Malebolgia | Malebolgia

[Captain Scibra]

NAME: Malebolgia ELEMENT: Fire COST: 7 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3|4 TEXT: : Summon a Hellspawn	NAME: Malebolgia ELEMENT: Fire COST: 7 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3|4 TEXT: : Summon an Elite Hellspawn

ART: vrt IDEA: Malebolgia NOTES: Just an idea about having a fire element spawn/swarm duo, except the token has a higher attack. SERIES: Spawner

NAME: Hellspawn ELEMENT: Fire COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 6|2 TEXT:	NAME: Elite Hellspawn ELEMENT: Fire COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 7|2 TEXT:

ART: vrt IDEA: Malebolgia NOTES: SERIES: Creature Token

[OldTrees]

1) Tokens should be posted in the spawner thread unless the token is a standalone card like firefly.
2) Hellspawn should cost a minimum of 5 maybe even 6 depending on how useful its aggro ability is.
3) The Hellspawn --> Elite Hellspawn upgrade is too small. (Add -1 cost or +1atk to the upgrade)
4) Malebolgia is balanced provided you nerf Hellspawn back to a 4 value and the aggro ability is not worth any additional cost.

Good first card!

[AnonymousRevival]

I suggest to put the Malebolgia and Hellspawn in the same post.

[Captain Scibra]

1) Tokens should be posted in the spawner thread unless the token is a standalone card like firefly.
2) Hellspawn should cost a minimum of 5 maybe even 6 depending on how useful its aggro ability is.
3) The Hellspawn --> Elite Hellspawn upgrade is too small. (Add -1 cost or +1atk to the upgrade)
4) Malebolgia is balanced provided you nerf Hellspawn back to a 4 value and the aggro ability is not worth any additional cost.

Good first card!

Thanks, just paying a little homage to the Spawn comics.  I also intended Hellspawn as a standalone card, but just to make it easier to consider the Malebolgia card's capabilities as a whole it has been added to this post as well. As suggested the standalone cost for Hellspawn is now 5 and Elite Hellspawn remains at 4 .  Also increased spawning cost to 4 , with Elite Hellspawnl at 3 reflecting its lessened standalone cost.

[Nepycros]

If it truly is a Fire-based creature generating card, perhaps it could be fun for the Hellspawn to be sacrificed to do whatever extra ability... for the right increase in cost, of course.

[manaboy100]

Hrmmm, the Elite Hellspawn get both lesser cost and attack upgrade?

Mono-Fire Synergy! Yay!

[QuantumT]

Seems really OP to me. Firefly queen generates fireflies with 2 less attack and 2 less defense and it requires off element quanta. This doesn't, and the spawns even help protect the spawner.

The stats on the hellspawns, particularly the upped one, need to come down.

[AnonymousRevival]

For the card of the unupped Malebolgia, I suggest to put in  , and not 4 .

[Cynxos]

The art is registared to Todd McFarlane, the creator of the comic spawn.
As for the card I cant really say the idea of a firefly queen for fire sits well for me.

[Nepycros]

Anonymous, that's how he's supposed to do it. He's supposed to list exactly what quanta is required.

Aside from that, the Malebolgia is finally mostly balanced, due to the high costs. After all, it's very easy to get 4 Fire quanta, and as long as there are Hellspawn, he can't lose his creature-producer.

[OldTrees]

As suggested the standalone cost for Hellspawn is now 5 and Elite Hellspawn remains at 4 .  Also increased spawning cost to 4 , with Elite Hellspawnl at 3 reflecting its lessened standalone cost.

I miscommunicated. However I like the solution you used.

However it is important for you to know that Elite Hellspawn's reduction in cost comes from it being upgraded.
The spawn skill only takes the value(cost without upgrade bonus) of the spawned creature not the cost of the spawned creature into account.
A reduction in activation cost from 4 to 2-3 would increase the cost of the upgraded Malebolgia by 1.
However the upgraded Malebolgia gets an upgrade cost reduction as well which cancels out the increase.
So it worked out fine but not for the reason you thought.

Now there are just two things left.
1) Get provably non copyrighted art ASAP even if it is a crappy drawing you make in paint.
2) Discuss if the aggro ability deserves a cost increase or not.

Typo: You unupped Hellspawn image does not have the correct attack

[QuantumT]

The upped one's ability cost should remain  .