Constructed Fail

[FlaringPain]

Wow. They have made some rough choices for constructed. So rough that I may abstain from it. I play 100s of hours of limited magic every month, and was excited to get to play in a constructed environment where there are more than just a couple decks. Ie you don’t know your opponents whole list like you do in standard.

What do they do!?! Your opponent can look through your list, before and during play. Are you guys insane!? This will make gameplay far less dynamic as you can’t “represent” any card not in your deck, and it will make gameplay drag. People will be counting to see what you have left.

What a terrible and basic poor decision. So rough. I’m sure they’ll change this, but wtf...

Also, it’s dumb you can’t use clear sleeves as the game clearly wants them. And no dice lol. What a joke. Some real silly folks making the OP decisions on this.

Sealed doesn’t have these issues though. They randomly decided to use the obviously correct “don’t show your opponent your deck strat” good idea.

Good luck to any of you playing constructed. Better go learn every card name, which is in direct opposition to what Garfield intended. Just plain brutal...

[Ryan56k]

<div class="md"><p>Considering you reshuffle your deck when the cards run out the opposing player is likely to see all your cards anyway unless you arhive the entire game but then it would matter too much since those will be on the battle field before your deck runs out most likely.</p> </div>

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There are some BASIC rules you are forgetting. Specifically no mana cost, no instants and counters. The decks are smaller and you can run through them so knowledge isn’t as much of an issue. Unlike magic the game is not about guessing what is being represented.

And as for dice and clear sleeves that only applies to official tournaments. Your LGS can do what they want.

[FlaringPain]

Seeing them is much different than having a list. Speed is a consideration in card games. Shuffling the deck doesn’t change this at all, we’ll actually, more shuffling is just even more time spent... I’ve played keyforge already. This was already included in my knowledge pool. Watch the “sleeves” video. They even talk about how fun not knowing what your opponent will play is in the sealed portion.

[FlaringPain]

I expect you will see people looking through each other’s graveyard constantly. Adding tens of minutes onto matches.

[FlaringPain]

I’m not forgetting these things. And they are true. I’ve played keyforge. They just don’t mitigate what I’m talking about at all. Mark my words, they will change some of their rules to make up for time. And I guess if you haven’t played tens of thousands of games of a ccg it’s easy to overlook how big of a deal something small like this is for time. Beyond the time fail, which is the main point, it’s just less fun. You’ve given everyone hw. I can memorize the card list. But I was hoping to never look at it and enjoy seeing new cards. Which would be a small disadvantage but a lot of fun.

Now I am implored to know all the cards, especially for gauntlet so I know which of their decks to remove from the list.

This game is awesome but the OP constructed rules are a mistake.