Life Orb | Jade Orb

[majofa]

NAME: Life Orb ELEMENT: Life COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Weapon: deal 2 + X spell damage at the end of every turn.  X is the number of creatures you have in play.	NAME: Jade Orb ELEMENT: Life COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Weapon: deal 3 + X spell damage at the end of every turn.  X is the number of creatures you have in play.

ART: N/A IDEA: majofa and Jaymanfu NOTES: This weapon deals spell damage, meaning it isn't blocked like normal damage. It can be reflected by damage reflection shields and would deal damage to the owner of the orb. The bonus damage is also spell damage. has trouble with permanents. Too often are their swarms of creatures stopped by an opponent's shield. With this Orb, they can now swarm the opponent and still be able to do damage. SERIES: Old Tree's Life Card Competition (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,33609.0.html)

[darkrobe]

interesting.

[ralouf]

Looks like a good idea to buff life deck who are most of the time very bad against shield

[majofa]

's weapon other weapon is all about healing, but is about more than just healing. It uses critters to beat its opponent's, as well. So spam your creatures, throw this down, and watch as they can't stop your damage.

[ak65ala]

Spell damage? So, like momentum, is not stopped by shields?  Also, if it is a weapon (aka weapon slot) it should say "Weapon:" in the front of the text.

Nice idea, but seems to be too similar to Fahrenheit for my liking... stacking damage based on something else.  This would also make a life rush even more susceptible to CC, their damage scales with creatures already and now the alternate way to do damage does as well.

[majofa]

Spell damage isn't quite the same as momentum. Normal shields don't block any of the damage, however, spell reflection shields would reflect the damage.

It is similar to Fahrenheit (I actually changed the text to sound more like Fahrenheit), but, remember it's spell damage. And even if they kill all your creatures, it'll still do its base damage.

[ralouf]

I think that the inspiration from fahrenheit is good, taking existant idea and use it for doing an other card mean that your card start from a good idea no ?
Actually even if this card is similar to fahrenheit it is still very different in it's use I mean that you can't use it in a boring life stall without creature and with ton of CC, not like fahren..

[majofa]

My thoughts exactly. This card would give a weapon it can use in a rush -AND- a way to get past pesky shields.

[ralouf]

Agree IMO it is very weird that life doesn't have any weapon effective ina  rush, those short sword in USEM for example had always looks like a paradox for me.. WHY the heck life which is suposed to be wild and agressive have a such weapon ? I mean 2 damage unupped and 4 upped is really low. THIS one is very good !

[zerokooelr91]

Mmmh...the idea is nice, but are you sure that you want to see a weapon deal 25-26 damage? It can rush more than a Fahreneith

[ralouf]

You sure you'll often have 23 creatures on the board ?

[zerokooelr91]

No but with mitosis is usual have at least 6-7 creatures on the field, at second or third turn. And the magical nature of the damage makes it more trickly