What were you thinking with Savage Spinach?
I know the title seems a bit like a personal attack, which isn't my style, but I'm genuinely interested what the thought was behind Savage Spinach's (SS) buff, and how it ever got past any testing. ...
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8 or 9 ?!?!?! you're joking right? you must be. It's already too expensive at 4 cost to have enough effect.
The reason it doesn't have a large enough effect is because you would need to have a board AND hand full of plants to make it OP, and the odds of having both are roughly NIL. Usually I manage to play it when I have 2 plants out and maybe two more in my hand. But since it replaces a card in play - I often still only have two plants out and i've spent most of my sun for that turn. this card needed the buff badly
conjecture of a "what if / in the future the leafy tribe gets more cards" is a pointless conversation at this stage.
Well, you have the option to use it at turn 4, or at 8 or 9... it would be more effective in general later. The 8 or 9-cost cards can't be played until then, either. I agree that it's much better as a 4-cost card. And I don't necessarily mind the new effect buff. That's why I said the 2/3 with that effect buff would be good. That would be perfectly fair, and most importantly, balanced. Either make a card that costs 4 that can reach 5/6 or 7/8 with a minor group or decent self buff (like Jurassic Fossilhead, which only affects itself), which would be a perfectly fine card, or use the current very powerful buff with very weak stats. You'd still be getting a 1-turn blocker with a really good buff, rather than a 2+ turn blocker that can also deal very hefty damage... with a really good buff.
