Direct Intervention poll and discussion

CON with all my heart.

KevinM wrote:

Direct Intervention disallows you to play the game you sat down to play. The very act of playing the game is stopped by DI. No stealth, no cards, nothing helps. That's why it's horrible and never should've been made.

? I don't understand at all what you're talking about. How does DI prevent you from playing? First Tradition is a card that prevents you from playing, not DI.

The only case where DI ends the turn is when played on a Freak Drive by some kind of Una-FreakShow or Turbo-whoever deck. Otherwise, it's simply a control or "last chance" card.

Compared with other card canceller, it's more versatile but costs pool and a MPA. Approximation of Loyalty, Touch of Clarity and Vox Domini are playable and provide some advantages over DI.

Furthermore, like all card that cancels other cards, it is a "passive"/"defensive" card (except in some Enkil Cog/Madness Network decks where it can be played more proactively). Usually, such cards are less prone to be abusive. (I know this may be argued.)

Anyway,

Played on an action => the minion can take the same action again.
Played on a strike => the minion have a new strike

DI is better when played on some action modifier or reaction (usually during someone else's turn, which is quite rare and tricky) because the same card can't be played again. But even when played on a push bleed (Conditioning), you're not safe because another push bleed can be played, and paying a pool makes it less effective anyway.
Played on stealth? This is a last chance option, because another stealth card will probably be enough.

One of the most frequent scenarios is whether to play DI on the Govern (does your predator have another?) or the bleed modifier (does your predator have a Foreshadowing Destruction?). In both case, you're more dead than alive usually.

Another case is playing DI on that Concealed Weapon (but usually players pack 12 of them, so there's a chance he has another one), or on that important No Secret From the Magaji/Eternal Vigilance/Daring the Dawn/whatever key card.
Once again, nothing absolutely terrible, at least no more than being blocked.

The most frustrating use is when someone plays it on your last bleed action and cancels your push bleed that would have ousted your prey. It's really corner-case, could be done using Life Boon, and is simply table control (it could have been an Eagle Sight after all, or just Anneke blocking your oust attempt, it already happened).

If you have a look to the TWD, in 2011 there are 78 decks out of 265 that play a DI. (30%)
52 play 1 DI
23 play 2 DI
3 play 3 DI.

(and 187 don't play any DI at all)

So most decks don't play DI (Most of my decks don't have any DI in them, and I have many sitting in my collection), and when they do play DI, most of them include only 1 which can be seen as a "last chance"/"save me" card you can't reasonably count on (1 in the deck).

So, once again, how does DI prevent you from playing?
I'd love to see an example where the card would be so broken...