Might have to take a break until a rebalance hits. I'm all in Skellige and it's pretty shit right now. The leaders are all terrible, and at best situational. Can't fight weather decks, can't out point Northern Realms. What the fuck were they thinking?
I don't know, I am having waaaaaaayyyyy too much fun playing as Skellige now, yeah the nerf on the priestess and shieldsmith hurt like a bitch but now I had to get creative with the deck and build one for every faction leader (thanks CDPR for making them Rare (Or are they Epic?) instead of Legendary) and I am having crazy ton of fun playing with a King's Bran discard deck or a Harald self wounding deck or or a mix of both when playing as Craite. The nerf on the priestess made me go look for alternatives, sometimes it does hurt that you can't chain them buffed up and basically finish the last round from 0 to 20-30-40 something depending on how much you buff them with the shieldsmith and ending on a skirmisher.
But I found a new love in Lugos and Johnny (the godling), since I usually use him on Gold cards and just recently I used him and got a duplicated Lugos, then with my Bran's Ability I ended the match with 2 Lugos on the board and like 20 units in my graveyard which gave him almost like 24 to each Lugos. I could see the opponent seeing both cards and swapping between the 2 and wonder how in the hell I got 2 Lugos.
The only problem with the discard deck is that is too dependent on your opponent not playing a heavy control deck like most Scoia'tel players and Monster players do, since the deck is too reliant on cards that buff themselves when discarding units or cards that attack when discarding a unit.
Maybe you can't out point NR but your weather immune units are way better than Monsters. They're like the easiest matchup for me by far, especially with Dagon since I don't give a flying flap about another weather card. You could probably ruin NR running weather yourself with Harald and a few damage specials. I don't disagree on your assessment of the leaders though. Very underwhelming
edit: how the fuck? My 4th legendary (level 67) and it's Ocvist again. Happened the exact same way in the initial keg draw, literally in the exact same position on the far right.
I'll angrily collect my 200 scraps
Damn that sucks, I haven't gotten a repeated Legendary so far, luckily. I did got some Legendary cards that I don't use since they are in factions I am not currently using like NR (Phillipa and Dijkstra) or Monsters (Caretaker) or I craft them before the patch (Regis, god damn it 800 lost on that one)