QUOTE (leefreeman @ November 19, 2007 12:19 am)
The logic is undebatable as far as I'm concerned.

I know some excellent logic teachers if you're interested in learning its principles. Please explain the "logic" of how cards weakening each other implies poor deck design. You have clearly missed the entire point of my argument... *sigh* It never ceases to amaze me what passes for "logical" reasoning these days.
QUOTE (leefreeman @ November 19, 2007 12:19 am)
Haggs and Roman explicitly laid out exactly why the cards were counterproductive in nature --- and THAT demonstrated the weakness in the design, not the power levels.

Here, in all its glory, is your completely erroneous conclusion -- counterproductivity weakens the deck but has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATSOEVER AT ALL to do with design strength unless the deck was intended to be designed strong.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo-clock.
- Orson Welles