How the abundance of tutors in the game pushes away new players
First of all, let me clarify that I hate the fact that every faction has an absolute plethora of tutors - they all do very similar things. Nilfgaard literally has two separate tutors for alchemy cards and items cards, even though many alchemy cards are items anyway. See Vicovaro Novice and Magne Division.
Now, why am I saying that tutors push away new players?
Another way to solve this would be to add some sort of graphical representation for each tag, but there are so many at this point, that it probably wouldn't help anyway. Some you can see at first glance, like Dwarf/Elf, but many are interchangeable like soldier/officer/support...
Don't get me wrong, for some cards this works, but I think that we should get rid of most tutors (at least the ones that tutor bronze specials) and replace some tag requirements with other ones.
I hope I got my point across
Just to prove my point a little more, here's a challenge for you: Try to paraphrase the description/effect of the following cards, including their tags.:
Black Blood
Bone Talisman
Reinforcements
Kiyan
First of all, let me clarify that I hate the fact that every faction has an absolute plethora of tutors - they all do very similar things. Nilfgaard literally has two separate tutors for alchemy cards and items cards, even though many alchemy cards are items anyway. See Vicovaro Novice and Magne Division.
Now, why am I saying that tutors push away new players?
- Because bronze special cards are balanced around the tutors, and most of them are unplayable on their own - this makes them mostly unplayable in Arena, and it makes them trap cards for new players
- Because it makes mulliganning much harder than it has to be (nowadays it's a lot about getting rid of cards you want to pull, rather than finding the optimal hand).
- Because it restricts deckbuilding and forces you to study up on the myriad of tags cards have nowadays. This pushes away casuals a lot
Another way to solve this would be to add some sort of graphical representation for each tag, but there are so many at this point, that it probably wouldn't help anyway. Some you can see at first glance, like Dwarf/Elf, but many are interchangeable like soldier/officer/support...
Don't get me wrong, for some cards this works, but I think that we should get rid of most tutors (at least the ones that tutor bronze specials) and replace some tag requirements with other ones.
I hope I got my point across
Just to prove my point a little more, here's a challenge for you: Try to paraphrase the description/effect of the following cards, including their tags.:
Black Blood
Bone Talisman
Reinforcements
Kiyan