Everyone hates poisons. Just read the forums and we can see that. To me, it comes down to 3 major points as to why they are so broken.
Replaces a stat. Minions have two stats, Attack and Health. Poisons for all intents and purposes it might as well say attack power = infinite.
Permanence. It doesn’t matter what you do, once a minion has poison, it always has poison.
No counter play. Nothing removes or ignores poisons.
Divine shields might arguably say health = infinite, but it only works for a single hit and it doesn’t matter if that hit is for 1 health or 1000. There are plenty of mechanics in the game that remove divine shields, such as a single ghoul which will clear all shields off the board, or the dragon minion which damages (thus removing divine shields) before attacks and therefor don’t have the problems of missing counterplay or permanence.
I totally agree, but you have those people that think poison is NEEDED for a chance to catch high stat minions. But, I’d much rather lose to a guy that built up some high stat minions, than someone that is able to put divine shield on a poison. People argue that dragon are the best atm. And that may be true because they are the only tribe that can both put divine shield on all their minions and ping away any divine shields on enemy minions attacked. But, poison is just stupid. I like the idea someone had that recommended changing poison to toxin and only letting it work on 1st minions it can kill with(then loses ability). But allowing constant recycling of divine shield on poison is stupid.
How about a new murloc that gives “poison for 1 turn to a murloc” as a battlecry?
So you actually have to decide if you want to build stats or if you want to roll for poison.
The golden can be “poison for 2 turns”, or “posion to two murlocs for 1 turn”
Defeats thee Oh So Boring RNG Fiesta Tavern Bob just hand me the game builds. Second. It defeats the P2W I get to chose the best Heroes and abilities folks.
OH LOOK! I got the perfect recruit each and every round! MULTIPLE TIMES! Now I have a SUPER BLOCKER! And no one can touch me until poison tier 5. NOW I CRUSH YOU WITH MY SUPER DUPER UBER ELEMENTALS! YES! I got the ++++++++++++++ to all elementals proc’ing minion early. Now an elemental I but is a billion/billion. tink Oh so sad, my poison defeated your super luck RNG fiesta.
Did you get the PERFECT Quiilboar picks? That you get a billion gems each round? They are all a billion / billion? tink oh too bad so sad my poison build beat your build.
You STILL have to get LUCKY to recruit poison or get it to proc across the board or randomly get it on level 6 minion of all, whatever its called.
BG is all rock paper scissors lizard spock. Just takes 6 minutes to play vs 6 seconds.
Salty people on the forums are not the majority, though.
Usually, the people who complain about poison are bad at the mode and call it all rng no skill mode.
We should not balance the mode around the inept.
I would support getting rid of Sefin and going back to toxfin as I think it’s too easy to get poison across the whole board now, but I won’t ever want it removed from the mode.
Understanding when and how to play around or play to poison is a core mechanic of actually being good at the mode.
Do you even play BGs? I haven’t seen any proof of it. I think most of your comments come from watching streamers or the HS YouTube channel, as if watching 8 people play the game over the weekend is proof of the meta.