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That’s a fair assessment I definitely think there’s room for a full defender subclass. Not sure there’s room for a full mounted fitghter subclass. Not due to lack of design space, but due to the narrow usefulness of mounts. A lot of places adventurers tend to go adventuring are not very...

I agree, though subclass abilities coming way too late is a pretty universal problem in the game.

I’m not sure the magical beverages are actually alcoholic. They don’t say anything about intoxicating the character, they have effects like letting you breathe poison or resist radiant damage. It feels more like PF2’s mutagen alchemist than an actual drunken master…

I quite like the Barbarian subclass updates, though I still think fire damage for a desert barbarian feels forced. I get that causing exhaustion would be overpowered, but deserts aren’t full of fire, they’re just dry, and they’re cold a good half of the time. Ah, well. Removing the limit on the...

The subclass has never been about actually being drunk, and still isn’t in this UA. If you read the description, it’s still about imitating the movements of someone who’s “intoxicated.” They just… decided to also give it magical potions for some reason. None of which are required for the...

All healing spells had their dice doubled in the new rules.

Ah, I see

Isn’t that exactly what Legendary Resistance does anyway though…?

Also, I don’t know what you guys did in closed testing, but during the open playtest you got a lot of your feedback from people playing through the Caves of Chaos and Isles of Dread. It’s no surprise that the game that came out of that works quite well for that dungeon-as-opponent style of...

Trying to remove draw variability is a terrible decision, because uncertainty of outcome is an essential quality of what makes an activity a game. If you know who’s going to win, there’s no game to be played, it’s just a formality at best. And in a hypothetical perfectly-balanced symmetrical...

Alright, pal. You’re wrong, but it’s fine. I know competitive Magic is unintuitive to get one’s head around, and this is pretty wildly off-topic anyway.

Maybe, if you’re playing a midrange deck that aims to curve out and doesn’t run draw engines. In other words, a bad deck. If you’re playing a serious competitive deck, you’ll either have highly mana-efficient options, or be running enough ramp to get to your expensive bombs after only a few...

Again, “until everyone stops playing with you” is something that happens at the casual level, not in competitive tournaments. And in higher level play, control is widely considered “fair” magic, because it invites actual back-and-forth play. And control decks have basically no metashare in any...

Depends which Netrunner. There was a game by that name in 1996 that’s long out of print, and there’s also Android Netrunner, a CCG (as opposed to a TCG - you buy the cards in complete expansions, more like a board game rather than in blind packs like baseball cards), which was first printed in...

Nah, dude. There is a lot of decision-making involved in high-level competitive magic play. The stochastic elements do limit the impact of skill, but over enough games, the more skilled player will win more games, and this is especially true in so-called “fair,” interactive Magic. “Winning is...

Netrunner is a great game. Personally, I think the problem is not with the fundamental design of Magic (and symmetrical competitive card games derived from it broadly), but with the profit incentives of the medium. We saw these same trends in Yugioh long before they started happening in Magic...

The funny thing is, both of those cards are unplayably bad now. You think ol’ Tarmo was OP? Bump the cost up by a single mana (and swap the green for a black) and you can get the exact same thing, only with Deathtouch, Lifelink, and when it comes into play you mill yourself for four and can put...

The thing is, competitive play sucks now. It’s a coin flip, followed by two people playing solitaire, where the person who won the flip has a significantly higher chance of winning at solitaire first. Or four people playing Solitaire in CEDH. That’s what happens when you make all the win...

Well, yeah. But to your credit, you were vocal about this being an issue back then too. You were one of the regulars who was most dialed-in to the implications of the system’s math, and you correctly predicted basically all of the problem builds before the PHB was even out. I don’t blame you for...

This is just… the opposite of the case in literally any competitive Magic format. Maybe it was true at one time, but it has not been the case for many, many years. Cards do way too much now, trying to spend your resources on stopping your opponent from winning instead of presenting your own win...