Glacies | Glacies

[Drake_XIV]

NAME: Glacies ELEMENT: Water COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0 | 16 TEXT: Glacial: Glacies gains +2 | +0 for every frozen creature. Glacies enters play Frozen.	NAME: Glacies ELEMENT: Water COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0 | 20 TEXT: Glacial: Glacies gains +3 | +0 for every frozen creature. Glacies enters play Frozen.

ART: Thalas IDEA: Drake_XIV NOTES: Today is a day to go with the ebb and flow of things. While being unwary of the creeping frost.  Winter is here. Glacies loses the stat boost when the creature is defrosted. SERIES:

[ZephyrPhantom]

I feel this card needs to benefit more from its 'Freeze-matters' ability - since frozen creatures can't attack or trigger abilities, you're essentially 'sacrificing' creatures to have Glacies be able to attack, so most people will ignore this ability for the most part (there are better ways to deal damage).  Glacial entering play Frozen (and more expensive than Voodoo Doll/less beefy than Armagio) also means it's not a good source of damage either (3 turn windup, whereas you can Rage Pot Voodoo Doll right away or activate Gravity Pull after 1 turn on Armagio). The only advantage I feel it has over Armagio is with Catapult (24 damage vs. Armagio's 20), which makes the ability feel somewhat out of focus.

What if Glacies could attack while Frozen? It balances out Freezing your creatures by letting you have a large beatstick in their place.

[Drake_XIV]

Freezing your opponent's creatures still count towards Glacial.

I did the enter play Frozen thing to work slightly with PU/Fractal/Mitosis.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Freezing your opponent's creatures still count towards Glacial.

I did the enter play Frozen thing to work slightly with PU/Fractal/Mitosis.

Ah, I misread the card as being only your creatures. In that case, it's probably well-balanced and combos well with most of Water's CC, but can work in Gravity duos if needed.

I find it interesting that 'ETB Frozen' both helps and hurts Mitosis though. Is the ATK boost an active or passive ability?

[Drake_XIV]

Freezing your opponent's creatures still count towards Glacial.

I did the enter play Frozen thing to work slightly with PU/Fractal/Mitosis.

Ah, I misread the card as being only your creatures. In that case, it becomes more viable than I thought.

I find it interesting that 'ETB Frozen' both helps and hurts Mitosis though. Is the ATK boost an active or passive ability?

Active.  However, if removed, it will maintain its attack at that point.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Freezing your opponent's creatures still count towards Glacial.

I did the enter play Frozen thing to work slightly with PU/Fractal/Mitosis.

Ah, I misread the card as being only your creatures. In that case, it becomes more viable than I thought.

I find it interesting that 'ETB Frozen' both helps and hurts Mitosis though. Is the ATK boost an active or passive ability?

Active.  However, if removed, it will maintain its attack at that point.

Hm, this card gets even more interesting with Uthilarid, then.

I like this card a lot - its good at promoting mono-water but at the same time has some clever Duo synergies that are easy to build around.

[Daguerreo]

Hm, there was a card like "emperor penguin" in cruicible with same effect

[Hyroen]

There certainly was, by yours truly. ^_^

Interesting take however. Though I would like to know the thematics behind this card. Is this a type of Ice Golem which gains power through there being more ice? The art, while nice (awesome work Thalas), really throws me off. I can't see it as being a menace, unless you're the Titanic.

[Drake_XIV]

My idea was that it would be an ice golem of some sorts the would start off as non-threatening [0 ATT] and over time, it would accumulate the frozen creatures as part of itself until they had defrosted and escaped.

For some reason, I guess it is threatening to me. Something about the image of a lone icy monolith in a frozen sea.

[Cheesy111]

An HP increase doesn't really help unless you're getting into huge catapult damage increases.  Is there any particular reason you included it as a part of the upgrade?

[artimies7]

If the sky was dark, then the art would be more threatening.

On topic: If it attacked while frozen or dealt some alternative form of damage while frozen, (randomly freezing your opponent's creatures, say) it would be used far more by the less complex deck-builders out there rather than the sideways uses laid out for it now.

[Drake_XIV]

An HP increase doesn't really help unless you're getting into huge catapult damage increases.  Is there any particular reason you included it as a part of the upgrade?

I did my balancing based off of Voodoo Doll.  But yes, Pult use is what I was also going for, hence the Freeze upon play.