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Junior Member
Iam not saying this card is well designed. But bear with me. You forget some things about Hookhand.
FIRST THING: compare him to other Clydes, not other cards - he is the only random one. If he costs 4, or you take dmg from him, he would need more to buff him than just HP if you still cant chose the target and still can hit new kid). I know, Iam not counting Hercules Clyde, who serves different purpose than straight up killing something (and if he did, Mystic would rule the galaxy forever).
SECOND THING: he is epic - in the end, after some months, if nothing changes, the max level of him for most people will be 4 (I doubt even that). He wont kill any fighters in the game that are 4 or more. Other 2 Clydes will. Alien Clyde after killing with poison at level 5 is super strong card even as fighter (yes you can purify it, but would risk using purify against the first poison enemy sci-fi deck uses?). Same as Dwarf King (btw I experienced bugs with dwarf king that he used his charge on two targets in a row which WASNT FUN at all) Hookhand isnt a duelist, he usually dies to anything on the field and cant run through the whole field and be threat to new kid like Dwarf Clyde. This guy will be ("pray to god I hit his ranged or flying character BOT") in the future because of the bad scaling I mentioned.
THIRD THING: You can play him too, you can just pick adventure and own everyone if you thank thats the way it is. I switched to adventure from mystic because I was tired of the holy trinity of zen, angel and friar. And these people get butthurt aboud other holy trinities in other themes. I know it sucks when your first ranged unit dies. My catapult timmy dies almost 75 percent of games right at the start to either HHC or Alien Clyde, sometimes even to aggressive Dwarf. Or my mephesto gets picked up by HHC or Alien Clyde when I have other 7 units on the field. Or my HHC hits the NK when there are other 7 enemy units on the field. So if you want to make him useless, make every other Clyde useless to balance it out (strange that noone makes posts how crazy Zen still is compared to other cartmans, how we have TWO super good Butters cards (almost three), that we have three strong Stan cards etc. But with Clyde EVERYONE forgets how strong other two Clydes really are, and that only Hercules is in the theme that doesnt really needs his help at the moment.
In conclusion - buff other clydes if you want, but if you nerf this one, it will be nonsense.
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He's one of the few reasons why adventure is the most played theme in legends alongside fireball and the 2 cost units. People that complain about Mystic obviously haven't played against adventure spam decks. It only takes 2 successful HHC hits on 2 backline units to put the opponent at an insurmountable energy deficit. Coupled that with how potent fireball is and you get a very oppressive theme. That's why almost everyone and their mother plays adventure. This game's balance is honestly very questionable at times.
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People who don't play mystic complain about mystic (regen, purify, power bind ...)
People who don't play adventure complain about adventure (HHC, Fireball, 2-cost spam...)
People who don't play fantasy complain about fantasy (holy trinity Stan/Kenny/Butters ...)
More and more ppl are complaining about Sci-Fi (Mecha Timmy, Poison mostly)
Basically everyone is complaining against the 2 other themes he doesn't play. To me it's kind of a sign that it's not as unbalanced as you think (overall)
