Spine Carapace

[fl0ppy]

Hi everyone,

Today I've upgraded the Thorn Carapace into the Spine Carapace and I've discovered one unpleasant thing:
all the opponent (AI) creatures with attack equal to 1 are not attacking during the AI attack phase.
To be sure was not a problem of mine I've close the browser, and cleaned my temp, cookies etc etc and reloaded the page but the problem still stands.

The creatures wont attack until they get some bonus on the attack.

I'm using the latest FireFox (3.6.6)

Can some Life users that have this shield check as well please?

Thanks

[DrunkDestroyer]

This always happens. For some reason, since the shield blocks 1 damage, and they do one damage, they do not attack (treated as if they had 0 attack), and therefore do not get effected by the shield's effects.

[fl0ppy]

Ekk.. not good, I just lost against a gravity deck with Angels and Armagios, since I was not having any chance to wipe them out and the Ai with 6 angels costantly curing the Armagio.
Same story for the Otyugh, until it's 2 or more it wont be targeted, and for that point if it's an elite one it will be too late, or  the quite annoying combo with Ray of Light and Hope.


For my point of view it is a malus rather than an upgrade:  that shield is the only means that a mono life deck has to remove creatures

[fl0ppy]

This an example why I think is definitively a bug that should addressed in the next realase.

(http://imageplay.net/view/m7Gbd71678/example)

A you can see the Ai has stolen me the two Empathic Bond and not only it cure itself, but with those Parasite can poison every creature i play, and since I'm using a mono life, I cant do a thing about other than lose.

At this today add the fact that on 3 hours play I  lost 99% of the games against this particular deck.
And to add insult at the injury it comed up A LOT!

I totally think that the shield suck as is, and I really would like have the chance to revert back the upgrade I've made.
(sadly  I have just 2 of those)

At least the text on the card should be changed from "physical damage reduced by 1" to "lower the attack of the enemy creature by 1" that seems more clear to me IF it this is the intended effect.
I'm quite sure it is not, because for as much I think I cannot find any advantage in it.

[implosion]

It is the intended effect. Similar things happen with ice shield and permafrost shield. Easy fix: use un-upped shields. Think about it. If you're a creature, and you can't do any damage to your opponent, are you going to attack? No. You're going to sit there if you can't harm them. If you don't attack, you can't get infected.