Balance Thread

I'm usually nerf happy, but opt for small, stepped nerfs. But as it's not real-cmc and we're going to be in beta for quite a while I imagine, larger steps may get the job done quicker.

And really, I'd pay for an effect that caused my opponent to discard every third card they drawn.

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Stealing cards was a fairly niche thing before that wasn't really used, but you can look at it like this. You gain a card and the opponent loses one - the nearest singleshot spell to this is Cameo, which is 2.5 per card, and is accepted to be (close to) balanced. But not only that, you're effectively forcing the opponent to discard at random, as they're losing cards from the hand instead of the library. I'm not too sure on what a discard is worth spell-wise, but if it's worth the same as card draw it's 1.5 per card (well really it's more, considering AL and ToK actually costs a card). So stealing a card could probably cost 3.5-4 mana. Stealing two should cost 7-8. Having it based on the (really easy to achieve) condition of (Allying 2) could maybe make it cost 7 instead of 8, but once you consider that a second mana color is accepted as being worth less than the primary, a cost of 44 would probably be quite fair.

D'oh, just checked and it's been rebalanced to exactly that. err... POST-EMPTIVE ATTACK!

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Also,
Overheard Information is insanely powerful. Imagine using it to simply make the opponent draw five cards in a decking deck, that's halfway between ToK (3) and Eureka (14), so 8.5 might be about right. That's a bicolor equivilent of maybe 55, possibly 54. But then, imagine this: you pay that for decking purposes, and then you draw an extra 5 cards yourself too! 66 would be very reasonable in all. But if that's too expensive, then the cards given could be reduced to maybe three? Just as it is it's the ultimate decking card in my eyes...