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Upcoming Mechanic - Intensify

Looking forward to this, gonna be a fun mechanic.

@ThanatosNoa when you say that the effect increases each time the card is cast, you mean played from the action bar right?

I hate to be that guy I just wanna know if I should start theory crafting rebirth things, I wanna confirm

Edit: nvm I see the ‘play/revive’ part now, I just assumed it had to be from hand because of the ‘cast’ bit there.

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Not gonna look forwards to bonecrusher cadence otk

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But it could make the Releaser viable! Think of the meme potential :upside_down_face:

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yeah, i mean abyss has so many ways to make intensify great

releaser
nether
rebirth
echoes
maybe even death knell if abyss gets an intense arcanyst

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Pre’Nurrf Obelysk: Summon Dervish. Your Dervishes have Intensify: +1 attack.

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I’m surprised nobody mentioned Lifestream yet (the Lyonar spell previously spoiled)?

I have a feeling we’re going to see more cards with this sort of tutoring effect in other factions as well. It serves as Intensify support.

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Loving this idea!

Not sure if Bolster and Bonecrusher are going to be any good though. Long-term investments in Duelyst don’t tend to work out very often. Do love the Cadence meme possibilities with Bonecrusher though (on paper anyway, it’s probably really frustrating in actual matches).

Anyhow, I really like this mechanic. I don’t think it’s going to be particularly strong or competitively useful, but it really touches my inner Johnny. I’m looking forward to seeing more cards with this effect or that support it.

Also also, a yet to be spoiled card, Gibbet is seen in the art posted above. I assume it’s safe to say they’ll be an Intensify minion as well.

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so is fizzling mystic, and thats not an intensify minion

healing mystic tho, thats got intensify: generate fanart

Oh, wow, I feel stupid. You’re right. I totally didn’t realize that was fizzling mystic up there.

Well then, scratch what I just said.

Bonecrusher seems really cool ! But as I get it the effect is dispelable. If you dispel an intensify minion, does it reset the stacking of the effect ?

:magdown: :abysspls: :sweat:

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“Well this turn I’ll summon a larger and larger man, so later on I can summon an even larger man”- the expansion.

In all seriousness, since these are limited to 3 copies + recursion, I’m pretty sure they won’t be too bananas. Still seems pretty strong, though. Also, Lifestream makes sense now.

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we only need 5 Bonecrusher respawns to be one-hit KO. Seems reasonable. Dust off your Zuraels boys and girls!

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I see someone watches Day9. I haven’t stopped laughing my arse off at that line.

…I really hope that is indeed from Day9 :sweat_smile:

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more like dust off your infinte sarlac decks and add this guy and cadence

Bonecrusher is going straight to my Big Boyz (Cadence/Betrayal) deck :slight_smile:

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Does Intensify on a minion act like a special Opening Gambit, in a sense where the effect applies when the minion is summoned from the action bar? I’m curious to know how Intensify minions would work with cards like Mirror Meld or Fractal Replication.

im thinking its just bond without the tribal restriction and a counter tacked on

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I guess its time for a creep-caedence -nethermeld deck.