Brightened Shadow | Heaven-Blighted Shade

[Espithel]

NAME: Brightened Shadow ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 8 | 0 TEXT: Before Brightened Shadow attacks,destroy it if it has 0 HP.	NAME: Heaven-Blighted Shade ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 30 | 0 TEXT: Heaven-Blighted Shade gets +30 | +0 if it has more than 15 HP.

ART: A Small Child IDEA: Frozengaia NOTES: The idea is it needs to get stronger to step into the sunlight and attack, or it'll die. If Brightened Shadow has 0 HP, it will NOT deal damage. If Heaven-Blighted Shade has 15 HP, it will not get an attack buff. It's in dark for flavour reasons. I'm happy to move it to earth or gravity. SERIES:

[Espithel]

Why does the normal background feel like such a good fit for artwork for this card?

[dragtom]

is it airborne?

that is one hell of a card to add to chimera, though.
otherwise (especially the upped) I see no use;
getting it to attack with over 15 HP is a 4 card combo or a 2 card combo with 6 turns.

Sure, that only is a total of 6 , but 4 cards is a lot.

[Espithel]

It is airborne. Only for flavour purposes.
A 30 | 0 for 6 and four cards is a lot?

It gives nightfall and plate armour some utility. 10 damage for 7   is pretty good, 10 damage for 4  / is pretty good.

[dragtom]

4 heaven-blighted shades + sky blitz + chimera = 6 card fg otk.

also, I said that a 4-card combo is a lot,
meaning that getting the upped to attack won't make a good deck.

[Espithel]

...

It is NOT airborne.

[Drake_XIV]

It's much easier to get the unupped to attack than the upped that it's almost not worth upgrading.

[Espithel]

4 turn knockout, though.
;~;

I'm sure the upped is still useable.

[Drake_XIV]

4 turn knockout, though.
;~;

I'm sure the upped is still useable.

But the unupped is much more consistent

[Espithel]

Oh consistency be damned. >:|
Not everything has to be reliable. >:U

[Chapuz]

Chimera breaks this card. OTK with 5 cards and only 12 + 6 cuanta (upped) is too much.
Unupped would be fine if darkness didn't have Nightfall...

[Pineapple]

Would never use the unupped card except in certain combo decks or boring-to-play-against OTK decks.
Unupped is basically a more combo-oriented Spark.
Ignoring the upped for now, why don't you connect it to a Death theme? Death needs a death-effect generator much more than Darkness at the moment. Though I guess Spark is better for that purpose anyways..