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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 5432321" data-attributes="member: 78752">They are optional right now, but history and experience clearly show that they will not stay that way. Assuming that the card sales do not tank, the game will be balanced assuming their use within 12 months.  It will have to be, because that is Wizards' sales model. If the latest book (or set of cards) does not provide an advantage, it will not interest their core audience. And in order for the next card set (a wholly mechanical supplement) to provide an advantage over the existing one the contemporary publications will have to be nudged upwards in difficulty.Whether or not you think this is a good thing is none of my concern, but don't trundle out the old "optional" chestnut to defend it. No rules supplement to a current RPG is ever truly optional. By next year, players will have two options: use the cards, or force their DMs to dumb down official material to keep encounters fair.  At the very least, LFR is destined to become a very different landscape.</blockquote>