Battleground | Battleground

[stereohelix]

So I did a little theory crafting about this card today. Made a spreadsheet and everything =) Here's a summary of the most scary creatures with my obscure rating system that takes lots of things into account:

Spoiler for Hidden:

1.00   Phoenix
0.91   Damselfly
0.90   Gargoyle
0.82   Deja Vu
0.78   Ray of Light
0.75   Armagio
0.73   Condor
0.68   Scarab
0.68   Leaf Dragon
0.67   Psion
0.64   Guardian Angel
0.63   Steel Golem
0.63   Graviton Guard
0.63   Firefly

After much deliberation, I decided this looked pretty strange and not really what I wanted, so I made this change:

• Reduced airborne evasion bonus to 30%

New scary creature list:

Spoiler for Hidden:

1.00   Gargoyle
0.98   Phoenix
0.84   Armagio
0.73   Deja Vu
0.73   Damselfly
0.71   Steel Golem
0.71   Graviton Guard
0.70   Steam Machine
0.70   Collosal Dragon
0.69   Voodoo Doll
0.67   Vulture
0.65   Stone Dragon
0.62   Guardian Angel
0.62   Psion
0.62   Lycanthrope

Ahh... that's better.

[GamerJL]

So I did a little theory crafting about this card today. Made a spreadsheet and everything =) Here's a summary of the most scary creatures with my obscure rating system that takes lots of things into account:

Spoiler for Hidden:

1.00   Phoenix
0.91   Damselfly
0.90   Gargoyle
0.82   Deja Vu
0.78   Ray of Light
0.75   Armagio
0.73   Condor
0.68   Scarab
0.68   Leaf Dragon
0.67   Psion
0.64   Guardian Angel
0.63   Steel Golem
0.63   Graviton Guard
0.63   Firefly

After much deliberation, I decided this looked pretty strange and not really what I wanted, so I made this change:

• Reduced airborne evasion bonus to 30%

New scary creature list:

Spoiler for Hidden:

1.00   Gargoyle
0.98   Phoenix
0.84   Armagio
0.73   Deja Vu
0.73   Damselfly
0.71   Steel Golem
0.71   Graviton Guard
0.70   Steam Machine
0.70   Collosal Dragon
0.69   Voodoo Doll
0.67   Vulture
0.65   Stone Dragon
0.62   Guardian Angel
0.62   Psion
0.62   Lycanthrope

Ahh... that's better.

seems like gargoyle is a brawler lol.
darkness and gravity seems to have all the advantage

[stereohelix]

It actually seems pretty well distributed to me. The top 6 creatures are all from different elements, and the top 15 have 11 elements represented. The extra 4 are 2 Gravity, 1 Dark and one Earth. I think that's kind of cool, too. You don't see a lot of Grav creature decks.

After looking at all the potential for fractal flying creatures (Fractal Leaf Dragons! Woo!) it just seemed like the card could go too much in that direction. I like that the brawlers and the little guys are all good -- gives them a niche.

Death could really get a lot out of this card too.

[stereohelix]

Updates:

• reduced airborne evasion bonus to 25%
• cleaned up wording and art
• cleaned up notes

Still waiting to see what happens with Contested Bridges before I submit this to the Crucible.