Prison | Prison

[skyironsword]

NAME: Prison ELEMENT: Death COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Arena: Healing and salvaging effects do not work	NAME: Prison ELEMENT: Death COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Arena: Healing and salvaging effects do not work

ART: IDEA: skyironsword NOTES: You can still play Heal and Holy Light, but nothing will happen. Purify will still stop poison, but will not heal you each turn. Salvagers will not salvage permanents. Shard of Patience, Blessing, etc. will only increase attack. Plate Armor, Shard of Divinity, and Stone Skin will do nothing. Arena: Destroy this card if another Arena card comes into play on either side SERIES: Arena

[CuCN]

What is the effect on Shard of Sacrifice, Shard of Focus, Nightfall, Vulture (scavenger ability), and Antimatter?

[skyironsword]

SoSac will damage you and drain your quanta, while preventing all damage for 2 turns. You will not heal.

SoFo will not gain health.

Nightfall and Vulture will only increase attack.

Antimatter will still invert attack, but the inverted attack won't heal you.

[xsindomanx]

Looks enormously powerful. Of course, it affects both sides, but I can think of synergies to shut down a wide variety of decks.

I think at the very least, that you need to make a distinction between 1) gaining health and 2) healing.

I don't consider SoFo's accretion doing 0|+15 to be 'healing', but rather just 'gaining health' Same with cards like lava golem or plate armor.

[skyironsword]

This is quite an expensive card to get out, it would be rather hard to get both this and SoFo in play without about 20 pendulums.

[xsindomanx]

Of course, but most of your arena cards aren't made for the 30 card rush decks.
On the contrary to what I wrote previously, I would consider effects of the guardian angel, druidic staff, and vampire dagger to be 'healing'.

It is indeed a bit expansive for such an effect, and maybe a cost of ~3 or 4 upped would be appropriate. But eh, your card your choices :3

[skyironsword]

Drop it to 3, and suddenly 50 SoFo rush decks storm platinum arena

[Pineapple]

Just wondering, why Healing and Salvaging (triggers on destruction effect) but not things that trigger on death effects like Boneyard?

[skyironsword]

It's a prison. Why would that stop death of any sort? Healing and salvaging are both positive things that give back something lost (health, permanents) while death effects are just... death effects. If anything, a prison would make the death effect worse.

[Pineapple]

It's a prison. Why would that stop death of any sort? Healing and salvaging are both positive things that give back something lost (health, permanents) while death effects are just... death effects.

Yeah. It's a prison. How does that prevent people from chugging medication and robots from digging? By the same reasoning, because most death effects trigger positive things that give back something lost (like a skeleton), it should also be included.

[skyironsword]

They can't chug medication because it's an abandoned prison with no medical supplies.

Robots can't dig because, well, the floor is metal.

And a skeleton is positive ingame, but in the real world a skeleton would be seen as a bad thing.