oriented players and casuals but it doesn't really appeal to both of them.
I guess riot knows that the better player wins (way more often) character of Runeterra is scaring new players off but they don't want to be hearthstone eighter with it's very random nature and in their place I proably would seperate random-fun cards from actually viable non-random cards who are more meant for friendly matches instead of ladder.
Now back to the original topic:
The reforge mechanic is in general quite consistant and opens many doors for noxus to play with new regions (nr 1 is targon with taric nr 2 is p&z with augments) in a more midrange style.
Yet i'm not at all sold on any card from these other than Runeweaver, Weapon Hilt and maybe Blade Squire who are decent earlygame options.
And to those who think Zoe will be a thing: you have to be completely insane if you think Zoe will ever win a game outside of Freljord decks creating her with the The Howling Abyss because her lvlup condition wont ever happen unless your opponent runs 0 interaction (what competetive decks are usually packed with)
Wow I predicted all of the keywords of the Fragments correctly!
Nice Zoe tie-in. I rather play her on Ionia or PnZ tho.
They really need to keyword the "burst spell that can't be cast in respounce or in combat" it's obvious at this point.. The keyworded lesser mechanics, why not this one?
i guess, they will add full Riven squad from the 3 parts story. Already hunter and runeweaver are here.
Isn't the squad already there?
The fact you can give overwhelm with this mechanic it's huge, it means Viktor can go with noxus as you don't need a card like Zenith Blade anymore, so it's possible to chose as second champion Draven, Vi it's still a viable choice and we have to wait for the new nox champ which probably will work with him.
I'd say Viktor got some variations in deck building, which it seems was a common worry