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PvP Alert: Reshuffle Change

KI has once again changed the mechanics of reshuffle. In an unpopular decision, reshuffle was changed to no longer return enchanted cards and their unenchanted copies, effectively killing Reshuffle multiplication. However, this was not the only change. Many players noticed that any discarded treasure card is no longer being returned to the sideboard even when reshuffle is used. Many players thought that this was an obvious glitch. However, this is not the case. Dworgyn recently confirmed on the main boards that any discarded tc will not return after reshuffle within the same battle.(See Post Here)

What Does This Mean for PvP?

Aggressive Cycling is Riskier– A fast cycle in the max level meta was typically the most effective ways to line up the cards you wanted. Now cycling too fast will mean you will be opting to permanently lose some resources, adding a tradeoff effect to finding your cards on time.

More Cards in Main can Mitigate this Effect at the Cost of a Slower Cycle– Adding more cards in your main can help to mitigate the effect of cycling through your sideboard too fast. However, adding more cards to your main deck makes it more clunky in effect slowing down your cycling.

Stall Strategies Benefit– Slower Strategies such as Jade Juju and Angel benefit from this change. Since they already had a conservative cycle phase based on a slow tempo this change has very little effect on them. On the other hand in cases such as Jade Juju, an opponent often has to go digging for the right cards to combo within the small openings a jade juju affords. This often means an aggressive discard and cycle phase. However, by doing this the opponent limits his/her options later in the match. In other words, this change narrows the margin of error when going against a stall strategy.

Overall Max LvL Impact– The overall impact of the Reshuffle change is actually quite limited for Max Lvl. Most max lvl matches are over long before the need for a reshuffle. However, at the higher ranks where the tempo is often slower this change will have a noticeable impact.

What do You think of The Reshuffle Change?

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