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Idk if anyone has noticed but Grimlords deck has changed all the 200 dmg cards have been replaced with 500's

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Anyone got word of the contest character winners if not tuga should talk to the person he's always talking to, too see if they can find out.

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That Godzirra's base deck is worse than Dragzirra's is something that CC can't fix though. This can be demonstrated fairly easily, as the only differences in their decks involve cards that deal straight damage.

Dragzirra has:

200 x2
500 x4
FireBall x2

Totalling 8 cards that deal 4400 damage for 36 energy.

Godzirra has:

200 x4
500 x2
FireBall x1
Meteorite x1

Totalling 8 cards that deal 4300 damage for 36 energy.

Their remaining 7 cards are identical:

Defend x2
Inferno x2
Incinerate x1
Fire Whirl x2

In a game in which the objective is to reduce opponents' HP to 0, Godzirra's deck is therefore worse than Dragzirra's because it deals less damage for the same amount of energy.

Now, this is a negligible difference and for all intents and purposes a Godzirra should be able to accomplish anything a Dragzirra could, but losing 20 levels and 6 SG's to make your character's deck worse is absurd. Godzirra's deck should not be equal to Dragzirra's let alone slightly worse, for the cost of evolution it should be markedly better and it isn't, which is unfortunate.

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People didn't expect them all at one time when he stopped putting them in the coming soon section it annoyed people.

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Good analogy TFP, this should be forwarded to 'TheSage' he would change the cards if we asked him, respectively. At least 1x 500 ATK should replace one of the 200's, its a small difference but would put Godzirra by 200 ATK lead (4600ATK for 36Energy). It's SG too, so it deserves the alter just like Grimlord did. (PM Sage or Tweet him) You have a good point & all our support.

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Thanks, I've mentioned this to Sage and Asuka in-game shortly after Godzirra's release but to no avail. So much time has passed now that I've come to expect all the 'zirras to just be phased out and become a thing of the past anyways, but at least they look cool. I wish you luck and success in further changes for the better!

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Replacing one of Godzirra's 200's with a 500 would be a good start and would improve Godzirra's damage-per-energy as 500's are more efficient than 200's, but because of the extra 2 points of energy cost it would be 4600 for 38 energy which still puts Godzirra's damage per energy for instant attacks slightly lower than Dragzirra's.
Dragzirra's instant attacks' damage-per-energy: 4400/36 = 122.2
Godzirra's instant attacks' damage-per-energy with a 200 changed to a 500: 4600/38 = 121.1
Godzirra's instant attacks' damage-per-energy now: 4300/36 = 119.4

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However, if you were to change two of the attacks to 500's (making Godzirra's attack cards the same as Dragzirra's) you'd have 4900 damage for 40 energy, which would be 122.5 damage per energy for instant attacks. This would result in a negligible lead in that department for Godzirra, but acts as a bare minimum for making its overall instant damage more efficient. The only difference in their decks would then be a Fireball swapped for a Meteorite. But this would still arguably be worse for Godzirra.

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This in mind, I would prefer something like Gorillo's suggestion of keeping Godzirra's attack cards the same as Dragzirra's in addition to changing Godzirra's Infernos to an Incinerate and a Defend, as Inferno does an awful 75 damage per energy (it also Pierces which essentially is a chance to negate energy converted to shields, but that's only a factor if you can finish with it while your opponent has Shields up, which because it doesn't do much damage is too little of the time to make it worth having multiple copies of in a deck like Godzirra's. Godzirra's deck should be better than Dragzirra's without ambiguity, just as Templar's is better than Light Guardian's.

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An Incinerate-boosted 500 does 1100 damage for 6 energy. That's 183.3 damage per energy. A Defend gives 166.7 shields per energy. They have other drawbacks as you need to use up most of your hand for Incinerate, shields can be pierced, and neither of these cards convert much energy, but these are cards that help out a lot more in converting an average of more than 125 points per energy than Inferno, which is more likely to drag you down. I discard Infernoes religiously. I like Gorillo's idea because it also would make Godzirra's deck significantly better than Dragzirra's, which it deserves to be given that it requires you to reset a Level 20 Dragzirra to 0 in addition to 6 Soul Gems, which is no small cost.

I mentioned earlier that 500 > FireBall > Meteorite if you're trying to do more than 125-per-energy. This also means 500 would be better than two 500's, and zero 500's would be better than a 500 in that you're trying to avoid converting any energy at 125-per-point if you can avoid it. The same goes for Shadowfire, which is why I'm not crazy about the trend of multiple ShadowFires on recent Shadow Legends and have opted not to get Young Rev or GrimLord.

ShadowFire used to be super cool back when Black Dragon was the only character that had it with Black Dragon happening to be an extremely good character in those days due to its other cards, but Shadowfire itself actually isn't a very good card at all. Poisons, Defends, Marks, Empowered attacks, and Void Reflections can all convert more damage per energy (as can Black Dragon's Bash and Thrash). Granted, DoT's come with the risk of not resolving to completion meaning they have a chance to deal less damage per energy if they can't run their course, but most of the time (especially at higher levels) Mark and Poison will have the 2 and 3 respective turns that they need to do 150 per energy and outpace Shadowfire. Shadow Fire also gains stock against opponents with Iron Hide since it can't be anticipated by it (as Mark is very prone to), but anything with Shadow Fire is in trouble against relevant characters with Iron Hide to begin with because they have to compromise so much efficiency to play around Iron Hide.

Because they convert as much energy as they do, cards like Shadowfire and Meteorite are best used to speed up battles you're not going to lose in the first place (such as against computers and lower-level opponents). They get worse as your opponents get better and as you level up.