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Maybe Doubt and Glory of the Lord could count as -1 dominants, therefore allowing you to actually add another dominant to cancel them out.

Heh.  That is precisely young JSB23's position.

Best ruling change ever. This isn't any more of a "deck building restriction" than cards in deck per ls. It's a great change and I can't wait to see it implemented.

The deck-building rule would apply to all dominants, regardless of their usefulness.  We can't make exceptions for weak ones without frustrating tournament hosts (myself included).

I fully support this decision.  It is simple to remember, nice and effective.  I was just talking to my brother about this and told him I thought it would be awesome if we limited Doms to (# of LS -2)  to further encourage variety among dominants.  Then he laughed at me and said that only 5 Dominants would make people crazy.  I think he is right.

Would this include Hopper LS as a LS for counting purposes?  I personally wish that it wouldn't.

Is ther any way to create a poll like this for the ignore and rescue proposed rule changes as well? 

Quote from: Minister Polarius on September 16, 2011, 12:39:55 AM

Doubt bans itself. GotL hasn't been good since Priests.

Doubt won me two games at Nationals.

One thing that would make this interesting is it would increase the strategy required for TEAMS deck-building.

That was crazy, especially the FBTN battle

I've seen TEAMS decks piloted by top players that had all the dominants in one deck, and used the space in the other for some nasty tricks.  This'll eliminate that type of deck.

 We have been talking about Dom deck building changes for years now.  Our solution was to give each Dom a point value and then let players include whichever ones they wanted based on the points allowed for that Type.  Real useful ones get 3 points ( SOG, NJ , CM)  less useful ones get 1 or 2 points  ( Doubt, Glory)  .  I like this system better, its easier and  quicker to deck check.   I vote in favor of this.

Quote from: Chronic Apathy on September 16, 2011, 09:05:14 AM

One thing that would make this interesting is it would increase the strategy required for TEAMS deck-building.

The best teams already don't duplicate their Dominants, so I'm not sure how this would change anything for Teams.

Duplicating SoG/NJ is always a good idea, IMO.

I've seen TEAMS decks piloted by top players that had all the dominants in one deck, and used the space in the other for some nasty tricks.  This'll eliminate that type of deck.

Unfortunately, Sauce and I used this tactic, since I had a huge deck. I like the idea of a Dom Cap though.

Quote from: Prof Underwood on September 16, 2011, 12:25:48 AM

Maybe Doubt and Glory of the Lord could count as -1 dominants, therefore allowing you to actually add another dominant to cancel them out.

Heh.  That is precisely young JSB23's position.

Isn't JSB23 and Prof U having the same position on something similar to dividing by 0? Why hasn't the world exploded yet?

I 'll vote for Count Fount for Redemption Dictator as long as I get to be in his Cabinet as Minister of Painful Punishments.

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