Charcoal Stallion | Fire Stallion

[jallenw]

This is 1 of 12 Mounts created by Jallen for easy access to all 12 check out the Mount topic:http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5476.0.html (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5476.0.html)

NAME: Charcoal Stallion ELEMENT: Fire COST: 8 TYPE: Creature, Mount ATT/HP: 5/2 ABILITY: Explode: Sacrifice Charcoal Stallion to Destroy target permanent. . ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Mounts are creatures, but like weapons and shields, you can only have 1 mount in play at a time. ART BY: Jallen CARD IDEA BY: Jallen	NAME: Fire Stallion ELEMENT: Fire COST: 9 TYPE: Creature, Mount ATT/HP: 7/2 ABILITY: Explode: Sacrifice Fire Stallion to Destroy target permanent. . ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Mounts are creatures, but like weapons and shields, you can only have 1 mount in play at a time. ART BY: Jallen CARD IDEA BY: Jallen

[Kameda]

Now I liked, the other mounts should have some backslash to make them disapear if the ability is used too much.

[jallenw]

Yeah, I'm learning as I go I guess, but I don't want them all to be too similar.  This one's backlash makes logical sense.  He explodes.

[Bloodshadow]

What? Unless you buff Charcoal Stallion, it's destroyed after one use? I'd rather have Deflag.

[jallenw]

Yes, but you can buff him, and the upgraded version has 3 hp, so he can explode twice even without buffs.  But there are so many ways that you can keep using this guy if you need to.  Chaos Power, plate armor, blessing, guardian angel (for the Fire Stallion) etc...

My favorite would probably be to get him out early and Basilisk Blood him.  +0/+20 gives you 10 deflags for a total cost of 29 fire quanta and 2 earth quanta.

But to each his own. 

I figure if I get a few people saying the card isn't useful, and a few people saying that it is, then that is a good indication that the card is balanced.  I look forward to seeing what more people say about my cards.  They were fun to make.

Jallen

[dragonhuman]

sounds good and fair and it can still be countered easily while having a good ability. very good combination decks of fire and light could be made from this

[dekskose]

yay a good card for rage archangels wuhu

[dekskose]

another idea same stats gives each creature ( also your opponents) +1/-1

[jallenw]

I typically shy away from any ability that effects all of something.  To often such things are very over-powered.

[miniwally]

It definitely needs synergy with a different element to be effective:

Earth - Plate Armour, Basilisk Blood, Earth NymphEntropy - Chaos PowerLight - Heal

P.S Did you get the picture of the horse from google images?

[jallenw]

I found a public domain horse photograph and then loaded it up into Paint Shop Pro and played around with the effects, filters, color adjustment, and stuff.

The pictures for most of the mounts will have to change before being placed in the game, since some of them are copyrighted artwork I'm sure.  I try to find public domain images as often as I can, or public domain photographs with nifty filter effects like this one.

[killsdazombies]

destroy on a stick? i dont like it, the damage to the mount makes it better but i just dont like it..... seems a bit OP to me.