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So I'm back from another unplanned hiatus. Besides the myriad of personal problems I have right now (probably the worst month of my life that wasn't spent in a jail cell), some of it has to do with actually designing cards for real now. I'm not sure how much is public knowledge or what's 'official', but a few months after the disaster of Worlds in Germany and Peak Performance Charlie did an overhaul of Design. He made plenty of good changes, and I don't mean bringing me into the fold. I didn't do much at all really for a long time. First I just read alot. Years of posts from Charlie, Brad and others from all the previous virtual sets. Occasionally I would look at playtest files and give Charlie my opinions, let him know if I saw any 'red flags'. A few months back Charlie decided to put me on an official 'design team' for the set that's due out in December (I think). So along with him, and Mark Morris, that's really all the Trek stuff I've been doing since GenCon. But League Play has started back up, which means I'm looking at cards, which means I get the itch to yell at whoever reads this which ones are good and bad. Let's take two from the new mini-set Tapestry. I haven't had a chance to play any of these cards yet, so I reserve the right to change my mind about them in the future.
Why: Non-uniques getting some love, I'm all about that. I can't wait to dust off my Davies, Rixx, and Daniel Kwan's. I'm not too thrilled that the Enterprise-D is getting another matching commander, two mission win decks don't need any more help, but it's a small price to pay. Plus she has 2 Medical, that's always a clutch thing to have.
Why: I'm not 100% sure why, but my spider sense goes off when I see this card. It seems way strong to me for zero cost. Remember, when something cost zero you can always play it with Uninvited. At a time when Maquis is strong, it's not cool to have to lose cards in hand. The only decks I see this card helping are decks that don't really need it (with the exception of Romulan discard, which nobody plays). Hopefully I wrong, but I have to wave the red flag at this card.
1 comment:
Shared actually works against a hand denial deck, since nobody would be stopped if you don't have a hand.
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