No More Bounce Cards

alek wrote:

We do not need any more Deflections in the game. A new bounce card would:
Inhibit creativity in deck design.
Create a hostile metagame for stealth bleed decks, which should be a viable deck type.
Further blur the distinction among the various disciplines.

Totally agree. One of the steps of building a viable deck is to think about how it should defend versus various archetypes. Giving bounce cards for every discipline makes any creativity concerning "How to defend against agressive bleed predator" going to thrash can.

alek wrote:

If you consider a Daughter of Cacophony deck, I read earlier that they could vote and bloat. In fact, that is the only way for them to survive an aggressive deck. Does it improve creativity? No.
With a bounce-like card, they could go other roads than vote.

First of all why do you think every clan and discipline should be good at defending against aggresive predator?! Some disciplines/ clans/ etc. are better at this other are better with some setup. Some are better for combat other for bleeding and this is very good. With out it we could just play with only one deck/ discipline/ clan.
Daughters of cacophony is a good example of rather specialized clan. It's supposed to be good at voting and weak in defense and it's abolutly all right. Still with some effort (you can call it creativity) you can think of bulding it in more defensive ways. F.e. you can make very aggresive daughters of cacophony deck which kills his prey faster than his predator kills him, you can use shettering crescendo cards to control minions around the table, including your predator, you can build your defense basing on allies f.e. member of the entourage and unmasking, you can bloat using villein + concert tour, you can even add some vampires from other clans (which is how blood lines very designed to be played at the beggining) to improve defnsive capabilities of the deck.