Card idea: Crisis and Riots

Mael wrote:

Ankha wrote:

Name: Crisis and Riots
Cardtype: Event
Any Methuselah may burn 2 pool as a master phase action to burn this card and make each Methuselah (going clockwise) choose up to 2 allies he or she controls then burn the rest, and burn equipments, locations, and retainers the same way.
"I took all I could save. Leonardo didn't make it I fear." - Isabel Giovanni

Is the card balanced?

No
It is a single card which simultaneously screws over a number of deck types at minimal cost to you, and with little chance of anyone preventing it (can't be blocked, suddened, etc)

We should ban all Gehenna events if we follow your logic. Tell me the difference between Crisis and Riots and Veil of Darkness or Slow Withering then (and the latter last until game ends, which is worse).

Mael wrote:

It is a single card which simultaneously screws over a number of deck types at minimal cost to you, and with little chance of anyone preventing it (can't be blocked, suddened, etc)

Veil of Darkness also "screws over a number of deck types at minimal cost to you, and with little chance of anyone preventing it (can't be blocked, suddened, etc)".

Juggernaut1981 wrote:

Those Events don't OBLITERATE other strategies. It's a VERY unbalanced card (particularly in the way it works on everyone's strategy).

This is more radical.
(BTW, Centralized Background Check "obliterates" Concealed Guns deck, but no one complains. And those decks are still played.)

I don't think the card "obliterates" other strategies (see below). Even if it were the case, is it bad? It will not make any deck become predominent, and would reduce the number of deck relying on too many copies of the same 1 card, leading to other decks less monomaniac. I don't think it would reduce the diversity of decks, not more than Peace Treaty or Kindred Segregation do. And with fewer cards in play, the game should run more smoothly

For most decks, this card will have no effect. You'll rarely have more than 2 allies (say Carlton and Mylan), more than 2 location (let's say a Hunting Ground), more than 2 equipments (Bowl + Ivory?) etc.
A Shambling deck would be left with 2 of them, which can be a pain but can be triggered by the player itself, before playing some more.

Some decks will be hurt more badly:
- a Nephandus deck will lose much more cause they cost pool
- so would be a War Ghoul deck
- an animalism wall
- a full-camera phone deck
- an imbued
- a Guillaume Giovanni deck

The card can be nerfed a bit if you find it too effective. For example:

Name: Crisis and Riots
Cardtype: Event
During each Methuselah's untap phase, he or she must choose X allies he or she controls then pay X-2 pool and burn the rest. Burn equipments, locations, and retainers the same way.
During your master phase, burn this card if a total of 5 cards or more have been burned or 10 pool or more have been paid this way.
"I took all I could save. Leonardo didn't make it I fear." - Isabel Giovanni


Anyway, I understand some people wants new cards that doesn't affect their current decks but opens new strategies (but I think it's a very conservative approach).