Fae | Alfar

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Fae ELEMENT: Life COST: 11 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 7 | 7 TEXT: Affinity : Cost is lowered by 1 for each Pillar or Pendulum you control.	NAME: Alfar ELEMENT: Life COST: 10 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 7 | 7 TEXT: Affinity : Cost is lowered by 1 for each Pillar or Pendulum you control.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1086014 , modified by Zblader IDEA: Zblader, inspired by Manipul8r (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=23810.0) NOTES: Today is a great day to be alive! A quiet but strong force is with you today. Put some energy into making it appear. A midhitter for Life that fills a mid-strong hitter niche done by similar cards such as Puffer Fish, GoTP, and Seraph. While it may appear expensive at first, the ability may allow it to be played faster than its counterparts provided you draw a lot of pillars (which in turn is likely in a Life Rush ). Cost cannot go below 0. Giving this card Mitosis will make the ability cost 11 | 10 . Fae and Alfar are alternate names for Fairies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy) and Elves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf) respectively. SERIES:

[Rutarete]

Picky note: Shouldn't the text say "... or Life Pendulum..." Or did you want it to be for any type of pend?

I like it. Reminds me of MtG

[waterzx]

So...the cost would eventually become zero ?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Picky note: Shouldn't the text say "... or Life Pendulum..." Or did you want it to be for any type of pend?

I like it. Reminds me of MtG

Isn't adding the adjective twice redundant?
(I'm not sure about that, but I updated it to prevent further confusion.)

So...the cost would eventually become zero ?

Yes, but you'd need a lot of pillars to do that. Cost cannot go below zero, though.

[Rutarete]

Picky note: Shouldn't the text say "... or Life Pendulum..." Or did you want it to be for any type of pend?

I like it. Reminds me of MtG

Isn't adding the adjective twice redundant?
(I'm not sure about that, but I updated it to prevent further confusion.)

It can be seen as redundant, but it's more newb friendly this way and prevents some confusion

[Anarook]

Neat idea, I'm not 100% on the balancing though.

The problem is you could save these until you have a decent amount of pillars out and end up with a very high dmg:cost ratio
Though I supose that in itself is a specific associated strategy.

I like the idea, but balancing is a bit wierd.

[kimham8a]

I noticed you can play two of these on your first turn. Even so, I think the cost is just right.

[moomoose]

i like the idea of a variable cost mechanic, this one in particular will probably need more thought.  considering it will be roughly -3 to -6 in most cases, it has to be sub optimally playable with ~-3 but best with -6 or more.  i may actually suggest a +1 cost for each, so the cost|atk ratio would still be below average with the lowest expected setup

[furballdn]

Would this be very powerful with fractal? You know, plenty of life pendulums, aether mark, fractals.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Would this be very powerful with fractal? You know, plenty of life pendulums, aether mark, fractals.

Yes, but assuming you build the entire deck around dropping ~10 pendulums, 4-6 Fractals, and 6 Aflars, you probably won't have much room for anything else. (I get the feeling the ideal deck would use this in a rather rushy or OTK-ish manner - the remaining cards would either be more pends or dimshields depending on what style you run. In general, most OTK decks run about 10~13 quantum generators) +1 Cost as moomoose suggested seems reasonable though given the average pillar draw and that this card's ability is rather speed-based, so I've updated the card with that.

[EvilDeathX]

I like this... No, I love this, needs a little muscle that isn't an adrenaline junkie or a dragon.

*EDIT*

Would this be very powerful with fractal? You know, plenty of life pendulums, aether mark, fractals.

Yes, but assuming you build the entire deck around dropping ~10 pendulums, 4-6 Fractals, and 6 Aflars, you probably won't have much room for anything else. (I get the feeling the ideal deck would use this in a rather rushy or OTK-ish manner - the remaining cards would either be more pends or dimshields depending on what style you run. In general, most OTK decks run about 10~13 quantum generators) +1 Cost as moomoose suggested seems reasonable though given the average pillar draw and that this card's ability is rather speed-based, so I've updated the card with that.

No, I think it would be fine just to use 15-ish pendulums, 6 of these Fae/Alfar, 6 D-Shields, and about 3 Fractals, with an Mark of course.

[Poker Alho]

it can be pretty powerful, it enters game with 5 life pillars/pendulums if you only gained quanta from them the previous turn(the unnuped one)

the next card to be made would be a spell that lets you choose one or even pillar/pendulum from your deck and put it on your hand or enter directly into the game and shuffle the deck just because xD (i know its just like in MtG)