druid king deck - issue with combos on summoned cards ?

Poxilliz · November 2022

I've had several games against NPCs where the combos from summoned cards (specifically Chimeras from the patron, and Whispcaller Totems obtained from Eldertide Fenwitch combo1) seem to behave a bit oddly : these cards only combo between themselves and not with other druid king cards used in the same turn.
For example i'd have a bunch of druid king agents up and played, and then play a totem (or chimera) that doesn't combo at all - until a second totem comes up and then they'll combo each other (but their 4 cards combo doesn't happen, ignoring the 4 agents in play). Or in turns with a single summoned card played along 3 to 5 other druid king cards, this summoned card didn't combo at all.
Not sure if this is very clear but i've observed it in a bunch of matches.
I was actually becoming certain that summoned cards only combo each other, but tonight I had a NPC match where a chimera did all her combos with the other 3 or 4 druid agents in play (no other summoned card), so "regular" behavior.
This is confusing, am I missing something ? Has anybody else observed this ?

(to be honest even with non-comboing cards, the deck allows for insane turns, especially against NPCs)

Snamyap · November 2022

I noticed the same on the Totem card, have to check the Chimera.

Edit: Chimera just seemed to work for me.

Poxilliz · November 2022

Here is a good example of a turn i had today in a match against a NPC (it's a long turn because there was several draw card actions ; all the totems in there got in my deck from the fenwitch combo since i've been specifically not buying these from the tavern).

so first i have a bunch of agents played, you can see from the left column that they've all been played already and there are 4 of them (red).
I have 2 summoned totems in hand (blue).

When i play these totems, they both do their 2 card combo, and neither does their 4 card combos, as if they see each other but not the 4 red agents already up :

A bit later (still the same turn), i use red eagle patron to draw a chimera, the table is still the same

The chimera only does its 2 and 3 cards combo, despite a total of 7 druid cards in play. But only 3 are summoned cards (blue) : the 2 totems from before and the chimera. So combo 3.

Here are the played and agents piles respectively :

Then i draw another totem (the 4th blue/summoned card) and now, all the other blue cards do their 4-card combo:

Poxilliz · November 2022

I forgot to say, during several games today i've had no issues at all, the chimera and totems were comboing "normally" with everything. So it's not constant behavior from one match to another, but i think that if it happens during a match, then it will happen during all of that match (every turn, every summoned card).

Also, i have never observed an issue with the upgraded version of the totem (whispheart), but i havent had the upgraded agent in play very often.

Snamyap wrote: »

I noticed the same on the Totem card, have to check the Chimera.

Edit: Chimera just seemed to work for me.

thanks ! was happy to hear i'm not imagining things