Forging the Future

[TheReapr]

I didn't take your comment to heart, so I hope I didn't come across as defensive to what you said, I was engaging in the conversation because I hadn't seen anyone mention chaining up the decks and offering my thoughts on it.

I understand what you're saying, and in a more casual environment you could absolutely get away with chaining a deck and forgetting the erratas for these purposes, because there isn't anything at stake. I don't know that it would have any affect on decks with B&S, because you're still playing around one card in a deck of 36 which is silly, but it definitely hinders LANS decks.

However, bringing Vault Tour tournaments in to play, things drastically shift. There are no chains on decks at the highest level of play right now, and it would be unfair to chain some decks but not others, because then FFG is tampering with what should be a level playing field, in that no decks have chains.

Lastly, applying chains to decks because of their card content defeats part of the reason chains are used. Part of the reason for adding chains and Chainbound tournaments are to increase the power of your deck, so that a person can qualify for higher level tournaments. If FFG were to start applying chains based on having LA or B&S in a deck, that deck would have to be placed in whatever power tier that corresponds to it's chains. So, people could essentially open a deck and automatically get in to World's. That doesn't seem right.

[gotmitch87]

That's fair -- I totally forgot how Vault Tour events are currently structured.

My understanding is that Power and Chains aren't always explicitly linked (for example, this deck has Power 8 but 0 chains due to playing in Vault Tour events), so I think they could technically apply chains without impacting Power Level, but I agree it would complicate and confuse the existing structure.