Re: 4 out of 5

"Meej" <djc30@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Because way, way, way too many predators panic completely at the sight
of a Determine, assume they're done, slow WAY down, and give you
breathing room if it's out. That's a significant overreaction
unjustified by the actual mechanics and mathematics of the card, in my
opinion and experience. But if folks shut down and give me breathing
room I don't deserve instead of putting on the minimal pressure it
actually takes to overcome a Champion (like, say, doing something two
turns in a row), and instead stop going completely or slow way down,
I'll take the psychological advantage it gives.

This sort of reason REALLY underestimates your opponent's ability to
estimate whether they can get anywhere by keeping up pressure. I
see this dispute all the time and, although it may be fair to say
Imbued predators may not entire realize how weak it feels to run an
Imbued position, by the same token Imbued players really seem to
overestimate how much useful pressure a vampire predator can
realistically put on his prey. Sure, I can try bleeding you again
but I don't have any more stealth and I'm out of combat cards and
frankly, I can't sit there and tap out just to get into a bunch of
combats and MAYBE get a bleed of one through once in a while just
to keep pressure on you. Sure, you can't tap Champion every turn
and maybe not every other turn but it doesn't require that you do
for Champion to be a great card.

Champion is a wonderful threat and distraction, well worth a few
copies, because folks like yourself way overreact to it, and because
in a large number of players it inspires some fairly bad play.

Sorry, it's not bad play. It's being stuck between a rock and hard
place. A card that fails any directed action no matter what at a
fairly reasonable cost - especially if Edge Explosion is out - is
a fantastic card. Trying to claim, "Oh, it's strength is that it
hypnotizes my opponents into playing badly and that's the only reason
I bother to use this shitty card" is a completely lame excuse to trot
out when your own deckbuilding belies your position on Usenet. If
that were true, you'd lose more often to the better players in the
game who weren't quote-distracted-unquote because you use weaker cards
than you could otherwise use. It may help you beat bad players but
you'd pay the price against good players. Unlikely.

Fred


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