Sprite | Sprite

[kev]

NAME: Sprite ELEMENT: Life COST: 1 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0|2 TEXT: : Disenchant Destroy target permanent; Sprite takes one damage.	NAME: Sprite ELEMENT: Life COST: 1 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|2 TEXT: : Disenchant Destroy target permanent; Sprite takes one damage.

IDEA:	kev
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[Rutarete]

Seems more like a splash card to me given that it's a one time use with a nymph-like cost. Unless you make a deck based off this and BE or something.

[esran]

i dont like life as PC. perhaps make the ability cost gravity or fire or earth.

[furballdn]

Why does sprite start poisoned.

[Annele]

Why does sprite start poisoned.

To synergise with purify I think...

[pikachufan2164]

Why does sprite start poisoned.

Balances out the fact that it's low-cost, in-element, reusable permanent control.

It's essentially Butterfly Effect with a creature attached to it, with even greater efficiency (1 quanta and 1 card vs. 5+ quanta and 2 cards). Granted, you can't get 'instant' PC with Sprite in the same way as BE (play creature first, then BE + Destroy activation the turn after), but the much lower cost requires a drawback.

[furballdn]

Without purify/heal, I pay 5 + 1 card + 1 turn for destroying only one permanent?

[Picheleiro]

There is little reason to use this over SoF. Even with purify/blessing combo.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Why does sprite start poisoned.

Balances out the fact that it's low-cost, in-element, reusable permanent control.

It's essentially Butterfly Effect with a creature attached to it, with even greater efficiency (1 quanta and 1 card vs. 5+ quanta and 2 cards). Granted, you can't get 'instant' PC with Sprite in the same way as BE (play creature first, then BE + Destroy activation the turn after), but the much lower cost requires a drawback.

 Pardon, but I don't think that the low casting cost (1 ) is an excuse for a one-time use PC ability which costs  . Shard of Focus is much more reasonable and I don't need a Purify (1 ) to keep it alive for a long time. But even with a purify casted upon it, this Sprite with only 2 hp is an extremely easy target of CC. I know this card may seems nice in a Forest Spirit - Purify - Sprite deck, but you have to build all your deck around it. Another possibility is to continously heal your Sprite with an Archangel, but it requires a light-life deck. Nice idea, but limited in a certain type of decks and it is heavily combo-dependent too.

[OdinVanguard]

My suggestions:
Take off the poison
reduce ability cost a little
have ability damage the sprite each time it is used (like it is giving up its magical life essence... or something).

[kev]

My suggestions:
Take off the poison, have ability damage the sprite each time it is used (like it is giving up its magical life essence... or something).

That's a really good idea.  It makes more sense thematically and it still synergizes well with cards like Purify, Armor, and Guardian Angel and gives cards like Thunderstorm and Plague a bump.

That also makes the card more powerful, though.  I'm hesitant to drop the activation to three.  On one hand, when I compare Sprite to BE:
-   at an activation cost of three, Sprite would be the same as BE.
-   BE advantages: you can activate BE first turn, put BE on something sturdy like an Armadilgo, and BE'd critters don't take damage like Sprite.
-   Sprite advantages: lower card cost of Sprite and more importantly not needing two cards.

But then on the other hand I compare it to SoF:
-   Unaltered SoF kills three perms before dying, unaltered Sprite gets two.
-   It’s easier to alter Sprite and give it more PC (through increasing Sprites current or max hp).
-   Upped Sprite does a little damage
-   SoF costs only 6 colorless
-   SoF gives a Black Hole.

Ultimately if I compare to BE I feel like four activation is probably right and if I compare to SoF I feel like three is definitely right.  Conclusion: SoF is OP. 

I'll make it three for the time being but more feedback is appreciated.

Note: I could go three activation and bump card cost up from one, but I don’t want to. 

[ARTHANASIOS]

My suggestions:
Take off the poison, have ability damage the sprite each time it is used (like it is giving up its magical life essence... or something).

That's a really good idea.  It makes more sense thematically and it still synergizes well with cards like Purify, Armor, and Guardian Angel and gives cards like Thunderstorm and Plague a bump.

That also makes the card more powerful, though.  I'm hesitant to drop the activation to three.  On one hand, when I compare Sprite to BE:
-   at an activation cost of three, Sprite would be the same as BE.
-   BE advantages: you can activate BE first turn, put BE on something sturdy like an Armadilgo, and BE'd critters don't take damage like Sprite.
-   Sprite advantages: lower card cost of Sprite and more importantly not needing two cards.

But then on the other hand I compare it to SoF:
-   Unaltered SoF kills three perms before dying, unaltered Sprite gets two.
-   It’s easier to alter Sprite and give it more PC (through increasing Sprites current or max hp).
-   Upped Sprite does a little damage
-   SoF costs only 6 colorless
-   SoF gives a Black Hole.

Ultimately if I compare to BE I feel like four activation is probably right and if I compare to SoF I feel like three is definitely right.  Conclusion: SoF is OP. 

I'll make it three for the time being but more feedback is appreciated.

Note: I could go three activation and bump card cost up from one, but I don’t want to. 

 Just a suggestion; compare it with Butterfly Effect instead with Shard of Focus because BE is a reasonable common card while SoF is a broken rare, lol. 
 My personal feedback; Put the ability cost of the unupped one to 4 quanta, while reduce the attack of the upped one to zero (it doesn't need to attack) and keep the ability cost to 3 . After all, life element has to pay a little more for a PC effect (I hate to admit that, since I am a life lover, lmao!).