Thoughts on “debuff”?

[Warlock]

Look I’m only a new player so I don’t have as much skin in the game, but calling it a “debuff” when it completely nullifies your card seems like a bit of a stretch?

When I first played and it said all of a suit was going to be debuffed, I didn’t expect it to completely nullify the cards. If anything I thought it would drop the chips/attributes/abilities by like 50% or something to make them less useful.

I think they should really either change “debuff” to actually being a debuff, or just change the wording to say that “insert card type” card effects are zero.

I mean also, at the end of the day now I know what it means so it doesn’t matter for me anymore, but I still think they’re using the term debuff incorrectly.

[Goblin]

Everything that isn't just a feature of a normal playing card you can buy in a toy store is a buff. Them giving chips, them activating jokers, editions, they're all buffs the game has given to normal cards. Debuffing removes all of that - you just have a normal playing card. It still works, you can use it to make a flush or a straight or whatever hand you want - but anything that isn't a feature of normal poker is gone.

Changing it to "actually a debuff" is right out the window, not an option. Nullified implies it doesn't work at all, which isn't true either. So what word would you use? Plus like you said, you now know, it's a one time issue. Not knowing the full extent of what something does is true for any word used within the game.

[Warlock]

Ah I see what you mean, I guess I didn’t view the card as being naturally “buffed” in the first place and just considered that that is the base version of the card. I was thinking alongside the fancier cards are “buffed”.

In that case i would just word it that those cards don’t score :)