Cactus Game Design Message Boards

I am Creator

Proposal: Add Unity (Lost Souls: O.T.). Remove the "If you have no Heroes," add, "If you have no Heroes, or if all your Heroes share a brigade..."

Explanation: Prevents this from working unless you have LS, the LS must also all be O.T., and also fits the Genesis verse better. Also less restrictive because of it.



--You asked for it, you got it. These are the ones I can think of offhand; probably add more sometime later.

Fire Foxes

Proposal: add unity (OT souls)

Explanation: Prevents it from being too chumpy

The Second Coming

Proposal:  Change identifier to "May not be in the same deck as Son of God", add "Regardless of Protect or Restrict abilities" to the ability

Explanation:  When a good Dominant is printed that makes 95%+ of all top decks instantly swap out NJ and its guaranteed rescue, you know you've created something OP.  There were even multiple cards printed in the same set as TSC that allow costless searches for NJ, and STILL it completely overwhelmed NJ as the choice for decks.  There was a time when cards that searched for NJ would have been declared OP, but no more...

Placed Cards

Proposal: Make all Place cards Territory Class, like Set Asides.

Explanation:  This would definitely shift the meta but it would give life to old cards that maybe almost never see play because you have to be in battle to play them where the opportunity cost is too high.

Set-aside cards

Proposal:  Make all set-aside cards (that are designed to be played in territory) Territory-Class.  Remove any rules that allow set-aside cards to be played in territory, despite not being TC.

Explanation:  Removes the random exception to the game rules that applies only to set-aside cards, and only exists because a bunch of old unplayable set-aside cards were intended to be TC before TC was a thing.

Mayhem

Proposal: Each player must shuffle 6 cards from hand at random (or all cards in their hand). Each player who does must draw 6.

Eliminates the massive card swing from Mayhem (and especially Hypocrisy/Mayhem). Still allows the Hypocrisy/Mayhem combo to potentially shuffle away a problem Hero. Still allows a player to gain extra cards if they get their hand down, but doesn't change the opponent's hand size (unless their hand was also less than 6).

Que

Proposition:
Identifier:   Unity: Que tats
Add ability:  territory class Protect Que from opponents cards unless an opponent agrees to capture Que to their land of bondage pronto and waive "that one dumb rule" barring his redemption. CBN.

The Angel Under the Oak: You may draw 2 and exchange this Hero with a gold Judge in your hand, deck, territory, or discard pile. Protect Gideon from opponents. Cannot be negated.


I feel like this card is a bit overpowered in my opinion. 

In theory for example it would seem like CBN protection for Gideon ( it would seem like 90% of evil battle winner enhancements for each defense theme out there can not target him at all) and then no SA Gideon can just play Samuel's edict anytime and win most battles.

This does not seem good for the game IMO.


Some ideas to change it could be:

-You may draw 1 and exchange this hero with a gold judge in hand , deck , territory or discard pile . Twice per game protect Gideon from opponents.

- You may draw 1 and exchange this hero with a gold Judge in your hand, deck, territory, or discard pile. Once per game protect Gideon from opponents. Cannot be negated.

As time goes on, AUtO seems less OP, as newer cards gain their themes similar card advantage (such as Lot, Angel from the Sun, Music Leader, Servant Angel, Matthew, Throne of David, Justin Martyr, etc.), so my change will deal with the CBN protection from opponents, which I believe bad for the game.

Angel Under the Oak

Proposal:

You may draw 2 and exchange this Hero with a gold judge in hand, deck, territory or discard pile. Protect Gideon from opponents' dominants. Cannot be interrupted.

Keeps a lot of what the card does together so definitely strong, but no longer makes fighting Gideon unfair.  Also CBI instead of CBN so can be prevented by Covenant with Death, Three Woes, Image and such.

Actually I like this idea of protecting Gideon from opponents' dominants instead of just "opponents".