ShadyPenguinn Goes ALL IN with KRAKATUGA! Will it Work?! (Elestriad W6 Clash)

[@Elestrals]

Will today be the day that DistantCoder is FINALLY defeated?! 😲

[@DistantCoder]

You wish 😎😎

[@SquibbyJ]

What a crazy one. Just very high octane aggression

[@23jewfan]

The clean sweep coming from Coder! Let’s go!

[@DigitalD20]

I really don't mean to sound disrespectful but I'd honestly much rather just hear the players without the commentary.

[@zerochill4096]

SPOILERS ___________________ ______________ Going explosive as soon as possible really didn't do Shady any favors. He burned Coder for a lot of Spirits, but he put himself into very vulnerable positions where Poison-Tipped Arrows and Soarlets would have devastated him... which ended up happening. Go big or go home indeed, and Shady went home while Coder remains undefeated

[@jonareyes8660]

Where can I see the deck list of distantcoder

[@IronBoffin]

I love a Go Big or Go Home game

[@judsoncarverblackman406]

Let’s go Shady!

[@AshtonTheMelon]

As much as I want to like it, burn in this game is too damn expensive for too little advantage. I don't think these elements are balanced much at all.

[@Elestrals]

It’s been 1 set 😅

[@AshtonTheMelon]

​@@Elestrals And this is a critique for your future sets. I honestly think this is a terrible response to criticism. For example, Krakatuga is a two spirit Elestral. For the effect of one eruption on summon, you must invest 3 Fire Sprits, one Water Spirit, and a body on board. All to burn your opponent for 3. For a 4/9 body that can be countered by one wind elestral. Sure, you can misenchant it, but then it is a vanilla on summon with a middling stat line. And, as much as I like it's effect, it's entire effect revolves around one card. Eruption. Unless you plan to have future cards like "Magma Flow *This card also counts as Eruption*." It would be much better if it's effect was more applicable, but clearly meant for Eruption. Like, "Whenever you Expend at least two Fire Spirits to force your opponent to expend Spirits from their Spirit Deck, Krakatuga may destroy one card on your opponents field." Thunder and Wind Elestrals are shaping out to be some of the strongest because they have relatively low investment for stronger effects. Like Astrabit and Elechick.

[@DeltaZapdos]

@@AshtonTheMelon It’s difficult to balance, especially this early on. You don’t want to accidentally create an FTK or risk making cards too powerful once future sets get released, and you’re over-exaggerating how costly burn cards actually are. Really, this game moreso came down to Shady being arguably a little too aggressive early and then not aggressive enough late (even though he loses at that point anyway) than a specific element being stronger. Yes, the game isn’t fully balanced but every game has that issue, not just Elestrals. Also, I know it wasn’t your intention but that specific wording would make it so Krakatuga triggered itself rather than eruption.

[@elestralsemporium]

@@AshtonTheMelon Fun fact: we actually know Elestrals will be printed and be usable in the same deck that have the same names (3x Ampup BS1 + 3x Ampup Set X), so there's precedent to believe that is still possible :) As for how he responded to criticism, I think that's valid, its REALLY hard to balance a card game with a small team. Sometimes a card is overlooked, sometimes you have to tiptoe around specific cards (like imagine if Waspyre had ways to easily hit the board T1), and sometimes you just miss out on how to make 1 card a little more meta relevant, they'll improve at balancing as they get more experience, just stick along for the ride and watch and see.

[@AshtonTheMelon]

​.​ @elestralsemporium It's great to know that multiple card names will be printed in later sets. Whether cards named Eruption, with similar effects, will be printed, and be useful without being too resource intensive is one thing. I do like that going forward for a legacy game. And I do like Elestrals. That being said, I really disagree with you in terms of Adrive's response and balance regarding a first set. Tons of card games, Digimon, One Piece, Flesh and Blood, all had relatively diverse sets. But fine. Let's just coincide that point for this conversation. The community finding the value, the meta in Wind and Thunder, is not a problem. That is the nature of card games. But the complaint wasn't baseless. I focused in on how burn is not an effective strategy due to how it interacts with the main resource of the game. The burn player burns themself nearly as much as the player getting burned. With little advantage. A ton of issues could be resolved with Soarlet being a 4/1, rather than a 5/1. Either way, the correct response is to either expand on why you designed your cards this way or address the validity of it. Not say, "It's one set, man lol". What a complete avoidance. You gave more of a meaningful answer than the Elestrals team did. To me. Someone who is buying their products.

[@djord88]

Shady

[@imjesuis]

Let's goo

[@dinomasone2681]

Go shady yay 😊

[@heathneldon2929]

Burn just doesn’t work in this game. This tournament just shows wind spanks everything. Shady was perfect with wind and decided to switch and go 0-3 since

[@jmaa93]

Team shady

[@KentaroMiyamoto21]

Can anyone beat Coder?

[@DeltaZapdos]

Considering what he’s likely to bring next week, I highly doubt it.

[@benjaminhabeck767]

He dug too greedily too deep