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Sinister Serpent; Cure for reaper impact?
Topic Started: Aug 4 2006, 06:39 PM (206 Views)
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Does anyone remember when SS was banned? I remember that the cards people complained about got banned but rarely anyone complained about SS and it still got banned. SS without GC or TER at 3 cannot be abused to a game breaking degree as much as say many of the other cards we have (snatch, Chaos sorcerer, Torrential etc...). It also helps against the overaggressive/overextending plays made commonly in this format.

I think unbanning SS would be a slow start to undoing the major impact of card advantage. Card advantage has become way too important. Losing one card (in terms of advantage) even in a starting hand makes too big an impact in todays game.

What do you all think?
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Sinister serpents banning was basically because it is a brainless card. And If you ban the cards the sinister combos with then u also open urself up to again breaking the format by removing its more skillful aspects.
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at the time it was banned (a format better than this) its comboable cards were banned to. There is nothing atm that is abusable enough to be more gamebreaking than what we have now. GC doesnt even need to banned if it comes back. Not having it makes cards like spirit reaper more mindless.
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It really was stupid banning it with the other stuff. But when they decided on the "new" format at the time, they should have realized what they were doing. Since graceful was goon along with tribe, there wasn't really anything to support. Well if it does come back, graceful should be banned [/duh].
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I disagree. Sinster is abuseable with TIV and GC, but not what are the chances of drawing those two cards? It's the exact same chance as drawing Night Assailant with GC. And TIV back wouldn't be TOO broken either.
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Jedah
Aug 4 2006, 10:34 PM
I disagree. Sinster is abuseable with TIV and GC, but not what are the chances of drawing those two cards? It's the exact same chance as drawing Night Assailant with GC. And TIV back wouldn't be TOO broken either.

TIV is banned lol. Sinister with GC isn't even that bad anyway considering people +1 with it all the time (treeborn, night assailant or chaos food) and those always end up as +1. Thats why if sinister was unbanned it would make these +1 less gamebreaking.

Sinister doesn't win games by itself, everything it won with is gone. One chaos sorcerer can win games just by itself. It's obvious sinister would do more godd than any little harm it might do.
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it got banned because tribe infecting virus + sinsiter serpent = like free lightning vortex.
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Aug 5 2006, 12:03 PM
it got banned because tribe infecting virus + sinsiter serpent = like free lightning vortex.

No, because format then had ring, graceful, pot, bls, tiv, etc. Ugly broken format lol.
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Aug 5 2006, 09:48 AM
TIV is banned lol. Sinister with GC isn't even that bad anyway considering people +1 with it all the time (treeborn, night assailant or chaos food) and those always end up as +1. Thats why if sinister was unbanned it would make these +1 less gamebreaking.

Sinister doesn't win games by itself, everything it won with is gone. One chaos sorcerer can win games just by itself. It's obvious sinister would do more godd than any little harm it might do.

[SARC]WHAAAAAAAAAAT??? TIV IS BANNED???!!! NO WAI!!1[/SARC]

Lol. I'm just saying that Sinster Serpent IS abuseable with TIV, but perhaps even TIV should return (<--zomg blasphemy). But I agree with your latter point: "It's obvious sinister would do more godd (good) than any little harm it might do." I want the Serpent back.
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i like spelling good, godd ok. XD
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yea, i agree with whats said above, sinister serpent is the anti yata card imo.
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Serpent is one of my fav banned cards. For the fact of with that one, it really can go either way. There are a lot of viable points to banning and unbanning it. I really wouldnt mind if it returned but i doubt it will.
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Who didn't see this card being banned in the future? I'm glad. Every turn having a card that can be used in place of other cards isn't exactly what we call balanced.
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