I’ve complained about this card before, but now I have a solution! Really! Truly! This is good!An untrickable Dragonfruit seems to be what this card is supposed to be: Big body, Splash damage, Can’t touch this. But it occurred to me that it came out before untrickable was a thing. So instead of being untrickable, it’s better: it doesn’t allow tricks to be played at all.An untrickable 6/6 with amphibious that smashes in three lanes is still really good, even for eight. It’ll still probably end the game, most of the time. But it will be opposable, won’t end my whole turn, and can’t have its effect stacked (two Dragonfruit).I believe this is a fair solution.

Yeaah... I don't think so. Making the zombie tricks cost more is actually better than the card being untrickable. If you want it to be untrickable just place an Umbrella Leaf near it.

Well, I said what I had to say. We are not the devs, so we can't do any changes to any card. It is up to them to analyze the winrate of a card and see if it needs a buff or a nerf. Until then, I suggest you should just accept the game as it is 😉

Edit: untrickable, and lose the clause: “Zombie tricks cost 6 more.”

It'll still die as easily to a 1/1 zombie with deadly...

Apotatosaurus it is untrickable, I think he/she (whatever lol) already occupied that place, every legendary seems to be particular in his ability.

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puntwothree
8 years ago
Edit: untrickable, and lose the clause: “Zombie tricks cost 6 more.”
Azombioso
8 years ago
Yeaah... I don't think so. Making the zombie tricks cost more is actually better than the card being untrickable. If you want it to be untrickable just place an Umbrella Leaf near it.
Anonymous
8 years ago
It'll still die as easily to a 1/1 zombie with deadly...
BlazinsZ
8 years ago
Apotatosaurus it is untrickable, I think he/she (whatever lol) already occupied that place, every legendary seems to be particular in his ability.
puntwothree
8 years ago
It’s better than untrickable currently, yes. That’s the whole point. Do you play zombies? Have you ever beaten a Dragonfruit? It’s too good. There is no way to trade with it if the plant player picks the right lane, and then you literally can’t do anything.

At least when Walnut Bowling beats you, it does it in one turn. There shouldn’t be a card that makes the game unplayable.
Azombioso
8 years ago
@puntwothree You clearly don't know me man xD
Yes, I play zombies. I am a zombie player with lots of experience. (Reached Ultimate League in all seasons minus the first one with Rustbolt).
And yes, I have beaten Dragonfruits.
Is not an easy task (like when your opponent plays Cornucopia and summons 4 more plants), but is definitively possible. BUUUUUUUUUT, if your deck is only filled with aggro cards, yeah... you are really not going to have a good time.
puntwothree
8 years ago
Dragonfruit makes Brainana look like a bad card, and both come in the same class at the same rarity.

I maintain Brainana should be the card to nuke tricks. Dragonfruit doing it indefinitely (with a stackable effect...) is not in the spirit of the anything.

Making it untrickable in compensation would be perfectly OK.
Azombioso
8 years ago
The real question here is not if EA CAN do the change... (because they obviously can) but rather WHY would they do the change?
We already got an Untrickable legendary card. Changing Dragonfruit to be exactly like it just makes no sense.
If the card was abosutely devastating and dominated 99.999999999% of the games, don't you think that EA would have nerfed it when this new set came out?
I mean, Stompadon has only been around for 1 Set (what was that? Like... 4 months?) and he got nerfed instantly. (And Escape Through time and Quickman and Medulla and Fossilhead...)
Dragonfruit has been around for double that time, and it hasn't been touched.
Want to hear the reason?
Because it doesn't need a nerf.
(nor a change)
BlazinsZ
8 years ago
Have realized that the avatar for the last league is a picture of Dragonfruit? someone from EA loves this card a lot, LOL do not have much expectation of it being changed 😃
puntwothree
8 years ago
@Azombioso two reasons they might not have changed the card. #1: unlike most of the cards that have been nerfed, it’s not FAST. For obvious reasons, having a card that always wins by turn 5 is worse than a card that always wins by turn 8. It’s also legendary, which makes it less visable than a lot of cards that received nerf.

And, most importantly #2: until recently, making Dragonfruit untrickable wasn’t an option, because untrickable wasn’t a thing.

There are other untrickable legends, sure. And there are other untrickable cards. So what? Dragonfruit also fills the Three-Headed Chomper niche and the Brainana niche (and it does both better than both of these). The problem is, it fills too many niches.