Armus wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:34 pm
And just think: we have 4 more years of this stupidity at minimum before these cards are HoF- eligible.
Lotta first balloters in that LEGO Starfleet set....
Here's Lego Starfleet's dirty secret: it isn't real.
I won't argue that they aren't/weren't over the power curve, or that there aren't some cards in the cycle that I won't be glad to wave goodbye to when it comes time to HoF them.
For example, Jupiter is too good and fits too neatly with the theme of the rest of the cards and with their skills and attributes and other missions. When I first sat down to build a deck with the ATtS SF, I was excited to take a new look at SF-icon missions.... but then the two missions (Jupiter moreso than Terra Nova, that 4 span has made me consider other missions, as it has made me play a third ship more than once) that worked best with them came in the very same set.
If that's all you're saying is Lego, that their missions are too easy to choose, sure, but that's true of a
lot of affiliations in 2e, going way back to Decipher times. And, I find, even when missions are removed in HoF, there are just new "best sets" of missions, they just were never specifically designed that way.
But if you're saying it about the dilemmas-under-missions SF cycle as a whole, I disagree. They're certainly generally powerful cards, and a lot of people built decks with those cards and did reasonably well in the following regional season. But, and this is important, the vast majority of those people
did not win those regionals. Lots of different people, different skilled players and deckbuilders, took a swing at the faction and missed. Maybe their misses fell too high at middling to second place finishes, but that's a power level concern rather than being too easy to build.
Take, for example,
this event, which is, IIRC, the first regionals+ event that ATtS SF took first place at. (And even then, only on day 1. Geoffrey Peterson copied the day 1 deck - though not the dilemma pile - for
day 2.) Both my deck and Matt Kirk's deck used the ATtS SF cards, but there's a significant difference in their finishes, and it's 100% not because I'm a better player - it's because I found a better way to build a deck for them (as evidenced by Matt's finish in
this event with a deck that more closely matched mine).
If decks built with a faction have variable performances based the choices made by deckbuilders, I'm arguing that the decks definitionally do not build themselves. Players who let the decks build themselves didn't do as well. Perhaps they should have done worse, but that again is a power curve issue.
But, maybe I just love Lego: