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All that said, there will never ever be a card like this.
Quote from: Master Q on January 20, 2019, 05:44:53 PMAll that said, there will never ever be a card like this.That's a shame.How come?
Quote from: SignoftheStar on January 20, 2019, 09:31:18 PMQuote from: Master Q on January 20, 2019, 05:44:53 PMAll that said, there will never ever be a card like this.That's a shame.How come?Because it's a problem of soul hiding. It lets you run five fewer souls, and thus, five more cards to draw (and use) instead of a soul. It would go in every deck that it could fit in, and it would force soul tutors (Like CoW Melchizidek and EC Barnabas) to be in every deck. Themes that can't generate Souls consistently (or need to search O.T. souls like Shem's Wife) would fall by the wayside, as it's unlikely for your opponent to draw the three souls in their deck.It's worse in type 2, though. 110 cards with only 3 souls. That would be horribly unfun to play against.
What if the SA specified that the card starts in play? Extra slots in your deck for whatever you want in exchange for your opponent always having access to a lost soul.
Quote from: Asahel24601 on January 20, 2019, 11:24:33 PMQuote from: SignoftheStar on January 20, 2019, 09:31:18 PMQuote from: Master Q on January 20, 2019, 05:44:53 PMAll that said, there will never ever be a card like this.That's a shame.How come?Because it's a problem of soul hiding. It lets you run five fewer souls, and thus, five more cards to draw (and use) instead of a soul. It would go in every deck that it could fit in, and it would force soul tutors (Like CoW Melchizidek and EC Barnabas) to be in every deck. Themes that can't generate Souls consistently (or need to search O.T. souls like Shem's Wife) would fall by the wayside, as it's unlikely for your opponent to draw the three souls in their deck.It's worse in type 2, though. 110 cards with only 3 souls. That would be horribly unfun to play against.True all of the above.What if the SA specified that the card starts in play? Extra slots in your deck for whatever you want in exchange for your opponent always having access to a lost soul.
Technically, but the draw potential for a given card goes down with the increased deck sizes.
A 50 card deck with three souls has the same draw potential as a 54 card deck with seven.In my experience, when you go up a deck size, you tend to go to the higher end to justify the additional souls.If you took four of your souls and replaced them with other cards, the draw potential of cards would go down a little bit, but now you have a higher concentration of non-Soul cards, meaning each draw has a higher chance of not being a Soul, which adds more draw value to every card you draw.
That's true, but I rarely consider a Soul draw as valuable as other cards in my deck.Which is to say, I'd always rather draw something else.
Yes, but it comes with the price of having to defend yourself from your opponent scoring.I could have cards that do very much what my Souls do without running that risk.
Quote from: SignoftheStar on January 21, 2019, 06:47:26 PMYes, but it comes with the price of having to defend yourself from your opponent scoring.I could have cards that do very much what my Souls do without running that risk.In a type 1 game between two players with tuned decks it's very rare for either player to get a block by not having to defend.
In a type 1 game between two players with tuned decks it's very rare for either player to get a block by not having to defend.
LS are one of the coolest elements of making your deck, and I would hate to see something like this take out five souls right off the bat.