Very excited about nerfing Death rn

Not sure this is really the greatest nerf. Aces are very hard to score with, except when scoring Il Vermes, and you can’t score Il Verme if you have an Ace and the other player has death. If anything, this will just allow the death player to score Il Verme while the other player is shut out.

Maybe instead we could limit the shutdown effect of death to only counter the next play?

ah I missed the edit window

I considered that, Clucky, but I wanted to try and retain the “if a player’s pocket contains X” framing that is consistent for all the other arcana if possible.

too much of a nerf tbh but still better

I personally don’t even think its a nerf. will likely result in more games where the death player wins because they can Il Verme due to playing death after their opponent played an Ace (due to having to play an Ace) than lose because their opponent still finds a way to score with the Ace in their pocket.

Agree that the nerf can be made chunkier but also agree that making death shorter feels like an uninspired response to the prompt.

per Clucjy