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Does anyone else think there should be more cards created with special abilities like Redirect , side battles? or will there be?

1. I think there should be more side battle cards made because sometimes it is fun to watch these interesting sides of battles with different characters and it is a different way to successfully block or win a RA other than just do the regular way of battle.

( Cup of Wrath , sword against sword )

I remember when I was at a tournament there was no battle winner enhancement I could play to win the RA , so instead I used (Cup of Wrath) my own evil characters to battle the opponent's , used a remove all card and won the RA.


2. For Redirect  , Instead of completely stopping an opponent's enhancement why not play it and target an opponent's card instead?

Although one thing that may get in the way it could cause more questions to be asked about certain situations though..

Other than that.

any thoughts on these 2 abilities??

I like Side battle cards in theory, but they can get really complex to rule, so I don't know if we really need more of them.

I like Redirects (although I think there have been some very weird rulings on how they work due to how the redirects we have were worded). Redoubter has a good point that they are interrupts so they don't work on CBI abilities, but I don't think that just because an ability isn't always useful doesn't mean it can't ever be. We could also have Instead Abilities that essentially do what redirect does.

For Example:
Xerxes's New Order (A reference to the order that Xerxes sent out to counter Haman's Plot)
Place this card in your territory: If an evil card would discard your hero(s), instead discard this card to discard an evil character.