Abnormal Growth | Malignant Growth

[Werdbooty]

NAME: Abnormal Growth ELEMENT: Death COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: : Generate a new Malignant Cell.	NAME: Malignant Growth ELEMENT: Death COST: 8 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: : Generate a new Malignant Cell. All Malignant Cells gain +1/+1 as long as Malignant Growth is in play.

ART: Werdbooty IDEA: Werdbooty NOTES: Naturally this card is open to tweaks like casting costs, etc...the idea is really just to get more Malignant Cells in play. Perhaps a connection to the Super Cell idea? SERIES: N/A

*this post has been tweaked to reflect some moderate changes to the original card idea (such as name of card and text).

[Falcon4415]

Cancer Cell was renamed Malignant Cell because the name wasn't appropriate for a game. You should apply that yourself.

Is the +1/+1 to malignant cells in play cumulative? You might want to double the cost of spamming a new cell anyways, look at FFQ.

[Werdbooty]

I did try & take the "PC-ness" of the card into factor (even going so far as to do a quick thesaurus hunt for "tumor") and I think this may be as good as it gets. I had the idea of a permanent cell generator only, the name was secondary. I'm always open to suggestions...

Perhaps something more like this?

Again, I'm open to renaming the card but I personally don't feel there's a problem with the word tumor. Maybe "abscess" or "boil" instead?

Also, good call on the quanta cost.

[Werdbooty]

Had a meeting of the minds with several of my friends last night and we shot back and forth about synonyms for the word tumor. An interesting discussion. At any rate, the current contenders seem to be "cyst" and "boil," for unupped & upgraded cards, respectively. We also came up with a few more:

-abscess
-sore
-growth
-mole
-infection
-pustule
-pimple
-blister
-vesicle
-welt

Something else that was suggested that might work better is to simply call the cards "Abnormal Growth" & "Malignant Growth" (again, respectively).

[Uppercut]

How is changing the name from one potentially life threatening medical condition to another potentially life threatening condition an improvement?

[TheCrazyMango]

i think its more general. malignant cell is potentionally life threatening but i dont see many complaints about it

[Werdbooty]

Applying for Crucible.

[Kuroaitou]

CURATOR COMMENT
-Leave the ATK|HP section of the table blank if the card is not a creature (Remove the "N/A" part)
-Fix the discrepancy between your upgraded card image and TEXT in the table (remove the extra '/' after the "+1/+1" part)

I think the problem with this card is that it provides a high potential to try to rush your opponent with cells - granted, that's not a very popular strategy with all the shields nowadays (Permafrost, Jade, and now Solar, I'm looking at you all), so I guess this card brings up a new tactic for Death users.

...it's a bit odd of a creature generator though; it would be useful to have in Otyugh or mutation decks perhaps.

[Werdbooty]

I'm a fan of Malignant Cells...I have a fairly well put together Cell deck I've been working on for quite some time now, and I've said for awhile that a Malignant Cell generator would complete me just fine.