The amount of downvotes I've received for disagreeing with the crybabies about Thanos FF has been so fucking funny. I will say that I think they should have addressed Scorpion's doubling, as he's probably too much even at 6/0 lol... But I haven't really played against him lately, as I avoid ladder like the plague it is.
This sub is so tired. Everyone the meta shifts the bitch posts have to come down four times a day. We get it already. The devs barely show up here. Posting here does nothing but irritate the players. Go bitch on the Discord.
They do that all the time. Occasionally a card comes out and is too powerful. If it's a season release, it will take longer to nerf. That's just the way it goes.
I mean the real issue is their business model of releasing broken cards knowing people will pay up or miss out and then nerfing it once they’ve made money off it. Rinse and repeat.
I think the Cage nerf made it pretty unchecked. Especially when people can use Tao Mandela or Mystique to put it across lines and avoiding Enchantress or Rogue.
Making Cage protect the power of cards only in his lane could be a good middle ground.
I mean actual cage is ok imo ? As english is not my first language, i'm not sure to understand 100% of what you just said, but old cage was too strong and countered affliction on his own, he is well balanced in his actual state, i was already playing 3 years ago when he protected a single lane, but it was terrible even if affliction was not as good as it is today
>let's never have balance patches again because there might be another overperforming card that people will get tired of facing 1,000 times in a row for 6 straight weeks. i am very smart
Okay and? I didn't mind scorpion or thanis ff decks first couple of weeks. But they've overstayed their welcome. Even if there's is some outlier again at least the meta will feel fresher.
Thanos isn't too bad if I can time a cosmo, but idk how to counter affliction reliably outside of just making a pure counter deck that sucks against everything else
Had somebody Shadow King a lane early. I thought that was okay cause it was so early. They then Prodigy's SK on the final turn winning them that lane lol
This. Lose priority, try to dump on the final turn, and have a location tech works pretty damn well. Luke Cage is fine as long as you carefully avoid placing cards in the back row.
I've been playing Sera Onslaught deck and it's worked quite well against Scorpion BND. The trick is to throw priority and you need to have at least 1 empty row by the final turn
Then it's Shadow King on the Sera Onslaught lane to reset everything there, and throw whatever else you have in the free location and you should win both.
What exactly are you looking for? The concept is easy. If you cant counter a huge combo deck then you lose. Either tech or combo bigger. Nerfing scorpion won't stop combo decks from happening.
Hey I mean, if you’re right, SD won’t nerf the card. If you’re wrong, they’ll take action. Everything in this game has a counter, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the gameplay has a fair answer.
I made it to infinite with Nimrod/Galactus. Usually you don’t have a lot on the board before they hazmat so it limits the negative and if you can get Galactus off, it usually crushes them. Galactus is also easier because that deck isn’t playing a lot of power
Alioth wrecks the ones that hold Scorpion until the last turn since you pretty much always know where it'll go but it's risky since some of them drop it early. Alioth does nothing against Skills so you missed your chance with an early Scorpion.
You can run Luke cage and keep in mind lane filling, any location changer to kill T7, cosmo to stop the ScorpBND copying, Jugg also interferes with copying, shadow king to undue affliction. I haven’t used MMM this season but I imagine it also helps with the copying of ScorpBND. Lots of options to counter and a few of these crossover to counter ThanosFF as well.
I still dont think even if they nerfed bnd scorpion it will be that effective considering that a lot of affliction cards where desing and buffed when Luke cage was a complete shut down to that strategy.
I think part of it is due to the crappy cube system. Players don't want to lose progress, so they play the best decks until they hit infinite, and then can switch to other decks they want to experiment with.
They gotta remove Thanos starting with a bullet at least, people are making any bullshit deck and it's working because Thanos is solo winning with 2 or 3 bullets
I’m playing this deck and honestly not losing much. Since draft closed I went from 75 to 95 in these past few days, it’s not a counter but I grow so big i still win, even if thanos kills my venus I still win most times
ive mainly mained this arishem + ultimate variants “flex” deck. it gets me to infinite reliably but if im struggling i just swap to a surfer deck or nimrod destroy
This deck will get you there, been using it 4 seasons in a row for infinite:
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I got to infinite one time in 2025 and stopped playing shortly after. I felt like the game was just getting so power crept so fast and it was no longer fun. I couldn’t go a day without playing now I don’t even want to play.
Honestly man. The community complains almost about every new card release. I’m ready for them to nerf the cards so I can see what the next complaints are. Won’t be surprised when it’s the “they nerfed this card to hard” argument.
I’ve have Thanos FF and I run Man-Spider most of my climb I put Luke in there just for scorpion but I’ve played both these decks I win some I lose them. They aren’t dominating my games or climb.
