EtG v1.33 - Kuroaitou's changes (being updated)

[Kuroaitou]

This is my imagined version of what my 'dream' patch would look like (granted, with a high emphasis on cards and card fixes, mostly). Feel free to laugh at the bulk of the material, but a few added cards are either based off of mechanics from certain card ideas, or directly translated from certain cards and their authors.


EDIT: My logistics are found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xI_bOmo5ZYbwIhppqArSQ4hpJVY5s5BRm4s1vSw2hG0/edit#gid=0


GENERAL:
New general passives introduced:

• Aquatic: Creatures with this passive will survive Flooding/Inundation spots. Aquatic creatures include: all water creatures (and the flown Trident), Horned Frog, Forest Spirit, Virus, and Malignant Cell. (Yes, this means flown Other weapons will not survive).
• Dragon: All of the main dragons will have this new passive. It will be used for a future patch.
• Attacking weapons are now affected by shield effects, such as: freeze, poison, and delay.

Bug Fixes:

• If two Reflective/Emerald Shields are on opposite side of play, and a player casts a spell or using a spell effect on a shield, instead of the shield reflecting, it will instead read ‘nullify’; the spell will not deal damage to either player. However, reflective shields will work normally when only one is in play and spell damage is done towards the player with it.
• All healing-targeted effects and spells (Mend skill, Heal, Miracle, Purify, Holy Flash, and creatures with negative ATK + Wisdom) will not be reflected by any reflective shields.
• Relic may no longer be placed in decks.
• The Wisdom icon should display as its own icon separate from the Immaterial icon.
• If Deja Vu is targeted with Web, its copy will no longer have Airborne after using its skill.

Aether

• Immortal: Now has ‘Momentum’. Upgraded stats changed to 6/3. Upgraded cost reduced to 6 .
• Psion’s skill now renamed to ‘Wisdom’, and is a status effect (but it can still be lobotomized, similar to Momentum).
• Mind Gate skill cost reduced by 1 for both versions. Mind Gate will now allow you to select what card you want to copy, as you may target either the top card of the opponent's deck, or a card in their hand.
• Added cards:
  
  • Mesmer
  • Doppelganger
  • Dampening Shield

Air

• Wyrm: Attack increased to 4 for the non-upped version; both Wyrm and Elite Wyrm’s skill cost reduced to 1 .
• Blue Nymph/Air Nymph now has airborne.
• Added cards:
  
  • Falcon Lancer
  • Cloud
  • Dust Devil
  • Fly
  • Echo

Darkness

• Parasite/Bloodsucker gains the passive, “Feeder”: upon using infect, it will also receive +1/+2.
• Shard of Void buffed to 3 (4) max HP reduction (with Darkness mark).
• Added cards:
  
  • Intimidation
  • Harpy
  • Incubus
  • Puppeteer
  • Paranoia

Death

• Soul Catchers now also generate 3/4 random quanta in addition to generating quanta.
• Vulture and Condor has its Scavenger skill augmented: it gains +2/+2 instead if a Death creature dies. Mutant creatures with Scavenger also gain this bonus.
• Plague unupped cost reduced by 1 .
• Unupgraded Aflatoxin cost reduced by 1 . Aflatoxin can now target players and deals 3 (4 upgraded) poison damage (Malignant Cell will not spawn if Aflatoxin is applied on a player).
  
• Added cards:
  
  • Outbreak
  • Sludge
  • Lich -> Phylactery

Earth

• Antlion now enters play burrowed. Cost for both versions reduced by 1. Stats changed from 2/3 (4/4) to 1/3 (2/4) – note that upon unburrowing, Antlion will have the same ATK as before.
• Heavy Armor and Plate Armor will remove Airborne from any creature.
• Shard of Integrity now states it will combine all cards (not just shards) in the player’s hand to form a shard golem. However, normal cards will offer lower stat bonuses in comparison to shards when Shard of Integrity consumes them.
• Earthquake and Quicksand now work on any stacked permanent; this includes Shards and Bonewall stacks.
• Added cards:
  
  • Roadrunner
  • Ogre Worker
  • Clay Shield
  • Antlion's Den

Entropy

• Chaos Seed and Pandemonium now include ‘Purge’ and several other CC skills in their list of possible effects.
• Butterfly Effect cost for both versions is reduced by 1 . In addition, the 'Destroy' skill gained by Butterfly Effect has had its cost reduced by 1 .
• Added cards:
  • Ricochet
  • Arcane Barrier
  • Ogre Magi

Fire

• Fire Spirit/Fire Specter cost reduced by 1 .
• Upgraded Fire Nymph skill cost reduced by 1 .
• Fire Shield/Fire Buckler now affects players: players that have a weapon equipped will take 1 damage every time they attack a player using this shield.
• Added cards:
  
  • (Ogre) Berserker
  • Furnace
  • Overheat
  • Cauterizing Shield

Gravity

• Sapphire charger cost reduced by 1 .
• Colossal Dragon/Massive Dragon now have Momentum. Cost reduced by 1 for both.
• Gravity Shield cost reduced by 1 for both versions.
• Shard of Focus will turn into a Black Hole if its HP > 31. In addition, upon using Accretion, all allied creatures in play (or that enter play) that turn will be delayed.
• Gravity Pull now affects spell damage; damaging spells and poison used against a player will instead be redirected towards the creature afflicted with Gravity Pull as well.
• Graviton Fire Eater/Graviton Firemaster both gain 2 HP - 0/7 (0/8).
• Added cards:
  
