New Redemption Grab Bag now includes an assortment of 500 cards from five (5) different expansion sets. Available at Cactus website.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: as it stands right now, CotK is a poorly-designed card. It is 3W and DoN all in one. How could it not be a staple?In a world without 3 Woes, I could see this being more acceptable. But if you were to tell me even a couple years ago that something like this was in development, I would have still asked the same question: why? Why do we need more things that do everything? Isn't 3W enough? Isn't DoN enough? Why would anyone ever use DoN if they could use this instead?3 Woes is so bad for the game because of how much it counters with basically no downside. Its power level and flexibility are unhealthy. Adding it to your deck only makes it better. Assuming TSC and NJ aren't leaving, apart from FA(w), I would be willing to say 3W is the most powerful Dominant in the pool and the first I would want to see go. But that will never happen. So adding another card so similar to it while also undermining the chase Dom of the last set just seems like a bad idea all around.
I hear what you're saying. I disagree. It's definitely a blend of the Two, but it doesn't replace either one. HSR and Charms are just two artifacts off the top of my head that are brutal to play against that Destruction can answer that this can't. There's decks where I might want to play both. More answers to artifacts are never a bad thing.
Quote from: Master Q on December 13, 2019, 04:53:10 PMI've said it before and I'll say it again: as it stands right now, CotK is a poorly-designed card. It is 3W and DoN all in one. How could it not be a staple?In a world without 3 Woes, I could see this being more acceptable. But if you were to tell me even a couple years ago that something like this was in development, I would have still asked the same question: why? Why do we need more things that do everything? Isn't 3W enough? Isn't DoN enough? Why would anyone ever use DoN if they could use this instead?3 Woes is so bad for the game because of how much it counters with basically no downside. Its power level and flexibility are unhealthy. Adding it to your deck only makes it better. Assuming TSC and NJ aren't leaving, apart from FA(w), I would be willing to say 3W is the most powerful Dominant in the pool and the first I would want to see go. But that will never happen. So adding another card so similar to it while also undermining the chase Dom of the last set just seems like a bad idea all around. I hear what you're saying. I disagree. It's definitely a blend of the Two, but it doesn't replace either one. HSR and Charms are just two artifacts off the top of my head that are brutal to play against that Destruction can answer that this can't. There's decks where I might want to play both. More answers to artifacts are never a bad thing.
I've typically been of the opinion that Son of God should be the only "staple" dominant in Type 1 (not counting silly decks like John's 2015 deck... ) and I honestly think it's pretty close. Angel and Woes should probably be in every top tier deck, but if the "staple" number is 3, that's not too bad IMO.
