Duck Crest | Swan Crest (Duck | Swan)

[Silver Emerald]

NAME: Duck Crest ELEMENT: Life COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: N/A when flying TEXT: Shield: If you take 7 or more damage on your opponent's turn, summon a Duck.	NAME: Swan Crest ELEMENT: Life COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: N/A when flying TEXT: Shield: If you take 7 or more damage on your opponent's turn, summon a Swan.

ART: IDEA: dawn to dusk, Mr Muffin, Arum, Silver Emerald NOTES: This card started out as fun moment in chat and a mention in the Humor section. Now it's real. It aims to support Life and in general just be fun. Creature cards below. SERIES:

Spoiler for Duck/Swan:

NAME: Duck ELEMENT: Life COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 3 TEXT:	NAME: Swan ELEMENT: Life COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 6 TEXT:

ART: IDEA: Arum, Silver Emerald NOTES: These cards only show up as a result of their respective crests. SERIES:

[Naii_the_Baf]

Nice idea, works similarly to Skull Shield but on the life element. Also, I like the Duck/Swan's low stats due to them being special summoned. As for 7 damage, it is easy to get but also a risky deal, leaving your health unprotected.
But I got a doubt: will the damage required for summoning a duck is cumulative? I mean, your opponent has a Psion(4|4), Otyugh(3|6), and Ivory Dragon(11|5). This makes up for 18 damage, so would you get one duck or two ducks?

[Silver Emerald]

The damage required is cumulative and non-repeatable from all opponent attacks that turn. If you take at least 7 damage, you get 1 Duck/Swan that turn and that's it. Due to Life's abilities to maximize creature potential (Empathic/Feral Bond, Mitosis/Mitosis^, Adrenaline/Epinephrine, and by extension Green/Life Nymph) and heal the damage taken (Empathic/Feral Bond, Heal/Improved Heal, Shard of Gratitude/SoG^) I think summoning any more than one free creature per turn would be too much and as such have not included scaling the damage to summon more birds.

Something I see now is a need to address when in the turn order this summon takes place. If the creature is summoned as soon as the threshold is crossed, this could be caused by an enemy spell, which leaves it open to being targeted. Additionally, if an enemy creature affected by Antimatter causes you to gain back health such that you haven't lost 7 total, that really shouldn't be counted.

My current thought is to adjust the wording so that you get the summon at the end of your opponent's turn and before yours in order to bypass both of these. Anyone else have an opinion on when in the turn this happens?

[Arum]

<3 Beautiful

I want it in Cygnia now

[andretimpa]

I prefer creating the ducks at the end of the opponent's turn

[Monox D. I-Fly]

Unfortunately, the ducks/swans can't swim, just like those frogs.

[foxrain4]

Hard to imagine the the cute ducks attacking players, just kidding,
i like the concept overall of Duck Crest, it offers players new ways of playing long matches.

[Arum]

Would momentum not count towards damage total, or should it? Since this doesn't block damage, there aren't any damage-block effects to ignore.