  • Meteor
  • Ogre Giant
  • Orbital Shield
  • Pylon

Life

• Cockatrice/Elite Cockatrice gains the passive, “Glare”: Creatures or players that target it will be delayed for a turn (affects weapons as well).
• Heal can now both target creatures and players alike (including the enemy's).
• Thorn Carapace/Spine Carapace cost reduced by 1 . In addition, this shield now affects players - players that have a weapon equipped may now be poisoned every time they attack a player using this shield.
• Emerald Shield/Jade Shield cost reduced by 1 .
• Rustler/Leaf Dragon stats changed from 1/1 (1/3) to 1/3 (1/6).
• Added cards:
  
  • Omniplant –> Omniseed
  • Rejuvenation
  • Entanglement
  • Pixie
  • Worg

Light

• Miracle can now target either player.
• Pegasus/Elite Pegasus cost reduced by 1 .
• Guardian Angel’s “Heal” ability renamed “Mend”, and may now target players in addition. Cost of both creatures increased by 1. Skill cost of “Mend” requires 2 to use. Mutant creatures will gain “Mend” instead of “Heal”.
• Added cards:
  • Purge
  • White Stag
  • Invoke
  • Pride

Time

• Fate Egg now costs 1 . “Hatch” requires 3 to use. In addition, Scarabs, Devonian Dragon, and Immortal can now be properly hatched from a Fate Egg.
• Déjà vu’s skill now specifically states it will lose its ability on use.
• Procrastination/Turtle Shield now affects players: players that have a weapon equipped may have their weapon delayed every time they attack a player using this shield.
• Shard of Readiness can now target permanents.
• Precognition will also allow you to see the opponent's next drawn card unless they have a full hand.
• Added cards:
  • Amnesia
  • Horus
  • Recall
  • Pause

Water

• Blue Crawler/Abyss Crawler gains the passive, “Lurker”: If Flooding or Nightfall is in play, the Crawler will gain +1/+2.
• Ulitharid cost reduced by 1 .
• Flooding now states it will only kill creatures without the ‘Aquatic’ passive.
• Trident’s skill cost reduced by 1 for both versions. In addition, it now affects any stacked permanent (including shards and Bonewall).
• Nymph's Tears now works on any permanent, not just pillars and pendulums. Description made more concise.
• Ice Shield/Permafrost Shield now affects players: players that have a weapon equipped may have their weapon frozen every time they attack a player using this shield.
• Added cards:
  
  • Infuse
  • Coral Shield
  • Dark Kraken
  • Winter's Kiss

Other

• Added cards:
  • Spear
  • Metamorphosis
  • Harmonic Pillar

EDIT: Upgraded cards aren't included to save space.

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[Kuroaitou]

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[russianspy1234]

You really don't like vanilla creatures do you?

[Kuroaitou]

You really don't like vanilla creatures do you?

Creatures with passives don't count as vanilla? D: (Ghost of the Past, Voodoo Doll, Dragons (Airborne!), etc.)

[Annele]

You really don't like vanilla creatures do you?

Creatures with passives don't count as vanilla? D: (Ghost of the Past, Voodoo Doll, Dragons (Airborne!), etc.)

I count vanilla as a card that has nothing in the card text. eg: all dragons are vanilla except .

[russianspy1234]

You really don't like vanilla creatures do you?

Creatures with passives don't count as vanilla? D: (Ghost of the Past, Voodoo Doll, Dragons (Airborne!), etc.)

aside from dragons, no, i would say they dont.  they have effects you can use.  you have given some form of effect to a lot of the vanilla creatures in the game, and while it seems interesting enough, i don't think it makes sense for every card in the game to have an effect.

[ddevans96]

Vanilla has always been defined here as any creature without an active ability. Ghost, all non-aether dragons, and voodoo doll are vanilla, despite having passive abilities.

[nensuru]

My favorites changes are the feeder passive, fire spirit buff and the heal targeting. Perhaps black hole could be a good target to this change too.

[whatifidogetcaught?]

• Shard of Focus will turn into a Black Hole if its HP > 31. In addition, upon using Accretion, all allied creatures in play (or that enter play) that turn will be delayed.

Don't you mean 30? If it has to be greater than 31, than two accretions make it AT 31.

[Kuroaitou]

• Shard of Focus will turn into a Black Hole if its HP > 31. In addition, upon using Accretion, all allied creatures in play (or that enter play) that turn will be delayed.

Don't you mean 30? If it has to be greater than 31, than two accretions make it AT 31.

Exactly. It still retains the '3 uses' philosophy (that's how Zanz intended it, at least), but early CC will reduce its effectiveness in either direction - if you buff it with a simple card like Heavy Armor, it only gets two uses max unless the player has a way to reduce the HP. Otherwise, the delaying of all allied creatures already makes it nerfed enough as is, unless you're facing a SoFo spam deck while you're relying heavily on unprotected permanents. >_>

My favorites changes are the feeder passive, fire spirit buff and the heal targeting. Perhaps black hole could be a good target to this change too.

Thanks, but Black Hole wouldn't make much sense, as it target's the player's quanta, not their actual HP - direct-damaging spells (not poison - Fire Bolt, Unstable Gas's explosion, Shockwave, etc.) can be reflected, but healing effects shouldn't. This includes Nightmare as it targets a creature, not the player directly.

[UTAlan]

I love how every single thing on your list appears to be very well thought out. Good stuff.

[kimham8a]

More buff on your berf of antlion? Otherwise love it, great work.

EDIT: I'd love to see the trials come out in this patch too.