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I am Grace is now staple.

Quote from: Smokey on May 29, 2011, 11:56:02 PM

I am Grace is now staple.

That's fine, but is it broken?

It's biased towards the offenses that can counter it easily, and is useless to play against said offenses. Its not overpowered per se but I don't think it should be printed in current form.

Superpowerful against some and useless against others is bad game design in general even with a "staple" counter.

Wow, worded it wrong once I re-read it. Oops. Fixed.

I meant this to be a counter against defensive Son of God.

If some supportive cards were printed for this around a new theme it would be pretty cool, good job.

Underpowered. There aren't any usable Evil Priests and the first ability literally only targets SoG and NJ. Granted they're in 100% of decks, but it's a dead card if you draw it after they draw SoG/NJ, or if they play to 3 before using the doms.

Quote from: Minister Polarius on May 30, 2011, 12:22:34 AM

Underpowered. There aren't any usable Evil Priests and the first ability literally only targets SoG and NJ. Granted they're in 100% of decks, but it's a dead card if you draw it after they draw SoG/NJ, or if they play to 3 before using the doms.

Agreed on the priests issue. Obviously it is not currently playable, but as part of a bigger thematic production (or a transition into a different theme), I think it could be a useable card.

If black was added to the brigadage it might be useable currently with Philistine priests (lol) and the Sadducee priests.

I could change it to Dagon worship and then viably make it black/orange perhaps.

Might work, though I think any additional synergy between Orange and Philistines would be frowned about considering how good they already are together.

I thought of that, but at the same time, since Phillies are often paired with speed, does anyone like not being able use defensive dominants against speed?

What.