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Sorry you feel that way! I've commented a lot in this thread, but I'll say to your concern that hopefully removing the complexity of the old rule will be off-set by the extra complexity we start adding to the game with this and future expansions.

Spoiler - sh*t gets wild in the future. I think the game rules becoming a little more "bland" will be worth it when we move that spice to the cards!

And it will open us up in the future to do more go wide decks without feeling like we're seeing players up to screw themselves!

This is a key point - we're moving strategy/skill from one area to another. Nothing is set in stone so we'll monitor feedback, but from what we've experienced internally what you're saying has been what we've felt.

+1 to this; it's an experience that's especially punishing and common for new players.

In terms of the minion restriction, some of the comments below capture it well. But in addition to the visual complexity, the bigger reason is actually in the mental burden of large boards in a world where your opponent gets to choose who does/doesn't block.

Using MTG as an example, I've played a LOT of it for about 15 years, and I still frequently have situations where I've got 10 units on board, my opponent has 10 potential blockers, and it's too much for me to figure out. So I'll just swing in with everything without much thought and hope for the best.

With this new rule in place, we'll feel more comfortable going wide in creative ways moving forward, but we'll do our best to avoid putting players in situations where they are just blindly swinging because all the possible combinations are overwhelming.

I think that's a very fair reaction, and even once you have your hands on it you may end up still feeling the same way. The hope is that this shifts some of strategy/skill away from the old rule and more in different directions.

It's also move to prepare us for the future - In general we prefer to have less complexity in the rules and more with the cards. So hopefully we're leveraging the design space opened by the the rule in ways that you'll enjoy.

Yep, this is a Feel Bad that a lot of us have experienced even with many hundreds (thousands?) of games played under our belts. I did it recently to myself with a Heimer deck, and I'm personally excited to not have to worry about that as much in the future!

Great point. And if the rule is working well, hopefully we'll be making more decisions like brood awakening based on what you think your opponent is trying to do (not based just on the state of your back row)

Because it's not a port :) LoR was Designed for both platforms from the beginning.

Thank you for enjoying it on mobile!

Correct, we've been playtesting with this new rule in place for a long time and it definitely changes some mid and late game play with only Set 1 cards. But part of the reason the change is coming with Set 2 is to open up the design space of our cards so that we have more options for game-enders that won't have as much backfire potential.

One example of a card that has since changed was one of the original Gangplank designs when the barrels didn't stack and each took up a slot in the backrow. A design like that without "Playing Units on Full Boards" AKA "Clobber" as we refer to it internally wouldn't really have been possible. We ended up changing the design for other reasons :) but hopefully that illustrates the point.

Agreed! And perhaps we should have given this change more love in the patch notes. I'll jump into this thread with some responses, there were some really great points brought up.

We know this is painful. We care deeply about this issue. It's complex and involves several teams. We do not want to make excuses.

We are going to spend some dedicated time focusing on these inconsistencies to improve the text quality of our cards.

We appreciate all of the feedback.

Yup

Progress goes towards next week's vault.
The temporary lock is because we wanted to limit any feelings of regret for opening a vault hours before the new cards drop.

Freljordian herders who confuse the children of She who Wanders with a common moose are in for a surprise.

Hey all! So the bad news first is we won’t have a “set” filter for our launch. We’ll get there soon along with a bunch of other deckbuilder improvements.

We will definitely have updated region filters.

I love Teemo! He's one of my favorite champs <3