Orion (4032)

    Cost: 6 ➞ 7

    Text: Summon: Set other ally units to 3/3. ➞ Summon: Set all other units to 3/3.

    Traits: armor ➞ guard

    Spell: Trinity Link ➞ Shield

A change to the highest Winrate card in INT. this may not be a straight-up nerf, as its effect does gain utility in slicing down big opposing units, which feels on-theme for INT, but it could already do something similar with trinity link, so moving it 1 space up the curve while also making its statline weaker via trading armor for Guard + Shield should help reduce the speed at which it threatens lethal. In addition, setting enemies to 3/3 means you can't throw it down into a board of small enemy units and then use your own 3/3's to trade over them, making it worse in close races where both players have boards of small creatures. Overall though, it has more utility, being able to smack down Etherwall boards and crush single giant opposing units down to size effectively, so it should be weaker as an aggro tool, but more diverse overall.

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Doctor Vile (4039)

    Text: Death: Add three Vile Vial to both hands. ➞ Death: Add two Vile Vial to both hands.

    Power: 3 ➞ 2

A harsh nerf to a very annoying card in aggro/spam matchups, which offered a good body + keywords and hand disruption ability. This may be an overnerf, but going just -1 vial felt a bit harsh, and going -1 hp might have killed it altogether, so I settled on -1 vial and -1pow, reducing its power and hand-bricking ability slightly while keeping its health at 3.

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Gato (4042)

    Traits: stealth,banner ➞ banner,guard

    Health: 1 ➞ 2

Another tweak to a contentious card. Trading Stealth for Guard and +1hp, so it's far less safe to throw down early. Overall I think the tale of Gato is a tale of just how brutal the stealth + banner combo is early on, as if your opponent lacks any spell-based answers, challenging Gato with units tends to be a bit of a nightmare. 1c banner units are pretty scary as a rule, which is why each prism only gets 1.

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Mulch (4046)

    Text: Do 1 damage to target unit. If lethal, summon Elderwood. ➞ Do 1 damage to target unit. If lethal, summon Elderwood.

    Traits: wither ➞ None

A small nerf to a very powerful and popular card. I don't think it'll matter a huge deal since it's used to deal the killing blow to units, but I wanted to try this before tweaking it further.

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Bauble (4062)

    Text: Death: Draw a 2 cost card. ➞ Death: Draw a 2 cost card.

    Traits: guard ➞ guard,lifesteal

    Health: 3 ➞ 2

Nerf to a card whose stats were a bit too good for a 2c int unit. Now it's 2c, 2/2, has 2 traits and draws a 2c card! Fant2stic!

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Curious (4065)

    Health: 4 ➞ 3

Nerf to a chunky INT unit. was a bit too durable for the amount of value it could offer. Now it's easier to answer with spread damage + a hero punch.

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Cobalt (4061)

    Traits: guard ➞ armor

    Health: 3 ➞ 1

A tweak here. Cobalt is one of the highest Winrate and highest playrate INT cards, so I wanted to try to make it feel a bit more unique + reduce its stats. It's more fragile with just 1 armored hp rather than 3 non armored, but carries buffs from cards like Orion better, so we'll have to see how this does.

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Gemini (4071)

    Cost: 8 ➞ 9

    Text: Play: Target ally unit copies this unit's power and health. Attach Lead to it. ➞ Play: Target ally unit gains guard and copies this unit's power and health.

    Spell: Lead ➞ None

Nerf/change, now 9c, but also grants guard at the cost of dropping its own lead + lead on its ally, opening it up to stuff like Touch The Sky, which should make it a tad easier to answer.

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Scythe Mantis (1024)

    Traits: wither ➞ stealth,wither

Buff to a real underperformer, the stats aren't too bad but 6c units seem to be a real hard sell, so maybe Scythe can get some more hits in via stealth, and with some sick new art to boot!

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Coffin Moth (1041)

    Power: 1 ➞ 2

Buff with +1pow to another AGY underperformer, letting it hit a bit harder. Moth is one of those cards that can lead to earlygame board dominance in the absence of any spell-based answers though, so we’ll have to see how it does.

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Sabletooth (1047)

    Power: 4 ➞ 3

    Health: 2 ➞ 3

Statshifting an underperformer. 2hp is a very precarious place for a 3c unit be, so while this isn't a straight stat buff, it should provide a bit more playability to Sabletooth here.

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Shredder (1080)

    Text: Play: Attack target enemy unit. ➞ Play: Attack target enemy unit. If lethal, gain stealth.

A buff via an effect tweak, Shredder can now hide if it successfully kills an opposing unit, which should be pretty relevant for punishing 1pow enemy units, but shouldn't be too unreasonable.

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Queen of Jacks (1049)

    Power: 2 ➞ 3

Another midrange underperformer I'm granting a buff, should let her fight for board a bit more.

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Blitz (1098)

    Text: Return your hand to deck. Draw three. Do 3 damage to your hero. ➞ Return your hand to deck. Draw three. Do 2 damage to your hero.

