Shard of Gratitude | Shard of Gratitude

[itirnitii]

Is CCYB really not viable anymore because of the change? I was thinking of putting this deck together but not if it doesn't work anymore. The wiki said it doesn't, but not sure how accurate that really is and can't find any threads about it!

[Jenkar]

From what i see now, in bl, this card is correct. Not op, but strong enough to be used.

[ralouf]

That's also my opinion, even if the fact that life is pretty terrible when it come to stall..

[Silver]

Does anyone ever use this without life mark?

[glennfoo]

Does anyone ever use this without life mark?

i have been playing mono fire stalling deck to farm level 4 and some false gods..... and i either lose or receive elemental master.... i even use shards of divinity to boost my reward and score..... but that is before the nerf....

after the nerf on the SOG  which now benefit the life mark,  i try playing mono fire stall but the hp healed is not enough.... 18hp healed compared with 30hp healed is too much a difference.... i lost to decks which i would have won in previous version.... not to mention the quanta cap which also reduce the damage done by farenheit and firebolt.... i have to make some tweaks..... i change my mark to life and added some heals.... i can still farm level 4, silver arena, and the false gods..... even won some match in platinum league with elemental master.... but i have to be lucky.....

what i am saying now is that if you depend on SOG to stall and heal without the life mark, you will not last long....  i can be a living proof of that..... let say if opponent cast phase dragon, u have 2 shards in play, u can easily heal back the damage.... but in the current version, if someone puts out a phase dragon, u will be like ( come on, where is my third shard, i know you are somewhere in the deck) and soon, you get the third shard.... (hoorah at least only one damage ) .... the second phase dragon appears..... ( ok i am finished).... this happen a lot of time

well, this is happening to people playing SOG without life mark..... i am positive that anyone planing to use SOG as its main power would have changed to life mark by now.....

[willng3]

Changes: 
Shard of Gratitude now requires quanta as opposed to
Unupped cost reduced from 5 to 3
Upped cost reduced from 3 to 2

Discuss.

[willng3]

Actually, I guess I'll throw out a subject for discussion.

I think that the elemental affinity bonus for SoG should be removed.  Or rather, it should heal 5HP regardless of your mark.  If that makes it OP in comparison to Sanctuary then the cost can be increased.

Reason being, I think there's enough Life affinity here to where the bonus is no longer needed.  I mean, it's not like you can spam these with Nova and Quantum Towers anymore.

[Essence]

Do you think the same should apply to all the shards, seeing as they're probably all going to be made to use aligned quanta?

[Rutarete]

Wasn't it 5 hp at the very beginning? Or 4? It feeels so weird to be seeing a green background for it..

[willng3]

Do you think the same should apply to all the shards, seeing as they're probably all going to be made to use aligned quanta?

Possibly.  Although in SoG's case I would argue that it's probably one of the weaker out of the 12 after the latest change.

@Rut, it was 5 before the berf

[dragonsdemesne]

Reducing the upped cost to 2 feels better alongside cards like sanctuary or feral bond.  I still don't think it will see much play outside of rainbows, though.  After the last change that removed the 5hp healing across the board, not many people used this shard anymore.  I think it was actually balanced as an other card for 1.31.  As for putting it into the life element, I don't know if I ever used this card in a life deck, so I think it's pretty much dead now.

[Vangelios]

I use this shard on 2 decks and uses the deck, the player Bunker use him in very efficient firestall, I use him in monolife he wins the bronze arena almost every  of elemental master. in raibow deck-out cc it is very efficient, I think even with this change he continues being very good, and also, I do not think he're the weakest of the shards