Theorycrafting on the possibility of a "Color" based game(Explanation included)

By TheDove#6182 July 05, 2018, 01:03:19

Okay, I'll give a short explanation on what I mean. I'll make a example using MtG.
In MtG, there are five colors(White Blue Black Red Green). Those colors are kind of like our classes: They had strengths and weaknesses. For example, green wasn't able to deal direct damage, but they had big creatures. Our classes have this stuff, too, of course.
But there was a biiiiig difference.
You could mix colors together.
It wasn't a objectively better kind of deal, you'd need to generate power for two different colors in order to do that. But it opened up possibilities.

Which makes me wonder for a bit. I know its too late to make our system anything like this, but I mean, what if?

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javi243#7717 July 05, 2018, 02:42:19

Cras with charge. CRAS WITH CHARGE. IOPS WITH RANGE. ECAFLIPS WITH CRA REMOVAL. EVERYONE WITH CRA REMOVAL. ANUTROF BEING PLAYABLE. NO. NO. NO. TAKE THESE VISIONS AWAY.

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javi243#7717 July 05, 2018, 02:45:17

NECRO DECKS WITH HALF A DECK MADE OF NECRO MINIONS.
FECA WITH RELIABLE UNRESTRICTED REMOVAL AND CHARGE.

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javi243#7717 July 05, 2018, 02:47:35

And, last but not least... Xelenis. You dont win by breaking the enemy dofus, you win by making the enemy surrender.

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TheDove#6182 July 05, 2018, 03:21:45

I don't know why but those replies feel bad in a instinctual level.

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javi243#7717 July 05, 2018, 04:32:01

the thing is obviously exaggerated for the joke, but krosmaga cards are only balanced around the class they belong to, in terms of sinergies. Yeah, you can get an spell from the enemy with bakara (or some other niche cards) and such, but Enu cards are not mae thinkign if there is some broken combo with xelor cards, for example. Slow, control-ish decks would have no problem witing for the mana if the enemy also has to mulligan for it Remember that magic has 7 starting cards and you can mulligan more than once, getting mana cards on a starter hand on krosmaga would be harder)

Now, if you had to change the hand size, the class cards and all fo that, what would be left of krosmaga? the minions walking down the lines system and the way that makes both attacker and defender able to decide the trades?

Also we would end up having 12 colours eventually, a hell to balance. Having 10 classes whose crds dont generally synergize is already hard to balance, imagine if you could mix them.

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Fracastador#3166 July 05, 2018, 03:43:50

Mtg's color system is balanced around a colored manabase.

The additional options are balanced by a decrease in deck consistency.

Krosmaga isn't really designed with that in mind, and the current cards, as you can see from the above reactions, are definitely not balanced around being mixed and matched between gods.

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TheDove#6182 July 05, 2018, 04:02:54

I consider this dealt with on OP's post.

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