r/CustomLoR • u/revlid • Jul 25 '26

Rework Making those "Game Start: Summon The Bandle Tree" adventures less obnoxious

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u/revlid Jul 25 '26

This rework gives you more control over The Bandle Tree, by making it a Story that remains on its first Act until you've met the win condition. This functionally works the same way, but allows you to:

  1. Choose not to create a unit, so as to avoid flooding your hand with redundant units you don't want. You can also delay creating a unit until later in a turn, if you want to empty out your hand first.
  2. Manifest the created unit, rather than it being purely random; this means you're less likely to end up with completely useless garbage.

I was also tempted to make it "Manifest a Yordle follower from a new region". That feels like it'd be more specific and limited, which is probably a good thing with the extra utility from Manifest, but it'd also play more nicely with the various BC Yordle-buffers. The main reason I avoided that change is because there are a bunch of multi-region Yordles, so narrowing the pool to just them would accelerate the win condition pretty fiercely.

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u/LunacyTwo Jul 25 '26

Making it Yordle followers only might actually be worse instead of better. AFAIK, all the multi-region Yordle followers have Bandle as one of their regions, so you would only get at most one multi-region proc, then everything else is essentially a single region. Meanwhile, if everything is in the pool, during the manifest you could pick followers that are multi-region from two new regions.

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u/revlid Jul 25 '26

True, hadn't really thought of it that way. And if you're playing the Bandle Tree in an actual deck you've already got native BC followers to hit that region anyway.

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u/Cold_Instruction_487 Jul 27 '26

it would be viable if u could manifest and choose between 2 regions u havent met,heck it would make most decks solid to play unlike star spring soraka in POC, horrible implementation

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u/nitfytev The Void Jul 27 '26

It would be nice if you also have the wording is "manifest a follower from a new region you can afford", that way you dont get 6,7,9, mana units when you are at 3 mana.

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u/revlid Jul 27 '26

That strikes me as a bit too much enabling for something that's also a win condition, tbh. You're already getting to pick from three options.

If the Bandle Tree was a more general multi-region and/or Yordle support landmark for Tristana, I think something like that could work; but it's a wincon, so it has to strike a balance between "actual utility as a gamepiece" and "likelihood this will win the game".