An Unending Recursion

So I've had half the mind to post something a few times since the last post with some of the ideas I had at the time. But then the ideas were still half baked, so I'd put off writing till I had something more concrete. At which time I'd get distracted and another few days would go without coming up with a post.

So now I'm just going to throw some stuff out.

1. Reconsidering card rules and functions, to change combat up a bit. Currently the design has the concept around permanents and energy cards to summon them, but that got me thinking that all that promotes is winning a card through an event, then cycling the deck till you could play that card. Cause vanilla magic rules revolved around a static deck and a discard pile. If I wanted to make this more deck buildy, that means more card cycling. Mage Knight does this by playing with the hand, as do other deck building games. However, I would like to keep some sort of field so there's still a degree of preparation and not relying on the draw. So to do this I'm considering the following
1. All abilities can be tapped twice by default. First tap is normal and keeps the card on the board. Second tap discards the card into the discard pile. 
2. Probably a better idea is to have each ability have separate tap and discard actions, and you can only perform one or the other. Problem here is what kind of space do I have left for an out of combat ability (and should that also get two activation's as well) along with flavor art and all the other card information. 
3. Think I'm going to take out the counterattack part of combat. This was also a thing from Magic with attacking and defending monsters. Rather than a normal occurrence, its will only happen due to special counterattack abilities, like damage shields or on hit triggers. This would cut down on the number of special attributes I can put to an ability, and keep the number of necessary resolutions low. 
4. Energy cards can now be played to the field tapped (wait a turn to use) or active (use now and discard afterwards) instead of having to pay one energy to place one. I don't think that latter plan let players get into the game fast enough. 

This does mean I need to go back through my ability card list, which I had to do anyway to implement out of combat abilities. Those are still good given my resolution types. After I get some better free time I'm going to dedicate myself to writing this out. Have something by Sat.