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Mercury Shard | Quicksilver Shard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=38407.msg478669#msg478669
« on: April 10, 2012, 04:04:58 am »
NAME:
Mercury Shard
ELEMENT:
Other
COST:

TYPE:
Spell
ATK|HP:

TEXT:
a drop of crystalline mercury, might be useful someday
NAME:
Qucksilver Shard
ELEMENT:
Other
COST:
5
TYPE:
Spell
ATK|HP:

TEXT:
Target Creature has its Element set to Other for the purposes of gameplay

ART:
Art from ETG, Modified by Zblader
IDEA:
Storyteller (Lord Midnight)
NOTES:
It takes a creature in play and makes it Other or 'colorless'. this means it is unaffected by eclipse or holy light. It is not undead for purposes of the Bone shield. It is also now going to use other quanta for mitosis or fractal. Further identical cards from your deck are still the original element, but Fractal, Mitosis and other similar cards make the new cards as Other, so fractal will send other colored cards that are otherwise identical to your hand. Nightmare would do the same but be a bit point less, mitosis makes copies that are other in element. It actually changes the element of the card for all purposes the card is other, not just the creature, but the 'card that made it is'.

I saw there saw a Nymph that did something similar but think this is more balanced and more restricted.

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,37974.0.html
« Last Edit: April 10, 2012, 05:55:13 am by storyteller »

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Re: Mercury Shard | Quicksilver Shard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=38407.msg478672#msg478672
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2012, 04:11:41 am »
Might want to fix the formatting.

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Re: Mercury Shard | Quicksilver Shard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=38407.msg478688#msg478688
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2012, 05:55:51 am »
fix'd, funny I had just copied it clean from the template...

so, any comments on the card itself?

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Re: Mercury Shard | Quicksilver Shard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=38407.msg478700#msg478700
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2012, 06:44:29 am »
Good. Now turn the art into real cards using this: http://xenocidius.allalla.com/cardimagebuilder/

The unupped is useless? Isn't this the time that shards no longer useless unupped?
5 :rainbow is too much for just turning it to Other. The real benefit, as i can see, is only with Fractal and Mitosis. Nightfall is rarely used outside monodark or duo :darkness / :death, and the -2|-1 debuff it could provide is nothing big, as they would probably have an army of Devourer or Vampire anyway. Counter-flooding is too situational to be useful.

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make the card costs 5 :rainbow|3 :rainbow and same effect unupped or upped, or make it costs 7 :rainbow|5 :rainbow but turns it into perma and affects all creatures.
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Re: Mercury Shard | Quicksilver Shard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=38407.msg478706#msg478706
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2012, 07:46:45 am »
all the traditional shard do nothing unupgraded. I was following suit.

I think maybe lowering the cost might be in order and Ill make a card for it shortly, thank you.

counter flooding is pretty handy and yes, Fractal Mitosis is one of the core intentions of the card.

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Re: Mercury Shard | Quicksilver Shard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=38407.msg480136#msg480136
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2012, 05:31:28 am »
all the traditional shard do nothing unupgraded. I was following suit.

I think maybe lowering the cost might be in order and Ill make a card for it shortly, thank you.

counter flooding is pretty handy and yes, Fractal Mitosis is one of the core intentions of the card.

Ah, that's actually been changed.  Unupgraded shards actually do the same thing as they do upgraded now.  Just decreased costs and whatnot.

And this seems to be a more... precise... version of my submission...

 

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