[Official] Devourer | Pest

[OldTrees]

Why do pests have to burrow in the first place?

I do not know.

[giminar]

at least burrow is an off-color ability

[Chapuz]

A good berf to pest would be making it 1|2 attack and drain quanta when it hits (make more than 0 damage). This way, it may requiere nightfall or steal to work against a DR shield. Also, PC+DR would stop it completely, but it may requiere at least a duo.

[Aneninen]

One Pest can't make a big trouble alone. You can have 6 of them in a deck, which means 6 quanta drain per turn. If you multiply them or their effect (eg. Fractal), they can drain a lot of quanta indeed, but there are way more powerful combos in the game... Besides, Sanctuary is not the only way to counter it - as it was mentioned, a single Quantum Pillar generates 3 quanta per turn. Supernova gives 22 (it costs 2 to play, so 24-2), etc. (Even the Pest-Spammer Decay can be defeated easily if you manage to play a few Supernovae in the early game.)

Pest is not overpowered.

[blueberrymania]

Garboid and Pest really need to be nerfed. They're more or less invincible, and they eat up too much quanta in big enough number. Maybe make it so they require quanta to eat up quanta?

[ddevans96]

Pest's unupped form is called Devourer. Graboid is a completely different card.

[RootRanger]

Pest's unupped form is called Devourer. Graboid is a completely different card.

I don't think you quite understand. He isn't talking about Graboid, he's talking about Garboid, the unupped version of Pest. His points are valid and I agree that Garboid/Pest needs a nerf.

[thispersonisagenius]

Pest's unupped form is called Devourer. Graboid is a completely different card.

I don't think you quite understand. He isn't talking about Graboid, he's talking about Garboid, the unupped version of Pest. His points are valid and I agree that Garboid/Pest needs a nerf.

Your signature fits so well after that post

In all honesty, Devourer/Pest does not need a nerf. It only steals one quanta, and the only decks that are truly annoying with them are focused around them, which makes those decks weak on offense.

[blueberrymania]

Except, if a deck is centered around them and has nightfall, they don't NEED to be high on offensive, since the opponent can't spend quanta that they don't have.

[RootRanger]

Because apparently 6 devourers in a 30 card deck is enough to completely quanta lock the opponent.

[Onizuka]

All my decks only run 1 quantum pillar for quanta so yeah 6 garboids completely lock me down.

[Dhanzig]

Devourer/pest needs a buff ... to 2 quantum stolen a turn ... the decks that are weak against them wouldn't be any weaker but the decks that don't care about them might think twice!