Rip Your Opponents Card to Shreds

This is a continuation of the above post (I didn't realize you can't edit the first post).

A damaged card could tremendously alter a player's deck strategy and require the person to find a replacement card.

To prevent super powerful cards from being ripped up by your opponent during a game, a player can fill their deck with defender, blocker, and sacrificer cards. When your opponent attempts to hurt one of your important cards, you can take one of these weaker cards and rip a perforation off of it instead.

To make it easier, I am going to refer to this mechanic as the RYOC mechanic (Rip Your Opponent's Card).

I have been trying to figure out ways to lessen the blow of card ripping. As others have said, RYOC is a fairly mean spirited mechanic. One of the things I have been thinking about is a "taping" mechanic. When another player rips off one of your perforations, you can tape your perforation back on at the end of the game (with literal tape). When you have a "taped" special ability, the ability is half as effective as the initial special ability. I realize that it will still be painful for this to happen to super cards, but it is better than completely losing the ability. Taping would allow a player to still utilize their card but in a less effective way.

While I think taping will lessen the blow, I don't want to completely remove the tension inherent to this system. Because of this, taped abilities could still be ripped, and when a taped ability is ripped, the ability is literally destroyed. Basically, your ability gets two strikes and its out.

What do you think?

Nice call Dralius. I started thinking about how this game would effect newbies playing against experts. The newbies would be ripped to shreds (no pun intended). There would need to be some way to balance card ripping. Maybe starter decks could focus on protecting cards.