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For any number of sites, Samaria sites w/ Gates would be OP

I think at this point in time, suggesting new rules is a little pointless, since the meta had a major shake up this week, and nobody is really sure where exactly the meta is going to settle. I imagine that most meta decks will change a bit, but I'm much, much more interested in seeing what kind of decks are now possibly in the A tier, and whether defense heavy and anti-meta decks have enough strength to be a serious presence.

That said, I don't like this suggestion at all. I know that you're a player that prefers to load up on enhancements and stick them in Storehouse when you get hand clogged, but that kind of play style just doesn't sound fun to me. That's the kind of rule that would probably make me lose interest in Redemption because I wouldn't have fun with it anymore.

You preferred bigger numbers a few months ago Prof. What changed?

You preferred bigger numbers a few months ago Prof. What changed?

I still prefer the rule of 8's for new players.  However, now that there is a hard limit of 7 doms, there can't be 8 doms in a deck.  There also can't be 8 LSs in that size deck unless we force everyone to use the Hopper.  Finally, there would be almost no flexibility at all using the rule of 8s (which is good for beginners who don't know what to do with the flexibility and need more guidance).  Therefore, if this were to become a viable alternative way to play, I think the rule of 7's would work better.

I'm not talking about limiting the number in a deck. I'm talking about limiting the number in PLAY

Oh, that is less interesting to me.  However, you'd have to have some pretty small numbers to really create a varient that would actually end up looking different.  A lot of decks don't have more than 2 fortresses down, so to change things you'd have to probably limit it to 1.  A lot of decks don't put ECs or enhs down, so that would also have to be limited to 1.  And many decks could be just fine with only about 3 GCs in play as well.  I think what you would end up with is a category where people could hardly put anything down, and would just end up with an amazing amount of hand clog.

What I think might be interesting is a "recovery period" rule. That is, a character cannot enter battle more than once every two turns. I don't like the idea of a character playing limit though.