Balance Thread

sXeAndriex Wrote:

Tamdrik Wrote:

sXeAndriex Wrote:

Tamdrik Wrote:Wow, Slimeborg sucks...

At 30/45 he'd be one of the better cards for his cost without taking his ability into concideration. I agree that he's too weak as is... maybe make his ability 2x and let him start out with 20/45? Then he's pretty much even with Chook Xao, except he doesn't dizzy, costs mana, and can only target himself.

Aside from the inherent problem of using Chook Xao as a standard, 30/45 doesn't exactly favorably compare with Skeletal Bird, Scrap Heap, or Mechahawk, which are the creatures in his cost class.

You're comparing three beatsticks to a completly different type of monster. Chook Xao may not be the perfect choice, I'll readily admit, but it's closer in concept than any of those.

You said 30/45 would be one of the better cards for his cost "without taking his ability into consideration".  That's a vanilla beatstick.  So I compared it to some vanilla beatsticks.  So 30/45 would be at a 15-20 point stat disadvantage to a same-cost vanilla beatstick.  So that's what the cost of his ability would be, which I think is fair.  So, assuming a full field of generators, he'd be a 45/45 for 4/4 mana, a 60/45 for 5/5 mana, a 75/45 for 6/6 mana, etc., which all seem somewhat more expensive than they'd normally be, which I consider an acceptable tradeoff for flexibility.