[Official] Skull Shield | Skull Buckler

[killybob]

there wasn't  a huge amount of skill in the game anyway. elements is about tactically selecting a deck which ensures the best possible ratio between costs, between attack and hp, and finally good draws and bad draws. this game is ultimately about setting up a deck that has the highest probability of winning. chance runs the game.

[BluePriest]

Skull shield is a terrible card for the game. When you take something that can swing the game as much as this can and make it probability based, you take away skill from the game.

Dusk Shield, Fog Shield, Mutation, Fate Egg...

Shouldnt this topic be locked?

[killybob]

yes once a card has either received or been denied a buff by zanz then the topic must be blocked so as to create a new topic in the "card changes" section.

[ZephyrPhantom]

What really bugs me about this card is that it becomes much less powerful when upgraded - Elite Skeletons are 2 | 2, which means that they can penetrate the shield while the unupgraded version's 1 | 1 Skeletons can't. For -1 Cost, that doesn't seem very fair.

My suggested buff is to make the Skeletons spawned be unupgraded - it makes much more sense mechanically (shield would still shuts down damage like it did unupgraded) and the -1 cost would make much more sense as an upgrade as well by itself.

[truddy02]

It doesn't matter if the shield is upgraded.  Ugraded creatures become elite skeletons and unupped creatures become regular skeletons.

[RagingAlien]

then make the upgraded cost the same and get +1 DR! avoiding ALL upgraded skellies.

[Genuinous]

then make the upgraded cost the same and get +1 DR! avoiding ALL upgraded skellies.

Maybe the upgraded should cost more with 2 DR...

[RagingAlien]

yeah, sounds good. upped's cost is 4, DR is 2?

[ZephyrPhantom]

It doesn't matter if the shield is upgraded.  Ugraded creatures become elite skeletons and unupped creatures become regular skeletons.

Whoops. I wasn't aware of this. In that case, Topic Locked, the shield is fine as it is.

[Heric the Dark Lord]

This card sees low usage in Death Decks, meta or otherwise. It's cheap, but with the low chance of effect for it's cost, most people would use Bone Wall or Shield, one being generally more powerful, the other being cheaper. Upgrading it is also pointless, because all you get is a slightly cheaper version of an UP card.

Also, I've tested a deck using it before. If it kills an upgraded card, it turns into an ELITE skeleton, which is strong enough to damage you.(May be wrong. It's been a while since I tested that.) Seems like a waste of time and 1500 electrum in upgraded play, and not effective enough in unupgraded play.

I'm not asking to make it meta, but a buff would be nice. Opinions?

[Chapuz]

It is already powerful and works magically. imgo it shouldn't be buffed. The only reason it's not used that much is because in rainbows people uses Fog shield.

[Annele]

What Chapuz said, but I do like the idea of all creatures upped or unupped turning into unupped skeletons. That's enough of a buff, I think.