Higurashi | Higurashi [Legacy - Crucible]

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Higurashi ELEMENT: Life COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 1 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn. : Cicada's Cry Sacrifice Higurashi to Silence opponent.	NAME: Higurashi ELEMENT: Life COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 1 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn. : Cicada's Cry Sacrifice Higurashi to Silence opponent.

ART: たかはし, modified by Zblader IDEA: Zblader NOTES: Today is a great day to be alive! Make sure you don't fall out of touch with the world, though. Wikipedia Article on (Higurashi) Cicada Anyway, a small attacker for Life that has denial synergy with Aether, but can function very well with the right buffs. Adrenaline applies to both 'attack' instances that this creature has. SERIES:

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NAME: Higurashi ELEMENT: Life COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 1 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn.   : Cicada's Cry Sacrifice Higurashi to Silence opponent.	NAME: Higurashi ELEMENT: Life COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 3 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn.   : Cicada's Cry Sacrifice Higurashi to Silence opponent.

ART: たかはし, modified by Zblader IDEA: Zblader NOTES: Perhaps you were expecting a different Higurashi? Wikipedia Article on (Higurashi) Cicada Anyway, a small attacker for Life that has denial synergy with Aether, but can function very well with the right buffs. Adrenaline applies to both 'attack' instances that this creature has. SERIES:

[Rutarete]

Hooray for Life-Aether!

One question though - How are Cicadas related to silence? Is Higs the answer?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Hooray for Life-Aether!

One question though - How are Cicadas related to silence? Is Higs the answer?

See Tanna japonensis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanna_japonensis).

Call
 
The peak time for hearing T. japonensis is from autumn onwards, but they can also be heard at the end of summer in some regions. From September until mid-October, their calls can be heard almost every day.[1]
 
The males call with a distinctive, melancholy sound of "KIKIKIKIKI", "KEKEKEKEKE" and "CANNAT KANAKANA ...". This occurs before sunrise, and they often sing at twilight or after sunset, in dusk, when the temperature has dropped, or when it becomes cloudy.[1] The call changes with temperature, being correlated with the firing rate of the tymbal nerve.[2]
 
In Japan, the sound is popularly associated with melancholy, and it has been the subject of literature, and television shows, such as "Summer Evening" and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, feature it as a sound effect or a plot point. Their call is quite loud, but does not carry well over distance.[1]

From a certain point of view, one could say that the spell to cast Silence is a song (music notes). I'm building off that interpretation.

[djk1880]

sounds like a fun card to use, but why not make the atk 2 instead of attack twice?

[ZephyrPhantom]

sounds like a fun card to use, but why not make the atk 2 instead of attack twice?

Because that makes it less thematically unique and cuts off the amount of possible synergies with other Elements (as well as synergy in mono-life). Note that attacking twice per turn also removes 2 turns of delay/freeze if Higurashi is Frozen/Delayed.

[furballdn]

So this plus adrenaline is 8 damage per turn if your opponent doesn't have shields?

[djk1880]

alrighty, makes sense now. Over all I really like the card.

[furballdn]

This card would be brutal with chaos power and/or blessing. It's much cheaper than wyrm and pegasus and still has the double attack speciality.

[ZephyrPhantom]

So this plus adrenaline is 8 damage per turn if your opponent doesn't have shields?

Yes, but it's incredibly fragile to compensate - 1 CC card on either version and you've wasted 6-7  and 2 cards.

This card would be brutal with chaos power and/or blessing. It's much cheaper than wyrm and pegasus and still has the double attack speciality.

It's also a duo-Element combo that requires 5-6 quanta combined or 4 quanta combined + 1500  + Luck and 2 cards for both. On average, both Chaos Power and Blessing give +3 | +3 (Chaos Power actually gives +2.5 | +2.5 on average), giving this creature 4 HP unupped to make it killable by most CC.

As for the upped version.... hm. I might have the change the benefit from the upgrade, but I'll wait for more feedback on that part while I think.

[moomoose]

every time ive brought up a concept of a creature attacking twice per turn, it was met with "its basically a weak, free, adrenaline", so ill just pass that feedback along here

[Contrary]

MitoHigurashi with Aether Mark? Anyways I think the Silence thing is cool enough to stand without the double attack.

[manaboy100]

Still, this card is pretty gamewrecking if used continuously, like with Fractal and Mitosis, but could be heavy on early games.

Nice concept, but 1/1 is a bit too err, "small". Maybe 1/2? Even though it's going to be sacrificed, but what's the point of summoning it if it's going to be obliterated easily somehow?