Why are shields so much cooler than life points?

Why are shields so much cooler than life points?

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I fucking love this game, shame it flopped both times they tried to make it work.

It was all the rage with the kids for a few years here where I grew up.

The way they did both resources and life points was awesome. You can't get mana screwed, but you have to make important choices about which cards you use for mana (or whatever the game had), and I really liked the idea that as you beat the shit out of someone they get cards in their hand to stop you, so that you have to win decisively.

I really liked it when I played it.
That was mostly before they tried to discourage swarming though.
It's a shame it go axed when it did, I heard it developed a proper meta post-Bombazar.
But godamn, Soulswap was some overpowered shit.

Bomb Blue was the hot shit, man

It might have been more interesting if every card had mana reburst(cast from mana zone for additional costs), but then mana feed(removal by turning things into mana) would be less effective. You could have cards with expensive costs that make up for it by having relatively cheap rebursts. Cheaper reburst = more desirable to use that as your lands. So even if it's not possible to get mana screwed, you can still end up using suboptimal cards for your mana. A complete lack of mana screw is actually considered a bad thing by Maro.

That was because the mana system for DM, while interesting, was so much harder to balance as there was basically a "correct" choice as to which card to play as a land each turn. That would certainly have been worse if EVERY card had reburst. If you have high-cost cards with reburst that are more desirable to use as lands... why not just use lands? That's basically what you're doing anyway.

>Due to its early advantage of tempo, it was a deck that could outpace any other deck.
>During Official Tournaments, more than 70% of the decks participating were a form of Bombazar Blue and its variants,
>and all of the 16 qualifiers in the open and regular classes of the Kanto region at the winter of 2005 are using Bombazar Blue or other Bombazar variants.

Yeah... That's kind of my point? I don't really know what you're trying to say here.