Yes, it will take some adjustment to move on beyond cycling.
We still haven’t seen the Dominaria cards in action, so it’s not just subtraction. There will be entirely new strategies in the coming weeks.
Just a few ideas with what we still have:
Sorin: Pony/Lifegain
Samut: Ghalta/Afflict
Huatli2: Vamps/Exploration
Bolas: Doom/Immortal Sun Loop
Tezz2: Blightcaster/Storm the Vault/Treasures
Dovin: Starfield/Wreckage
Lili3: Hangarback/Tetzimoc
Nahiri: Double-Strikers/Removal
Vraska: Big Dinos/Recursion
Some of these big bosses will still be a challenge, but Samut with a double-afflicted 84/84 Ghalta can be pretty devastating. Obviously, it will come down to the cards you have, but there are some very good (non-cycling) strategies floating around out there.
As always, it will be easy enough to adapt to new bosses with a solid collection of card but it will be real hard for begginers.
On the other hand, the problem isn’t the fact that cycling will be gone … It’s the fact that many players are now used to be able to compete in higher tiers while they wouldn’t have tried it before cycling came out.
Things will return in their place, for good reasons… But once you tasted good wine, it becomes harder to sip your plonk … and that feelin might cause much frustration among players.
This game is constantly changing with the addition of new cards and sets swapping in and out of the standard format. Being upset because a game that is constantly changing changed is pretty close to the definition of insanity.
Well people without even 1-2 mythics in standard shouldn’t really be expecting to beat the main bosses should they? That’s one of the reasons I hated cycling the most. It took the curve out of the game. Instead of needing to build a collection to beat the top end content, you just had to open NP.
You are correct on AoSS.. I was thinking it was HOU, but its definitely AKH. Oh well, scratch that one.
I guess my point is there are a lot of deck options to beat virtually all of the bosses… not sure you need mythics at all… although they certainly help. I am pretty sure I could run Ferocidon and 2 other dinos instead of ghalta and beat most of the big bosses. Certainly dont need mythic pirates with enough bounce in Saheeli… etc.
Pretty much… Except it’s slightly away from auto… Like currently I usually have to choose between it and Lotus because they aren’t great together, get a lot of mana first turn but then Lotus is gone, not necessarily worth the deck slot… Including one of the two is almost certain right now, but which one depends on the deck and whether destroying your own supports is a good idea or not.
An auto-include in one colour is nowhere near as bad as an auto-include in every colour though.
I don’t know. It’s auto include in blue for me, and I used to use Gilded Lotus in non-blue decks. In my humble opinion, STV is more broken thaN GL since STV sometimes, but not always, create a NEW vault instead of reinforcing the initial one. It gets a bit silly sometimes with 3 or more vaults on the board since they trigger each other.
I know the effect that you’re talking about when two StV appear. I am guessing that you had Nyx out too? Because that is the only time I have been able to replicate the effect. For some reason Nyx brings back the support with a different kind of marker rather than one cast from the hand. Anyways, when the nyx version pops it creates a separate flipped support separate from the flipped support made from those you cast from your hand. I can duplicate this effect with Legions5 landing too. One note though, you have to have three or more supports else it won’t create a new flipped support. So.Nyx and just StV won’t work. But if you had Nyx, StV and StW … it works. Weird. Anyways. That’s what i know about it. Not the card that is broken but how nyx interacts with it and other cards that flip. They all do this
Also, I’ve managed my resources specifically so that I’ll have exactly the amount of orbs in the worst case scenario to craft STV once RIX booster crafting drops in price.
Because, yes, it’s that good. And can be seen a mile away by those who haven’t even played with it.
STV is my worst offender. I put it in every deck that uses supports and isn’t koth (or red green). It’s the best ramp support in the game, and I totally wonder why it wasn’t nerfed.
No, the crafting price for RIX will drop when DOM is available for crafting which is 1 month after its release. This will also coincide with DOM no longer giving bonus Orbs for dupes.