7 years ago
Berries MUST be Nerfed
I have never called for nerfing before. I also thought some of the nerfing, like with Valkyrie, were maybe not needed but still was not upset about it. But now I feel the Strawberrian/Strongberry com...
In card games the most common metagame design usually follows a rock-paper-scissor pattern. Each deck will be strong against a certain type of deck, but weak against another. Often, one of those decks also happens to be very strong against less than tier 1 decks, while the others not so much. That is the case of the Berries deck. It also happens to have quite a low rarity count making it very accessible (it's ironic that in all card games the same people who complain about the game being too expensive also complain about popular but accessible decks being too strong) and thus very popular.
If Berries are "Rock" then Armour/sports and gravestone/mill decks are "paper". Unfortunately, Ramp is plant's "scissors" in that case. Then Valk OTK becomes your zombies "Rock" in this analogy. Anyway, there are plenty of decks that beat each other, but what Dalnii is getting at is that too many plant players are playing "Rock" but zombie players insist on playing scissors decks or simply tier 2 decks that aren't effective.
That makes sense. But I think in this case, soooo many people are playing just ONE Rock, and not "all paper" decks are really that effective against it.