Faction Blacklisting
It is impossible to create deck that beats everything else in the game. Some decks are good against specific factions/archetypes and against others they are not so good. It is mainly OK. But sometimes, when balance is not OK, there are factions/archetypes that beat the shit out of your gameplan totally. And I am not talking about some silly decks that couldn't win a game cause they are just stupid.
Should it be so? Should there be a chance to get on an opponent whose victory you are sure from the first round of the game? My answer is NO.
On the tournaments you can blacklist one of the faction that is the most risky for your decks and implied strategy. It is awesome. There will never be a perfect balance in a game. It is better than it was but new cards equal new level of disbalance. And this is cyclic process. It will always be this way: more imbalance, less imbalance, more imbalance again. So game won't be perfectly balanced ever. It's my point.
Blacklisting is a tool to tune level of imbalance in game which could have a big impact on the ranked gameplay in general. What you get when faction blacklisting (1 faction) becomes available:
It is impossible to create deck that beats everything else in the game. Some decks are good against specific factions/archetypes and against others they are not so good. It is mainly OK. But sometimes, when balance is not OK, there are factions/archetypes that beat the shit out of your gameplan totally. And I am not talking about some silly decks that couldn't win a game cause they are just stupid.
Should it be so? Should there be a chance to get on an opponent whose victory you are sure from the first round of the game? My answer is NO.
On the tournaments you can blacklist one of the faction that is the most risky for your decks and implied strategy. It is awesome. There will never be a perfect balance in a game. It is better than it was but new cards equal new level of disbalance. And this is cyclic process. It will always be this way: more imbalance, less imbalance, more imbalance again. So game won't be perfectly balanced ever. It's my point.
Blacklisting is a tool to tune level of imbalance in game which could have a big impact on the ranked gameplay in general. What you get when faction blacklisting (1 faction) becomes available:
- decks variety growth [you blacklist meta and since that you are not obliged to put in the deck every antimeta card you have. you just build your deck (deck you like) to perform your game plan (game plan you choose and not one you are forced to choose)]
- when you blacklist factions/archetypes that totally destroy you, you always have possibility to win
- blacklisting is a tool to tune level of imbalance
- people who abuse OP factions/archetypes and like free MMR would think twice whether should they play this Dagon or Bran all day and all of the night
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