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I agree with all of alex's list except for claw knife. I also want full peasant, godly spouse and carpenters yard banned. This is very vibes based and I have not looked deeply at the stats for these. Explanations: I would make a distinction between terrible card that almost never justifies it's plac...

Okay finally got around to giving my thoughts on the banlist. I think for me there are basically four tiers of cards on the banlist. I have divided them as such: 1) Cards that are very annoying - to the point I don't want to play with them even if I was playing with a mindset of "no banlist, an...

From what I understand, the "base" set of cards (i.e. not adding C+D, new set of cards, and even more cards) includes cards from across the A+B decks, i.e. including those from the Artifex + Bubulcus decks. I'm pretty sure this understanding is wrong, and this setting will be what you wan...

To revive this thread: Lumin's upcoming tournament adds a bunch of extra bans. I can agree they all deserve a ban more generally. The cards are: Occupations: Craft Teacher, Child Ombudsman, Freshman, Informant, Tree Guard Minor Improvements: Teacher’s Desk, Recruitment, Carpenter’s Bench, Carpenter’...

Competitive level is the important setting. Beginner will have family mode. Normal uses all cards from selected sets. Competitive/Banlist will use all cards from selected sets, minus those the community decided we didn't want to play with. I would recommend playing with the banlist, for what it's wo...

Making a new list. Same format as before - cards that definitely should be banned, cards that I think should be banned but think I could be convinced otherwise, cards I think could be banned but I don't have a strong preference either way, and cards I think have arguments to ban (i.e got mentioned i...

I think there is absolutely also a non-cheating group of players that engage in behaviour that the power levelling change is supposed to catch. I think this behaviour does result in very high ratings. An issue is these players are, I believe, not doing it primarily for the rating :lol: . The basic p...

Some thoughts on the banlist after some arena games. We didn't ban enough cards. I felt awkward advocating for expanding the list as much as I proposed, but this set needs a lot of bans. Two things stand out to me right now: Craft Teacher, and Child Ombudsman. Sorry to everyone who wanted Craft Teac...

Shaving horse allows incredibly efficient feeding, especially with other cards that give you wood. It's not just wood you get from the board that can trigger it. I believe the strongest players can probably budget their wood and food to manage it very well, plus afaik you probably won't need another...

Apologies to everyone for starting discussion again. Two things have made me change my mind on what I would propose for the banlist. 1) I realized I forgot about another newest card on my definite banlist: D021 recruitment. While I am okay allowing inconsistent stage 1 growth, a card that enables it...