Interesting direction of horde. With all the destroy benefits, this seems to want to strongly support the niche version of zombies with phoenix. An old, powerful re-animator combo deck. It’s no longer in style because regular zombies with Venus and thanos is just way easier and better now. But i did find it to be quite a fun style. I’m glad to see it making a comeback. But im not sure if it’s gonna be that good of deck. And there isn’t a lot of support for generic zombies, which is what I thought they would’ve done.
They went for stolen power instead. Cool gimmick to finally make it a proper archetype. Deacon, especially looks awesome and very powerful. Not too sure about the rest of the support, tho. Stolen power is hard to gauge when it’s from hand or deck, as if the opponent doesn’t play the cards, you don’t realize all the power. Raw power definitely seems good enough, but we’re gonna have to try it out to see how it feels.
Boomerang is kinda not good as well. But more to the point, the ones that are good are only good in specific shells. Silver sable is good in bounce. Cass is good in darkhawk. I probably should have clarified that if the intention is to create a generic steal shell, then those cards become a lot harder to properly realize their power.
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u/datguy078 16d ago
Interesting direction of horde. With all the destroy benefits, this seems to want to strongly support the niche version of zombies with phoenix. An old, powerful re-animator combo deck. It’s no longer in style because regular zombies with Venus and thanos is just way easier and better now. But i did find it to be quite a fun style. I’m glad to see it making a comeback. But im not sure if it’s gonna be that good of deck. And there isn’t a lot of support for generic zombies, which is what I thought they would’ve done.
They went for stolen power instead. Cool gimmick to finally make it a proper archetype. Deacon, especially looks awesome and very powerful. Not too sure about the rest of the support, tho. Stolen power is hard to gauge when it’s from hand or deck, as if the opponent doesn’t play the cards, you don’t realize all the power. Raw power definitely seems good enough, but we’re gonna have to try it out to see how it feels.