Garnet Stone | Garnet Gem

[Ajit]

NAME: Garnet Stone ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|3 TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Half of target's quanta transforms into quanta of target's mark.	NAME: Garnet Gem ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3|3 TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Half of target's quanta transforms into quanta of target's mark.

ART: Jacob Philpott (Ajit) original image is part of the public domain IDEA: Ajit NOTES: - Either player can be targeted by the ability Changes: - Changes the ability from all quanta to half of the quanta SERIES: Gem Series (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,16740.0.html)

[Kamietsu]

OP in my mind. You could play a quantum pillar grav deck, or any other mono-duo deck, add these cards and suddenly you get a huge quanta boost to your main element. I think if it chose a random element (that you have quanta off) is converted to yoru mark quanta.

I'd always think Onyx fits this element more than garnet.

[Ajit]

Ah yes you're probably right, I'll more than likely change this to a random quanta.  It would still be effective if you are playing a Duo- or Trio- deck and need a Gravity quanta push.

[Wizardcat]

This plus Bolts... Ow. Gonna go with OP, too.

[Kamietsu]

Or change how the effect works, like a reverse Black hole. have it take up to 3 quanta from each of the target player's quanta and turn it into quanta of your mark divided by 2. Something like that might be good.

[OldTrees]

Good job with the balancing.

The new ability is really nice and fits Gravity element of order very nicely. However I fear that the ability is powerful enough to rate a higher Casting Cost.

Quantum Pillars, Gravity Mark
Turn 5 activate ability convert 15 quanta to Gravity per Quantum Pillar and 3 more per pillar per turn (-1 per turn).
The quantum pillars are likely to generate to make this faster.

I think this is the best one from your Gem series and I would rate a balanced version of this on par with a balanced version of Soul Collector, Nova and Immolation.

So the ability is powerful but it fits as a thematically appropriate special quanta accelerator. I would keep it tied to the mark/Gravity (less randomness from a Gravity quanta generator) but increase the costs or maybe lose some of the quanta in the process?

[Ajit]

Thank you so much Kamietsu and OldTrees for the suggestions.

Would this be a good compromise?



I increased the price as well.

If not, how about even 1/3 of quanta?

[Ajit]

whoops delete please.

[OldTrees]

I was referring more to something like

Convert quanta into half that much quanta of the your mark.

however what you have would work better.

[Ajit]

Cool ok thanks for helping balance this, I'll work on it soon.

[The_Mormegil]

If it works on your enemy, this completely shuts down some FGs. And that's bad. FG grinding isn't supposed to be easy...

[Ajit]

As of right now, it does work on enemies.  But I am amending it to convert only half of the quanta, is that still gonna shut them down?