Galactic Investors

[YonniF]

Dearest gurus,

Could we please not play Alien Artifacts in arena if we're unable to ban Galactic Investors. It's a fun expansion otherwise but Galactic Investors really ruins the dynamics, imo.

[ColShaw]

I don't, on the whole, hold with banning specific cards. But YonniF has a point. Investors MASSIVELY skews the entire set. I wonder how that card ever made it through playtesting. Combining it with, say, Frontier World or Industrial Robots turn 1 is pretty much game, and that's pretty disheartening.

The pity is, I love the rest of AA. But in 2P, Investors is pretty seriously borked.

[banished]

Ya this card is definitely overpowered. Can go on serious dev runs with a few cards that is unstoppable.

[TheReignOfChaos]

Ruins an otherwise perfect set of cards, indeed

[FrankJones]

I think I've only played Alien Artifacts once, and no one had that card.

Seems ban-worthy to me. But I also think that about some other cards that I feel can single-handedly ruin the game.

[MopsSamson]

Yes! The investors are deadly, in financial and gaming terms. I love to have them in my deck, though. My only chance to win against ELO400 people.

[eviljuzu]

Is there somewhere actual data that shows the win rate spikes for players who have played Galactic Investors? I would be very interested to see this data if anyone can point me to it. I do not have problem with the card itself since it is a 5-cost card that still requires synergy with other cards giving develop bonuses to gain a big advantage. I am guessing that the main issue here is that Galactic Investors makes the most unfun strategy, namely develop spam, more powerful. And I agree that it would be good if develop spam strategy would not be encouraged.

[Mort1mer]

It may be that Galactic Investors is overpowered only when it comes out early: I used it in a game recently and still found a way to lose!

[YonniF]

Is there somewhere actual data that shows the win rate spikes for players who have played Galactic Investors? I would be very interested to see this data if anyone can point me to it. I do not have problem with the card itself since it is a 5-cost card that still requires synergy with other cards giving develop bonuses to gain a big advantage. I am guessing that the main issue here is that Galactic Investors makes the most unfun strategy, namely develop spam, more powerful. And I agree that it would be good if develop spam strategy would not be encouraged.

I don't think it's terribly OP compared to a lot of other strong cards. But you hit the nail on the head. It leads to an unfun strategy that also depends on a lot of random luck - you need to draw cards that score from your dev slam.