1mana monsters

You make some fair points unusual. I've got class in half an hour so I'll respond as quickly as I can. First, till now, I have generally kept out of the balance thread. The problem is that if no one presents objections to balances, then they'll just go through, assuming the tacit approval of everyone else in the CMC community *precisely* because they didn't speak up and post in the balance thread.

Your example of when a monster fell to 2-3 hitpoints is also faulty in that people can say they just as easily lost to an opponent whose monster fell to 2-3 hitpoints. Or you could say that you lost because your monster died when it previously would've survived by 2-3 hitpoints because of a nerf. All of these situations come about because of these changes in balances. You can't claim that everyone receives a positive experience from the balances because in the end, it's a zero-sum game, somebody wins and somebody loses.

As to trusting Blue's judgment, you can have your opinion and I can have my own. It's precisely because *I* disagree with his judgment that I'm even posting here in the first place. In a way, it brings up the whole issue of "elite" players deciding the direction of the game by determining what should or shouldn't be balanced, except in this situation, it's limited to Blue and I'm against that. That's all for now.