Quote Originally Posted by kethaq View Post
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.
Actually, aside from hurting entropy based spells a bit (You'd have to wait X turns to recover the X you spent per Nova, where X = number of Novas) it would only make you wait one turn -- each Nova would give 2 entropy, one of which could be used to cast the next Nova.

And there are some 0 cost cards out there that could be put into decks if desired, or else they'd just have to discard the card they wanted to keep least.

Considering the sheer power and flexibility of Nova, this is not an unreasonable penalty. It's just too good right now.