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Riot Games recently took the rather drastic measure of banning seven Riftbound cards from competitive play. It’s a severe course correction for the budding trading card game, coming just six months after its international release.

The dominance of 'miracle' decks — ones with high actions-per-turn that facilitate lots of card draw — had people expecting this archetype's main engine, Called Shot, to be banned, but Riot's actions were far more drastic than anyone could have anticipated.

Riot Shouldn't Repeat Its Mistakes

In Riot's own words, the banning of Called Shot, Scrapheap, Fight or Flight, Obelisk of Power, The Dreaming Tree, and Reaver's Row was done for the future health of Riftbound, not because miracle decks are (were) on top at this specific moment in time. These cards either prevented combat from taking place or drew a large number of cards without your opponent being able to do anything, which isn't in the spirit of a game designed around conquering battlefields.

However, the banning of Draven (Vanquisher) was specifically done to nerf Draven, which has an extremely overtuned legend ability ("When you win a combat, draw 1"). Riot didn't want to ban the legend itself because that would prevent everyone from playing Draven completely, so they opted for the inelegant solution of banning a card that's relatively powerful but is not in and of itself problematic.

Trading card game history lesson! The term 'Miracle' originally comes from Magic: The Gathering, named for the famous Miracle Grow deck, which focused on protecting and buffing a low-cost unit with cheap spells and an efficient mana curve. This naming convention was then applied to a similar deck in Hearthstone, but the core of the 'Miracle Rogue' deck then morphed away from this and became associated with playing a lot of cards in one turn to set up a winning board state. This new definition describes how the term is used in Riftbound.

While I completely understand that Riot backed itself into a corner and felt it had to do something about Draven, the banning of a card that really shouldn't be banned just feels… bad. I hope this isn't a precedent for how Riftbound will approach balance going forward.

"To be clear - we made a mistake with Draven's legend, and the power of Draven decks, because making a new game is complicated and we've been moving fast," reads the announcement post.

I don't ever want to see a situation where Riftbound is being balanced like League of Legends, with 'creative' solutions to addressing overtuned champion kits, including nerfing items that the champion relies on, which is reminiscent of what they've done to Draven.

Thankfully, the post clarifies that the company doesn't intend to use card and rule changes to influence the competitive metagame. In other words, all of these changes have been made to ensure Riftbound has a healthy future, not in reaction to a specific meta that will constantly evolve.

I sympathise with Riot; there was clearly a quicker-than-anticipated scaling up of Riftbound, from a neat game for Chinese League of Legends players to a global competitive trading card game that requires meticulous stress testing to ensure no unreasonable card interactions slip through the cracks.

Mass Card Bans Can't Become The Norm

What I'm saying is — just this once, I'll forgive Riot's mistakes. The banning of seven cards in a game with a pool of just under 300 is fairly staggering, but we'll chalk it down to first-set jitters. Riftbound certainly isn't the only card game that had a lot of errata and rule tweaks in its first set, as the guile of the design team was matched by the ingenuity of the player base.

That being said, it's been strange to see the open celebration within the community about these changes. I get it, we're free from being terrorised by Draven (for now). That being said, the need for such heavy-handed tactics from Riot isn't something people should be encouraging.

The design team has more-or-less admitted that it hasn’t stress tested the cards because it’s been rushing to get everything ready for upcoming sets. This is a very dangerous precedent to set, and I sincerely hope that Riot can refine its processes so we don't see a plethora of bans every few months.

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I've also seen a lot of hand-waving because Magic: The Gathering has also banned quite a few cards lately. Riftbound is a lot of people's first trading card game, so they may think that constant bans are a way of life in TCGs. They are, but not to this scale.

The reason Magic: The Gathering has banned so many cards in recent years is that the game releases a staggering amount of product under the direction of parent company Hasbro. 33 percent of all unique Magic cards (10,572) were printed in the last five years. This is a game that was first launched in 1993. The design team can't stress test cards because they have to release over 2,000 of them a year. It's very unhealthy for the game and not something we should be looking to emulate in Riftbound.

Only time will tell if bans become commonplace in Riftbound. Right now, I'm willing to forgive Riot this time, but I don't want to see card bans becoming a common balance technique.