A slight tweak here, I like the AGY self-damage theme, but it its somewhat parasitic, since multiple cards that damage your hero will compound with one another, so reducing the recoil damage here by 1 seems fair.

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Squiddy (75)

    Power: 4 ➞ 3

    Health: 3 ➞ 4

A buff to a long-term underperformer, trading power for health is usually a good option, should make it more appealing.

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Flock (1030)

    Traits: None ➞ banner

A straight buff with +banner to try to strengthen an underplayed midrange AGY option. Letting your hero hit 5pow the turn you play it should let you smash more aggressively through enemy units or into the enemy hero.

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Psyche (21)

    Traits: guard ➞ guard,lifesteal

    Power: 2 ➞ 3

    Health: 5 ➞ 4

A slight statshift here to make it less vulnerable to wither and cards like Eradicate and ID Crisis + adding lifesteal to add another lifesteal option to STR and fit in with the overall "stealing" theme of Psyche.

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El Monstruo (46)

    Power: 8 ➞ 9

Adding +1 pow onto an underperforming stat pile.

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Kha's Wrath (59)

    Cost: 9 ➞ 8

A spooky buff here, STR is supposed to have effective removal, and Wrath serves to punish/break opposing boardstalls, and allow STR to push for lethal in the lategame.

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Getum Gang (71)

    Health: 3 ➞ 4

Buff to another STR underperformer. Get'em... err... Getum Gang!

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Beatle (73)

    Traits: armor,wither,lifesteal ➞ armor,wither,lifesteal,guard

Buff to another underperformer. Now has 4 keywords. Guard helps him have a more immediate impact via getting in the way, and helps differentiate him from Eclipse.

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Grim Reprisal (1066)

    Text: Do 3 damage to target unit and your hero. ➞ Do 3 damage to target unit and 2 damage to your hero.

Akin to the blitz nerf, now does less recoil damage. This card's usage/Winrate hasn't really fallen off too much, so this minor buff feels fair. STR is meant to have superior removal to AGY, so this coming up a bit short next to Strike Down feels reasonable.

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Void Knight (1091)

    Text: Heroes can't gain health. ➞ The enemy hero can't gain health.

A suggested change that seemed reasonable. While some double-edged effects can be fun and interesting, Void knight's effect offered little potential playaround for the user, and its usage/WR stats were already low, so I don't mind making the effect one-sided.

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Sea Mage (2020)

    Power: 3 ➞ 4

Small buff to an underperformer with +1pow, lets WIS threaten a bit more in the midgame.

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Soul Shepherd (2022)

    Power: 2 ➞ 3

Another small buff to an underperformer with +1pow. Shepherd is kind of scary because of its ability to go deep OOD, but I like giving WIS some cards that actually fight for board on curve, rather than forcing it to just stall/draw cards.

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Bogi Bogi (2040)

    Traits: stealth ➞ stealth,wither

    Power: 3 ➞ 2

Nerf/tweak, reducing its power and adding wither, making it a bit less good at trading. Should remain a potent tool earlygame.

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Nefurti (2068)

    Traits: None ➞ lifesteal

    Health: 4 ➞ 3

A nerf/tweak here, Nefurti can provide a ton of healing for a low cost, and do it repeatedly if not answered, so making her a bit more fragile while giving her a bit more healing potential feels reasonable.

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Giza (2069)

    Power: 0 ➞ 1

    Spell: Zap ➞ None

Small adjustment, Zap + banner is a very powerful combo, and Giza felt a bit too powerful for its cost, so now it has 1pow instead, making it slightly less powerful overall.

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Guru (2077)

    Cost: 6 ➞ 5

    Health: 6 ➞ 5

Spooky buff to a card that's fallen from grace. It has -1c but overall should still save a lot less mana than it used to, so its effective cost-to-discount ratio should still be far higher than it was when it could drop spells to 0c.

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Minstrel (2082)

    Cost: 5 ➞ 4

    Power: 2 ➞ 1

Another buff to a mulligan enabler that's never seen much love, moving it down to 4c. It seems like it could be spooky but I'd rather see WIS mulligan decks get some heyday than see Minstrel Languish forever.

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World Tree (2094)

    Cost: 4 ➞ 5

    Text: Summon Elderwood. Give it +1/+1 for each element in your grave. ➞ Summon Elderwood. Give it +1/+1 for each element in your grave. Give it banner.

A weird +1c and banner, gives banner to the tree instead of the spell, which likely isn't a major nerf even with +1c, since a big bannered tree is pretty useful, but like Meng’long, slowing it down a tad should allow for more counterplay.

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Death's King (3024)

    Traits: wither ➞ wither,lifesteal

    Power: 3 ➞ 2

    Health: 4 ➞ 5

A reversion/buff to a card that was formerly terrifying with these stats, I feel like the meta has sped up a fair amount lately, and HRT has been struggling, so I'm curious to see what its king can do.

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Gus (3032)

    Spell: None ➞ Shroud

Small buff. Gus wasn't really played, so now she has Shroud to make her a bit more annoying.

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Blood Hunter (3052)

    Text: Your hero can attack the enemy hero past guard. ➞ Your hero and units can attack the enemy hero past guard.

