This is a weird suggestion and really doesn't fix the coin flip. First of all, if the player can't use the Card Advantage (CA) spy, then (s)he shouldn't be able to draw it the first round, otherwise the risk is too huge. But then you have summoning cards and all those need to be balanced too. This alone is a nightmare and makes it a silly idea. And even if you finally implemented such a limitation, then the player can just use the CA spy in round 2 and pass. In the end, your suggestion solves nothing and only makes things worse. Besides, since Open Beta, CA spies have already been limited. Also, CA spies have an other functionality besides gaining CA. Not to mention, not everyone is using a CA spy to begin with.
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So many assumptions... So to make sure I understand you correctly:
You assume you play second and and some "appropriate" point play your spy card (about 10 points for the opponent) and you are still ahead on points? For that to work your opponent has to fail at keeping up tempo hard and failed at a basic concept of the game. While there may be some players like that out there, it is hardly the fault of either the coinflip or the spy card for that happening.
In the same situration you could possibly just pass while ahead so much and either win on equal cards and use you spy card in round 2 to empty their hand or let the opponent take it for a price of 1-2 CA. Congrats, you were ahead by a mile somehow and won, what a surprise that is. I hope that gets fixed immediately?
As a sidenote: I would love to see some statistics on this whole "going second is better" argument that keeps coming up, because my anecdotal evidence disagrees with it quite a bit. While it is a little bit deck-dependent, most of mine are pretty comfortable going first in most matchups.
You assume you play second and and some "appropriate" point play your spy card (about 10 points for the opponent) and you are still ahead on points? For that to work your opponent has to fail at keeping up tempo hard and failed at a basic concept of the game. While there may be some players like that out there, it is hardly the fault of either the coinflip or the spy card for that happening.
In the same situration you could possibly just pass while ahead so much and either win on equal cards and use you spy card in round 2 to empty their hand or let the opponent take it for a price of 1-2 CA. Congrats, you were ahead by a mile somehow and won, what a surprise that is. I hope that gets fixed immediately?
As a sidenote: I would love to see some statistics on this whole "going second is better" argument that keeps coming up, because my anecdotal evidence disagrees with it quite a bit. While it is a little bit deck-dependent, most of mine are pretty comfortable going first in most matchups.