Board Game Arena

"Chess is random in who goes first, but not considered a luck-based game (even though white has advantage)." - in a chess tournament, luck comes into play in terms of which systems you prepared for and which will require spending precious clock-time to figure out on the fly. When a GM is i...

One night a week, I play ranked games for a few hours against (only) my real-life friends. Not power-levelling, just playing for fun, but we play with ELO enabled.

Won't this change lead to us (collectively) losing ELO by the last game of the night?

In general, I would rather not ban cards that are "too strong" (without looking at a reasonable data set anyway), but definitely those that are annoying to play against. For all the reasons other people have said, the most annoying cards are: Little Peasant Work Certificate So I would ban ...