Keeping track of mechanics that have been shot down

[OdinVanguard]

Having been around for a while, I've noticed that there are a few mechanics that have been explicitly shot down by Zanz, or that are extremely tricky to balance (for any number of reasons) yet continually come up in card idea posts.

I think it would be helpful to have a stickied thread either here or in the smithy for new forum users to go to as a reference.

As a start, here are the first two that come to mind:

-Graveyards
-Casting / activation costs that require more than one type of quanta
-Mechanics that allow a single card / ability to one-shot / auto-kill creature with out any regard to its stats
-Removal of "untargettable" status from permanents

[Submachine]

Add to the list:

removing Protect Artifact and Quintessence.

this is also a no-go area as I can recall.

[OdinVanguard]

Add to the list:

removing Protect Artifact and Quintessence.

this is also a no-go area as I can recall.

Ah, should have thought of that one, thanks!
I've added it to OP.

I don't know if Zanz has outright nixed this one, but attempts to do this very often get met with heavy resistance.
Actually, there is a card in armory right now that is a weapon which removes immortal status... Its discussion was quite, animated, but its gotten to level 3.
As far as I can tell, no one seems to support removing immaterial status from permanents though.

[Captain Scibra]

Hero cards.  Basically, anything exceptionally bigger than a dragon, with a powerful ability.  Not a mechanic per se, but should be noted.

[Submachine]

I think the following is also on the list:

• Making a card go into hand with different stats than the original card was
• More than one weapon in an element ( is not considered an element)

[mwaetht]

I haven't seen the former around much, and the latter has been fairly successful.

[andretimpa]

Casting / activation costs that require more than one type of quanta

as someone that can code I have never really understood why people keep saying this would be troublesome to implement in the game.

[EmeraldTiger]

I think it has been said it has something to do with current code format.

[andretimpa]

I think it has been said it has something to do with current code format.

My opinion is that if things have gotten to the point where Zanz can't make this kind of change in a simple way, then it's way past the time that he considered doing some cleanup on his code

[EmeraldTiger]

I wish he would just make his code open source and allow the community to maintain the Meta.

[eaglgenes101]

I wish he would just make his code open source and allow the community to maintain the Meta.

Do minor balancing tweaks?

[OdinVanguard]

In any event though, unless the code gets cleaned up in the future, it would be good to keep track of what abilities / mechanics are deemed too troublesome to implement.