Second Wind | Second Wind

[Hyroen]

NAME: Second Wind ELEMENT: Air COST: 4 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Delay your airborne creatures 1 turn. Heal 5HP per creature delayed.	NAME: Second Wind ELEMENT: Air COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Delay your airborne creatures 1 turn. Heal 5HP per creature delayed.

ART: EmeraldTiger (currently) If better art is offered, it may be accepted. ART HISTORY: IDEA: Hyroen NOTES: Pretty straight forward. Somewhat Iridium Warden flavoured and does not overstep into Heal's territory. Based on this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_wind) phenomenon. SERIES:

I'm always around (;

Discuss. Other art is welcomed!! ^_^

[Jenkar]

Let's compare with Heal | Improved Heal.
You need 5 airbone creatures to generate the same health per quanta unupped, 6 upped.
Since many creatures are airbone, it seems about right to me.

Nice idea.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Another card that pushes Airborne into the metagame more. I like it!

Here's some art I made:

[Flayne]

Pretty neat idea, though I can imagine this being extremely lethal with duo    , Firefly Queen and empathic bond.
how do you justify its power with the mentioned sync?

[Hyroen]

Depending on your deck, Heal may come out triumphant in terms of usefulness in an deck.

Aside, delaying your whole attacking force? I don't know if I would.

Air to me has always been about liberty and flexibility. This would open the doors of healing to Air, which in my honest opinion could aid its recurring flexibility theme. The Airborne passive needs to be more integrated and while Life and Light are some of the strongest healers, it doesn't mean it has to -just- stay in their territory.

EDIT1: And thank you Zblader, I will use this until, with all due respect, better art comes along. ^_^

EDIT2: Oh and Jenkar, compared to Heal | Improved Heal you would need 4 airborne creatures on the field for Second Wind to equal its power.

[Flayne]

Depending on your deck, Heal may come out triumphant in terms of usefulness in an deck.

Aside, delaying your whole attacking force? I don't know if I would.

Air to me has always been about liberty and flexibility. This would open the doors of healing to Air, which in my honest opinion could aid its recurring flexibility theme. The Airborne passive needs to be more integrated and while Life and Light are some of the strongest healers, it doesn't mean it has to -just- stay in their territory.

If it means technically getting 5 hp (5 empathic bonds already) for each Firefly and Queen, + some other empathic bonds, you could potentially get all your health back, if it means doing that, i certainly would, which, btw you could it again next turn if needed for a measly 3 .

[Hyroen]

Flayne, even if this card were a little strong with FFQ, those type of decks are seldom seen in a competitive environment, maybe it needs a little boost anyways. ^_^

Plus, they always take forever to setup.

[Flayne]

Flayne, even if this card were a little strong with FFQ, those type of decks are seldom seen in a competitive environment, maybe it needs a little boost anyways. ^_^

Plus, they always take forever to setup.

Not really, now that you have pendulums, all you need to do is summon 2 Queens and you are getting 2 fire flies every turn, plus you'd still be adding queens. with 2 queens, in 5 turns you have 10 fireflies, 12 airborne creature in total, play Second wind, you get 12 x 5 hp = 60 hp for 3  . and just for delaying your creatures by one turn, then, to make up for lost damage, chuck an airblitz and no harm done by delaying.

[ZephyrPhantom]

I guess I still need to work on my art skills.

Technically Second Wind really costs 3 cards and 17  to get efficient healing.
Miracle costs 12 and all your Light quantum with it to heal back to full health-1.
I think Miracle is faster and less situational, but for a bigger cost. I don't think Second Wind is much more powerful than it.

[EmeraldTiger]

This is what I came up after seeing this thread.

[Hyroen]

Nice take on it EmeraldTiger! Liking the tones and that it follows the Second Wind theme. Good work. c:

I would guess it's ready in terms of balance but a nice OldTrees touch is always the cherry on top.

Ye hath been summoned. What is this channeling time nonsense?

[OldTrees]

This costs 4 |3 +1 turn of Damage.
By comparing Bolts we see that 2healing = 1damage.
This heals 5hp per attack prevented, that assumes 2.5 as the average attack of the airborne creature (round down to 2 to account for the casting cost of 4 |3 )
Considering Dragonfly|Damselfly and FireflyQueen/Firefly I would expect the average to be 2|3 attack calling for 5|7hp healed.