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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@jaydabbler wrote:ive been playing with a deck built around berries and spinach, and I can tell you - it is NOT a great deck. Spinach is too expensive to really gain enough out of playing it
I guess you've been using Poison Ivy ? with other leaf type plants but... this ruins the combination a bit, that's why I dont like Spinach very much, practically force you to play with Pottedhouse, Bonk, umbrella leafy... that's already 12 or less cards to add if you want to combine it with another class like kabloom.
Actually not at all. Savage Spinach is best used to boost the attack of plants. This gives you some options:
1. Create some fearsome high attack plants
2. Boost the attack of low attack plants
I played around with a SS deck in Casual (never took it into Ranked) using GK and I won 4 straight, got beaten a few times but absolutely bodied some high ranked players.
How?
Nuts with attack.
Nothing wrecks more than a board with high health, team up nuts with attack with for good measure a Mirror-Nut on the board.
The best leafy plants to use in general are: * Choy (edit: it is hilarious the name of a card is filtered), Pea Patch and Cabbage Pult. I would not use Umbrella Leaf as it is too valuable a card against tricky Zombies (but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do).
Of course SS decks are not as simple as Briar Rose decks; you have to plan them properly.
* Choy cannot be used just for removal unless you are holding more than one or if you have a Pea Pod.
Pea Pods are the preferred consumable. Never play it and leave it hanging out there.
You need cards. Lots of cards. Manage your hand. Sometimes it means holding instead of trading. Much like Onion Rings. And it is a god send for Captain Cuke! I invested in 4 Cukes and 4 Spinaches before the buff and I feel like a genius.
I wouldn't call SS unbalanced but I understand why someone would. However, I think there are more cards that need addressing before you would get to nerfing SS (Monument, Intergalactic Warlord, Astro Vera)
