Do you really think that the cards are still too expensive?
You're not only "halting" your opponent for one turn but actually slowing him for the rest of the game.
I think this is much worse than silence.
Actually, I compared it to Silence: The opponent DOES have quanta at the next turn, just not getting more at the End Phase. So, with a good portioning, the opponent have freedom from a limited cost. Silence can do such situations as Miracling at the next turn, force discard. You have the quanta benefit forever, but only if that was beneficial. Pdial use maximal 2 pillars (it plays with more, but it's only needs 2-3 quanta/turn) so denying for 4 is rarely good. Silence stops free cards from play, so can force you to discard. And you are only comparing when opponent DOES NOT have enough quanta to play any card from it's hands. But a good
rush sitting on 20-30 quanta at the midgame. Silence can slow it in this phase too, but Flatline not. Btw I said it's better than Silence so it's deserves the 4|3. I'll say again: It's drains 1-10 quanta, and quanta deny is really cheap (under 0.5-0.33
) so the cost is right. Spamming 2-3 of this can be cruel, but the cost changing does not really helps on this situation.
