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Historic rebalances for RW energy: Galvanic Discharge, Guide of Souls, and Ocelot Pride
(mtgzone.com)
Wizards rebalanced 3 cards in Historic effective tomorrow, all in RW energy and related decks:
- Galvanic Discharge now only gives you 2 energy
- Guide of Souls now requires 4 energy to get the counters/flying
- Ocelot Pride now costs 1W
In response to the last Arena Champs: "Making up 58% of the field at the most recent Arena Championship 6, Boros Energy demonstrated its power at one of the highest levels of competitive play."
This was so unbelievably needed, but I think these cards are also proving to be too strong in the other eternal formats too.
I think what we're seeing here is how little playtesting is actually being done anymore. Now, and especially with Arena and the # of games being played, they just do whatever they want and wait and see how it breaks the game. Then let everyone hate their lives for a month or two before fixing the cards back to what they should have been from the outset.
I don't think anyone in the world can convince me Ocelot Pride should ever have been printed at 1 mana. That's a 1/1 or 1/2 for 2W all day every day for me. I just saw Ocelot Pride win in a LEGACY mtgo challenge last night. The deck at least got to the finals, the player streaming lost to it in the top 4.
Ocelot Pride feels very much like they needed a "new Ragavan" and designed it specifically to be a chase mythic.
A lot of the problem cards feel like they were playtested, and then development decided to turn up power level even higher.
Yea I think you're right, I remember reading somewhere that Wizards may change the card abilities up to the last minute too. Perhaps it was more balanced at one point.