Thanee said:Hmm... wasn't the MiniHB the one that was so seriously unbalanced?
Don't have it myself, but heard some bad things about this book, when it comes to balance.
Hardly. The book is innovative in its use of the rules, doing things that hadn't been done before with the 3E ruleset. A lot of people who haven't used it think it's unbalanced.
One of the designers was Mike Donais who used to design/develop for Magic. (You'll see his name on a lot of developing credits as well) And the Magic developers are fanatical about game balance - with reason.
After Urza's Saga the R&D team for Magic was called into the president's office and slammed. As far as I can gather, some lost their positions, and new personnel were hired. Urza's Saga was the most unbalanced block ever created, and they got hit hard over it.
There are perhaps a couple of elements in the MHb that are overpowered; but that's similar with most books.

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