Does the shadow side have better cards than the human side?

**Romakarol** · 07-20-2014, 09:42 AM

Now my prespective is very limited (new player, on,y play as eldawen, 228 rating, rough,y 71 games), but it seems to me like shadow's cards are simply "better".

Examples:
-shriek of vengeance (you wish you had this)
-death collector (statistically better than the same cost human equivalents, and a good anility to boot. Good late and early game)
-zaladar, majiya, banebow and gravebone seem better than human heroes
-wulfen have some insane cards (blood moon, great allies) but they are kinda in a vaccum so I can't really judge them much
-same goes for crystals. Wait a minute shadow get 2 unique hero types and human's get 0? I want twilight/yari/templar heroes now
-firgt name, but the fatty that can't be frozen or disabled and has huge attack makes me VERY thankful I run 4 transmorfigication curse
-ogloth, especially with gravebone, seems better than our fatties
-which reminds me, they have a lot more cool fatties

Anyone (ideally with a clear head and plenty of experience on both sides if the fence) care to comment? Is shadow really better? If not what are the best cards unique to usthat make them rage?

**Veles** · 07-20-2014, 09:57 AM

What to you mean shadow has 2 unique hero types and humans 0? Shadow has Wulven and Elemental, humans have Priest and Rogue. And yes both factions are equally good. Human strength lies in mutual synergy, and many useful on summon abilities, which offers better control than brute force shadow usually relies on.

**maxi1230** · 07-20-2014, 10:00 AM

Just some examples:
-shadow allies do not have Protector (not counting wulven and Warriors)
-They also do not have attack buff (mot counting wulven and Warriors)
-there is no on-death-draw ally.
Some more things to add here but too lazy lol

What do you mean with two unique hero types?

**Romakarol** · 07-20-2014, 10:14 AM

I meant crystal and wulfen. I didn't cop-on that rogue and priest are unique to humans (facepalm), they don't look as discinctive as crystals or wulfen so I didn't geddit.

Veles I assume you play both?

**Index** · 07-20-2014, 10:36 AM

Yes, Veles play both.

**Shadows R Us** · 07-20-2014, 12:45 PM

Neither is really better. There r some heros that r better then others. Both human and shadow have good and bad heros.

I played free as human only for a long time. I had many of the same thoughts that you posted. Once I started to play shadow, I found that there were weaknesses I really wasn't seeing playing only human. Both r fun and competitive.

**jcbow** · 07-20-2014, 03:25 PM

I always had the opposite thoughts when I started and thought humans were stronger... To a certain extent they are but they have different flavors... I do think humans started to encroach on the shadow flavor more silly shadow wannabes

**TraxeX** · 07-23-2014, 05:24 PM

In general Human got more health> atk ally, more haste, protector, atk buff ,health regen option, disaber ally and RETREAT and shadow got more atk>health ally, more defenders,individual atk boost ally, multi dmg dealing ally, se manipulation cards, more ways to do collateral dmg. Imo both r gr8 and it s strength depends upon the users and way of use!!!