[Official] Shard of Wisdom | Shard of Wisdom

[freemod1espilon]

unless it is immortal and wisdom was used

[Aneninen]

i have come to believe a card shouldnt be nerfed unless it has consistantly been a game changer. or the sole game decider (frequently)

I think this is the case as it comes to the Shard of Wisdom.

Another thing: Shard of Focus was nerfed because it was hard to do anything against a 15 HP creature, even it was (and is) usable 3 times (unless it gets damage). A creature targetted with Shard of Wisdom has unlimited use and unless you have a counter in your deck (which is not really effective in most cases but the Shard of Wisdom) you can't do anything against it.

[Absol]

i have come to believe a card shouldnt be nerfed unless it has consistantly been a game changer. or the sole game decider (frequently)

I think this is the case as it comes to the Shard of Wisdom.

Another thing: Shard of Focus was nerfed because it was hard to do anything against a 15 HP creature, even it was (and is) usable 3 times (unless it gets damage). A creature targetted with Shard of Wisdom has unlimited use and unless you have a counter in your deck (which is not really effective in most cases but the Shard of Wisdom) you can't do anything against it.

Which is the same with Momentum. Though you can RT momentumed creatures.

[tyranim]

i feel this card was made to give reflective shields more use

[freemod1espilon]

It kinda was and it filled the space of ways to do some thing to immortals

[Fayceless]

I think Shard of Wisdom is a really fun card.  I don't, however, think it should act as another momentum - currently only 2 shields affect these creatures.  While many shields reduce physical damage in some way, I think Fog and Dusk at the least should apply to Wisdom creatures.  Maybe Procrastination and Fire.  Probably not Thorn/Spike or Ice as they reduce physical damage.

[freemod1espilon]

remember only 2 cards have momentum and theres only 1 way to apply momentum and it only costs 1 or 2  and it gives a bonus to health but wisdom which costs 3 or 1  does not

[Pwnator]

remember only 2 cards have momentum and theres only 1 way to apply momentum and it only costs 1 or 2  and it gives a bonus to health but wisdom which costs 3 or 1  does not

If you consider both cards solely as a means to bypass shields, SoW is still overpowered:
Elite Charger + Quint =  -> 7 unreflectable damage
Elite Immortal + SoW =  -> 9 damage that can only be reflected by highly situational cards

[jawdirk]

If you consider both cards solely as a means to bypass shields, SoW is still overpowered:
Elite Charger + Quint =  -> 7 unreflectable damage
Elite Immortal + SoW =  -> 9 damage that can only be reflected by highly situational cards

SoW does have an important drawback. It can only target immortal creatures. SoW often ends up being a dead card if you try to put non-immortal creatures in your deck. Quint can be played on any non-immortal creature, and is useful with most of them. I think SoW would be better balanced at +3/0, but shards in general tend to err on the OP side.

Theoretically, you should be able to outpace 4 damage per turn but SoW adds to an already brutally unforgiving deck. It is so easy to get a bad draw and lose to phase shield or immortal creatures. You want to put just enough PC in your deck to deal with the phase shields, and just enough damage in your deck to outpace immortal creatures, but its hard to do both without sometimes getting a bad draw and losing to one or the other. Now with SoW, its hard to even beat the deck with stall. Obviously, mirror shield et. al. are not really a viable strategy. I've tried SoW + mirror shield decks, and they are just not quite reliable enough against the typical decks.

[Aneninen]

Theoretically, you should be able to outpace 4 damage per turn but SoW adds to an already brutally unforgiving deck...

That is the crux of the problem. Shard of Wisdom empowers an already working, but - let's be frank - uninspired deck. Against Mono-Ether, the basic problem is to get rid of the Dimensional Shields and outdo the damage made by the un-controllable creatures. Now, you still have to cope with the original problems, plus Mono-Ether does even more damage which can't be reduced by most of the normal shields...

Put it in another way: who would hurray for a card which makes the life of a Ghostmare deck even easier? (Like, a Shard of Boredom, which turns an already played Time creature into Ghost of the Past...?) <--- same situation with Shard of Wisdom, I think.

[Chapuz]

SoW = creature isn't affected by CC (excluding reflective shields).

If you have a deck that doesn't rely on CC, you can win.

[OldTrees]

Please recognize that there are 6 ways to deal with creatures, 5 ways to deal with immortal and 4 ways to deal with immortal wisdom.

That said, the attack buff is probably too high.