^ In a world with Tribunal, I tend to agree that the existence of
cards that say "you can't do something" is something akin to a ban on that thing.
(Not really, because I just played a tourney yesterday where none of the three players had stocked Tribunal or a Ref tent at all. But it's something
like a ban.)
But the world we're discussing is a world
without Tribunal. If you want to pull out Villagers during the game, you're going to have to have Q The Referee on the table, and you will have to have either seeded or played that Ref. You can't infinitely recurse your fire-and-discard
cards, and you even have to make choices about your persistent
cards. After all, if you discard that Q The Referee to fetch Villagers, that means you
can't discard it to fetch Mirror Image or Goddess of Empathy or The Juggler later on -- at least, not without digging out a second Q the Ref and putting
that on the table, which would be another cost. Worse yet: if you decide to use The Juggler
now, it's in the discard pile and can't be fetched back easily, so you're going to have a much harder time using it later.
If you're using a Ref tent, you're also limited to mission attempts with 4+ personnel, which is a substantial cost in itself.
So this would be a very different
economy from the current "everyone gets all
at the low price of nearly-free."
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