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Well it's already been said that no other themes will be printed in blue and since teal and silver are only for priests and angels and all the other colors have their N.T. themes I think it makes the most sense to make a new brigade.
You don't need to have OT/NT intra brigade themes that work well together.
Quote from: _JM_ on March 13, 2014, 09:20:45 AMYou don't need to have OT/NT intra brigade themes that work well together.That is exactly my point. If the themes don't work well together, the actual brigade color is more or less irrelevant and mostly cosmetic, so it shouldn't matter if its a new color or not.
Quote from: Drrek on March 13, 2014, 11:57:15 AMQuote from: _JM_ on March 13, 2014, 09:20:45 AMYou don't need to have OT/NT intra brigade themes that work well together.That is exactly my point. If the themes don't work well together, the actual brigade color is more or less irrelevant and mostly cosmetic, so it shouldn't matter if its a new color or not.Booster. Sealed. That's where new brigade introduction matters. Would you ever choose Priests packs for sealed? I wasn't playing when Priests first came out, so I don't really know what booster was like then, but I do know that teal and orange are impossible to build around in booster (even with the tin, ironically enough). They'll usually get a splash and no more in a deck (if that) since there isn't the card base for any more than that. I strongly feel that a new booster set should focus on being great for Closed Deck play, and I don't believe that introducing a new brigade on either side would accomplish that.Once again, just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should. Do we need a new brigade? Rob and the set designers are the only ones who can really answer that, but I believe that the answer is no.
If anything I actually like the dynamic priest puts into booster. Are you going to be the guy who tries to supplement their offense with a healthy dose of the priests, or are you going to ignore them and focus on what you've already been building. And then if you choose to go risky with the priests there's always the chance that some other guy decided he wanted some priests in his deck as well.But I don't play much closed deck anymore so my opinion for closed deck isn't that important.
Does the OT/NT per brigade only reach the good brigades?
I feel like we should worry about the open events before being concerned about the closed. While yes, Priests packs aren't too great in booster because they have teal/orange, they do have some other good cards that aren't teal/orange that are used fairly often--Wonders Forgotten, Forgotten History, Rain Becomes Dust, Judas Iscariot, Lampstand of the Sanctuary, High Priests' Plot, Unified Kingdom, The Bronze Lavar, the Lost Souls, etc. So I'm sure that if we do get a new brigade(s) that it won't be the end of the world for booster. For sealed, you typically get to choose the packs you take so if you take Priests then it's likely your mistake, unless you take 3 Priests, in which case you're likely to have gotten at least a few substantial teal/orange cards that you could use in your deck.
I guess you're right, we don't need a new brigade, but on the other hand, why not? I think it would add more diversity and I'm sure a new mechanic could be added in addition to the brigade(s). We started Territory Class enhancements in a 60 card set and this one will be over 200 so I'm sure that our elders and card-makers could incorporate both into a new set.
But I don't play much closed deck anymore so my opinion for closed deck isn't that important.
So agree more brigades makes for more booster strategy. I do not believe the game is at the end of its life span, remember when Warriors saved the game ? All we need is a good set to freshen the game up and I think a new brigade would do just that.
IIRC, there had been official talk about a new brigade. Something about Clay?
As I mentioned above, Rob's logic has generally been that Genesis is too large to share the blue brigade with any other theme, and I just don't think this logic takes. It's a huge bastion for card ideas to be sure, but so is Prophets or Royalty, and those still comfortable share a brigade with another theme (many Prophets cards are divided between OT and NT, and I think it stands to reason that they are two different themes, especially if you're a T2 player).