Blue_Elite Wrote:Have you tried actually tracking the mana in a game Dav? As un-fun as it is, doing so will allow you to find out: A) if it really benefits the player to do it B) possible solutions based on experience rather than conjecture.
I know from past experience that knowing how much mana your opponent has is important; I've never had to do much work for the information before, but I've certainly used it a great deal.
masamunemaniac Wrote:Also, I am not a fan of randomness, but face down cards aren't random. They may lead to random decision making, but that's on the part of the player and not the cards.
This was more of a philosophic point than anything, but if you refer back to Webrunner's example of a facedown monster being cool you'll note he has set it up to deny the opponent any information on what the monster is, forcing them to guess; obviously in practice this is impractical (waiting until you have 20/20/20 is dangerous, probably not all facedown monsters are practical to play in good decks, etc.) but as a theoretical situation presumably it reveals what he sees as one of the major features of facedown monsters.
Bonebreak Wrote:A potential solution would be to have spells/effects/abilities that would induce Hidden mana for a certain period of time. The advantage being that hidden mana is a really useful ability that at the current system is too easily gained. Of course the downside would be extra work, creating/modifing cards with that effect.
Exactly which part of this do you see this as a solution to? (It certainly doesn't solve the mana-tracking problem, for example.)
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