For reference, the experience point award structure was not forgiving at all
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Furthermore, considering that people will be playing with this same pool for a long time to come, we concluded that we should do our best to make corrections now to improve the enjoyment of the experience, even if only slightly
If you can pump the damage it deals then you can even cheat out bigger threats
Our group has found that as an individuals experience grows with the game, that the Taboos are welcomed as a new way to look at the game and build certain decks types
That stopped being a thing pretty quickly as dorks first phased out for super powerful spells, then slowly phased back in, first with lots of utility and EtB effects and more recently with massive amouts of stats, keywords, activated, triggered and static abilities too