Carthain wrote:
Why not just add the card to the ban list? Also - why is
Brightflame not also restricted?
One card targets only opponents life, the other targets only creatures, I for one, do not compare the 2.
This card was missused in our group, a restriction of it was the only solution.
The reason for creating "Houserules" differ for all, I guess?
We use it to promote diversity in the decks you make, since we implemented the rule of colors / life and maximum life, in order for that to work, we had to make some adjustments to certain cards.
The "Official Banned List and
Format Philosophy Document"that follows, is the actual mindset of our group.
Quote:
That vision is to create variable, interactive, and epic multiplayer games where memories are made, to foster the social nature of the format, and to underscore that competition is not the format’s primary goal. This is summarized as “Create games that everyone will love to remember, not the ones you'd like to forget.
This is why Exsanguinate is restricted at our table when we play, because as it was, all decks that had black in it, contained this stupid card, Mana geyser (or similar mana boosting card) + Exsanguinate = game over, each and every time.
Epic? Yes the 1st time it was played (but only then)
Fun? , Nah not so much after the 10th or so combo and with up to 8 players around our table, this was one of the most common combos you would see a couple of years ago.
This is also why we have made some houserule changes on certain other cards, as they are way overpowered for our games, not saying that we have weak decks, but theres like +10000 cards and we have restricted a handful of them.
People at our table still play with the restricted cards, I mean there are other cards that lets you copy spells, there are creatures that when they are target, lets you copy spells to any other creature, when it comes to infect / double strike etc, so its really not such big obstacle to overcome.
Prolifirate, set to 1 time regardless of how many times a turn you actually do that.
Populate likewise.
Edited for spelling stuff - english is 2nd language