YOU be the dev team pt1!

buscemi
buscemi Posts: 673 Critical Contributor
edited March 2017 in MtGPQ General Discussion
Hello, and welcome to YOU be the dev team! In this new semi-regular feature, we'll see if YOU have what it takes to design the game of MAGIC PUZZLE QUEST!

For your first challenge, look at these 3 mythic cards. One of them is clearly unbalanced, and will break the game, whereas the other two are a bit rubbish. Can YOU do the job the dev team should have done and determine which card is too powerful to be printed?

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  • bk1234
    bk1234 Posts: 2,924 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm going with the 8 manna, 5/5 mythic, shteev.
  • Yvendros
    Yvendros Posts: 202 Tile Toppler
    I'll go for "Under-costed Mythics" for 8, Trebek!
  • Fake Cards
    Fake Cards Posts: 9
    Well... Olivia is totally imba and she's a vampire... and Yahenni, Undying Partisan is a vampire... so... the lizard!?
  • James13
    James13 Posts: 665 Critical Contributor
    Are people misreading Yaheeni? Or am I the only person seeing the potential there? (hint: black has defenders and others that can come back immediately for free; the text reads "until the end of your turn", not the "current turn").
  • Sorin81
    Sorin81 Posts: 558 Critical Contributor
    I have to go with Baral. Oh the damage I could do with that card in my Jace 2 deck.
  • ZW2007-
    ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
    James13 wrote:
    Are people misreading Yaheeni? Or am I the only person seeing the potential there? (hint: black has defenders and others that can come back immediately for free; the text reads "until the end of your turn", not the "current turn").
    I assume you are referring to Prized Amalgam as the defender that comes back for free but it doesn't come back on it's own. You are likely dedicating a creature spot to Prized Amalgam and another spot to zombie tokens in order to recur the Prized Amalgam. I'd rather play Gisa and Geralf in the third spot since it can recur the Prized Amalgam on it's own plus help me get larger stacks of Amalgam all at once. GnG costs 3 more mana than Yahenni and starts out as an 8/8. I don't really need the berserker part on Yahenni either because that just reduces the damage I do against the opponent and Prized Amalgam slowly kills the opponent's creatures by blocking. I'm sure I'm having a bit of tunnel vision based on my own build but I really can't see a use for Yahenni, at least not for me personally. If he cost a little less and maybe grew at a faster rate, I'd consider using him. How many creatures are you killing in a given game? If you kill 6, you end up with an 8/8. Killing 6 creatures is a lot in a single PvP game.

    Back on topic, without even reading the cards I'd just pick whichever one is the exclusive as the one that's too powerful.
  • wereotter
    wereotter Posts: 2,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yahenni could be good with all the cheap removal in black....

    The basilisk, however, is poop.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    Baral is completely undercosted and will be the #1 mythic in the set, other than that green spell.

    Yahenni looks like a fun card, but like Grim Flayer, is too weak to do much in the current meta, unfortunately. Could combo with Prized Amalgam or some berserkers, but it's going to be very niche.

    Aetherwind Basker looks like a decent card, might be overlooked because it's not OP like some other cards. I could see it get use if you don't have any of the other great green mythics.
  • Rogerick
    Rogerick Posts: 4
    Wait, these are actual cards???

    Son of a...yeah. 8 mana 5/5 is strong. That spell ability is BANANAS. Kiora plus convert some gems plus...any spell...this is going to be bad.
  • THEMAGICkMAN
    THEMAGICkMAN Posts: 697 Critical Contributor
    Can't wait for Pt2!
  • SeditiousCanary
    SeditiousCanary Posts: 77 Match Maker
    Baral, Chief of Compliance. Its a 5/5 for 8, the mana abilities are amazing, and the cast one/draw one draw is OP at twice the cost on a 3/3 body.
  • jetnoctis
    jetnoctis Posts: 128 Tile Toppler
    Baral is a 5/5 creature. He is also easily repeatable card draw. He is also ramp when he enters, and repeatable ramp at that. Oh and he only costs 8 mana? Imagine this in a deck with 6+ spells, especially cheaper ones; all that cycling... Also, these cards all suddenly become free: Imprisoned in the Moon (most notably), Kozilek's Return, Haunted Cloak, Scatter to the Winds, Demolish, Turn Against, and Transgress the Mind Whispers of Emrakul (when we get a UB planeswalker). And if Saheeli adds in Harness.................................... goodness gracious!
  • bk1234
    bk1234 Posts: 2,924 Chairperson of the Boards
    I bet Prism Array is looking pretty balanced now isn't it, shteev?
  • buscemi
    buscemi Posts: 673 Critical Contributor
    Mainloop25 wrote:
    Baral is completely undercosted and will be the #1 mythic in the set, other than that green spell.

    Dammit. There goes 'YOU be the dev team pt2'.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    No no no, I want to see part two! I'm curious to see which other two you want to look at.
  • THEMAGICkMAN
    THEMAGICkMAN Posts: 697 Critical Contributor
    Still waiting on part 2 shteev
  • AngelForge
    AngelForge Posts: 325 Mover and Shaker
    As a developer I wouldn't call Baral overpowered. He's just a wallet opener. icon_e_wink.gif
  • ErikInVegas
    ErikInVegas Posts: 102 Tile Toppler
    Baral can form an infinite loop.

    If you look up Broken in the Game Designer's Dictionary......
  • Justyce
    Justyce Posts: 54 Match Maker
    Baral is the least over powered as everyone had a chance to buy it before they jacked up the prices.

    The others are hard to get and Yhenni is now in an elite pack apparently the default choice if the rng breaks down.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    Justyce wrote:
    Baral is the least over powered as everyone had a chance to buy it before they jacked up the prices.

    .

    Rarity doesn't equal power.

    If everyone bought it, then everyone would just be playing with a far-too-powerful card. It wouldn't bring the power down. Case in point: have you ever played Baral vs. Baral?

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