Or you can pack a Flame Trap, which you can do on the more crucial turn.

true, but Scarecrow is much more fun for the surprise and OH MY GOD NO factor. I'm still proud I got to do that once against Vomit in the last PCQ I played, 18/18 Scarecrow on turn 6 :)

for those who say everyone's whinin, understand what they're sayin. We don't have a problem with him now, but it's obvious that in the near future he'll be way too insane

Maybe, but I'm sure that Upperdeck is on the lookout for that.

But I can guarantee that he will not be erratad, and I doubt that they'll ban him (pretty much the only other solution).

to farther expound on what Synicade said, this is the direct quote from jeff donias on VSuniverse-

>>>“Our R&D department pays close attention to the metagame, so it hasn’t been necessary to ban anything yet. At the same time, Longshot is a tiny bit annoying and you have to design around him right now. Cosmic Radiation has the same problem right now, you have to design around it.<<<

If they change Longshot we wont see a pure Mojoverse deck, with little purple robots.

Yes, Longshot is a good card, but I don't think it's overpowered. It is nice support for any army deck, but it's not overpowered to the point it's game-breaking. (Most of the time . . . but then again, a lot of cards are game-breaking)

There are other reasons for banning a card than "card X makes deck X dominate the metagame". The fact that Wild Vomit has many answers against it (though many of them are viable in only a few decks) is a strike against dealing with Longshot, but that shouldn't end the debate right there.

I'm on the fence in the debate, but here are a few arguments for dealing with Longshot.

1. Longshot is a ridiculously powerful card. Drawing a couple of extra cards per turn, from the very start of the game, is not 'a nice support effect'. It's closer to 'an insanely powerful effect that you build your deck around'. If every deck could use it effectively, they'd play it. As more cards (and in particular more versions of certain characters, and army characters) are introduced, there will be more decks that can take advantage of it.

The counter argument, used whenever there are breakable cards that do not yet have format-dominating decks, is "it's fine now, but when it gets too powerful, THEN you can deal with it". The risk with that is that it expects UDE to be able to predict exactly when a deck will dominate. Get it wrong and you have a pro circuit (or even worse, a qualifier season) that is dominated by a single deck. That sort of thing damages the game.

2. Longshot is a design constraint. It has to be pretty difficult to make a good army character these days that isn't immediately dangerously good with Longshot. Ditto for making different versions of certain characters (spiderman, for example).

There are always going to be design constraints, and they'll increase as more cards are added, but it's generally a good idea to minimize them.

What about restricting his activated power to once per a turn?

that is still changing the card, to be honest, he can only do it once a turn unless someone is going to run X-School, so in reality, most people only do it once a turn

Well, with Number II entering the picture, I think Longshot just got a bit better.

mark II does nothing for the vomit, on turn 3 you want 3 wilds with a combined attack of 6, dropping mark II lowers your charachter count and makes your mark IV weaker.

but i believe that they are going to make a curve sentinel deck much better, which is why i think the mark III will be a 4 drop. something that does not need large amounts of wilds in play to be effective.

I meant Mark II, Number II. It makes them immune to Flame Trap.