Old Swarm Eye MkI

Digestion Pool is quite inflexible and has a habit of clashing with the better Limited cards. Do you think it's worth playing? Similarly, how much of a discount are you expecting to get on the Trygon since you'd have to repeatedly send Tervigon to the same (infested) planet before the termagants stacked up to something meaningful?

Digestion Pool is quite inflexible and has a habit of clashing with the better Limited cards. Do you think it's worth playing? Similarly, how much of a discount are you expecting to get on the Trygon since you'd have to repeatedly send Tervigon to the same (infested) planet before the termagants stacked up to something meaningful?

I do have to say I've not seen much play from Digestion Pool - I agree that it and the Trygon likely need the axe. I haven't seen either come in to play yet and can't see them doing much anyway. 

I've found that this deck does quite well in the command phase and has a consistent lot of infestation plays. That I'm happy with. I'm leaning toward dropping either the Volatile Pyrovores or the Tyranid Warriors for Termagant Swarms. If I do this, I'll likely also drop the Gargoyles for Strangler Broods. 

What could be done: 

- 1x Trygon

- 1x Digestion Pool

- 1x Tyranid Warrior

- 3x Gargoyles

+ 3 Termagant Hordes

+ 3 Strangler Broods

That could however saturate the deck with 3 Cost units which is probably not the best thing to do. 

What do you think about that? 

Most people have a problem with Strangler Broods surviving long enough to have a meaningful impact on a battle. Haven't been able to test with them much myself, but they're usually the first target during a battle and Regeneration would be your only way to keep them decent survivability.

Horde is okay. It competes with Pyrovore and Warrior though, which are stronger cards in isolation.

Most people have a problem with Strangler Broods surviving long enough to have a meaningful impact on a battle. Haven't been able to test with them much myself, but they're usually the first target during a battle and Regeneration would be your only way to keep them decent survivability.

 

Horde is okay. It competes with Pyrovore and Warrior though, which are stronger cards in isolation.

Agreed - i think I'll keep the gargoyles over the Strangler broods in there for some predation/infestation shenanigans and see how they perform. 

The deck really didn't have much of an issue in command or with infestation/token generation, so I think I'll leave the unit count for now. 

Changes to original deck: 

- Trygon

- Digestion Pool 

+ 2x Dark Cunning 

A few more shield cards will come in handy and with a reasonable amount of infestation plays the ability will be quite useful too - cheers for the feedback Syntax!