Nix Ox is an unfair card

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Game's mechanics doesnt allow to counter the combo.Nerf it to the ground.

[Zsrai]

/yawn

[ᴛʜ3ᴘʀᴀᴠᴀᴛᴏ]

If you have lost for a card it doesn't mean that card needs a nerf. Maybe it's your deck and your playstyle that need a buff.

[Dysmetria]

Dear Bethesda,

Today I lost to _____. Please nerf it.

Thanks in advance,

Some Entitled Person

[PortalShifter]

By "the combo" I think you actually mean "the only ability this card has."

[blade]

if you defending nix in its current state with the combos available your a fool, infinite mana and the a defense of.....the timer runs out for them to play all their cards is not good balance for a card game

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by blade:

if you defending nix in its current state with the combos available your a fool, infinite mana and the a defense of.....the timer runs out for them to play all their cards is not good balance for a card game

The balance is fine. It's part of a what... 3 or 4 card combo? That's not an easy thing to pull off every game. The combo should probably see a(nother) nerf of some kind, but not because of it's power level. Direwolf tended to nerf cards and combos that just felt awful to play against (no interaction, not power level), so hopfully Sparky does the same... if they ever hire a card designer to work on balance.

[skyrimemailtest]

Originally posted by Th3pravato:

If you have lost for a card it doesn't mean that card needs a nerf. Maybe it's your deck and your playstyle that need a buff.

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Originally posted by blade:

if you defending nix in its current state with the combos available your a fool, infinite mana and the a defense of.....the timer runs out for them to play all their cards is not good balance for a card game

The balance is fine. It's part of a what... 3 or 4 card combo? That's not an easy thing to pull off every game. The combo should probably see a(nother) nerf of some kind, but not because of it's power level. Direwolf tended to nerf cards and combos that just felt awful to play against (no interaction, not power level), so hopfully Sparky does the same... if they ever hire a card designer to work on balance.

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eYMFjcNpv0

He was able to almost always use the combo!

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

because the game requires skill and its not easy to do that doesnt make it balanced.Uprising and/or Nix ox dont need nerf but mostly rework.The Elder Scrolls Legends doesnt have responses like Magic The Gathering to counter every card your opponent plays.A combo that gives you basically "infnite mana" and fill up your hand and the field and play mentor's ring to finish up the game, that thing is NOT HEALTHY.People who actually cant see through this are fanboys or dont know what balance means.This combo remind me the era of Yugioh where everything was OTK or so.Unless you play aggro you cant beat this deck.Also i reached top 99 in this month and yes i know a lot of things and from balance as well.

[Cryptic]

OTK combos are, I'd argue, both fair and unfair to the Nth respective degree

Hear me out.

Either you don't get the composite pieces and your opponent wrecks you, or you do and you wreck them. It's won or lost by the whim of card draw, which is either quite fair (in the sense that card draw is arbitrary, unbiased, and just does what it does and you get what you get) or incredibly unfair, since neither player's skill really matters--either ya draw the nuts or ya don't.

I'd tend to support the notion that it's 'fair', but also quite asinine and not at all fun to play against--and if someone is entertained by playing it more than once, I suspect they were dropped on their head as a child.

Also, pro tip, never admit that you played Yugioh. You might as well say "My waifu body pillow told me she hates this card too."

[Haywire]

This takes a bit to pull off but can be crazy when done. But the key to the deck isnt Nix Ox it is uprising...raise the cost and now not so usable for this purpose. Besides you also need at least 3 very specific cards in your hand to make this work. Plus if they dont kill you and you can board wipe you typically have a really good chance of winning.

I did face it and they stalled enough..game was turn 12 around got me down to 2..(one or two cards in hand none combo). Then I played Alduin and won.

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by skyrimemailtest:

He was able to almost always use the combo!

Yeah, I know how the combo works. Just because Justin Larson cherry picked the times it went off doesn't mean it goes off all the time; he's trying to create an entertaining video after all, and people don't want to see him make a deck and it just lose 3 or 4 times.

Originally posted by CrypticReference:

I'd tend to support the notion that it's 'fair', but also quite asinine and not at all fun to play against--and if someone is entertained by playing it more than once, I suspect they were dropped on their head as a child.

This is why it should be changed, not because it's "unbalanced" (it is balanced, it's just an OTK deck). It's not fun to play against. It's non-interactive too. This is why DW nerfed Ramp Scout, nerfed the old Time to Fight decks, the Blackfall Control Tribunal, etc. They didn't want non-interactive and/or terribly unfun decks to be matched against. Same reason why DV finally got a nerf; it was a staple in many unfun decks like Masturbation Scout and Nix Ox.

[Jhon Baard YT]

ancano + red year = win

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Originally posted by Haywire:

This takes a bit to pull off but can be crazy when done. But the key to the deck isnt Nix Ox it is uprising...raise the cost and now not so usable for this purpose. Besides you also need at least 3 very specific cards in your hand to make this work. Plus if they dont kill you and you can board wipe you typically have a really good chance of winning.

I did face it and they stalled enough..game was turn 12 around got me down to 2..(one or two cards in hand none combo). Then I played Alduin and won.

Man read my post.You cant if opponent plays mentor's ring.creatures will get charge and finish you off...

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by JinVarrel:

Man read my post.You cant if opponent plays mentor's ring.creatures will get charge and finish you off...

So now you're talking about a whole nother combo? That still takes 2 certain cards to pull off plus at least a half full board? Are you just complaining about OTK combos being "unfair" because... you lost to them? Congratulations, you lost to a win con that isn't competitive and are complaining about it.