True or False? Cards are used in the manner the card designers intended.

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10 Nov 2013 03:43 #56458 by brandonsantacruz

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Can we agree on an answer? Let's see:

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10 Nov 2013 05:51 #56461 by Boris The Blade

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It is a bell curve function of the card text length. On one hand, you have simple effects that only interact with one rule, and there is strictly no way to make them do anything else. On the other hand, you have you have cards with so many restrictions that there is only one way to play them. In the middle, it gets fuzzy.

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10 Nov 2013 18:48 #56488 by Ashur

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How do you mean?

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10 Nov 2013 22:06 #56495 by Juggernaut1981

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The more restrictions you place on a card's play, the fewer 'strange' uses you can have with the card.
The less options the card has, the fewer 'strange' uses you can have with the card.

In the middle where you can have moderately long card texts and may not extensive restrictions is where cards can more easily be used for purposes they were not intended.

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11 Nov 2013 08:01 #56507 by Ashur

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Juggernaut1981 wrote:
The more restrictions you place on a card's play, the fewer 'strange' uses you can have with the card.
The less options the card has, the fewer 'strange' uses you can have with the card.

In the middle where you can have moderately long card texts and may not extensive restrictions is where cards can more easily be used for purposes they were not intended.

Yes, I agree. My question "How do you mean?" refers to the question in the poll. Some cards are used as intended, some are not. I guess the cards that differ the most from the designers idea are those that wasn´t playtested enough, or those when the playtesters comments were ignored (Ashur Tablets? Anthelios? Villein? Wallpaper cards?)

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