Talk:Gospel of the White Dragon Deity/@comment-6102960-20140629210440/@comment-4764137-20140629214954

But Dead End Crush requires more card commitment and balances out. Mathematically speaking, Dead End Crush requires 4 cards worth of advantage, 2 of which equal that 3 damage, which means the other 2 cards and its opponent's-life restriction are paying for the anti-nullification and anti-reduction. Gargantua requires 3 cards worth of advantage (Gargantua itself and 4 gauge at 2 gauge = 1 card), a relatively simple-to-achieve field (which actually doesn't require advantage), and those 3 cards worth of advantage barely pay for the 4 damage. Without the restriction and anti-nullification and anti-reduction parts, Gargantua is a wash. And the restriction hardly pays for the game-ending part. In short, Dead End Crush is a -2 to achieve what for Gargantua is essentially a +2.