As a Muna player, Mana Channeling along with Bountiful Meadow puts you in a great state. Unless your opponent is ramping too, they simply can't keep up.
I think one thing worth noting about the different opinions (which I think you do a good job BTW, but I say this for why Trickster's placements are lower across the board) is that Trickster seems more concerned with opportunity cost. From playing with a limited collection, about a box and a half, Muna seems the easiest to build without access to every good rare. Most of our new players are playing it and doing really well, because the cards are just naturally better more easily than other factions. That is to say, without the perfect deck with optimized rares, Muna seems to do the best. So considering that, it means Munas rares each will seem better on a one on one basis. As for the mana destruction vs opponent ramping, Muna being so consistent and safe, it really likes hugging the mana curve tightly, and wants to try to win at every stage, more than most decks. It is comfortable beating slow decks early and fast decks late by staying consistent, so messing with that consistency has potential to hurt it a lot. Which I think is it's main weakness, in that other decks have to be more adaptable. My two cents on
You've put the thing about opportunity cost exactly to the point. It's also the reason why many rares are considered "worse" than their common counterparts even if they're functionally speaking strict upgrades. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
The thing about Mana Eruption and Reaping is that you should be playing it against the Shenlong, not against something early. This type of removal is for the oppoenents haymakers that you can't deal with in any other way. I've seen people make play mistakes with Mana Eruption. They had two of them in hand, put one into mana and then used the second on something low value. Then the opponenet put out a Hydracaena. The point here is that this is specialised removal for when you really need to kill something permanently. These removals stop them replaying their haymaker from reserve next turn. They are good, but they have to be used at the right time and not wasted.
That's exactly right, especially the part about them being discards instead of sending to reserve. As you say, they're perfect to use against high-value characters, or maybe something like Sierra's Hive.
@@jujurinka6719 Honesty kind of agree, yeah. That would have saved that card from falling out of the set. In its current state I doubt anyone will be excited about it…
Trickster is probably right on the Meditation Training. I tend to look at the power level and think a bit less on the rare slots, but in the real world I agree with Trickster you are probably good with just the common.
I had the same feeling, I was building a Muna deck just yesterday and I was out of Rare slots insanely fast. I think you'll just very rarely end up in a situation where you even have any slots left to use on something like Meditation Training.
Great vidéo, thanks for this work comparing opinions, very valuable!
My pleasure, thanks for your kind words!
As a Muna player, Mana Channeling along with Bountiful Meadow puts you in a great state. Unless your opponent is ramping too, they simply can't keep up.
I think one thing worth noting about the different opinions (which I think you do a good job BTW, but I say this for why Trickster's placements are lower across the board) is that Trickster seems more concerned with opportunity cost. From playing with a limited collection, about a box and a half, Muna seems the easiest to build without access to every good rare. Most of our new players are playing it and doing really well, because the cards are just naturally better more easily than other factions. That is to say, without the perfect deck with optimized rares, Muna seems to do the best. So considering that, it means Munas rares each will seem better on a one on one basis.
As for the mana destruction vs opponent ramping, Muna being so consistent and safe, it really likes hugging the mana curve tightly, and wants to try to win at every stage, more than most decks. It is comfortable beating slow decks early and fast decks late by staying consistent, so messing with that consistency has potential to hurt it a lot. Which I think is it's main weakness, in that other decks have to be more adaptable. My two cents on
You've put the thing about opportunity cost exactly to the point. It's also the reason why many rares are considered "worse" than their common counterparts even if they're functionally speaking strict upgrades. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
The thing about Mana Eruption and Reaping is that you should be playing it against the Shenlong, not against something early. This type of removal is for the oppoenents haymakers that you can't deal with in any other way. I've seen people make play mistakes with Mana Eruption. They had two of them in hand, put one into mana and then used the second on something low value. Then the opponenet put out a Hydracaena. The point here is that this is specialised removal for when you really need to kill something permanently. These removals stop them replaying their haymaker from reserve next turn. They are good, but they have to be used at the right time and not wasted.
That's exactly right, especially the part about them being discards instead of sending to reserve. As you say, they're perfect to use against high-value characters, or maybe something like Sierra's Hive.
Inari rare effect should have been on the common
@@jujurinka6719 Honesty kind of agree, yeah. That would have saved that card from falling out of the set. In its current state I doubt anyone will be excited about it…
Trickster is probably right on the Meditation Training. I tend to look at the power level and think a bit less on the rare slots, but in the real world I agree with Trickster you are probably good with just the common.
I had the same feeling, I was building a Muna deck just yesterday and I was out of Rare slots insanely fast. I think you'll just very rarely end up in a situation where you even have any slots left to use on something like Meditation Training.
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