Hey kids – Carlos here. Sorry about the late update, but apparently a couple of our council members have the audacity to have “real lives” and couldn’t answer my last-minute “hey – we need to reach out to the community with an update right now” email. What.EVER! So I gave them a few extra days to get back to me.
Here’s what we’ve got for you:
+ Bans/Errata – What a hot topic this has been. The council has decided to leave the game exactly how it is though. No bans. No errata. The only change we’re going to recommend is to make Armed Escort legal in all formats. There was also talk of lowering Blink’s recruit cost to 2, but that got poo-pooed after HeroComplex pointed that the new Exiles set we’re working on already has a Blink at 2 (and 4 for that matter – all non-unique with alternate recruit costs too!).
+ Did I fool anyone with that last bullet point? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. 
The real deal is…we hear you and we have a few recommendations. Before I get into them, I’d like to remind everyone that this is YOUR game. If you don’t agree with our recommendations, that’s totally cool…ignore them! We’re just trying to take a pulse of what the community wants as a whole and use that info to make the metagame more fun for as many as possible.
OK – here we go:
– Armed Escort. As ‘Trooper put it, deciding to change the wording on this baby is “a slam dunk”. As always, we’ll make every effort to preserve the intent of the card, while trying to prevent the unintended abuse. That said, we’re going to recommend that the power be limited to “once per attack”. I believe HeroComplex will be on later this week to recommend exact wording and answer any questions.
– Blink – Earth-295 <> Clarice Ferguson. Ah…our sweet, sweet 3-drop Blink. What ever shall we do with her? On the one hand, she is the linchpin in a powerful team. To lose her would have a definite impact on playing Exiles. On the other hand, have you ever played against her? CRAZY GOOD! TOO good. And it hurts the meta.
So…errata, right? Well, it’s not that simple. To limit her ability to a recruit effect will fundamentally change the way she’s played. As I stated earlier, we want to be very careful about preserving the intent of the card…and a “recruit only” restriction definitely derails said intent.
So here’s what we propose. We ban Blink – Earth-295 <> Clarice Ferguson. BUT we pull a “system failure” on her. We basically figure out how to get Exiles the intended advantage without the abuse AND without having to work within the confines of her current wording. Details on the “Blink Revamp” are forthcoming (in other words…we haven’t ironed it all out yet. But feel free to start making suggestions!!).
We know not everyone is going to agree with this route, but we do believe that MOST will agree it’s the best way to go. As always, your voices need to be heard on all of this, so click here to go to the response thread.
That’s it for today. We’ve got other items to report on, but I think they’ll likely get lost in the shuffle here, so I’ll post ‘em next Monday.
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