I would find buncles some much less annoying if salamander's still had 3 rng.
To actually add to the discussion, I think jade carbuncle is just a little too pushed, he is the egregious enabler, he is the leet fencer of buncles if you will(prenerf fencer). That and as mentioned super cheese chaimal 2nd sk.
only semi relevant tangent warnign, semi instigated by return rant(not for the feint of forum)!!!
The real issue with buncles is just how linear and one dimensional it is, everything in the deck is just aggrohate. I like the "spirit" of the deck and the idea, making openskill super wisps as an attempt to make a more interactive reffess rush, but it just doesn't execute. The deck is brutally obvious, you know exactly what there up to but you can't really do anything because your playing some stupid kurina tiger deck(guilty) when you should really just be playing returns and owl sages when decks like this exist. It is even more a mechanistic wind it up and let it go deck than lap decks of old, were you had some contingencies were as the buncles lists are too streamlined.
The deck just folds to
good falkow decks, which I have to say I think people are a tad bit to content to do just to reinforce there preconception of return's inherent unfairness.( "See look I lost therefore return op, it's been proven"....)
What I am really getting at is that in the strictest sense the deck is not really overpowered sort of "in a vacuum", by that I mean it is not outperforming(I'm talking out my rear, I don't actually know) all other decks on the aggregate win % kind of way of assessment, but decks like this are really oppressive because they are so dichotomising, again you feel like your just playing the wrong deck simply because it exists it forces you to metagame instead of playing the decks you like, because it's just so frustrating to lose to.
I just broke a monthish alteil hiatus yesterday. Of the games I've played by far the most enjoyable were against what I assume from a quick forum browse is public enemy no 1, ex mermaid falkow deck- generic goodstuff falkow deck. Both games I played against this person both when I was playing a falkow rush myself when I stood a fighting chance and when I was playing a dorky do nothing outdated gow rush were very engaging and interactive and on the whole fun. And then you pop the still outdated stupid kurina tiger deck(gowen decks suck atm
), and play against buncles, even though objectively you know it is a more competitive deck and just better, you don;t want it to be, it's so vanilla and monotoned and you just feel like you really can;t proactively interact with it at all, you start thinking "wow your dudes are just better than my dudes, how is this fair"(getting blownout by returns to me is more enjoyable than, ya I get it 25 deff bazillion heals -10 attack and...I'm playing a rush deck k ya you win sure{appathetic voice}), again the sort of "just playing the wrong deck" mentality makes this deck seem worse than it is in actual legitimate "too good need nerf" terms. Even if ex merm is pushing falkow decks too far, it doesn;t feel as bad as queing up with the beatdown and getting qued with the ,if you will, super anti rush deck, Even if the deck isn't strictly to the mark op it seems like it is forcing an entire archtype out of the meta and forcing people's deck choices and that is unhealthy for the game more than a legitimately op card/deck that doesn't do this>insert cliche rock paper scissors analogy to end rant.
