Card idea: The Slump

Name: The Slump
Cardtype: Event
No blood or pool can be gained from the blood bank except during hunt actions or combat. Put all pool lost by Methuselahs on this card. Burn this card when it has 15 or more counters.

Idea: a bit like the Rising, but it prevents "spontaneous" bloating decks (Liquidation, Ashur, Voter Captivation). Won't affect Blood Doll/Vessel or Villein/Minion Tap.
Will affect Liquidation, Ashur, Voter Captivation... but also PB: Montreal, The Rack, Hunting Grounds, Govern the Unaligned at DOM, Art Scam, Consanguineous Boon etc.

Improves the game speed by forcing the players to be more pool aggressive.

Thought? Comments?

alek wrote:

Very easy to incorporate into deck (Rising needs two other gehannas). Kills a lot of archetypes, while giving nothing back.

Nothing back? Could you detail?

I find on the contrary that it's an incitative card. You want to create pool from nowhere? Deal pool damage first.

The whole game is a game of attrition, and there are too many cards nowadays that generate pool (or blood) freely. This card would help making the game showing a shortfall in pool, restablishing the balance, and making game go faster for aggressive decks.

Pascal wrote:

I'd change it to "When blood or pool counters are burned, put them on this card instead. When blood or pool counters would be gained from the blood bank, take them from this card instead."

It's another option, but would you keep the "event burns when..." clause?