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GP Changes Are Live!

Greetings everyone and welcome to another GU post! In this post we are going to be talking about the new god power changes that have been live for a while now here. The most significant changes are that we no longer have the thievery or create god powers and now have the new Selena's Mark and Guild Shiv god powers. The overcharge god power also had it's cost reduced to 1 to increase it's viability in the meta. Flip also no longer pulls the same cards from the deck and actually works (and is very strong!). For more details on the update you can check out the official announcement here.

What does this mean?

The new GP for deception is a typical card game GP and is reminiscent of the rogue GP from HS. It offers 1 point of removal over 2 turns or additional push to face with favor generation. Taking damage to do 1 point of damage as deception is NOT ideal though, but that doesn't mean this GP is in anyway bad. In fact, it will likely see a lot of use in aggro deception going forward.

No thievery and create means nature and deception can no longer infinitesimally generate value. Deception was previously doing this with every deck it would run and delve 1 mana spells as they needed for endless value, create being fully random was less of problem but got nixed also.

Flip actually working has made Mayday even stronger than it was before and remains one of the best combo decks in the game (it just requires pilot knowledge for mulligan etc.). Flip now shuffling 2 cards into your deck and now drawing 2 DIFFERENT cards afterwards (also shuffling the deck). Overcharge being changed to 1 mana makes it a viable GP in aggro spell mage lists and certain combo lists, not nearly as impactful as the flip change but still something to be noted.

Talking Tidbits: Takeaways and Predictions

I think Mayday will see a resurgence with this GP change and aggro deception will use the new weapon GP. The mage GP will see light use among older school aggro spell mage decks and selena's mark will probably be amazons ideal GP along with badger. I think the new GPs are good and interact with the board, flip actually working is baffling to behold after all these years and feels awesome to use. Additionally formats won't be plagued with decks running excessive value generation GPs in older metas/ literally every format, this means formats will actually feel like there is some variety again. I look forward to it.