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I admit that I actually suggested changing Mortal Q to weaken that skill, because I think the ability to shut down opponent's Q stuff completely is stupid and counter-productive, for all the reasons you mention.
But it was also pointed out to me that Mortal Q has been doing this exact thing for twenty-odd years, and it hasn't been a problem. He can only do this horrible thing if you are playing Q-Flash AND your opponent happens to ALSO be playing Q-Flash AND your opponent runs The Naked Truth AND successfully hits you with it AND you aren't running Immortal Again. So Mortal Q is a real edge case, and his effect on the meta is thus closer to N'Rana than Strategema.
And, of course, the First Edition Department does not nerf 25-year-old cards without good evidence that it should do so. No such evidence exists today.
So Mortal Q kept his very powerful skill, which has always done this exact thing (except it used to be in a restriction box instead of being a skill).
On the other hand, Mortal Q's skill "Nullifies each dilemma named Q" has been dramatically improved -- not because of errata to Mortal Q, but because of the decision to name all the new Q-Flash causing cards "Q."
All I can say about that is that Rules did point it out to Design and, as far as I know, Design raised it with Playtesting to make sure it was okay. I presume they said it was, because the card got printed!
It probably helps that it's very hard to download Mortal Q and very hard to play him for free (It's basically War Council and that's it), and he's just not a very good card unless your opponent is playing Q-stuff, so he's rarely stocked.
Armus wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:41 amAs far as the "Your Q-Continuum is inactive for the rest of the game" goes, you're right. Mortal Q has always shut down the Q Continuum for the player who plays him, and The Naked Truth has always been a way to force your opponent to play him (closing your opponent's Q Continuum for the entire rest of the game).stressedoutatumc wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:33 am Why would they errata mortal q like that? It makes the whole set kinda too high risk to play.Pretty sure the functionality hasn't changed, it's just the wording that's improved.
Risk isn't any higher than it already was. At least with respect to Mortal Q showing up and shutting your noise down.
I admit that I actually suggested changing Mortal Q to weaken that skill, because I think the ability to shut down opponent's Q stuff completely is stupid and counter-productive, for all the reasons you mention.
But it was also pointed out to me that Mortal Q has been doing this exact thing for twenty-odd years, and it hasn't been a problem. He can only do this horrible thing if you are playing Q-Flash AND your opponent happens to ALSO be playing Q-Flash AND your opponent runs The Naked Truth AND successfully hits you with it AND you aren't running Immortal Again. So Mortal Q is a real edge case, and his effect on the meta is thus closer to N'Rana than Strategema.
And, of course, the First Edition Department does not nerf 25-year-old cards without good evidence that it should do so. No such evidence exists today.
So Mortal Q kept his very powerful skill, which has always done this exact thing (except it used to be in a restriction box instead of being a skill).
On the other hand, Mortal Q's skill "Nullifies each dilemma named Q" has been dramatically improved -- not because of errata to Mortal Q, but because of the decision to name all the new Q-Flash causing cards "Q."
All I can say about that is that Rules did point it out to Design and, as far as I know, Design raised it with Playtesting to make sure it was okay. I presume they said it was, because the card got printed!
It probably helps that it's very hard to download Mortal Q and very hard to play him for free (It's basically War Council and that's it), and he's just not a very good card unless your opponent is playing Q-stuff, so he's rarely stocked.
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