The Modest Improvement is obviously the best “secure scoop” choice right now after the Shield. It has more flexibility than The Shield as you can decide what scoop it guarantees.

Raiding or not, the Mod is one of the few things that can give a troll (without the Mona Lisa) or re-re equal footing. A re-re isn’t going to be able to manage a 36 forum loop on any regular basis, and they certainly aren’t going to get lemon scoops for most of the forums if they did. The footrace is fun, but it very heavily favors certain clbumes. Maybe that won’t be the case with Ep. 2.

I would love to see a card limit theme week to try that out. You may only have x cards at one time, that would be an awesome amount of fun, but would also really push The Shield into being even more powerful. Who knows, maybe I’m wrong, just seems that with limited cards scoop protection would be the only real choice. *shrug*