its a bad trinket, dont get it
It directly helps you get triples, its awesome.
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idk man, its either be greedy with a minimal board to get triples for higher tier minions, get 10-15 damage per turn and lose, or have a full board of garbage minions at T1-T2 and hope to land 1 triple
And why would you have a full board of garbage minions at T1-T2. If the shop is full of garbage, you level up and stabilize later. And if you aren’t stable enough on turn 5, you shouldn’t spend 5 gold on a reflective pendant either. The trinket is pretty good, you just need to know when to pick it.
Literally one of the best neutral trinkets you can get.
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I keep reiterating that people do not understand trinkets and people keep writing things here that prove me correct over and over.
Reflective Pendant is practically an auto pick if you have any sort of tempo on your board already as it does nothing but make your board stronger the better your board becomes.
To say free copies of minions you want on your board is bad seems ridiculous.
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free drakkari or titus is crazy good
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I wouldn’t really say so either. Spending 5 gold on a pendant if you haven’t developed your board basically guarantees you won’t stabilize in at least 2 more turns. If you are in a weaker spot (like if you ramped up to tavern 4, for instance), you want to go for the instant tempo trinkets.
Pendant becomes progressively better and better the later you get into the game, but it won’t particularly help you get there. You need to be comfortable enough to make that investment, which makes it a “win more” kinda trinket.
its a deterrent in the long run as well especially if you are going full spell/spellcraft and you have an endgame board and you cant toss away any of your minions, eventually your hand will be filled with useless minions for triples you already have, its not good.
You seem to have ignored the caveat I included in the statement you quoted.
I agree with you that it requires a good understanding of your current board state and position in the lobby, but that does not make it any less powerful as the game progresses.
To denigrate it as bad, as the op has done, is to confess to all of us that one lacks game knowledge.
If you already have a board full of goldens it won’t matter anyway because the game will be over very quickly. you are wrong. It is a very good early trinket to pick if you have solid tempo on board and are moving up through the tiers quickly. There are very few boards where you cannot cut something from the build to make room for extra minions. APM builds ALWAYS have to do this.
I won’t even know what my end game board is going to look like when i am picking this trinket. I am picking it to finish triples into tier 5-6 minions then get copies of those minions to triple. How exactly is that bad?
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Its also amazing for boards where you’re just spamming one specific minion. Like, imagine the game is feeding you an Ancestral Automaton every turn while you only play those + magnetics. You’ll be so happy to get offered that trinket.
Or say you’re playing Dragons and you get fed extra Poets. Having like 5 Poets is legit strategy.
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yeah i guess but then you’d have to throw away your entire board for that strat, as I’ve said
You don’t throw away your entire board once or twice a game? That’s kind of how BG’s are played. I mean the entire strat for Pirates is to play pirates to get a massive amount of gold then dump it all at once and transition into an entirely different build on turn 10 or so that is way better.
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well yeah you do I know that, I meant in early game when you throw away your board just for reflective pendant to guarantee a hit on the best minion, its too risky. I just don’t like the trinket, unless I’m playing elementals or pirates
Oh I see, so you know when its good and when it isn’t. Good thing there’s other trinkets offered when it isn’t a good pick.
yes its a good pick when you’re already at an advantage, but at 5 cost at a disadvantage its always a bad pick.
Yes. You wouldn’t pick a trinket like that if your board is weak. You would never pick a trinket if your board is weak that doesn’t make your board better.
One of the reasons rushing to tier 4 and taking the “get 4 tier 4 minions” strategy is effective. There’s trinkets that only help you in the moment, but not your final board state.
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