Hey Kingdom Hearts community,
I have been pondering and discussing with friends and fellow players of the game about a sideboard and I thought I would bring the discussion into the public eye.
"I think a sideboard in this game would be awesome. Yes, it's true you would have certain decks that are just better than others, but it's a TCG and that's already the case anyway. With a sideboard you would have more justification to run a certain deck if you could sideboard hate against the decks that give you the most issues, whether it's putting in more darks and Chesire Cats to counter a good world rush deck or it's taking out your dark cards and putting in that extra Sephiroth and third Pinocchio against the control match-up. Cards would be further looked into and decks would be better since you could sideboard any match-up specific cards you have in your deck.
In my opinion, without a sideboard, the balance of the game is in a way doomed, If one dark card is over-powerful then world rush decks won't be able to compete as they would have no consistent way of dealing with it, and would never be able to win a set. On another note too is if a player card is over-powered and there is no legitimate way to stop it then other decks would have to invest current deck space just to answer it, thus creating a imbalance in the game. if you sideboard and answer to it then yes, it would still be powerful, but at least you would have a consistent way of potentially beating it. though broken cards are broken regardless of game mechanics.
Having a sideboard only creates more options to those who wish to use them, if certain players don't like sideboards then they simply don't have to play with one, but players that do have the option of doing so. Options in a TCG is never ba d.
A sideboard would give the developers more room to play around with with designing new cards, or rather would give those cards more playability if such the option existed. Dude I'm tellin' ya, a sideboard would be nothing but good for this game.
Do you agree with the points addressed in this argument, why or why not? Do you think a sideboard is something that should be considered for this game once organized play starts up or do you think that would be too cliché and such a mechanic is good for other games, wouldn't work in this one, why or why not. If the game did have a sideboard, how big do you think it should be, 5-15 cards and if the game did have a sideboard, which cards do you think would be seen a lot in certain archetypes board in exchange for which cards?
I'm interested in what the community has to say about this topic so please try and keep this topic lively and on topic .