If you often pay attention to the Hearthstone forum, you may know that there is a DIY card that is being discussed, especially in Tieba has long been quarrelsome, and it has also triggered a wave of discussion about the compression of the card library, so whether this hotly discussed "Guardian of the Earth Nesario" is not strong, Qingfeng and everyone to chat together.
Guardian of the Earth, Nesario
10 cost 8/8 taunts, when the battle begins: draw this card.
This DIY card is actually very simple to describe, basically two keywords, from the description alone, not even like an orange card, in addition, why is Nesario not the standard 12/12 figure of the black dragon, Qingfeng saw a statement because at this time Nesario has not yet absorbed the soul of the black dragon to become the deathwing, but this is not the point, in order to analyze the role of this card, first of all, you must know what "when the battle begins: draw this card" Means.
When the battle begins
This keyword is actually not uncommon in Hearthstone, even decks, Dark Shepherd and the new Cthun have this keyword, if you have played these cards a little, you can know that the trigger time for this effect is after both sides have selected the retention card, before the game officially begins, which is very important for the strength of this card.
The cards with the effect of "At the beginning of the battle: draw this card" are still only in adventure mode and duel mode, these cards are not the same as the mission cards, they will not occupy the left hand, but directly from the library before the start of the hand into the hand, that is to say, equivalent to the number of hands + 1, of course, when the hand is changed, if the luck is particularly bad in exchange for this card, this effect is equivalent to scrapping.
For this "Guardian of the Earth", in addition to the additional draw, the main role should be to compress the card library, but is this role strong or not? Qingfeng felt that it was necessary to analyze the decks of different forms separately.
Quick attack deck
For the fast attack deck, the extra draw effect of this card is negligible, because if the fast attack to 10 fees does not end the game, an 8/8 basically can not change the situation, so for the fast attack, the compression of the card library is the most important role, so we can easily think of the pirate Patches of the year. Pirate Patches does have the effect of compressing the card library, but this is not the main reason why he is strong, the more important reason is that he can have one more frequency and can play more faces before being weakened, set the battlefield, play face, compress the card library as one and can cooperate with the pirate fast attack card deck, which is the reason why the pirate Patches is really strong, a single compression card library, in fact, the role is not particularly invincible.
And the earth guardian Nesario and the pirate Patches will face a shooter problem, the Patches shooter is at best uncomfortable, at least can play out of the battlefield, the Nesario shooter is basically equal to a card that can never be played, the opening hand -1 is a fatal blow to the fast attack card deck, everyone thinks back to the chances of the Patches shooter when playing the pirate card deck, and think about whether you can accept it if you change to the earth guardian Nesario. So Breeze's personal opinion is that the overall effect of this card is not much for the quick attack deck, unless this fast attack deck is the Sea Dragon Battle of the year (but the Sea Dragon Battle should be considered a medium speed card deck).
Slow deck
For slow decks, the question for this card is: Does the slow deck need to compress the deck? When the slow card deck is against the fast attack card deck, it only needs to survive to win, and when the slow card deck is in civil war, fatigue is a problem to consider. A very good example is the Barren Lands version of the Control Priest, which doesn't carry a single pass card and is played entirely by discovery cards, and for this deck, the compressed deck is something that is less needed.
Of course, this card still has a very good effect in the slow card group of some specific systems, for example, in the dragon system deck, starting with an extra dragon that cannot be used, which perfectly solves the problem of "card no dragon", can exist well as a dragon species, and his meaning is not whether he needs to fight out. In addition, there is a hand art deck, which is equivalent to an extra hand card, which can trigger the special effect of full hand cards faster, but the breeze hand is not played much, this card will not be easy to use in the hand card deck, and the veteran players in the comments can comment on it.
OTK deck
In the OTK card set, the role of this card compression library is also much greater than an extra card, but will not be easy to use do not try it really do not know, Qingfeng recently played the most OTK card deck is the owl skill, play more friends should be able to feel, if the weapon is not on hand, the owl skill will often face a hand can not be discharged, in the OTK deck to start faster and faster, more and more cards now, the card hand burst is a more terrible thing, if in order to compress the card library and lead to the burst, then, That would be more than worth the loss.
And the card slot of the OTK deck is very tight, the key card, the card pass, the fee reduction, the solution of the card need to be brought, especially in the environment of fast attack, you need to bring a lot of cards, so is there a card slot in order to compress the card library with such a card that cannot be used? Take a closer look at the previous very powerful OTK deck, the lock throat thief has a field contact, the vampire blind has a variety of cards and task fee reductions, the super fande also has a directional retrieval of cards, not to mention the owl technique, Qingfeng feels that the OTK deck and it with such a card hand to compress the card library, more importantly, it may still be with cards or cards.
In general, Qingfeng felt that if it had been played a few years ago, this card might have been favored by the OTK deck, but now Qingfeng feels that the OTK deck really does not need it.
Compress the deck
And this DIY card in the post bar also caused everyone to debate whether the compressed card library is strong or not, many people designed different forms of DIY cards to discuss the effect of the compressed card library. For example, bar friend Kuriyama Future asked if the pirate Patches is designed to cost 1 fee 0/1, the other effects remain unchanged, whether there will be the previous strength, and this fake * magical Renault DIY, play any entourage, the card library of the Schipa will be directly removed. For the latter design, Qingfeng felt that the OTK deck might be brought, and compared with Nesario, this card would not be a card player, it was a real compressed card library, even if the shooter could play it. The former design may still be a card that can be carried for a buff profession like Chaoshengde.
Another post that Qingfeng saw came from the design of Jiangxi Mo, which can be said to be a complete god card. The second card needs to be noted that the keyword "release when drawn" already contains the effect of drawing a card, so it is equivalent to directly passing the card, as long as the card position is not very tight, the OTK deck can be carried. And the first card even if the shooter is also a free card, no shooter is equivalent to compressing two card libraries, Qingfeng feels that the upgrade to an orange card is not excessive, not to mention that it can also cooperate with the Fire Demon Law, which belongs to the category of compressed card library + powerful effect.
To sum up, Qingfeng feels that compressing the deck is indeed a good effect, but in the environment where the draw is very strong, this effect will be diluted, at this time it depends on whether his other effects are strong enough. This card belongs to the ability to compress the deck, but the effect can only be played in a specific deck, so it does not reach the level of brainless 29+1. Of course, the above are Qingfeng's personal subjective views, welcome to discuss your views rationally in the comment area.