Hello everyone!
After seeing the recent ban of “The Ceaseless Expansion” (CE) in Wild (due to the abuse of the combo of “Order in the Court”, “Holy Wrath” with CE), I came up with the following idea:
Could it be possible to restrict the use instead of banning or changing a card?
I perfectly remember “The Jailer” or “Tony King of Piracy” being reworked completly from their original form, because of some interactions with others cards made the game totally out of control (“the Jailer” with “Bolf Ramshield” or “Mal’Ganis”…). What I mean is that very particular cards interaction make the card being the object of a full reworking, and after that process, the “new” card almost disappears from common use in decks.
In this particular context, then why not create a list of “forbidden cards put together in the same deck”? To be more practical, this very simple concept was clearly seen with the recent tourists: in the deck selection pool, after selecting “Carefree Cookie” to be added to the deck, immediately “Turbulus” became non selectable.
Transposing this kind of restriction to the first example I gave would be like once I select “The Ceaseless Expanse” the card “Holy Wrath” would become unselectable or “Banned” or “restricted” but of course available if CE weren’t selected before.
The ups I see for taking this kind of use is that players willing to have some fun with cards like “the Jailer” in its original form would get the effect without abusing of the interaction with certain cards that would trigger some “perfect deadly combo”.
If that were possible though, I guess the refound in dust could still be appreciated because after all it would still affect the total free use of the card(s) in the deck creation.
I supposee this idea might not be new but I found interesting to talk about it.
Thanks for the game, thanks for reading and good game everyone! 