User blog comment:AmazingPST"Providence"/Amazing huh? Personal flags!/@comment-25528704-20150204074343/@comment-24288183-20150204112122

Well, assuming you follow the 3000 stats = 1 crit = 1 guage = 0.5 cards = 1 life rule.

-2 from starting hand

+1 from starting guage

+0.17 from power / defense

So to start you end up marginally behind (0.83 of a card) a normal flag. However, once you add in the life...

+3 from 6 life

The flag starts off with a large bonus (2.17  of a card) over the normal flag and continues to gain constant +4 / 4.5s rather than the standard +1 / 1.5 you get from charge and drawing. Gaining that much advantage in BF is insane, staple cards like Nice One is a +0.5 (+1 at best) and even the +3 that can be Dragonic Grimore requires a lot to use to it's max effectivness (low health / no hand).

Best way to balance it? Probably replace the "Every turn gain 6 life" with "Whenever you would draw a card, you can choose to gain 2 life instead". Custom flags need to be worse from a vanilla standpoint than normal flags; otherwise theres no reason not to take them...