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I'd be surprised if a modern top deck only drew 16 cards extra per game.  (unless you're using search heavy themes like Genesis).  That just seems low to me.

You want a way to counter speed? Make it like MTG. When you run out of cards in your deck, you lose. Speed just got nerfed, or people will start building HUGE speed decks.

There are some great games which don't even start until the endgame.  While they're few and far between, they can get crazy intense with strategy.

A much better fix would be to play to 6.  You'd need to modify the deckbuilding (# of LS's)

Given the higher ratio, it'll lessen the impact of soul droughts.

60 card minimum, 8 ls in your deck, ban NJ.

That might help.

You would need to have 1:15 hour rounds at tournaments in T1 though. What's the point of that?

For years players have advocated either playing to 6 LS or banning NJ. I still stand behind that sentiment.

Kirk

If the LS count goes to 6 Confusion and Gibeonite Curse will become the best cards in the game, there's no chance of you rescuing 6 without SoG / Nj against a real defense.

Banning Nj on the other hand... *cough*

Playing to 6 would accompany a 60 card deck minimum.

I don't see how this changes anything, Speed would get a boost because you wouldn't have to pick between speed and power anymore, you have enough space to get both.
Defense heavy decks would be amazing, and probably dominate the metagame.
Balanced decks would lose out because they wouldn't have the speed or power to get 6, and their mediocre defense would fail to both the speed deck and defensive deck.

If it were impenetrable people would be using it now regardless of a race to 5 or 6 with or without NJ.

What are you going to do strand them at 2 using NJ? No defense is impenetrable.

As a player new to competitive play I would be all for a 6-soul game and I honestly never liked NJ. Even before competing.

And semi-miscalculated plays (mistakes). 

I prefer the term play-style judgements.

Makes it sound “Pretty”