Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-5616072-20130806121457/@comment-6011882-20130806130902

I'm going to agree with your assumption as far as the logistics of how it functions. Now, the big problem I have with the concept of the support deck is that as specified, you can only use a particular card in one of your lines, eg. atk, def and the 3 def support lines. So, most players are going to be putting their 5 best defense cards in their main def line, regardless of element, in order to boost their chances of victory when attacking other players. It would make no sense for say, a forest player to take a water card such as a Sedna out of his main def line to put it in his water support line, since then it would hurt his effectiveness when attacking.

Actually, in order for one to achieve optimal effectiveness in HC the way it is designed, a player needs to have only 5 very strong attack cards, and 20 very strong def cards. Of the 20, 5 would be either in element or not and have mostly boost def, or boost atk/def skills and used for main def, 5 would be mostly drop water/boost forest for the forest support line, 5 drop fire/boost water for the water support line, and 5 drop forest/boost water for the fire def line. Now who actually has that much time and PP to invest in that many strong URs? I'm thinking not most players, so I'm sure most will be sticking with their optimized main def line, with perhaps a few getting 5 decent def cards in the element they are normally most vulderable against and only activating that support line.