Re: For G-d Sake, BAN Direct Intervention (was: Re: Danish ECQ - And the winner is .....)

In message <d1Bzk.9322$rV4.9130@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Frederick Scott
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Players everywhere want to win, don't you think? So if really good
successful players in a large part of the world are ignoring some sort
of tech, that's a good indication that it isn't broken tech. It a thing
is truly broken, it should begin to take on a "universal" nature and you
should eventually start to see it everywhere. If you don't, that's an
indication you're looking at differences in popular styles of play from
one area to another.

Everywhere, no.

Each metagame is different. Direct Intervention hits some deck styles
hard, but others less so. For example, if a successful player plays a
master-heavy deck, other players playing Direct Intervention won't
affect it much. e.g. if the key tech in a given deck is Toreador Grand
Ball, Direct Intervention won't help. There are a variety of decks
where non-minion cards play a very strong enabling role, with minion
cards being the icing on the cake.

Additionally, even very good players will disagree about the merits of
particular cards.

If you're looking for a particular strategy to turn up everywhere before
looking at it as a potential problem, you'll never get it. Look through
the cards that have been errata-ed or banned over the years because they
were causing significant issues, and there are pretty much none of them
that have had problems appearing everywhere. Where problems have
occurred, however, they've been looked at and addressed if LSJ and the
Design Team (or whoever else) thinks it appropriate.


This isn't an argument in favour of altering DI, nor an argument against
it. But looking for universal appearance of a problem before you can
address it means that the game would have taken a very different path -
look at the 7/7 rulings, and see how many people shouted "These cards
aren't a problem." Rightly or wrongly, the cards weren't appearing
everywhere and being a problem everywhere.

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