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Re: How balanced are AotP units to classic 'scape?
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The question isn't whether, in AotP, the points you spend on spells subtract from the amount of points you can spend on units--they obviously don't. The question is whether 500 points of AotP units (including a planeswalker) + 200 points of AotP spells is closer in power to a 500 point HS army, or a 700 point HS army. I believe it's the latter. L.K.R. Last edited by Prometheus; August 1st, 2016 at 12:11 AM. |
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Re: How balanced are AotP units to classic 'scape?
I always thought that the cost of the Planeswalker included the 200 point spell deck.
So Jace at 340 was really 140 point Unique Hero + 200 points of spells. Yes, summoning is very powerful and spells can be as well .. but I am thinking that probably 50% of the spells will be ineffective against Classic Scape. Jace can't "unsummon" the 4th Mass line, and making his opponent discard 2 cards won't help if the other player doesn't have a spell deck. And Liliana's 'killing wave' won't destroy Knights of Weston. But enchantments - especially white - those are pretty strong for pumping defense. I think all of the enchantments currently only buff unique squads, but Firebreathing Tagawa Samurai would be cool! They are certainly different games ('Scape and AotP). It might be interesting to tweak some wording, balance out a few cards and units, to test them out. But I think it would be a fair amount of work to balance appropriately. |
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Re: How balanced are AotP units to classic 'scape?
@obfuscatedhippo Yeah, Jace will be weak against classic 'Scape in any case because of how much of his deck is targeted against other spells. I think the rest of the planeswalkers will be fine (assuming you count HS units as creatures--if you don't, then red and black are hurt badly as well).
@lefton4ya If you both play blended armies, then yes it's simple to both take the same amount of AotP units and the same amount of HS units. That doesn't really feel like bringing AotP units into HS to me though, it feels like playing a game of AotP with a few HS units thrown in. So I'd like to get an estimate of how to play AotP vs. HS with balanced armies, and I think a point tax on the AotP player is fair, not only in light of their spell deck but also in light of their cheaper units (for example, this guy): This thing gets 8 life, 6 attack, and 5 defense against range, and if you engage it at melee, it destroys every squad figure next to it automatically--and it's cheaper than Nilfheim. If I were to see that in a HS game I would want to know the person playing it had paid some kind of point penalty, because that's not a 150-point HS hero. Yes, it would be more thorough to go through and assign completely new point values to all the AotP units, but it would be a huge pain to do so. My experience so far leads me to believe a 500-point AotP army with 200 points of spells is vastly overpowered against a 500-point HS army, and reasonably balanced against a 700-point HS army. For simplicity's sake, I want to leave it there, but if testing reveals I really need to I can tweak that ratio. L.K.R. |
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