by bakija
z10n x wrote:
Yeah, we did. You're right; it does help. But any good card we bought after that was just as susceptible. Really, it didn't benefit the person who had the card I mentioned. She didn't have time to use all her new cards. It instead benefited the one player who was rolling full out for victory points. We lost the ability to deal her extra damage, and that allowed her to win.
Sometimes, well, things go awry :-)
The Parasitic Tentacles card is certainly handy, but, well, expensive--you gotta buy the cards away, and then get more energy to use it again, and the person who gets parasite-ed then can just buy something new with their newly found pile of energy. I mean, yeah, it is a drag to have your favorite card stolen, but, well, in the end, it is mostly a zero sum.
Most of the power cards seem completely reasonable, for my money. I'm yet to see one that seems particularly over the top; granted, I've only played the most recent edition, and it seems like a few cards were tweaked a bit. Wings (spend 2 energy to take no damage this turn) seems the card most likely to seem overpowered, but if someone is sitting on Tokyo with wings, the rest of the table can run them out of energy very quickly with 1 point attacks.