A big issue that is happening right now, is that decks that don't start as highlander are putting these cards in their deck and still able to get their effects without any penalty.
Another big issue that is happening is that thanks to Draconic Lackey, every class technically has access to these card effects even if they didn't even put them into their own deck, biggest offender of this is Rogue with their dozens of lackeys per game always having at least one alex go off. Which I feel is a very unfair advantage to the people that actually try to build highlander decks.
If your win conditions can be used by everyone else in the game, it makes the decks way less unique and special to use, which is supposed to be the point.
So the suggestion is simply to change the text of the highlander cards to "If your deck started with no duplicates..."
This is a big nerf to 80% of the decks that have used these cards in some fashion, while a small buff to highlander decks themselves because they cannot get disrupted by albatross. However, considering how the problem with highlander decks is they only have one copy of each card already, they have never been that consistent. So I think its a fair trade off.
A big issue that is happening right now, is that decks that don't start as highlander are putting these cards in their deck and still able to get their effects without any penalty.
Another big issue that is happening is that thanks to Draconic Lackey, every class technically has access to these card effects even if they didn't even put them into their own deck, biggest offender of this is Rogue with their dozens of lackeys per game always having at least one alex go off. Which I feel is a very unfair advantage to the people that actually try to build highlander decks.
If your win conditions can be used by everyone else in the game, it makes the decks way less unique and special to use, which is supposed to be the point.
So the suggestion is simply to change the text of the highlander cards to "If your deck started with no duplicates..."
This is a big nerf to 80% of the decks that have used these cards in some fashion, while a small buff to highlander decks themselves because they cannot get disrupted by albatross. However, considering how the problem with highlander decks is they only have one copy of each card already, they have never been that consistent. So I think its a fair trade off.
I have thought the same for a long time.
highlander effekts only for highlander decks.
But the text should be “if your deck didn’t have any duplicates at the beginning of the game or now”
That way you can still disrupt/tech highlanders but you are rid of ridiculous quest druids and the like.