VS concluding BSM will be nerfed is so dumb

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@Scr0tieMcB-1291

Surfalopod is hands down, by the data, in every way, at every rank, the second best card in the deck.

But it’s made strong by the other cards supporting it.

That’s the point everyone is trying to explain to you.

And that’s what I originally said.

And I told you to look at the data BEFORE the patch because I know they would show the card to be mediocre. If it wasn’t mediocre, BSM would have been tier 2-3 before the patch.

It wasn’t. It was a meme-tier deck. It took this broken miniset to allow dumpster legend BSM players to hit top 1k.

Or even top 500.

@Scr0tieMcB-1291

So you need Under the Sea and Watercolor Artist. That’s not much of a limitation. I mean, it is a bit of a piloting restriction, because unless you have an Under in hand already, you should probably NOT treat Watercolor Artist as a turn 3 play, but instead as a post-Surfalopod play. But assuming that you’re not making turn 3 Watercolor noob plays, nope, the spell draw is very consistent.

I refer your misguided behind to this post by the only BSM expert I accept on this forum:

@Smeet-1144

It comes with a deck building restriction that you can’t ignore when looking at those stats.

You can’t trade oils
You can’t run AoEs like heat wave for faster matchups
You can’t run cards like orb or Infinitize the Maxitude for value matchups.

Everything you’d want to run to beat big spell Mage’s bad matchups are blocked by Surfalopod and under the sea. It makes the deck less flexible and more reliant on the high roll. That’s what decks are exploiting to push BSM down to tier 3.