I’m hoping this is the case too. Although I’m actually fine with Dovin’s design including his reliance on KLD cards and energy, I think of him in the same way as Arlinn’s design being tied to SOI/EM. He’s slow, but a top tier control PW with the only drawback being that KLD mechanics seem to kill phone performance and battery life.
Chandra 2.0 doesn’t feel right in terms or lore/theme and her abilities are all objectively worse than they should be even with the +9 mana bonus factored in. I hope that Nissa 2.0 doesn’t share her fate and is more independent.
I’m basing this off the “Vital Force” objective in the Inventors’ Fair and comparing that to the objectives from previous events. The blue node designed around Jace 2 in the Innistrad events wanted you to create a large number of supports, the red/green node wanted you to summon a certain number of wolves/werewolves which aligned with Arlinn’s build. The Vital Force node has the objectives to end with over 75 life and energize 5 or more gems. So it wouldn’t surprise me if her toolkit has some amount of life gain and energize mechanics.
But we don’t really know that, do we? I’m fighting a surprisingly high amount of Chandra2 decks in this Inventor’s Fair although the forums seemed to suggest that no one wants to get her. And while I really enjoy playing with Dovin, I will not spend any crystals on her.
Chandra 2 is a solid planeswalker despite her flaws. Energy isn’t her problem, it’s the balance if requirements of how much energy she needs verses how much she produces that’s the problem. Even despite that, she’s got really solid mana gains which allows her to be fast and aggressive, and for those of us who didn’t win Saheeli, I’d argue that she’s the best red planeswalker to do it.
You’re fighting a lot of C2 because everyone who wanted to score highly had to get her. Very few people actually want her, but alot of people were forced to get her to get points for their coalition or have a shot at aetherworks marvel, and I know no-one who is happy about being forced to buy C2. What you spend your crystals on should be your choice, you shouldn’t be forced into buying a specific planeswalker for an event. A good middle ground would be to make it like the Saheeli event, let us use C2 in the event for free, but be able to make our own deck for her, overcoming the problem with the Saheeli event where the saheeli deck wasn’t good enough for platinum standards
It would have been good to NOT get her to show D3 our unwillingness to comply with their idea of forcing a PW upon us. The irony of course is that if she was good, everyone would want her anyway.
I really hope they don’t make the same mistake with Nissa.
dovin i think can make the cut c2 unless her abilities get changed drastically or cards do i cant see her being used much but when she has to be. is it just me or did they miss the mark on this one and not make a gold or mythic that could give a creature energize?