Shard of Wisdom | Shard of Wisdom

[willng3]

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modified to use the card tag instead of the img tag

Spoiler for Previous version:

New Shard currently in development.

The aether shard is now Shard of Wisdom. It targets an immaterial creature; the target creature deals spell damage. It can be used in two ways:
Offensive: your immaterial creature ignores all shield but reflective shields
Defensive: play a reflective shield and use the shard on an opponent creature: the creature is now attacking your opponent.

Mechanic: physical attack is reduced to zero, the attack is transferred to a lightning spell instead.
Vampire healing does not apply to spells.
Negative damage spells (antimatter) will heal the target, as usual.

Added to development page.
Soon in the trainer.

Join in on the discussion of the latest changes here:  http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,32132.msg503023#msg503023

[GG]

Note that it's a permanent not a spell, and hence can be destroyed to nullify the effect.

Wondering about how useful this card will be.

[Captain Scibra]

So, takes 3 of these to maximize the effect... an excellent form of denial for big-cost strategies.

[jmdt]

Add this in with PA and you have a new fire stall nerf and stall nerf in general.  Hooray.

[RootRanger]

Add this in with PA and you have a new fire stall nerf and stall nerf in general.  Hooray.

I'm not so sure about this. With the SoG nerf and Discord growing in strength to the Immo nerf, I see no reason why Firestalls wouldn't use Sanctuaries, which probably block this effect.

[Terroking]

Woot.

[jmdt]

Add this in with PA and you have a new fire stall nerf and stall nerf in general.  Hooray.

I'm not so sure about this. With the SoG nerf and Discord growing in strength to the Immo nerf, I see no reason why Firestalls wouldn't use Sanctuaries, which probably block this effect.

Good point, we'll have to ask zanz about that.  If so we'll really need it modified because its no longer useful for its biggest need.

[jmdt]

[00:44:30] zanzarino: Sanctuary works only during the opponent turn, as soon as it is your over-the-cap quanta is going to vanish
[00:44:47] zanzarino: your turn*

[furballdn]

3 of these will put a big seal on your opponent's quanta....

[mesaprotector]

Sooo... if your opponent has three of these out, you can't play dragons? (Or any high-cost card, for that matter.)

Um... wow. I'm reserving judgment on this until we can try it out in beta.

[RRQJ]

The additional benefit to aether seems rather small relative to the card's current power/utility.  Perhaps I'm underestimating that additional 2 quanta reduction?

About the sanctuary thing.  I know it's already been addressed, but I just wanted to add that there's only one way I can think of to gain quanta during your opponent's turn (solar buckler), so you'll almost never have an overflow anyway.

[furballdn]

The additional benefit to aether seems rather small relative to the card's current power/utility.  Perhaps I'm underestimating that additional 2 quanta reduction?

All nymphs and dragons aren't usable. Sky blitz, miracle, pharaoh, and fractal are all unusable.