YMMV / The Elder Scrolls: Legends

• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: The meta constantly changes, especially when different decks become popular online, and it can become difficult to remain good enough to climb the rankings.
• Complete Monster: In Return to Clockwork City, Mecinar was once one of the Clockwork Apostles of the "tinkerer god" Sotha Sil, and his ambitious intellect brought him to intellectual depths that horrified even Sotha. Mecinar turned many unwilling innocents into abominations, fused by steel and flesh, causing Sotha to exile Mecinar. Biding his time until after Sotha had died, Mecinar manipulates a wandering party into letting him regain access to the Clockwork City, before seizing the New Heart of Lorkhan that powered the city to make himself into a god. Mecinar attempts to reduce the entire population of the Clockwork City into mindless grotesqueries to serve him forevermore, and resurrects one of the hero's fallen companions to force them to fight their former friend out of nothing but spite and dark scientific curiosity.
• Game-Breaker: Cards that are considered too powerful get nerfed. One example is the entire Invade mechanic. Originally, opponents were able to have multiple Gates on the field (now you can only have one) or yank a high-level Gate to safety at the end of their turn, then resummon it at the start of the next (now if an Oblivion Gate leaves the field, it is reset to level one). This made Invade decks so ridiculously overpowered all their cards were nerfed within two months of release; while the mechanic is still hated and considered frustrating to fight against, it at least isn't an instant-loss to go up against an Invade deck anymore.
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • Early on, the title that players get from winning a match without losing any health was awarded if the opponent conceded immediately or disconnected without making any moves, making it extremely easy to get. This was later changed to require the game to be at least 5 turns long.
  • Normally, a Sweetroll heals the creature that attacks it. After the release of the Sparkypants Client, a glitch existed where if a player uses Dragon Aspect (a card that lets you as the player “battle” a creature) and attacked a sweetroll, it would heal the player back to their full 30 health. This was fixed in the second major patch of the new client.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • A glitch where Militant Chieftain's card name appeared as◊ "20b9b7e3-66b6-11e3-949a-0800200c9a66-title" for a while resulted in the community nicknaming him "Toby" (from the "20b" at the start of the string), and many threads and memes about him.
  • It’s often jokingly called “The official Skyrim CCG!”, especially in regard to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s many re-releases, due to it being labeled as that in app stores.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Invade, which was added in the Jaws of Oblivion expansion in 2019, is widely despised by the playerbase. The mechanic behind it revolves around Invading to create an Oblivion Gate. The Gate goes up a level each time its owner Invades, and each level adds bonuses to Daedra summoned by the Gate's owner—at first simple things like +1 to health, +1 to power, a reduction in cost, but then it gets insane by adding keywords. If your deck doesn't defeat the opponent in time or draw the right cards to remove the Gate, this can quickly spitball into the Gate chugging out an army of Daedra with every single keyword in the game. At that point, even the weakest of them becomes capable of Charging, destroying your powerful creatures with Lethal, healing your opponent with Drain, and surviving with Ward to do it again. Needless to say, many find this extremely cheap and unfun to play against.
• That One Attack: Dawn's Wrath is devastating to anyone who's filled a lane with powerful creatures.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • A common complaint whenever cards get nerfed.
  • The switch from the Direwolf client to the Sparkypants one was not well received by many at its release, due to the drastically different art direction for the menu screens and number of bugs the initial release contained.

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