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10 months ago ::
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:36PM
#81
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Date Joined:
May 24, 2011
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Just to remember: Wizards has said that there IS power creep. In creatures anyway. They are conciously upping the power level of creatures.
It's impossible not to power creep in eternal formats when printing new cards, unless you want all of your new stuff to be worse than your old stuff, which sounds worse than the alternative. The issue about long-term health of the game is way more complicated than power creep yes/no.
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10 months ago ::
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:51PM
#82
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Date Joined:
Apr 20, 2005
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Yes, the format as a whole in eternal format is "power creeped" by printing any cards at all. But that power creep can be limited to increased diversity in the available options to play rather than by obsoleting existing cards with stronger versions. The latter is the problem to me.
For instance, the very first Planeswalkers ever printed were power creep in Eternal formats, but they weren't just upgraded versions of existing things, they were new things that added new options, and thus are an acceptable form of power creep. If they printed a card that was Counterspell for just U, for instance, that would be the bad kind of power creep.
And yes, they have pushed creatures and weakened counterspells/draw spells/combo cards/etc because they felt that historically creatures were too weak and spells too strong. I personally don't agree with them at all but at least that's a subjective choice they've made, so I can't fault them for it really.
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