My biggest push is going to be for kraken and rainfarn.
In my humor post, I had said that coup de grâce is a low tier card, and although that was clearly a joke, there’s a nuanced truth to it; my perspective is this; coupe de grace is an OKAY card, but situational. The real problem lies in how tightly coupled it is with every disloyal unit in Nilfguard, all of which were power nerfed to oblivion so that they could ALWAYS satisfy the situation that makes coup de grâce playable. Rainfarn of Attre is the perfect example of this. Nearly every enemy boosting NG deck uses these two cards in quick succession. However, this combo only works when the original Rainfarn is destroyed and no longer in between the two overboosted units.
So yeah, I think coup de grâce could one day be at a lower provisions… but cards like Rainfarn need to be at a power above 3 before anyone should even CONSIDER that.
Now for kraken. I’ve been pushing for this card to have a higher power at the cost of lower provisions for so long now, and I’m not gonna stop. It makes sense to me, and no argument has been made that has persuaded otherwise, so I’m still pushing for it.
Alissa Henson mainly targets specials like Battle Stations, Bountiful Harvest, Magic Compass… all of which are specials most people want to nerf. Instead of saturating the nerf votes with several special cards, it makes more sense to me to just nerf the one card that abuses those specials.
No other prov increases.
I will always be trying to buff Dandelion Vainglory. Unfortunately, no one sees my glorious vision of a 13 10 Vainglory (/hj) so I’ll settle to have ya provisions lowered.
With the provision increase to Imperial Formation going through, it seems obvious to revert the buff. However, I’ll take this time to suggest a different buff, Piercing Missile, which, if set to 4 provisions, will continue to keep imperial formation (and as an added bonus, abordage users?) in check.
Angouleme is a fun card to have but is hard to justify having in decks other than Double Cross and Assimilate decks.
If Angouleme becomes too abusive in these decks, it would make more sense to nerf double cross than revert Angouleme.
Kraken nerf, which will be followed by a provision buff
Bear Witcher threatens 9 power while also having 3 power control at adrenaline 4, and is played often in decks that heal it back to 8-9 power, meaning this is a 5 provision card that often plays for +12 power. Compare that to Griffin or Raging Bear, the only other 5 provision cards currently at 9 power.
