Chris H. wrote:The decks that come up most often are Samantha Stephens (tier 3) and Ned Flanders. Not sure if these decks should be adjusted or if they should be moved to tier 4.
I removed all but one
Grindstone from Samantha Stephens last week. Ned Flanders is brutal, but the players can add some graveyard hate to their deck, when they intend to face him (Reanimator as a description should be enough to warn them).
Chris H. wrote:Special quest decks are harder to implement and as we add more of them it becomes more time consuming to test them to make sure that the cards that start in play are reasonably play balanced.
I was in favor of a "normal" tier 4 in addition to the quest decks. Now that more cards are available and the AI has gotten better, I have some decks in mind that really break tier 3 (things like
Show and Tell +
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn or
Tinker +
Blightsteel Colossus).
Chris H. wrote:One of our decks has
Joiner Adept and I remember that you recently fixed that card. Several of the other decks may have cards that once worked prior to Ability Factory. With the recent card conversions there may be a few more cards that now do no work for the AI.
There shouldn't be a lot like them (but
Ball Lightning creatures come to mind).
EDIT: I looked through the deck descriptions and decks:
Doc Holiday - WUG Morph deck with
Regenerate creatures
These decks don't have much synergy and Doc Holiday 3 looks too weak (
Revered Dead and
Righteous Charge are not powerful)
Electro 3 - WRG deck with
Arashi, the Sky Asunder and
Ball LightningThis decks doesn't have much synergy. The AI can't use the channel ability of Arashi. Other weak cards:
Eladamri's Call,
Regrowth,
Howling Mine (in this deck).
Gold Finger 3 - U control deck with various counter spells,
Serra Sphinx and
MemnarchTheme is ok. Should be powered up.
Green Lantern 3 - UBR
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker deck with threat removal and several creatures
Lacks synergy and has a bad mana curve. Some very weak cards (
Pardic Collaborator,
Ridgetop Raptor,
Shatter).
Iceman 3 - UB Bounce and Control deck
Could have a real bounce theme (
Warped Devotion). Some very weak cards (
Vampiric Tutor,
Cruel Tutor,
Serpent Warrior,
Diabolic Tutor,
Demonic Tutor). [
Vampiric Tutor in an AI deck basically is B - Instant - lose 2 life]