Excelsior | Excelsior

[Pineapple]

NAME: Excelsior ELEMENT: Light COST: 2 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Weapon: Deal 2 damage at the end of each turn.  When Excelsior is targeted, draw up to 1 Blessing from your deck.	NAME: Excelsior ELEMENT: Light COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Weapon: Deal 4 damage at the end of each turn.  When Excelsior is targeted, draw up to 1 Blessing from your deck.

ART: pineapple, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/457779, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/989644 IDEA: pineapple NOTES: V2: Draw a Blessing from your deck. V1: Generate a Blessing into your hand. Flying stats are 2 | 2 and 4 | 4, respectively. Both the upped and unupped produce unupped Blessings. "Flying Weapon" does not target. SERIES:

[furballdn]

Letting mono light crusaders have fun hm? If you're not going for mono light crusaders, then morning glory trumps this in every way.

[17927.2brainz]

Flying Excelsior: *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* etc. You could just keep going until you run out of light quanta or have enough damage to kill the opponent.

[Rutarete]

Flying Excelsior: *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* etc. You could just keep going until you run out of light quanta or have enough damage to kill the opponent.

^.
I remember this type of loop from Algrator: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30712
Maybe you could change it so you can only get 1 blessing per weapon per turn?

[Pineapple]

Letting mono light crusaders have fun hm? If you're not going for mono light crusaders, then morning glory trumps this in every way.

Flying Excelsior: *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* etc. You could just keep going until you run out of light quanta or have enough damage to kill the opponent.

@furballdn: Basically what 28927.2brainz said.  Not only is it an affordable (card-number-wise) way to build up a strong attacker, but a flying Excelsior is also airborne.

Flying Excelsior: *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* *gets blessing* *uses blessing on excelsior* etc. You could just keep going until you run out of light quanta or have enough damage to kill the opponent.

^.
I remember this type of loop from Algrator: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,30712
Maybe you could change it so you can only get 1 blessing per weapon per turn?

As implied above, the loop is one of the few ways to keep this card from becoming underpowered. There's nothing wrong with spending 2 and 1 to create a 1:1 damage-to-cost attacker (in the form of multiple blessings on a single creature).

[furballdn]

Ah. So looping is allowed? I dunno. Would that make this OP then? Consider,
Steam machine needs 2 for basically +4|+0
Lava golem and forest spirit need or for +2|+2
Fire spirit and fire eater need for +2|+0

All those above can only be used once per turn.
Excelsior needs an initial 2|3 investment, and then 2 for +3|+3, and it can be used multiple times per turn. With 6 light pillars, you're getting a 4|4 creature that gains +6|+6 per turn. also isn't that hard to amass with fractalrol, and solar shield.

[AnimationX]

Merp.
The loop does keep it from being underpowered, but then again, it's still deadly.
2 (Excelsior)
+48 (16 Blessings)
x2 (Sky Blitz)
50 and 10 is an OHKO. More lets you OHKO through DR shields.
This itself is deadly, but the fact that it only takes 4 cards and 2 elements to pull off this combo is...just evil.
(It's worse than fire bolt! @_@)

[Pineapple]

Ah. So looping is allowed? I dunno. Would that make this OP then? Consider,
Steam machine needs 2 for basically +4|+0
Lava golem and forest spirit need or for +2|+2
Fire spirit and fire eater need for +2|+0

All those above can only be used once per turn.
Excelsior needs an initial 2|3 investment, and then 2 for +3|+3, and it can be used multiple times per turn. With 6 light pillars, you're getting a 4|4 creature that gains +6|+6 per turn. also isn't that hard to amass with fractalrol, and solar shield.

2/3 and 1 air/random to fly Excelsior.
2 for +3/+3 and 3 from then after. Fractal/RoL will have many crappy hands with Saders/AW and Excelsiors.
Cremation does not affect the balance of Steam Machine, Graviton Fire Eater, and Fire Spirit.

In conclusion, I believe it's balanced.

[Pineapple]

Edit: V2 Marker

Added art and placed a cap for the amount of times you can use its ability per game. Further comments?

[OdinVanguard]

Fun card.
One question though:
What happens if you have no blessings left in your deck?

If the ability actually creates new blessings for you each time, then its not an issue, though you definitely need a cap of some kind. Either per turn or per game.

If the ability simply looks for a blessing from your deck, then the balance is automatic and no cap is needed since it would automatically be capped by the 6 card per deck rule.

[Pineapple]

Fun card.
One question though:
What happens if you have no blessings left in your deck?

If the ability actually creates new blessings for you each time, then its not an issue, though you definitely need a cap of some kind. Either per turn or per game.

If the ability simply looks for a blessing from your deck, then the balance is automatic and no cap is needed since it would automatically be capped by the 6 card per deck rule.

Yeah, the 6 card per deck rule was the aforementioned cap