Quote Originally Posted by -Manwe- View Post
My pov is until there are top 50 decks without Nova, then it's overpowered...
Agreed.

However I think making it cost 1 entopy would have more of an effect than you anticipate. It would slow nova down more than 1 turn. There would be no possibility of playing nova's on the first turn which would mean a pure nova deck would have a guaranteed forced discard. And after that with no pillars you could pnly play 1 per turn. plus it would nerf the poison nova decks because they use mark of death to have enough death quata to be effective. I use nova firefly queen usually and if I had to use mark of entropy instead I could no longer use the firefly queens effectively. It would still be possible to design a strategy using novas but they wouldn't be absolutely dominant.

Plus it is not a linear system. The reason nova works well is it can usually get more creatures out than it is possible to counter. I have tried a nova deck with all creatures and no defence. The tactic there is to get more creats out than the opponent can kill/freeze etc. It is very effective except against the mass kills and dimention sheild, so slowing it down just a little bit would give the opposing player that much more time to counter in some way. Further reducing the effectiveness of the strategy.