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Please post here specifically with feedback regarding how the limitation of ONLY being able to take LSs from your opponent affected your games during the October ROOT

One thing I would like to suggest is that people be gracious with this rule change, that is, if someone tries to use SoG/NJ defensively and/or tries to win with no LS's in your opponent's LoB, that they be allowed to take their Big Two back. It will still be a disadvantage (since the opponent will know you have them) but since this is a new rule, even experienced players may forget.

I completely agree with this being the expectation.

I was playing a game earlier against Polarius in which he had me dead to rights but couldn't end it for a fair bit because I didn't have the LSs he could play his SoG on while he had 5 locked down in sites.

Agreed. would not have affected the outcome at all, he still would have beaten me quite easily but it would have given me a few more turns to fail to break through his defenses

If I could have played Son of God on my opponent's shuffler it may have been helpful in getting back some important captured heroes. However the game didn't last long enough where it mattered.

Kirk

Perhaps he means his opponent's only LS was Shuffler and he had one NJ could have rescued?

A major problem is that he was using Shuffler. Shuffler is just a huge liability with the test rule.

The issue never came up. I never even had SOG/NJ in hand ever and if he did never had to play them. He killed off my offense and we both killed each others defense off. Really, negating my site block with Wheel became the decider.

In my most recent ROOT game, the rule change didn't matter at all in the game. It did, however, influence the type of deck I used.

While it didn't influence who won, it made it a much tenser game. 

I agree. While I was the one who benefited most from the rule, I still don't know how I feel about it. We were both playing fast decks, with mine a bit more designed to abuse the rule, but I had to slow down significantly in order to benefit the most, so I guess that's a positive. The downside I see is that I don't think it will really hurt speed, so much as just change it slightly to accomodate the rule.

It hasn't affected me in any of the games I've played with it (including some non-ROOT games), however, I am fully and completely against it. As has been mentioned several times, it won't stop speed, merely change it slightly, and in the mean time, you're effectively encouraging luck over skill.

As has been mentioned several times, it won't stop speed

I foresee a vast increase in the number of games that are determined by soul drought.

This just doesn't make any sense.  One the one hand people are saying this won't affect speed.  On the other hand they are saying that LS drought slows things down.  LS drought will NEVER slow down a defense heavy deck, because they don't really attack until later in the game, and by that time the speed deck has all their LSs on the table anyway.  LS drought is ONLY a problem for speed decks that get everything they need right away and then are frustrated that there is no LS to take with it.

Therefore, LS drought becoming an issue will by necessity ONLY hurt speed decks.

While it didn't influence who won, it made it a much tenser game.

This is EXACTLY what I'm hoping for.  Tenser games are more fun for both players, and when they finish the loser feels like they had a chance.  That is improvement over the meta the past few years.

games, where two skilled players fight it out using various tips and tricks to get the upper hand, are great.  Games like the one I just played are tense because the winner will be determined not by skill, but by factors outside of the players control.

I disagree.  If LS drought was making your game intense, then it was because you were playing a speed deck that already gotten close to winning, but the lack of LSs was preventing it.  Your opponent was coming back because you didn't have enough defense to stop them.  That situation is entirely within your control at the deck-building stage.  You should learn from that experience that your deck needs more defense so that while you're waiting for LSs to show up you can keep your opponent from catching up to your lead.

And more players making that adjustment means less speed, and more fun balanced games.  Woot!