Intended it may be, but seems awfully strange. I also don't understand the theme of the Warmaster subtype at all. It represents minions that are good at... fighting? Three of the Warmasters are humanoid warriors wielding some kind of equipment, but the last is a flying beast. What's up with that?
Posted May 1, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC
Yeah, I don't like that mismatch of the names. Fenrir Warmaster has been around for much longer, but now that Warmaster is an actual theme, it doesn't fit.
It represents minions that benefit other minions that share a keyword, making them the "master" of that keyword.
[[Skywing]] -> Has Flying and Flying minions cost less.
[[Arrow Whistler]] -> Has Ranged and buffs Ranged by +1 attack
[[Unsever]] -> Has Dying Wish and summons a minion with Dying Wish for free.
[[Golden Justicar]] -> Has Provoke and increases walk-distance of provoke minions.
That makes sense, but still seems strange from a design standpoint. You're never going to have many Warmasters in your deck, since they synergize with other cards that are not Warmasters. So there is no subtype synergy to be had at all, even if they release more Warmasters. Why make it a subtype to begin with?
Plenty of card games with tribal subtypings have some made for flavor, rather than subtype synergy. It's only noticeable in Duelyst over, say, MtG because all of the subtypes in Duelyst thus far have been meant to be put together.
You'll see a lot of people running one type of warmaster in their decks. For example, every Vet under the sun will be running Unseven thanks to Aymara Healer, which was already rather broken.
Aymara isn't broken or else it would've been changed a looooooong time ago.
Stats: 3 mana, 3/3 Type: Minion
Text: Flying Your other minions with Flying cost 1 less.
Faction: Neutral Rarity: Rare Craft: 100 Disenchant: 20
Stats: 5 mana, 4/6 Type: Minion
Text: Provoke Your other minions with Provoke can move two additional spaces.
Faction: Neutral Rarity: Epic Craft: 350 Disenchant: 100
Stats: 4 mana, 2/4 Type: Minion
Text: Ranged Your other minions with Ranged get +1 Attack.
Faction: Neutral Rarity: Common Craft: 40 Disenchant: 10
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Now we have the same issue as Frosthorn Rhyno not being a Frost minion. Warmaster probably wasn't the best name for the new tribal, but maybe they'll change it in time like they changed Frost into Vespyr.
May I suggest:
Fenrir Dogmanster
Great idea! We'll update that name next patch :3