[Official] Reflective shield | Mirror Shield

[Atico]

Same here, reflective shield should be able to reflect other spells that implicitly target, like silence, poison, black hole and so on

Agreed, especially as Unstable Gas is already reflected.

On the other hand, having a shield that reflects Silence and Black Hole in the element of Sanc is iffy.

As I wrote in other topic: JadeShield shouldn't reflect UG (it isn't a spell) but should reflect BH, Poison, Silence etc. We should change this or change card text, because now text is different than ability.

Actually, UG's 'skill' of explode is actually a spell, just the same as Physila's poison.

So when I have Hourglass and JadeShield then card should be draw for opponent, not for me?

What is more - there is no logic in Your opinion, because "spell" from UG is reflected, but "spell" from Phylasia no.

[Annele]

Oh, come on guys! If these two shields reflect EVERY kind of spell (Silence, Poison, Black Hole etc.) they would become totally broken and no one would play any other shield any more. There is not any global Spell Counter in this game and IMO there shouldn't be. They already reflect damage dealing spells and creatures buffed with Shard of Wisdom suffer greatly due to these shields, why should we buff them to hell?

If you put it like that...

[jawdirk]

These shields would be better if it were common for cards to have both physical and spell damage. Then they could be somewhat effective most of the time, and extremely effective some times. As it stands they are worthless most of the time, and occasionally autowin. Everyone hates cards like this.

So here is a proposal: Make a new attribute (like flying) called "magical" spread it liberally over all the existing creatures (fire spirit, forest spirit, most dragons, most weapons, etc.). Magical creatures do half physical damage (rounded up) and half spell damage (rounded down) if they hit. So they are still fully blocked by physical shields, but also partially reflected by reflective/mirror shield and emerald shield.

[Xamuel]

I think we'll have to wait until shards of wisdom (as well as psions) slowly make their way into more players' decks, before judging these shields.  Maybe I'm an outlier but I still haven't gotten a single shard of wisdom.  Once more players have them-- and I'm sure players will be using them, based on some of the wicked SoW decks I've encountered in gold arena-- these shields will be more powerful.

Here's a little food for thought..  want a cheap  - duo version of Antimatter?  Throw a quintessence on the enemy's creature and then hit it with Shard of Wisdom, while holding a mirror shield...  (well, not antimatter precisely, it'll hurt them instead of heal you, semantics semantics)

Edit:  Soon as I wrote in this thread that I hadn't gotten a single SoW, I got my first one from a normal spin in bronze 

[bobknows]

As there are currently only 2 counters to CC(quint and sofr) maybe we could give it a sofr-like effect. 25% chance to eeflect CC to the opponents side of the field

[furballdn]

As there are currently only 2 counters to CC(quint and sofr) maybe we could give it a sofr-like effect. 25% chance to eeflect CC to the opponents side of the field

What? No! That'd be a way too big buff for them. Besides, you're using the shield to protect yourself, it's not that huge as to cover your entire field.

[bobknows]

Ok, bad idea.
But how about this, many shields block 1(2upped) damage in addition to their effect. So, buff damage blocked by one?

[furballdn]

Ok, bad idea.
But how about this, many shields block 1(2upped) damage in addition to their effect. So, buff damage blocked by one?

You'd need a heavy cost raise.
Mirror shield would be 1dr+reflect for 1 and 2dr+reflect for 2
while jade/emerald would be 2dr+reflect for 5 and 3dr+reflect for 7 completely shaming diamond|titanium shield and permafrost and the others.

[bobknows]

Sorry, completely missed that jade already reducs damage.
And yes, mirror might cost 3-4, but i think +1 dr would let it see more use.

[furballdn]

Sorry, completely missed that jade already reducs damage.
And yes, mirror might cost 3-4, but i think +1 dr would let it see more use.

4 for 2dr and spell reflect? Sounds like quite a deal to me.

[bobknows]

4 unupped, this would be similar to jade shield

[jawdirk]

Here's a little food for thought..  want a cheap  - duo version of Antimatter?  Throw a quintessence on the enemy's creature and then hit it with Shard of Wisdom, while holding a mirror shield...  (well, not antimatter precisely, it'll hurt them instead of heal you, semantics semantics)

I've tried to make a deck that does this, but it ends up being too many cards to be reliable. The problem is that the shield is useless without the quint + shard. The shard is only useful by itself if you use immortal creatures, and the quint is only useful by itself if you don't. I tried to use anubis instead of quint, but there is not really enough room in the deck to reliably get the combo out. That makes shard useful only offensively (in competitive decks), as far as I can tell.