Yuki-Onna | Yuki-Onna

[Daguerreo]

NAME: Yuki-Onna ELEMENT: Water COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4 | 6 TEXT: Creature or weapon which target or attack Yuki-Onna is frozen. Freeze shield if catapulted.	NAME: Yuki-Onna ELEMENT: Water COST: 6 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 8 TEXT: Creature or weapon which target or attack Yuki-Onna is congealed. Freeze shield if catapulted.

ART: http://unredeem.deviantart.com/art/Yuki-Onna-176447083 IDEA: Daguerreo NOTES: It create a good synergy with  and allow to   to have a little more PC, like ice bolt for weapon. SERIES:

[SpikeSpiegel]

Imho, this card is OP.

6 quanta (5 for the upped version) are very little to play a 5/8 creature (4/12 upped), moreover this creature seems very hard to kill.

It needs a nerf, maybe on stats and/or cost.

The idea is nice, hovewer


EDIT: personal opinion: the art is great, but please, choose another name 

[Daguerreo]

Imho, this card is OP.

6 quanta (5 for the upped version) are very little to play a 5/8 creature (4/12 upped), moreover this creature seems very hard to kill.

It needs a nerf, maybe on stats and/or cost.
The idea is nice, hovewer

EDIT: personal opinion: the art is great, but please, choose another name 

Compared to the other creatures (puffy and crawler in particular) ratio cost/atk isn't so powerful.
High HP it's to create a sinergy with gravity pull and catapult too, but can be changed.

Waiting for other comments

[mwaetht]

At 8/12 HP, no spell except Gravity Pull (and arguably Mutation and/or Reverse Time) can kill it. Most creature and weapon abilities can't do it either. Now all we need is for someone to say any creature that attacks it due to Gravity Pull freezes and we have the most OP creature ever. EVER.

[Rutarete]

Is the creature/weapon frozen after or before their ability takes affect? I think the answer to that question will determine much of the balancing.

[Daguerreo]

Is the creature/weapon frozen after or before their ability takes affect? I think the answer to that question will determine much of the balancing.

After of course. Before would mean immune to every skill:D

[Daguerreo]

At 8/12 HP, no spell except Gravity Pull (and arguably Mutation and/or Reverse Time) can kill it. Most creature and weapon abilities can't do it either. Now all we need is for someone to say any creature that attacks it due to Gravity Pull freezes and we have the most OP creature ever. EVER.

It's no so difficult to stop it with spells.

Could I change stat to 4/6 cost 6 and 2/12 cost 5 for example.

[Tiko]

I wondered when a 'Yuki-onna' will appear as a card idea, as Japanese mythology is somehow popular amongst many Elements players (probably because it 'feels exotic'?). Personally I don't think they fit in the theme of the game well, but that's just my opinion. Still, I love the stories of the Yuki-onna, too bad there's no real english translation for their name.

As for the card, the only thing I can't figure out thematically, is that how can you catapult the spirit of someone who died in the snow? That just doesn't make sense to me. Other than that, I would love to see some straight synergies between Gravity and Water. Even if it would widen the use of Freeze+Catapult.
If I count correctly, the damage done would look like this (if thrown): 6 for the unupped (9 frozen), 10 for the upped (14 frozen). Comparing it with a Steam Machine, it causes the same damage unupped for -1 , but does 14 (20) for the same cost. Yet, Yuki-onna triggers her passive skill this way, but I don't really know how powerful the ability is - besides this, the opponent isn't really forced to actually target the creature, because by herself she is not much of a threat. Maybe if she had her stats raised (especially more ATK), or maybe giving her an active ability too would help with it (They were known for being really 'murderous' and aggressive spirits with mortals anyway).

A bit of polishing, and it's an awesome card. And awesome art too, nice find!

[Rutarete]

I wondered when a 'Yuki-onna' will appear as a card idea

It's appeared http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,22597.msg305832#msg305832 and http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30667.msg416640#msg416640

[Tiko]

It's appeared [...]

Heh. I guess the art means that much.. sorry about that.

[darkrobe]

doesnt yuki onna mean "snow sister"

<- doesnt actually know japanese. that is a guess.

[ZephyrPhantom]

doesnt yuki onna mean "snow sister"

<- doesnt actually know japanese. that is a guess.

Yes, that's a literal translation of the name.

I agree with Tiko on raising the attack - generally when you give a creature built-in protection, you want to make the opponent actually consider whether to mess with it or not. Going for higher attack would force people to think about CC (I'd recommend not worrying too much about the HP since the Freeze Shield is more important than Catapult damage.)
Just checking - did the artist give you permission to use that art?