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So, I thought of this idea today and I think it could be very fun if done right.

Normal T1 deckbuilding rules apply, except every deck is given 5 dedicated "wild cards." The way these work is that until you draw one and play it, the card remains a "wildcard," and then the instant it enters play, you decide what the card is. Wild cards cannot become:
1) Dominants or Lost Souls.
2) Other cards currently in your deck. (If you have AoCP in your deck, you cannot make the wild AoCP).
3) Once a wildcard enters play, it is permanently the card you specified. This means no other wild card can become this card. So, if you make one wildcard AoCP, you cannot make a second one into AoCP.

Any other REAL card that has been created is fair game. This means if your hand is extremely stuffed, make one into a storehouse. Opponent runs TGT and you are stuck, make one into KotW and another into Self. Wanna take them by surprise? run one brigade, then create a random 1/1 crimson EC and Great Image.

*Edit*
Some other rules, that should be common sense, but I wanted to specify.
1) If the wildcard gets shuffled or discarded after you decide what it is, it does NOT revert back to a wildcard. It plays exactly like the card you decide to play it as would.
2) Adding on to the above, you cant play a wildcard on a blue hero and make it a purple enhancement. You decide the moment before you play it, so they MUST be played according to normal rules.

I can see this type of game becoming extremely dynamic and intense, since neither player knows what those 5 cards will become, but it allows decks to become much more flexable based on an exact moment in a game. No more "If ONLY I had that card..." because now you CAN have that card!

Thoughts?

Also, Imma add something else in there that I forgot.

Good point but, I hope we can trust eachother on that point. Besides, if you see later that the same card shows up, you know they cheated and therefore they loose.

Either that or, take some junk 2/2 no SA enhancement, put it in a sleeve, and slip in a sheet of paper. when you play the card, take the paper out and write the name down, and slip it back in.

Personally, I like the idea of dedicated wildcards better, since you have 5 cards less to "build" your deck with. Also, it makes them harder to search for, since only like, Search and False Peace could grab them. They arent good, evil, enhs, characters, arts, or forts until they are played. So until that time, they are just "cards."

but they are far too versatile. you could go 'oh hey, i dont need a dungeon to go with my zedekiah in my deck, because one of my wildcard can be it. or, if i dont need dungeon, it can be anything else'. just a way too broken mechanic with no drawback.

another thing i kind of like is that in addition to making a wildcard virtually any other card you want, you must also OWN the card from outside the game and switch it when you play the wildcard. that way, there can be no discrepencies as to what the card you chose says or anything. kind of reminds me of death wish from mtg.

How is it broken? sure, you may have a better chance of "getting" that card if you intend to use one as a Dungeon, but as the same time, who's to say I dont throw down one of mine as I am Redemption or something similar? As I said, I can see this becoming very back and forth, with lots of interesting battles.

Also no, I want the 5 cards to be able to become ANY card, regardless of if you own it.

LOL.

BTW, I don't see this becoming an official game type, but rather just something fun to try.

The "cost" is that you arent the only player with wildcards. So, if you pull off some broken combo one turn, they can do the same thing right back at you. BOTH players have this power, and so they balance eachother out.

Except, you can use your wildcard to counter their wildcard. You cant really do that with dominants except with FA/GOYS.

Also, the cards can be defensive if you need more umph against your opponent, or offensive if you need that extra push to get through.

I know.

I guess the difference between our point of views is that I never considered doms to be broken in the first place.

Still, I think we should try a few games before saying "THEMS BE BROKED!"

I'll definately keep the dominants as wildcards idea in mind, but I think it'll work with just dedicated wildcards.

I felt that was a good number. Not too few to be useless, and not too many to break the game. The highest ratio of wilds to deck you can get is 1:10.

That could be changed if it has to, but I feel 5 is a good number for that.

I would treat the wildcards as basicly blank cards, so they could ONLY be targeted by cards that simply target "Cards" until the owner decides what to make it (which only happens when they go into play).

However, I feel if the opponent chooses to go for a wildcard instead of say, SoG, then thats a decision they have to make. Those cards are powerful, and I feel if they are discarded, then they should be harder to recur. Mabye that could be part of the balance that MKC wanted. 

Extremely powerful, but hard to pull from the deck and hard to recur if they get sniped.