A fairly spicy buff, Hunter is arguably one of the least used cards, so now she helps out the whole team, letting your whole board go for the jugular. It seems pretty scary, but again, serves to help break lategame stall wars, and unless your opponent has a board full of guard units, it's likely to function similarly to a chain toss in many cases, for the purposes of overcoming 1-2 Guard units. Coupled with her blood moon though, I can see her making a splash.

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Shoal Sprite (3067)

    Text: Sunset: If you have no mana, gain +1 power. ➞ Sunset: If you have no mana, gain +1/+1.

    Health: 2 ➞ 1

'Berf' that should be a fairly consistent buff when played well. Sprite will once more buff her hp if you have no mana, but starts with 1 less hp to compensate.

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Cosmicon (3071)

    Power: 1 ➞ 2

    Health: 7 ➞ 6

Moving a bit of hp to power to let her be a bit less of a punching bag.

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Songrider (3079)

    Text: Death: Summon Songbird. ➞ Death: Summon Songbird with +1 power.

Small buff to the bird it summons. It is a trained songbird after all, so it's a bit pluckier than average!

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Ma Shroom (3098)

    Traits: guard ➞ guard,lifesteal

Buffing an underperformer by giving her the same lifesteal as her children, diversifying healing options.

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Aegis of Glory ➞ Aegis of Light (88)

    Name: Aegis of Glory ➞ Aegis of Light

    Text: Give target ally unit +3/+3, guard and attach Shield. Attach Blind to enemies. ➞ Give target ally unit +4/+4, guard and attach Shield. Attach Blind to enemies.

A buff to an underperformer, giving a full +4/+4. seems potent, but that was also assumed when it was upped to +3/+3 and it never really took off.

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Blaze of Glory (97)

    Cost: 6 ➞ 5

    Text: Give ally units +1 power, lifesteal and attach Quest to them. ➞ Give target ally unit lifesteal and +2 power. Attach Quest to ally units.

Tweak to an underperformer that was really fun in the past, now grants lifesteal to just one ally unit, along with +2 power, but all allies still gain quest, so the potential for a mass buff + draw is still there. Seems fun overall.

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Dawn Blade (1027)

    Traits: None ➞ banner

This is so underplayed I wonder if anyone even knew its name changed a patch or two back. Adding banner to it since it's pretty underused, and I prefer to diversify each prism’s viable options, rather than simply keeping the strongest ones strong.

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Ominous Hoo (2064)

    Traits: stealth ➞ lifesteal

Tweak here, lifesteal is likely better than stealth in many cases, but Hoo was in the odd position of often being weak, but sometimes being an iron wall if you were ahead on board, since its stealth could make it near impossible to challenge via Units, sometimes leading to runaway games, so having lifesteal should make him more valuable on average while also avoiding lockout scenarios due to the 1-2 punch of his stealth + moonbeams

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Frost Adept (2081)

    Power: 1 ➞ 2

Another small +1pow buff to let WIS have some slightly better curve plays.

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Frigid Blizzard (4004)

    Text: Attach Frozen to enemy units. Do 2 damage to each unit. Empty your mana. ➞ Attach Frozen to enemy units. Do 2 damage to all units.

Small buff, no longer drains your mana. That effect was a precaution because I was worried it could be too good, but it's pretty nderplayed and low Winrate right now, so I'm happy to buff it a bit.

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Mass Confuse (4007)

    Text: Deal damage to each unit equal to its power. Attach Dazed to each unit. ➞ Do damage to each enemy unit equal to its power. Give all units Dazed.

A spicy buff, this is another of INT’s board clears that doesn't really see much usage, so we're trying a buff by making it 1-sided. INT and STR are intended to get more 1-sided wipes like Wrath and Blizzard that have more impact on the opponent, so this seems like an interesting option to experiment with. The change from combat damage to spell damage a while back also means it can no longer wither units with wither anymore, so it lost a fair bit of utility vs enemies like Doom Shroom/Tiamat, so this boost in raw power should also help compensate for that.

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Tempest Brew (4010)

    Traits: banner ➞ None

Small nerf here, removing banner to make it less effective for tempo on curve. It's definitely not really needed as a 4c draw 3 is already a rate at or above par, especially with the extra tempo Zaps can offer.

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Ghost Duster (4028)

    Power: 2 ➞ 1

    Spell: None ➞ Shield

Bit of a further nerf, Duster's stats were a bit much for a unit with its quality of effect, so I've given it -1pow but also added shield, so if you opt to play it early its stat block is still decent thanks to the shield, but later on it will consume its shield, which also serves to show off our attachment mechanics.

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Angler (4088)

    Spell: Mana Potion ➞ None

The level of power the mana potion added was likely a bit excessive, so I've retired that for the moment, angler should still be useful for its ability to tutor spells though.

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Necrotic Pact ➞ Unliving Pact (3027)

    Name: Necrotic Pact ➞ Unliving Pact

No changes here except the name and sick art that I wanted to highlight, giving us another signature elemental dragon spell. What would you sacrifice for such power?