Gamora's Sword is an interesting card. Three cost Upgrades must be considered carefully, especially Upgrades that trigger off other actions.
Compared to simpy playing Uppercut, you have to play five Attack Events to break even. Compared to Decisive Blow you might have to play seven! If you are early in the game and you have a large number of attack events, get it down when you can! Once the mid game hits and you have your resource generators down, it may be time to be thoughtful and considering out many times you will trigger Gamora's Sword.
I rate this card a B: A good card that requires building around (lots of Attack events) but may conflict with other card plays
You can get a little more value out of this by running aggression events that exhaust a weapon as an additional cost, since it doesn't need to exhaust for its own effect.
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Death by Chocolate
· 4
Unfortunately, Skilled Strike and Mean Swing are not (attack) events, so they do not trigger Gamora's Sword.
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Judicator82
· 136
Ah, I mis-read your comment. Yes, Gamora's sword is a good pair for Mean Swing as it doesn't need to exhaust to utilize its ability.
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Judicator82
· 136
It's not unreasonable for Gamora to play two attacks per turn, in which case she'll pay this off pretty quickly. If you're playing 0-1 attacks per turn, this will take ages to pay off. Take this into consideration in deck building. And don't forget to trigger when you play Crosscounter!
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Fry
· 254
I think it looks pretty mediocre if you evaluate it on total damage output, but that metric considerably underestimates the value of a large-number of 1-point non-attack damage packets. When you use it to ping the tough card off a retaliate minion, or stack it with melee to finish off a 4-hp target, or use it to set up a target for Into the Fray, that's where you find value.
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OrionJA
· 8
(Unfortunately, Gamora's own passive already gives you a good amount of that effect, so this card would arguably be more useful for someone else)
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OrionJA
· 8