Divergent Flow | Divergent Flow

[Essence]

NAME: Divergent Flow ELEMENT: Water COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Your Mark transmutes into a Quantum Mark.	NAME: Divergent Flow ELEMENT: Water COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Your Mark transmutes into a Nova Mark.

ART: Wikimedia Commons IDEA: Essence NOTES: A Quantum Mark, like a Quantum Pillar, produces 3 random quanta at the end of each turn. A Nova Mark, like a Nova, produces 1 quanta of each element at the end of each turn. SERIES:

 

[Rutarete]

Why would i pay 2 instead of playing a quantum pillar?
Also, a nova as a mark is 12 times as powerful as a regular mark. I don't really think it should be on a stick.
Sorry for the negativity.

[Leo]

Why would i pay 2 instead of playing a quantum pillar?

Marks can't be destroyed.

And, well, I have to agree on the Nova Mark part, it's way OP. Make it 1 with the same effect as the unnuped version.
Nice card btw. And it should be stackable, imo.

[Essence]

That was my original idea, but before you start jumping to conclusions about a Nova mark being OP, think about this: in order to cast (Elite) Divergent Flow, you need to have 5 quanta.   That's not a small investment for a rainbow -- your only real bet of getting 5 quanta consistently would be a :watermark PSNbow, and right away, you're either wasting your mark or you're relying on for some other significant contribution to your rainbow -- and as we all know, cards are pretty much universally suboptimal.

And once you've done all that in order to gain the Nova mark, it's still only 1 of each element per turn -- it doesn't actually let you cast any given card that much faster, unless for some reason you're really into Tower Shields.  I maintain that the Nova mark is balanced.

[ZephyrPhantom]

That was my original idea, but before you start jumping to conclusions about a Nova mark being OP, think about this: in order to cast (Elite) Divergent Flow, you need to have 5 quanta.   That's not a small investment for a rainbow -- your only real bet of getting 5 quanta consistently would be a :watermark PSNbow, and right away, you're either wasting your mark or you're relying on for some other significant contribution to your rainbow -- and as we all know, cards are pretty much universally suboptimal.

And once you've done all that in order to gain the Nova mark, it's still only 1 of each element per turn -- it doesn't actually let you cast any given card that much faster, unless for some reason you're really into Tower Shields.  I maintain that the Nova mark is balanced.

On top of that, it's slower as well - you can't stack these like you can with Supernova and it takes 1 turn before you actually can use the quanta you gain - Nova and Supernova on the other hand give you instant quanta.

The unupgraded version seems weak though - perhaps lower it's cost to 1 ?

[Essence]

That might be a good idea.

[Essence]

Done -- the unupped version now costs 1 .   Any further feedback?

[EmeraldTiger]

What would those marks look like?

[Essence]

Dunno, I'm not an artist.  Like, at all.  Notice how all of my cards are from Wikimedia?  That's how not an artist I am. 

But if someone wants to volunteer an idea, I'd love to use it. 8)

[storyteller]

E, listen, this is me talking. Nova Mark is horribly overpowered, it just is. Remember, Im the guy that made Quicksilver Creatures for Other.

[ddevans96]

So if you have this unupped and water pends, it alternates betwen producing and random quanta every turn?

That sounds fun

[Essence]

You know, I never thought of pends when I wrote the Nova mark mechanic.......that might be...problematic.