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I love them. Troll decks are so simple now. Heavy defense actually has a chance against anybody not older than 20.

I nearly lost an RTS game today because of the rescue rule: my opponent had serious soul drought and would have won had he not drawn two souls on his final turn when he would have made a successful 5th rescue. So I have my doubts about it as a rule, but I guess I don't hate it yet.

Two things came up at our tourney today.

One: SoG + NJ at the end of the game is not a guaranteed win anymore.  I had a couple games where I had 3 souls and was waiting many turns for LS's to pop up.  Meanwhile, my opponent kept making rescue attempts.  Luckily, it didn't matter too much.

Two: LS lockout ftw.  With exchanger, Nebubashban, and shuffler you can really bring down your LS count.  Tack on Divination, Jephthah, and old school Evil Spawn and you can make it so they cannot win.  Granted, you have to know what you're doing, but with Hormah, side battles, and confusion (along with HTing a hopper) you can really make this work.

The Dom cap left many players with either Falling Away or Guardian in there deck. (to my knowledge no one had both in)

Alex had both, I know that because he played both in his game against me.  The only time the new rule really ended up mattering in my games was my one against Alex, where my lack of guardian in the deck allowed him to win, and my match against Gretel where I was sitting there with 4 rescued souls four about 6 turns waiting for her to draw another one (though it didn't end up mattering in the end, I still won).

I think SoG should still refer to ANY lost soul, and NJ should only be used on an opponent's LS.

This is my point, that the wording on SoG is rescue ANY lost soul.  I'll say, I'm very confused by everyone saying new players don't understand this.  I got this to mean that SoG can rescue my own right away when I started.  Especially when I read The Commandments and am constantly told "ANY means ANY and ALL means ALL".

I understand the reasoning for NJ not rescuing your own, but SoG should be able to in my opinion.

A lot of players start young, and being such it seems common sense that they can only rescue opponent's lost souls.

Taking away the ability to use Doms defensively hurts speed. Only being able to rescue your opponent's souls hurts speed. Therefore, this rule is good. Draw your deck in 3 turns, see if I care! You'll still have to sit there with a LoB full of souls and few-if-any blocks while I D3 every turn and use Hormah, DoU and Threatened Lives.