Kappa Cannoneer

Kappa Cannoner Balance

New • 06 Mar 2022 • Asked by kagaya-homoraisan • 42 Comments

another angle to consider for people wondering about kappa cannoneer: rn its balanced around the idea that its not ever being blocked (barring some humility shenanigans) which is a consistent target to hit. but if instead it were balanced around "its being blocked some unknown proportion of the time because it says "cant be blocked except by x", now r&d is in a lose-lose situation. either assume cannoneer is being blocked a lot and buff it, which creates the landwalk situation again. or instead, assume cannoneer basically reads "cant be blocked" and make a wordier, more confusing card for very marginal benefit. if cannoneer said "cant be blocked except by cats" (2 of which are in neo) its not actually a more interactive card. its just unblockable with extra words and extra mental load for no reason.

Good points.
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Card Interaction Variation

New • 06 Mar 2022 • Asked by cairnwanderer • 31 Comments

For example, look at Kappa Cannoneer in Legacy. Right now it just reads "cannot be blocked", which is uninteractive. I still love the card, but wouldn't it be better if there were *some* things that could block it? You say that you don't want mechanics to vary wildly in strength against different colors, but when it comes to mechanics that are inherently un-interactive isn't allowing *some* things (even if more prevalent in X colors) to actually interact the fundamental bedrock of the game?

No, that was the lesson of landwalk. Having decks vary from “can easily block it” to “can’t ever block it” was problematic. It’s why we changed to menace which has answers most decks have access to.
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