Shard of Gratitude | Shard of Gratitude

[willng3]

Multiple SoGs stack in a similar manner to Towers/Pendulums now.

(Current version as of 28.09.11, still subject to change)

[TheCrazyMango]

not muh of a nerf, still a great card imo

[furballdn]

This nerf makes the card as good as a sanctuary. Huh. Except a elementless or just life sanctuary. I'm okay with this.

[The_Mormegil]

This nerf makes the card as good as a sanctuary. Huh. Except a elementless or just life sanctuary. I'm okay with this.

Except that it:
- is cheaper
- has no elemental cost
- is far more usable
- is a lot cheaper
- is still a great healing card
- can still be used by any element
- is a great deal cheaper
- is now usable unupped
- can still heal more
- is so damn cheap and effective
- still enables firestalls and other stalls
- is still too good and game-changing to be allowed into competitive PvP

[Jaymanfu]

Would have really liked to see Life get some kind of better benefit then 1hp if you have a life mark, thats realllllllllly lame.

[GG]

Would have really liked to see Life get some kind of better benefit then 1hp if you have a life mark, thats realllllllllly lame.

I agree. Seeing what SoS and SoR benefit the respective element marks, SoG and especially SoD lack that. 1 Point of healing stacks to be pretty great later on, so I personally think SoD's more of a problem.

I don't like how SoG is now usable in unupped decks as well, especially cheaper but stronger (with mark) than Sanctuary. What could be done about that?

[willng3]

Hmm...yeah I'm not too happy about unupped Firestalls now having SoG available to them.  There was a suggestion to make the unupped version heal 2HP instead of 3 while keeping upped as the same, but I don't know, 2HP would make it practically useless.

Not fond of the +1HP bonus with a Life mark either.  The extra healing is useless to Life as both Druidic/Jade Staff and Heal are better substitutes in the majority of cases.  Also, if I wanted to focus on a deck centered around nothing but healing I'd rather use Adrenastaves or a Bond deck; the healing is just completely overshadowed.  And as for using them in a stallish deck with a mark...there weren't very many of those that existed before the change so I'm inclined to doubt decks will bother making the switch to make them more competitive now.  It's a bit of a nuance, but not much else.

But I guess the main purpose was to nerf SoG, and it's been nerfed.

[EvaRia]

I would say 3/5 and 4/6...

That seems a little bit more balanced in terms of situation.

[Rutarete]

Shouldn't the part about SoG stacking be added to the OP as a change?

[willng3]

Shouldn't the part about SoG stacking be added to the OP as a change?

Done.

[The_Mormegil]

Hmm...yeah I'm not too happy about unupped Firestalls now having SoG available to them.  There was a suggestion to make the unupped version heal 2HP instead of 3 while keeping upped as the same, but I don't know, 2HP would make it practically useless.

Not fond of the +1HP bonus with a Life mark either.  The extra healing is useless to Life as both Druidic/Jade Staff and Heal are better substitutes in the majority of cases.  Also, if I wanted to focus on a deck centered around nothing but healing I'd rather use Adrenastaves or a Bond deck; the healing is just completely overshadowed.  And as for using them in a stallish deck with a mark...there weren't very many of those that existed before the change so I'm inclined to doubt decks will bother making the switch to make them more competitive now.  It's a bit of a nuance, but not much else.

But I guess the main purpose was to nerf SoG, and it's been nerfed.

by The Mormegil

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^Better than Candlelight, as it trades protection from quanta denial and the arguably useless Miracles for a better CC shield and faster, Discord-resistant healing.

I think a more balanced card would be a SoG healing 2 | 4 unupped and 2 | 5 upped. No Life mark makes it almost useless, but Life mark enables very good stalls. Of course ^this deck is pretty much overpowered, but you know, I doubt it's SoG that's the problem there.

[Essence]

Unimpressed.  This card should be set to 3 | 5 HP/turn, and heals creatures 1 HP per turn. 8)