If you've read some of my post-MEV articles, or listened to my appearance on The Ring Has Chosen...you'll know that I think Exiles is incredibly broken. The biggest key culprit to the problem is Blink, Earth-295 - Clarice Ferguson. She reads:
When Blink enters play, put a shift counter on each shifted card you own.
Think about that for a second. Enters play. With some of the other great shift effects that are available to Exiles I think Blink's text is far far too powerful. The possibilities for abusive counter generation is far beyond what is healthy or fun for anyone playing against the Exiles deck and I think it needs to be changed.
My proposal for an errata is a simple one. I think it should read:
When Blink you recruit Blink, put a shift counter on each shifted card you own.
Now I don't think that this will completely stop Exiles from being one of the most powerful decks in the game, but I do think that it slows it down enough that it might be beatable. I'm going to leave this up for debate among the players for a few weeks, and then decide whether or not to make this a ruling for our hobby league or not. Please weigh in with your thoughts on the subject folks!
When Blink enters play, put a shift counter on each shifted card you own.
Think about that for a second. Enters play. With some of the other great shift effects that are available to Exiles I think Blink's text is far far too powerful. The possibilities for abusive counter generation is far beyond what is healthy or fun for anyone playing against the Exiles deck and I think it needs to be changed.
My proposal for an errata is a simple one. I think it should read:
When Blink you recruit Blink, put a shift counter on each shifted card you own.
Now I don't think that this will completely stop Exiles from being one of the most powerful decks in the game, but I do think that it slows it down enough that it might be beatable. I'm going to leave this up for debate among the players for a few weeks, and then decide whether or not to make this a ruling for our hobby league or not. Please weigh in with your thoughts on the subject folks!
Comments
As to the Revenge Squad idea...I've been batting it around the week the text list came out. We'll have to sit down together and come up with something.
well this could potentialy break the exiles in golden but in modern i think if you had it something like that shifted cards arent removed from play, but are in play as characters, just cant be used, attacked or stunned and are exhausted and they read "Remove X shift counters from this card where X is its cost >>> Bring this card into play in your front row. Use only during your recruit step."
What I think needs to be done is simply a way of slowing down the crazy resource point gain that Exiles as a team has. I think the 3-cost Blink is the biggest key to that.