Hey there!
I was wondering: what's the point of picking leather armor?
Chain Shirt is exactly the same card only that you additionally have the option to reduce up to 2 more damage if the check has the swashbuckling trait.
They are both basic cards, so why would you pick Leather Armor if you can build your Deck with Chain Shirt right away?
Plus: The Chainshirt seems pretty OP to me when playing Jirelle. All the weapons she uses are usually swashbuckling, which makes Chain Shirt a "recharge for -3dmg" from the very start.
Should Chain Shirt really be a basic card??
You are basically asking the same question that was asked in this thread.
Depending on your group size and makeup, there might not be enough chain shirts to go around.
Actually in OP the question may be valid, but not for the plain standard game. In the standard game we always played that we start with the lowest boons so we have things to look for even during the first AD0 game.
Actually in OP the question may be valid, but not for the plain standard game. In the standard game we always played that we start with the lowest boons so we have things to look for even during the first AD0 game.
That's exactly how I decided to play, too.
There's no reward apart from new cards in the first(0) adventure, and even later on you find more than enough.
Still, I'm a little surprised how good Jirelle goes with chain armors.
You'll find there's a lot of cards strictly or almost-strictly better than other cards, sometimes even with the worse card being from a later deck (or just higher in the basic/elite/neither chain). Sometimes there's a single trait that's different and then relevant to a particular character.
The leather armour might be worse in your deck but it's also easier to acquire from a location deck. There's more considerations to make for the card design than just optimal initial deck building.
(not that I'm a fan of the strictly-worse-card design myself by the way, not least because it prompts these sorts of questions, just saying it's not a straightforward thing)