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Message: <blockquote data-quote="apesamongus" data-source="post: 2387358" data-attributes="member: 27703">In that article, none of the reasons he gives ever get around to addressing the example he gave earlier of the lightning bolt and that Volcanic Hammer card.  He kind of hints at it with his "current meta-environment" spiel, but in more straightforward language, it's only a decent card because they removed a card that is strictly better than it.  They took out the better card and replaced it with a worse card.  So, really, that Vocanic Hammer is really just a nerfed Lightning bolt.  And that Lion diamond thing is just a nerfed black lotus.  It's because Magic isn't a complex enough game to keep making cards that are unique, so to keep printing they repackage and rename the same-old cards to sell them again.That's why this article isn't really applicable to an RPG discussion.  First off, absent some errata, a previously published class is still going to be an option, so if it were strictly worse than another, there really would never be a reason to take it.  For a class to go away basically takes a new edition.  But then, you aren't likely to see one class that's strictly inferior to another, because there are so many different options in D&D that there is always some small thing that one can do that the other cannot (even taking a PrC from sorcerer loses familiar advancement), and as long as there is some element that each has better than the other, it's all a matter of opinion which is better (unlike those magic cards where one is as good or better in every way than the other.)</blockquote>

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