By the title of this post I mean that I’m afraid for the future of the game. As expansions come out and we get more cards in each aspect we’ll be able to cater a character more to our style. The rules, as they stand, only force you to use the 15 cards assigned to your hero of choice and you can have only three copies of any other given card with the exception of uniques and cards that specify that you can’t on the card itself and you can only use Basic and one other aspect. Other than that, you can do whatever you want with your deck.
Right now this seems like plenty because we only have the core set at our disposal. But as more cards come out, the card library increases and the choices to be made and strategies to be built do so as well. Eventually you’ll be able to build an entire deck around your chosen aspect or resource type, without having to add in Basic cards or any other resource if you don’t want to (looking at you Captain Marvel and Iron-Man players). More over, eventually, I believe you’ll be able to build an entire deck around one aspect (Stuns, Confuse, amping up attack, defense or thwart, etc).
The way I see it it’s going to get to the point where you can optimize a strategy to the point where it won’t matter what hero you chose with what aspect, there will be a way to make that work. It may not be optimal, but it’ll work and you will win. That sounds awesome as a hypothetical. You can always use your favorite hero, no matter what. To me, that previous sentence sounds like a fun game. But the other side of that is that no villain will be a challenge. You’ll be able to beat any of them with any hero using any aspect and not have it be trouble.
When it comes to video games, I like them being easy. I play them for the story and entertaining gameplay, not for the challenge. When it comes to card games, I want to figure things out. I don’t want it to be a cakewalk because part of the fun is the challenge. It’s to sit down and deckbuild. To figure out what works with what. How to optimize because “this” is popping up too often or “that” isn’t working when you need it to. As someone with a background in TCGs, I, honestly, had more fun deckbuilding and brainstorming ridiculous ideas than actually playing against others. The game itself was just the test to see if what I had thought of worked. The actual fun was in thinking of those things.
Maybe FFG will figure out how to keep everything balance even if the game lasts two decades. Maybe the new villains will be too powerful to beat without batting an eye. Maybe they’ll add special rules to deckbuilding or create extra-difficult game modes in order to still have everything be a challenge. I dunno. Maybe I’m worrying too much. I mean, I JUST beat easy-mode Rhino with every starter deck and haven’t even tried my own custom decks yet (even though I already have two of them built and I’m really excited to take them to the table). We’ll see what remains in my thoughts after I face off against Klaw and Ultron and AFTER I start playing them all on Expert Mode. AND after expansions start coming out and the game becomes more fleshed out.
We’ll just have to wait and see…
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