MArcomage

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I love 0 cost cards...
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We love 0 cost cards too but in what aspects?
* Buyer: Free OpenOffice, free firefox, free software, free beer, free gifts... Absolutely nothing wrong with "free"
* Seller: If I don't sell it at zero cost, no one will want it

Definitely some 0 cost cards belong to the first aspect. ;)

PS: I hate Erosion costs 1 gem more now. X(

I think that splitting the Order of the white lotus or raising it's cost would only make it more powerful. I basicaly agree with Garbageonly in this matter.

Order of the white lotus might seem overpowered, but in most cases you can't avoid causing some positive effect to your opponent, while suffering some negative effect. Like Garbageonly said "It's very hard to have all your tower, wall, stock, facilities less than your opponent"

When you are low on resources it is probable that you spent it somehow. Either you raised your tower or wall, or you caused some negative effect to your opponent, like reducing his tower or wall, or resources. So in this situation Order of the white lotus shouldn't be too powerful.

Other case is when you have much resources stocked you probably didn't invest them. So your tower or wall may be lower then opponent's. In this case you will get a positive effect on your tower and wall, but you will give opponent resources.

There are many cases to consider and in most of them this card is a double-edged sword. Spiltting it into two would make it overpowered.

Raising it's cost would also make it overpowered (less then splitting probably) because you could lower your stock before the effect (which is good for the effect).

Same goes for Prince of thieves. Raising the cost will lead into stealing more recruits from opponent, because your recruits stock will be lowered by recruits cost before the effect.