Soul Guardian

bigger soul warden

Paul Hodgson · 2012-05-29 11:56:55

I like it but maybe it should be an uncommon. Also I have no idea how this works with Soulsong!

Kieran Symington · 2012-05-29 12:27:59

Templating fix

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-05-29 15:23:36

Don't think it works with Soulsong, could retemplate it to trigger off casting (playing) creature spells, then it would work.

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-05-29 15:24:33

Further thoughts - Soul Warden style creatures are pretty unfun to play against, that is why they are all 1 toughness, this guy being an amazing Soulsong enabler and 4 toughness at common would be way too good. If we do make him trigger off casts I'd move him to rare, else make him a 2/2?

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-05-29 15:26:47

do we want to make it too easy to trigger soulsong though? keeping it as an etb effect makes people work a little bit harder

Paul Hodgson · 2012-05-29 15:27:19

made him 2/4 in order to justify the increased cost, and allow you to get blown out by combat tricks as you'll probably attack and block with him. the 1/1 guys generally have a non-relevant body. 2/2 probably fine, but would shave a mana off I think.

Paul Hodgson · 2012-05-29 15:29:03

also - if we're pushing lifegain really *really* hard (as seems to be happening) it will make for a slow format. We'll need finishers in all colours and possibly some viable alt win condition. If we don't have an infect/mill equivalent then limited games will be unfun.

Paul Hodgson · 2012-05-29 15:30:27

If you aren't combo-ing with your lifegain no amount of incidental lifegain seems to change the fundamental winner once a player has a strong board advantage. When you put the pieces together it creates board (or card) advantage so that's different. So I don't think the format actually does end up being that slow. It's hard to get big chunks of life, only small amounts, anyway. This guys is pretty awesome. Plays well. Combo with Shimmersprite is fun but not broken.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-03 21:54:52

This guy is very good. He was pretty close to obnoxious last night but I can't remember if we agreed to reduce his stats or anything. If anyone else remembers please edit!

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-06 08:18:35

We suggested making him a 3 drop as white had none at common

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-06 08:55:21

I thought it was Tower Warden we were going to make a 3 drop (I already did that) so he couldn't block (much) and tap.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-06 10:25:37