How I see this thread...
"Yay, Daniel cards! Let's try this and this and this..."
megamanlan: "Silver shouldn't be a support brigade."
"Why?"
megamanlan: "Well, silver is UP."
"No it's not."
megamanlan: "Yes it is, and there shouldn't even be a silver."
"...No, it works just fine. Silver is a healthy support brigade with interesting effects."
megamanlan: "Well, this silver card is not Biblical."
"..."
megamanlan, silver as a support brigade is far more Biblical than most aspects of the game, as most of the accounts of angels in the Bible have to do with them giving messages to humans or rebuking humans or giving humans visions, etc. They rarely do things for themselves (though it does happen; thus cards like Captain, Gabe, and Mike). Sure, some silver cards might not make sense, but neither do lots of other cards. Game-wise, silver definitely and unarguably has powerful cards, and most of them help other brigades and themes, which adds an interesting factor to the game. Sure, you could argue that angels should never have been put into a separate brigade, but they're there now, so that's just beating a dead horse.
Correction: I suggested making Mike's Rising and u shot it down claiming that Silver shouldn't be able to be a mono-brigade. Basically what u are trying to do is claim that Silver should be incapable of being mono. The current mono Silver deck has a hard time at best taking on the current decks out there. (w/ it's strange incapablilty to fight Demons, only 1 CBN Enhancement, and inability to counteract Sites/Forts etc.) I don't mind some of the cards being help for other brigades. But it's stupid to not allow Angels to work alone as well, (as Daniel & Revelation note very well) meanwhile there are cards that do the same thing as those Characters and are CBI. And people claim that Angels can't work alone? And need Humans to be effective? That is not supported anywhere in the bible. The Bible shows them spreading the gospel.
As for why if Silver is going to be limited to a 'support brigade' and in essence be just a group of lackies for another theme, then from a Card Game designer's standpoint, it's pointless to make a card that will never be played because the Characters they can be used w/ are not in a deck that they can be used. I am making my own game and that is something I'm afraid of for my game. Making cards that no one will ever use because they don't do anything.
I was merely suggesting allowing Micheal to play a card that was meant for him to play, which if he can't use it himself then why make a card like that? It's like having Isaiah's Call not be Green.
