Introduction:
The hypotheses is that there is a powercreep in splinterlands.
To prove this we need a way to quantify the monster power.
This is a work in progress:
This part is about quantify the power of void monsters.
The power of void monsters:
Magic attack damage gets halved (rounded up), except attack 1 which deals 0 damage. (same as shield)
Let's assume you can predict quite well what the attack type of the oppenent will be.
That you will use void monsters against 70% magic damage, so the monsters take around 35% less damage.
The health of melee monsters is rougly the same as the mana cost.
The power value for shield should be -0.4 per mana.
With shielding we learned this is only true for low mana monsters, void is only available for high level monsters.
So a Unicorn Mustang (8 mana) should have slightly lower stats than Undead Rexx (9 mana), right? RIGHT?!
The rules to calculate monster power so far:
Basic stats:
- 1 health is 1 monster power.
- 1 armor is 2 monster power any additional armor is worth 0.5 monster power.
- 1 Speed is 0.5 monster power.
- 1 attack is 0 monster power,
- 2 attack is 2 monster power,
- 3 attack is 3.5 monster power any additional attack is worth 0.5 monster power.
- Rare monsters are worth 0.5 and Epic monsters 1 more monster power.
- Neutral monsters adds 1 monster power for flexability.
- Ranged monsters are worth 2 additional monster power.
- Ranged monsters are worth 4 additional monster power.
- 1 mana cost is roughly 1.4 monster power
Ability:
- Shield, 4 - 0.5 * mana cost, free from 8 mana.
- Void, 4 - 0.5 * mana cost, free from 8 mana.
The sample size get smaller for abilities.
Cards to mention:
Unicorn Mustang i don't know when it will be out of rotation, but i grabed one from the market, just to be sure.
All monsters with void are above the normal power curve.
Final thoughts:
I think all monsters have abilities naturally from a certain mana cost!
For shield and void this is 8 cost.
Let's check this for a ability with a decent monster pool next. (flying?)
| Name | Mana | Health | Armor | Attack | Speed | Monster power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tusk the wide | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11,3 |
| Bone golem | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10,9 |
| Unicorn mustang | 8 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| Djinn oshannus | 8 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| Torhilo the frozen | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12,6 |
| Caladuum | 11 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16,3 |