The new Magia Record event style goes a long way towards encouraging players to use more of their roster, rather than “steamroll opponents with Ashley, Mami or Mokyu” or “stall opponents with Madoka or Umika.” That said, I do feel like it shows a flaw in how the game is structured.
Namely, the lack of a real reason to use lower-rarity units instead of “you have to because I say so.”
In Magia Record’s sister game, FGO, there is a wide variety of playable servants with different rarities, and unless their kit is absolute trash like Nightingale or Altria Lily you’re going to have an opportunity to use them, a fight where they shine. This is true even of the less “murder you to death in as few turns as possible” servants.
Arash is a 1* who has a pretty strong AoE Noble Phantasm that also kills him, so he gets politely out of the way for a better damage dealer to take his place.
Euryale is a 3* whose Noble Phantasm damage doubles against male targets, to the point of outclassing many 5*s, and is worth taking to fights throughout the game despite her low rarity.
Mash is a 4*, but she’s still one of the best tanks in the game (ignoring her shitty Cosmos in the Lostbelt rework) and a good addition to pretty much any team that isn’t “bring two Skaðis and murder everything.”
Siegfried is a pretty mediocre 3* Saber - until you point him at a dragon at which point he does pretty great damage.
Meanwhile there isn’t really a nice equivalent in Magia Record? For even using a non-natural 4* to be worth it they either have to have a really sweet connect or Magia effect to make up for their worse stats, or have lots of SE which is a really costly system. The only really accessible low-rarity strat I can think of off the top of my head is “bring only Tsuruno and get her to Magia once, evade memes will take care of the rest.”
What I’m trying to say is that we need more niche low-rarity units that don’t fall into the “need to play protect the smol with a bunch of healers” pitfall and work well with no or low SE. I feel like the introduction of a trait system might go a long way in this respect: give a 3* hacker girl mediocre stats but an active personal memoria that makes her deal double Magia damage against [Artificial] enemies and she’d get a lot of use against the more annoying Uwasa.
