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I had a question about the G&H decks.  My son and I have been using these with no added cards so far.  We've played five games.  My son uses G and has never lost.  The best I've done is 5-4.  But it seems that the heroes and evil characters in that deck are stronger than the H deck.

Am I just getting bad luck on the draw?

And a question on capture: when a capture occurs, where does the captured character go: into the owner's land of bondage (which makes more sense as a bonus to the capturer) or to the capturer's land of bondage (which makes more "narrative" sense)? If the latter, is it to be understood that capturing an opponent is a less ideal win than defeating them outright (because the person who lost a character gets a chance to score off it)?

I'm not qualified to speak to the balance of the decks - I know there have been complaints, but I don't recall in which direction.

As far as capturing though, by default, whoever plays the capture card puts the soul in his own Land of Bondage. There are some cards that specifically say to do otherwise (Dungeon of Malchaiah, for instance), but usually they do give an extra option for your opponent to rescue. So it can be "less ideal", as you say.

i made mock-up decks of the new starters and have been playing with them, and i find the ruth/judges deck wins far more often than the disciples/angels.  any one else done this and come up with a similar result?

Hey,

In playtesting there were some playtesters that experienced the I deck winning dispropotionately often and there were some playtesters that experienced the J deck winning dispropotionately often.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

My play group is almost all young kids that are not competitive. We didn't see any imbalance in the final product. Earlier versions of the starters favored the Ruth offense though.

(G continues to win unabated, though last game at least was because I made a critical mistake.)

New question: when an evil character is converted, do they become a hero for the same player for whom they were formally evil? Or do they become a hero for the player who converted them?

Characters do not change control when converted (unless it specifies they do) so the player whose evil character it was would still control the hero.

Then at least I assume that the conversion means that the block attempt was unsuccessful, right?