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Topic: Tyrant / Sunder sucks

A 1-drop Swipe card with Sunder would be pretty decent as a check to TI / CG / Thule. That’s about it as far as I can see.

Topic: Tyrant / ZeroPhobia Public Awareness Thread

Topic: Tyrant / ospry meta changer?

There’s a spammable and extremely bulky Siege all 2 card, and yet the only Chaos all’s are Eviscerator (slow and pretty easy to kill) and Kapak (not hard to kill, not to mention legendary and WB-heavy). Lightning Strider is the only worthwhile Chaos assault apart from those two that I can think of. As far as Chaos structures go, the best option is Fusion Silo, which is a 3 wait in return for a singular Chaos.

Basically, Chaos is absolutely not a reliable defense against the ridiculous Siege in this meta.

Topic: Tyrant / ospry meta changer?

Yeah, it’s absolutely a meta changer. Unless the wallstall uses Lord Halcyon, or multiple LS / Evisc, just a few Ospry’s in a deck practically guarantee the win. Once they become more widespread I do expect to see wallstall usage dip even further towards around 10% or so.

Topic: Tyrant / Arena-OP with rating of 300+ vs. 0 rating NOOB

Lol. I don’t understand your problem. If you’re annoyed because you lost to someone lower level than you, you are (respectfully) an idiot. If you lost to someone worse than you because they were running a terrible all-siege deck (for instance) when you ran wallstall, you have a right to be annoyed, but you should keep it out of the forums.

Better question is, why haven’t the devs removed ELO from this game yet? It’s abundantly clear that you can’t apply the same system to this game as to chess; they’re utterly different. This one involves bad luck, especially in matchups. Chess has luck in only tiny quantities, and the more skilled both players get, the less impact luck has.

Topic: Tyrant / Kendar's Legacy vs Pyro Rig

Agreeing that Rigs are ridiculous. They were never going to dominate PvP because they’re so easy to prepare for (pack Mimic / Chaos / Cleanse, or just Fear / Sabres), but in terms of sheer objective power, they are beyond any other assault card in the game (certainly any other slowroll, with the possible exception of HoC).

Topic: Tyrant / Why is Venorax legendary?

2/8/1, Siege 2, Mimic, Fear as an upgrade? Still pretty bad but at least usable.

And yeah, back when it first came out the main reason to use it was to handle Hover Pod / Skimmer decks.

Topic: Tyrant / [To Devs] Since walls are garbage now...

I don’t see how. Repair is a logical addition to the game. It’s not as if it’s currently lacking in ridiculous amounts of siege. Every other skill has another which can be said to counter it, but Siege doesn’t – the closest is Chaos, but commanders and structures are immune, it can be evaded, and has few good users anyway.

Topic: Tyrant / (SPOILERS) Hostile Negotiation Event Cards Revealed!

Fear? Sure. Strike? Sort of, but not that much. Summon? Not at all, the only effective summons in this meta are structures. Counter? Lol. Disease? Pretty lol as well. Brute force? No chance.

E.g. it’s basically just Fear and Sabre + Rapier.

Topic: Tyrant / (SPOILERS) Hostile Negotiation Event Cards Revealed!

munchtime, the point isn’t that it dominates the meta, the point is that it make it incredibly easy to beat a major deck archetype if you want to. Throw in 2 Ospry’s and you’ll practically never lose to wallstall (at least until it gets some decent Chaos all or Repair). This isn’t healthy. Cards should check playstyles, not hard counter them.

Topic: Tyrant / (SPOILERS) Hostile Negotiation Event Cards Revealed!

Apollo was god for a while, the only thing that balanced it was the rise of GS (and to a lesser extent SS).

The problem isn’t with cards checking a deck type, the problem is with them countering it single-handedly. Cyclops already does this for wallstall; all the stronger forms of fear do this for conventional slowrolls; Moya does this for some of the older Fear archetypes. Ospry will simply make things worse for wallstall.

Split Jaw is an example of a balanced way of reducing wallstall’s power. Ospry is not. We’re heading for a metagame in which every possible defined playstyle has a hard counter and if the opponent carries yours, you auto-lose.

Topic: Tyrant / The Ultimate Wall Stall - May 2013

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Topic: Tyrant / [IDEA] Deploy//Support for other skill set denominations

It’s an okay idea, I just think in the current state of the metagame a way of removing opposing skills is much more important than getting more use out of your own.

Topic: Tyrant / What is the most expensive deck (in gold)?

Go on. Tell me that Odin isn’t the most expensive card… one more time.

I DARE YOU.

Topic: Tyrant / Pretty New Missions

Yeah I appreciated that a lot. Now if they’d just improve the moronic dialogue and stopped with the constant “Oh <insertfaction> showed up randomly, let’s fight them”, the storyline would actually be a nice addition to the game.

Topic: Tyrant / Gutless + wars

Lol alliance. And it doesn’t stop when you get stronger btw, most times we attack Better World we get a defense a minute later from TASW.

Topic: Tyrant / New Missions

But if something is to easy as it is to be done, it’s the easier thing to do what needs doing than what needs to be easier to be done. Especially when it’s not doable.

Topic: Tyrant / Elo Score/Power rating

Topic: Tyrant / What to do in Tyrant after the first few days?

Originally posted by Graevon:

You dance around in circles and hope an Odin falls out of nowhere.

Lol this so much.

Topic: Tyrant / ZeroPhobia Public Awareness Thread

Originally posted by crazyeye2011:

what’s your current and future plan on CQ? or will you consider to be war focus faction from now on like BW currently?

Yeah we’re getting out of conquest, originally we grabbed a few tiles to stay #1, but realised it was more effort than it was worth so we’re currently getting rid of them (which is why the Males of Meanness have temporarily passed us).

Topic: Tyrant / List of Cards that are likely to get upgrade

The only card I really want to be buffed (substantially) is Razogoth Reborn. Not that I have it, but it’s as far as I know the only card actually mentioned in the storyline, and it’s skeleton is the size of an entire map screen.

Something like 3/18/4, Summon Razogoth’s Heir, Rally all BT 1, Flurry 3? Seems more appropriate for it. Except that it really deserved to be a raid or event reward :/

Oh yeah and Gruesome Crawler of course.

Topic: Tyrant / ZeroPhobia Public Awareness Thread

and save stamina everybody

Topic: Tyrant / Arena Rating

Basically yeah. I’m hovering around #50 in the rankings right now, but it took absolutely forever just because the ELO system fails to account for the rock-paper-scissors nature of our meta. Good cards and deckbuilding can overcome that to some extent, but nothing like to the extent in things like chess. As a pretty good chess player ranked around 1800 FIDE, if I played 20 games against someone rated 300 points lower I’d expect to maybe lose one, draw three-five and win the rest. But in Tyrant, against a 0-rated arena player I might lose 4 of those 20. And yet we use exactly the same points system. It’s really obviously stupid, and just rewards grinding in search of runs of luck.

Topic: Tyrant / Is Moya still good?

Lol. Moya is arguably the best commander for any Fear deck, one of the top two choices for Rig decks, and one of the top three options for wallstalls. She’s the most dominant commander there is.

Topic: Tyrant / You've been pre-approved to join a level 13 faction

Oh okay. I’m just a bit confused, because you said “No members declined”, but I’m not a member yet, so does that mean you’d decline me? And then you said “Everyone accepted”, but I’m just one person, and also there’s a 50 member limit so you couldn’t have everyone anyway. And then finally you said you’d accept me if I was level one, but I’m not, I’m level four and a half. So I don’t really know what to think.