Stygimo

I feel like the on-card RNG effects actually are a way to even out the RNG related to card draw. You need both kinds of randomness to balance the game. There is a huge continuum of randomness at work in the game. And, for me, that’s really the sticking point on all these Tink/Pagle arguments. I just don’t buy the argument that games are won and…[Read more]

thanks!

Isn’t luck inherently just the nature of card games? No one wants to pay $2500 to buy into a poker tournament and lose with KK to AK 6 from the money, but that certainly happens! To make the counterpoint that poker is inherently a gambling game or that you can’t compare the two, the point trying to be made is that luck doesn’t destroy the…

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I think the most likely change to happen would be to have it fire at the start of your turn instead of the end.

I want to know what peoples thoughts are on making Pagle an 0/3 instead of an 0/4….

so was 5 mana sylvanas perfectly balanced because everyone used her?

Many great points are being made, but I think one of the reasons the cards are NOT game breaking is precisely BECAUSE everyone is using them. It isn’t just the one Tink roll that wins or loses the game because EACH player gets a Tink roll. Same with Pagle. Both players can gain or lose advantage from the RNG on both cards.

One thing that struck me as I listened to the podcast was the comment Artosis made that matches are decided by who gets more draws from Nat Pagle and who gets the Devilsaur rather than the squirrel.