Philologus;n10316902 said:
No, not really. especially when the opponent also has Cantarella exposed and/or another high-power card in my hand exposed. It's easy to say: "you should have seen it coming", and in fact, that's a simplistic retort. Sometimes the battlefield doesn't allow one to play a card that may be targeted by VE, or the consequence may be the same as not playing said card.
Yeah.. it requires a "setup" that's about as simple as can be. Two-turns: reveal and drain any unit, regardless of color. Wow.. complicated stuff.
As simplistic as it might seem, it does require a setup.
You can't absorb the unit's power out of nowehere.
And I was talking about the problem from the "victim" point of view. I'm not gonna say that I've never been tricked by VE but honestly, this unit is fairly easy to play around.
You said that "Sometimes the battlefield doesn't
allow one to play a card that may be targeted by VE, or the consequence may be the same as not playing said card" but this is exactly what playing a card game is all about, I can ask the same question for every control card in the entire game.
Why would you ever play say, Yarpen for example, when you expect your opponent to have Alzur's thunder in hand?
So sure, you lose a lot of value by not playing him on round one but it prevents you from losing value in return, in fact this is the control way of generating value (by lowering the full potential of your opponent).
VE works exactly the same way and card games are about making choices. If you have a 2O points gold getting revealed you HAVE to play it, even if he gonna hit the board as a 1O because the consequences of not doing so are far worst.
To be fair, I always mulligan Olaf when I play SK bear and see Morvan, because this card is just not good in the match up and frankly it works just fine for me (especially SK that have a ton of 1 power units that represent no value for VE.
Also, the fact that your opponent is holding Cantarella doesn't change anything, if they hold it, they hold it, it doesn't make the situation more complicated than that).