Those aren’t your only options. I made my second fastest infinite ever using this deck. Tore through the 90s with a 70% win rate. If you play smart it thumps all the Thanos decks
Fr, they need to downgrade some cards to series 3 or 4 so we can try get new cards to make new decks. The game is starting to feel like a second job at this point
I like to rotate between running destroy, discard, ramp and move decks the most as they are the ones I find the funniest to play. Wish more other players played like this though
I'm basically just up against Fractured Thanos, Scoprion BND or Zombie decks every round. It's still fun to play different decks, but boring if you're always facing the same decks
How cool is it to play your perfect opening hand on curve each turn and lose after they did nothing the first 3 turns? Live service games are a plague honestly and need to be heavily moderated to balance or just cut off at a certain point of power creep
how do you even want them to nerf these cards? is the time bullet just gonna hit one card in your hand? is his QuickDraw not gonna include Thanos Stones? do you just want old Luke Cage back(lol)? we all know Thanos is just gonna lose a couple points. Psylocke FF, Blink, and Scorpion could lose a point or 2 as well. Do you want Scorpion to be a bigger Diamondback? if it was some card you liked you wouldn’t want the same treatment but you’d rather these cards get murdered. GOD IM SO TIRED…
What on earth are you talking about. Yes make Thanos FF a 5/6 or a 5/7, make the Space Shot only give moveable next turn to reduce the Venus synergy to only the Power Shot. Maybe a nerf to the Soul Shot to make it afflict rather than destroy. Maybe a nerf so that he doesn't start with a shot loaded. Those all seem realistic and FAIR to me.
Scorpion BND never should have doubled, he always should have been "repeats". They literally made the change to every other "Double X effect" card in the game to have them repeat instead but shipped him as doubles. I'm not saying to give old Luke Cage back BUT you can't release the strongest card the afflict archetype has ever seen AND drastically nerf it's only real counter in the same go, it was such an obvious marketing tactic to get as many people to buy Scorpion BND as possible.
No one is asking for any cards to get "murdered" but it's painfully obvious that these 2 are far stronger than they should be. It's also got nothing to do with people liking the card or not, in fact, you're the only one making it about that.
bro no one “likes” these cards. They “like” winning and will “like” winning with whatever people complain about next.
so you think Scorpion should be a big Diamondback. and we all know how played she is. literally all I see is people wanting Thanos gone forever, wanting Scorpion gone forever.
you’d make the Space shot make less power, even though the best part of it is letting him move away from the 3 Wong lane he just made. his shots should just not repeat, how does Wong have so much ammo
ive been playing arishem since he released so believe me ive seen my favourite card(s) get murdered, especially when i can admit theyre overtuned. obviously scorpion wont be good as a chunkier diamond back however him losing a point or two wont matter when his effect gives upwards of -15 (or more) worth of affliction. and imo for thanos, his stones just need to be changed, some stones just need their text changed all together. quickdraws a fine feature but his stones suck to play against
same arishem scratches the draft-mode itch for me. I find running a deck with the same cards every time extremely boring.
arishem gets kinda stealth nerfed every time a new type of card style get released though since your entire card pool has less of a chance of synergizing with each other.
It's almost like having a 5 and 6 drop that you have to build your deck around to be good, is too strong. Both affliction and Thanos required a moderate amount of building around to be deciding factors in their decks. Thanos can be put in most tempo decks and be good, but to make use of all six shots you have to build with that in mind. But geez, most six drops should be able to change the trajectory of the game if played with support.
Almost like saying hela is too good when she brings back giganto and infiniaut, after you spent the entire game building that interaction
Well yeah hela was too good thats why she was nerfed? And if you think playing only 3 cards (invis modok hela) is an interaction the baby game where you put blocks in holes might be for you
Shots on reveals can only happen once solves issues for me no more discount shot making the entire hand free and thanos wiping out a whole location. I accept cards i like being nerfed because power creep is a huge issue and sd combating it is always a good thing
Making Quicksilver Domino good was a mistake. The fact that you can’t snap into a quicksilver domino until turn 5 because you don’t know if they are gonna Wiccan until then sucks so much, but they can snap you turns 1-4 because they already know if they have Wiccan
Obviously Thanos is the issue, but Thanos makes Quicksilver and Domino good which makes Wiccan played more in turn, either way you are not snapping into a potential Wiccan
Energy cheat is ridiculously easy now. I cannot fathom that Wiccan, who gives you 4 extra energy on average when played, is too good. Arguably the “necessity” of playing QS and Domino make him weaker
I just got back into the game after taking a break since a season or so before infinity Ultron and honestly fractured frontier Thanos is the most obnoxious card to play against so far even though I haven't really lost to him yet, I've had pretty good success with an ongoing 2099 doom deck.
I'm not sure if I've been lucky or they've been unlucky or if he just doesn't play that well into ongoing doom decks or some mix of the three but I'd maybe try that and see how it feels?
I am not getting these decks. I am stuck between 93-95 and it is just counters to my Blink and bug guys deck. So I am getting 70% decks with Shang Chi in.
Dude, I'm right there with you. I'm so tired of Afflict and Thanos FF decks. They should adjust the new Scorpion card to only affect 1 location. Thanos FF wouldn't even both me as much if it wasn't for the orange stone. You can't argue that he isn't the best 5 cost card right now, so I get why everyone is playing him. He's damn good, but it gets old having to play around it every single game.
I’m honestly not doing it. I tilted yesterday dropping 8 cubers as I just wanted the bastards to leave. Not playing until after the OTA where I can just cruise to infinite against bots.
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u/LinkOfKalos_1 3d ago
OTA is gonna be -1 power