I'm not sure you understand what exactly I meant by V-cards, and hey that's fair, I never explained it.
I see your point completely ket. I don't ever want the game to become where you must join the PC and download their cards in order to have fun with it, and I'm not keen on changing the rules so much that people who return to the game after a few years of not playing are blown away by the complexity of the game. That's not what the new cards would ever be about.
Galadriel, Lady Redeemed, for example. Decipher released the card, why do you think people shouldn't play it? Perhaps you think it's broken in some way?
I don't know if you've followed all the ideas I've thrown up, but I've changed my opinion slightly since we've started the discussion. You're right about new cards, the game isn't ready for them. What the game is ready for is a frank discussion about what cards generally break the game. Magic has plenty of banned cards (and the list grows daily it seems). I know we aren't Magic (and hands down we're totally cooler!), but we have to look at the cards and how they make the game playable or unplayable.
You admitted yourself that there are cards that people don't play and don't want to. Set 11 you said that you don't like to play with. Why is that? What's the reasoning behind it? My main goal is to help the PC become strong and become the go to place for updates, new ideas, and the like. I want to see LOTR played again (although in my area, almost no games are played anymore). As for the idea of v-cards. I'm not exactly sure about all the details, although I'm in discussion with the people at the SWCCGPC about how they handled it and from what I've read it seems that if you don't change the image on the card (that is the movie image) then the movie people don't see it as an infringement, and as long as you leave the Decipher trademark and copyrights readable, then the Decipher people care. While this requires more research, we aren't to that point yet.
The PC needs to come together and organize itself, but then begin filtering through the cards and determining which cards are broken, like Galadriel, and making a list of those cards. Even if V-cards were released, they would never change the way you could originally play the card, they would just give you a new option for playing that card, but again, that's down the road, not tomorrow.
Open and frank discussions are what we need and thanks Ket for posting your opinions