Exactly what I feel about it too!

Agree but I think its important and cool that the races span multiple colours really helps to add flavour - the shin'hare with their blood troops - Love it evil bunnies. :laugh:

Colors are definitely good to have for the purpose of having bounds to your deck. It wouldn't be much of a challenge to build a deck if you could choose any colors.

However, I do think that making it possible to use a large number of colors is good if it involves a certain amount of risk. It gives a balance of freedom(which usually makes better decks) and risk of not getting the colors you need. I think hex just moves a bit more towards the freedom side of the balance by using thresholds the way they do. MTG is a great game, but I like this resource use just a bit more.

It really hinges on the nature of non-basic shards/resources. In set 1 with just basic shard resources deck construction will have to run 24-26 shards to be able to consistently play the 2 threshold cards that are key to so many decks.

Of one color? I think statistics would disagree with that.

For two colors:
Chance to draw a resource (26/60)
Chance for that resource to be a specific color (1/2)
Starting hand: 7 cards
Cards drawn to turn 3-4 (when most dual threshold will start to matter): 3 cards
Chance to get exactly two resources of the specific color by turn 4 =
(7+3) * (26/60)(1/2) * (26/60)(1/2) = 46.94%
Chance to get exactly three resources of the specified color by turn 4 =
(7+3) * (26/60)(1/2) * (26/60)(1/2) * (26/60)(1/2) = 10.17%
Chance to get exactly four resources of the specified color by turn 4=
(7+3) * (26/60)(1/2) * (26/60)(1/2) * (26/60)(1/2) * (26/60)(1/2) = 2.20%
Chance of getting more than 4 is negligible.

Chance to get at least two resources of the desired color= 47%+10%+2% = 59%

Definitely not an exact number, but you get the idea. This doesn't even include the option for a redraw (significant boost) or any additional draws. There is always risk involved, but it can be mitigated by a well-balanced deck.

So, back to the thread subject!

How do you guys feel about the lore of the Coyolte? I personally found it a bit lacking in interest.

We really only know the basics of each race's lore, so I can't really pass judgement for now.

I wonder if there will be some constant at some point that turns all of your colored threshold into a generic version of threshold so colors don't mean anything - could be an interesting deck concept if you could make it work.

Hm... interesting idea, but also hard to balance. I think there would need to be a detrimental effect to the constant if they were going to even attempt to make it a balanced card.