Is AI doing balance adjustments?
Theory: Second Dinner is using an AI to scrub through play rate data to create balance changes with little to no other context.
Reasoning: The cornerstone of my argument is the Surtur changes. Surtur is a shell at this point there are decks that use him as the cornerstone and he had created his own shell. The previous nerf made that shell no longer viable. Anyone who has ever played a Surtur deck would have known how back it feels when you only draw 10+ cards twice and only hit the Surtur effect twice. Today feels like human intervention and someone who actually plays the game making the correct adjustment.
High Evolution feels like another AI adjusted card. The AI sees a low play rate and give him +1 power. When anyone who plays the game understands that high evo is never meant to be played. He is meant to make his buffed cards strong and to be a dead draw himself. That’s the gimmick and the trade off.
Lastly it feels like the same cards get nerfed/buffed and then revised every patch. It feels like 0 play testing goes into these changes to see if they are viable. Cards that are legitimately oppressive never get changed and then cards like White Queen and Lizard are catching stray bullet changes. Who is asking for these changes.
I’m a 18,000 collection level freemium player so I feel like I have enough context to make these statements.