Baxx wrote:Wifflebat wrote:If they are indeed Special Play cards, I hope they're not usable only by (or balanced for) the team in question. There's no reasonable way to include SP cards that benefit Elves in particular if the other 23 teams won't get theirs for years, or ever.
Like team specific ball rules you mean? Or (In)Famous Coaching staff? Even 1-2 dice sets, 1-2 pitches, boster backs (to complete the team) and full teams.
Since I'm not concerned with the "fairness" of a release schedule, I can restrict myself to the items with an in-game effect...
The balls and pitches are optional, and affect both teams. One team or another might get an advantage from some items, but their opponents can just to decline to use the rules. I guess the Coaching Staff might be relevant here in a similar way, though, because all of the teams have loads of inducements available and the coaches seem pretty well-balanced, I never really thought about the overall availability of coaches that might help Slann or Vampires or other yet-to-be-rereleased teams. Adding cards that favor a team or a playstyle into a random deck, though, would obviously shift the value of that deck to the (in this case) elf player.
It's not something I'm too worried about, of course. The magic of league rules is that you can exclude anything that doesn't make sense; I just happen to like the cards, and I'd like for as many of them as possible to be usable without having worry about whatever passes for balance in Blood Bowl.