HUF needs a buff! (And other stuff)

G2. I'd just change his 3rd somehow, remove the word allies even, but even so it's just so _dull_ as an "ultimate" ability. His first 2 abilities are totally usable just for the creature creation.

Mainloop25 said:

I can just copy+paste my How Would You Nerf/Buff It thread here. 

Indeed. Put a link.

But otherwise... I'd like people to actually go and _look_ at your commons and think "Ok, what would be totally fixed with a small cost change? What would I use?" and put those in one list and then we also need a list of "I would never use this even if it was free..." because those are broken in a different way...
But every single common should have a corner case where it is useful.

I see commons/uncommons being underpowered as being a big part of the overall problem.
They are "fake" options that only exist to pad the numbers when they should be real viable cards.

Pauper shouldn't be able to do everything the higher rarities can do, definitely not as easily or quickly, but most of the overall strategies should exist still. Pauper being viable should be the foundation stone the rest of the balance is built on, not an afterthought.

People can get creative doing amazing stuff with weird cards, but when some of them are deliberately crippled just for the sake of it you lose a lot of possibilities.

I'd rather see all underpowered cards raised to a base level of "usable but not great" instead of "unusable" and _then_ see if people find answers to the problems in the meta and _then_ look at what problems are left after that.


I agree it would take too long, but in most cases it's not individual cards but classes of cards, like "all mana producers". Manalith seems fairly balanced compared to gem converters in terms of cost and reliability vs risk. All the others probably need to be balanced roughly against it since many of them are actually "manalith plus an extra effect" that we also have a cost for already. (And yes, that changes set to set, but not crazily. Destroy in black costs 5-8 and this remains fairly balanced, but versions of manalith cost 5-17, it's not even in the same scale sometimes.)