so i love the 2nd edition sets, the masquerade errata, and most of empires. these recent changes have been wonderful for the game! but there is one recent change i have come to despise...
possession has always been the least fun card in all of dominion when it's good (who *doesn't* love trashing their deck down to nothing and reaching a stalemate?), but now it's good way more often. in fact, i would rank it only behind scrying pool among the potion cards now, and i'm not even sure about that. remember when it always used to be below university & golem?
the main problem is that the recent errata have killed most of the viable counters to it. now you only have a few strategies that hinge on specific cards, like beggar-gardens. i get why they had to change the rules for debt, but changing VP tokens was a hugely unnecessary buff. goons or bishop engines used to make possession skippable, but now they can work together to make games extra miserable!
with the general engine buffs in empires (hellooooooooo, city quarter!), possession was going to become stronger anyway. the rule change combined with this has made it the only card i've seen level 60+ players want to ban in random matching. i may follow suit soon!
donald, i've got mad love for ya, but i really am not understanding this right now. it's the biggest damper on a game that otherwise keeps getting better and better.