Heart of Initiative | Heart of Initiative

[EmeraldTiger]

NAME: Heart of Initiative ELEMENT: Fire COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal up to 10 of target creature's attack to your opponent. Gain 4 if creature is .	NAME: Heart of Initiative ELEMENT: Fire COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal up to 10 of target creature's attack to your opponent. Gain 4 if creature is .

ART: EmeraldTiger IDEA: EmeraldTiger, Iman00b8 and moomoose NOTES: This Card is doing the damage. SERIES:

NAME: Shard of Initiative ELEMENT: Other COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal up to 10 of target creature's attack to your opponent. Gain 4 if creature is .	NAME: Shard of Initiative ELEMENT: Other COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal up to 10 of target creature's attack to your opponent. Gain 4 if creature is .

ART: Zanz IDEA: EmeraldTiger, Iman00b8 NOTES: The shard is causing the damage. SERIES:

NAME: Shard of Initiative ELEMENT: Other COST: 4 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal X damage to your opponent. X = target creature's attack.  Gain 4    if Creature is .	NAME: Shard of Initiative ELEMENT: Other COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal X damage to your opponent. X = target creature's attack.  Gain 4    if Creature is .

ART: Zanz IDEA: EmeraldTiger, Rutarete NOTES: The shard is causing the damage. SERIES:

[furballdn]

Seems OP because you can just cast this on a powerful creature and then it acts like you just dived it. In addition, with one of these, by placing it on a fire creature, you can chain these indefinitely. You could easily make an OTK with dragons and six of these. The quanta regain also means this is basically a free spell that doesn't mess up mulligan and can deal over 10 damage per shot.

[n00b]

Seems interesting, though it may get to be OPy... you could just add a limit of like 10 or something though

Also, iirc, shards tend to be 5 unupped, 3 upped (minus SoP, ofc)

[EmeraldTiger]

updated.

[moomoose]

seems to fit and have a nice balancing mechanism, i just question how worth using it is for a deck outside of fire

[EmeraldTiger]

DevilLoss thinks the upped damage should be up to 15. outside a fire deck may need play tested. It would still do the damage either way.

[moomoose]

it would still see limited use, even if it were up to 15.  how common are 10+ atk creatures, and is doing (up to) 15 damage once worth 5 | 3 ? creature cards with a decent atk|cost ratio would outperform it majorly.  leaving the only justifiable use in decks where is used, essentially making it a 1 | -1 net cost card for the damage done.

basically as a result, i think it is a good card idea, but maybe not a mechanic suited for a shard

[EmeraldTiger]

Updated

[Anarook]

I quite like this, I liked it btr as a shard simply b/c I could use it to get back quanta, but it's still nice.

[pikachufan2164]

I actually see this as more of a Life card, as the concept of empowering the elemental's spell with their summoned creatures' power thematically fits with Life's emphasis on creatures. Plus, it solves some of the problems with getting shut down by shields that Life has.

[AnimationX]

Reflectable?
And this would have been OP as a shard because you could essentially gain 3 from otherwise useless immo quanta+awesome damage.

[Anarook]

thast just it, after the nerf to immo, this would make up for it