Enchanted Roots | Animated Roots

[ARTHANASIOS]

NAME: Enchanted Roots ELEMENT: Life COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|2 TEXT: Enchanted Roots enter the game burrowed. : Enchant Artifact.	NAME: Animated Roots ELEMENT: Life COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3|3 TEXT: Animated Roots enter the game burrowed. : Protect Artifact.

ART: ARTHANASIOS IDEA: ARTHANASIOS NOTES: and are considered allied elements, so they need more synergy between them. This card helps by offering a CC-resistant creature with a PC-resistant ability and also strengthens Life-Earth synergy with an excellent Blessed Soil/Roots combo! *Enchanted Roots burrowed stats are 2|2, become 3|3 with Blessed Soil (4|3 with upped Blessed Soil). *Animated Roots burrowed stats are 3|3, become 4|4 with Blessed Soil (5|4 with upped Blessed Soil). {The Enchant Artifact and Protect Artifact activated abilities work like the respective Enchant artifact | Protect Artifact spell.} Lore:  The Wise Druids needed a loyal guardian to protect their sacred forests from unwelcomed guests. Because of this, by calling the blessing of Ferox, they brought life to the roots of the surrounding trees in order to acts as the guardians of their sectets. Those Enchanted and Animated Roots are always hidden beneath the ground and they surface only to strike intruders, whose presence they feel by tremorsense. They can also magically protect any secret druidic artifact which must not fall into evil hands... SERIES:

[Absol]

Compare to Immortal. This is situationally OP.
+ Cheaper
+ More attack
- Can't use SoW

[ARTHANASIOS]

Compare to Immortal. This is situationally OP.
+ Cheaper
+ More attack
- Can't use SoW

It is burrowed, its attack is halved and it can't unburrow itself. That means its deals 2 damage unupped and 3 upped.
Thanks for the comment.

[Absol]

Compare this:

"enters the game burrowed" implies that the attack is not halved, since mechanic-wise, halving attack only work if skill "burrow" is used.
Burrow: gives burrow status and halve attack
Unburrow: remove burrow status and double attack (this is why odd attack will be even upon unburrowing)

[ARTHANASIOS]

^Yeah, you're right. I didn't thought of Graboid. I will change this card as soon as possible.

[OdinVanguard]

Unless it can evolve or has some other ability, a slightly higher attack might be good.
It seems a little on the vanilla side right now... Not a big issue as far as I'm concerned, but semi-vanillas don't seem to do well from what I can gather.
...One cool idea would be to have it give a buff of some kind to burrowed creatures.

[summerz88]

...One cool idea would be to have it give a buff of some kind to burrowed creatures.

THIS ^^^

I think the card is pretty good and fills alot of the problems that I feel exist with life (limited damage from weapons, therefore both attack and empathic bond are neutered by CC, this would yield 1 healing each, I think the damage is fairly appropriate, but has potential problems with EmpB if you get 6 of these on the field...)

[Elite arbiter]

Well the only problem right now is that this card is completely overshadowed by Graboid. Unupgraded graboid costs 1 less for the same attack and also evolve. Upped graboid costs 1 less for 1 less damage but still with evolve at an even stronger level. (Although some would say this is an issue with graboid, not your card, but that argument is for another thread.)

As is, it needs a little more in the way of an ability. There isn't much synergy between Life and Earth to be had, if Earth has a strictly superior card in its own inventory. Kind of like a Air/Aether duo. You could use shockwave, but your deck doesn't freeze and barring that you have a strictly superior option right in aether via lightning bolt.

[furballdn]

Enters game burrowed is essentially the same as immortal. Immortality is a 1.5* multiplier to attack to start the balancing off.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Well, what about an " : Surface, unborrow Enchanted/Animated Roots and double their attack. Usable only once." ability?

[Absol]

Still worse than Antlion. And even if you adjust the stats again, i think it will look more like Graboid.

[Drake_XIV]

You will need to tack something on as this is too... vanilla.