Necronomicon | Necronomicon

[hainkarga]

NAME: Necronomicon ELEMENT: Death COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.	NAME: Necronomicon ELEMENT: Death COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card. Heal yourself equal to sacrificed creatures HP.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1204250 IDEA: Sabbah NOTES: - The ability can be used multiple times in a turn. Uses: - Can work well with free creature cards. Graveyard (skeletons) / Firefly Queen / Fractal / Pharaoh / Phoenix (can just reborn). - Buffs other death cards such as Bone Wall & Vulture as the act of sacrificing gives charges to them. Combo with graveyard, as sacrificing a creature results a skeleton from each graveyard which in turn you can sacrifice again both for card drawing and HP gain while empowering your Bone Wall. So it suits mono/duo death as well as any rainbow that generates creatures. Here is a mono death example: You have Necronomicon, 2 Graveyards, a Bone Wall, 1 Virus and a Vulture on the table. Using Necronomicon, sacrifice Virus and then sacrifice the two skeletons produced. Equation is 1x Virus = 3x extra cards draw + 6xBone Wall charges + HP of 3x creatures sacrificed and +3/+3 for your Vulture . - A cure and a way to recycle useless & harmful creatures you own:  * Antimattered creatures  * Basilisk Blooded creatures  * Frozen creatures  * Creatures that has no way to get through enemy shield (ie: Creatures with high hp VS Gravity Shield, On foot creatures VS Wings spam)  * A poisoned creature on its last turn alive.  * Malignant cell. Even makes it more valuable if you Afflatoxin your own creatures.  * Opens up precious limited creature slots. (ie. for big creatures in a RoL / Hope deck as a final blow or when you are done with Rustlers) - Recycle deck bloating creatures. Often people use 5-6 copies of creatures when they don't really need more than 1 or 2 but take them anyway just for the sake of increasing chances to draw it. Like a deck that uses 6xRoL, 6xRustler, 6xBall Lightning, 4-5xSquid, 4-5xOtyugh even tho they don't really need to play all. This is where Necronomicon can take care of this situation by recycling them and saves you from sad draws. - To dig through your deck in an emergency situation when you need a certain card (Miracle, Deflagration etc, or any offensive finisher) - For Upped version: Sacrifice high hp creatures to gain health, in case you are at the edge of dying (ie. animated titan). It can potentially give you an extra turn to win. - Rather a simple straightforward card, which doesn't require deciphering. But still hopefully with some depth. - The conceptual idea is gaining wisdom through book of the dead by paying a malevolent price. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon) - Used this in a card idea competition which i had lost but I still believe in this card . Although its simple, I gave a lot of thought for uses of this card (made some imaginary decks with it) and I think death element needs to be able to sacrifice its own creatures. - Feedback much appreciated. Thanks. SERIES: Part of a trio submission for 'Another Epic 3 Card Design Challenge (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,13483.new.html)' competition.

[Drobbit]

I really loved this card when I saw it first time.

[Uppercut]

- The ability can be used multiple times in a turn.

Because what we really needed in Elements is a way to thin your deck 12 in one turn with 1 card.

[Drobbit]

Well. I think its a bit OP, but the idea is great and after fixed for the game it will be very useful.

[QuantumT]

- The ability can be used multiple times in a turn.

Because what we really needed in Elements is a way to thin your deck 12 in one turn with 1 card.

I don't really like that part either.

[geekz_always_win]

You still need like a Fire Storm and a Graveyard in addition to this up to make use of it. That's a 3 card combo. Tough to setup IMO

[QuantumT]

You still need like a Fire Storm and a Graveyard in addition to this up to make use of it. That's a 3 card combo. Tough to setup IMO

I see the graveyard (I'd probably use boneyard actually, seeing as you're going to be saccing them anyway) but why fire storm?

Basically it goes like this. If I have both necronomicon and 1 boneyard in play (which costs 7), I can draw 2 cards for every creature I have, one for itself and one for the skeleton. As long as I draw at least one creature in those 2 cards, I can repeat the process all over again. My ability to draw is only limited by my quanta.

That's only with a single boneyard in play. With multiples, it would be absurd.

[AnonymousRevival]

I would say the unupped is way too UP. Not only does it cost 4 , it requires a creature to be sacrificed. I suggest that all you need is the sacrifice no quanta needed.

[QuantumT]

I would say the unupped is way too UP. Not only does it cost 4 , it requires a creature to be sacrificed. I suggest that all you need is the sacrifice no quanta needed.

Wait, what? You want it to come into play for free as well?

It's a permanent. I'd guess you thought it was a spell.

[AnonymousRevival]

Yeah I know that. I still think it can cost for free, sacrificing a creature just for drawing A card. The upped is fine though.

[QuantumT]

Yeah I know that. I still think it can cost for free, sacrificing a creature just for drawing A card. The upped is fine though.

I disagree. Each one creature I play becomes 2,3,4 draws with boneyards in play, and that doesn't even count that I can get skeletons from other things.

This is my problem with it:

Lets say that I have a hand full of kill cards. Every time I use one, I kill a creature and get a skeleton. I sacrifice that skeleton to draw a card. Every CC card I have now gains the ability to replace itself. This would ruin almost any deck, as no matter how many creature cards you play, I will never run out of CC in my hand.

I think I'd be ok with it if it was only once per turn. Even then it would be a strong card.

My recommendation- keep the costs where there at, and get rid of the multiple uses per turn.

[hainkarga]

Yeah I know that. I still think it can cost for free, sacrificing a creature just for drawing A card. The upped is fine though.

I tried to explain other uses in the Notes section. Its not just for drawing a card for a creature but potentially has other strategic defensive / offensive uses. Such as countering antimatter, disposing of useless creatures, empowering Bone Wall on demand or digging through your deck for an important card.

For example, you can make a death&fire deck that includes tons of free / low cost creatures, Bone Walls, Burning Towers&Fire Pendulums and Fire Lances. You spam those free creatures, dig your deg with Necronomicon, draw & play all towers incredibly fast, and then finish your opponent with Fire Lances while Bone Walls keep growing as a defense as you sacrifice your own creatures and maybe rain of fire enemy creatures. Not discussing this imaginary deck's efficiency (which i just made up), but trying to make a point that it can potentially have deeper uses.

Being a death card, i believe it is rather limited from being OP but still fairly good.