Summer | Summer

[johannhowitzer]

NAME: Summer ELEMENT: Fire COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent - Weapon ATK|HP: 6|2 when flying. TEXT: Weapon: deal 6 damage at the end of every turn.   : Your creatures gain +2|0 for 1 turn but take 1 damage.	NAME: Summer ELEMENT: Fire COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent - Weapon ATK|HP: 7|2 when flying. TEXT: Weapon: deal 7 damage at the end of every turn.   : Your creatures gain +2|0 for 1 turn but take 1 damage.

ART: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firesword.png IDEA: johannhowitzer NOTES: The damage is dealt to the creatures immediately, and will kill a creature with less than 2 health before it can hit your opponent. The +2|0 is added to current attack only, similar to how Dive works.  Attack will return to normal at the end of the turn. SERIES: New Elemental Weapons (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,26231.0.html)

[Leo]

It's OP and Fahrenheit is already strong enough, imo.

[johannhowitzer]

Explain why, please.

[OldTrees]

Nice.

Sacrificing a creature seems like a good way to balance creating more Fire Bolts.
Likewise creating more cards seems like a good new use for a sacrifice cost.

Seems balanced to me but playtesting would be needed to verify of course.

[ZephyrPhantom]

"Let me say this to start...."
That was a great art find.

Oldtrees pretty summed up my thoughts here. Decent weapon, balanced and new mechanic based around old concepts.

Again, great art!

[johannhowitzer]

I probably don't need to say this, but I was tickled to find such impressive art on the first page of my Google search - and Wikimedia Commons, no less!  Every so often, you just get lucky.

[RealGod]

I think the upgraded version, instead of gaining more attack power, should have it's skill cost lowered (maybe to 1 or 2  instead?)  Sacrificing a creature and costing 3 is too much just to generate one fire bolt.

[johannhowitzer]

Mm, that was a possibility that crossed my mind, but I wanted some outside perspective before I went with it.  Since the ability here gets around the 6-card rule like Fractal, I wanted to put more balancing factors in play and have to remove some later, rather than the opposite.

I'll let this stew for a while and see what other people might have to say.

[TimerClock14]

CURATOR COMMENT:
-Please remove the text from the SERIES section of your table
-Please fix the TYPE section of your table, if you wish to specify that it is a weapon you may do so in the NOTES section, but please change it so that it reads as Permanent instead of Permanent - Weapon.

[johannhowitzer]

Huh.  First time I've been called on either of those points - Winter and Ulundaris have "Permanent - Weapon", and every single one of my card ideas has "None" under Series.  Including three in the Armory.  I'm not complaining, if you still want me to make these changes, I will.  But should I change all my other card topics too?

[TimerClock14]

Huh.  First time I've been called on either of those points - Winter and Ulundaris have "Permanent - Weapon", and every single one of my card ideas has "None" under Series.  Including three in the Armory.  I'm not complaining, if you still want me to make these changes, I will.  But should I change all my other card topics too?

This is true, I'm not quite sure what to do with this. (pardon my newbieness) I'll talk with Kuroaitou about it.

EDIT: talked with kuro. You're all green on this. I'll move it ASAP.

[johannhowitzer]

Haha, thanks.  I'm all for following the rules, but I'm also all about consistency!

Incidentally, having "Permanent - Weapon" and "Permanent - Shield" under the "Type" field makes sense, as those are definitely types of Permanent.  I know the Advanced Guide says to only put Creature, Spell, or Permanent, but I disagree.