Dark Pharoah | Dark Pharoah [ETG User Cards 2]

[russianspy1234]

NAME: Dark Pharaoh ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 8 TEXT: : Shadow Game Flip the coin.  The loser of the flip takes 10 damage.	NAME: Dark Pharaoh ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 8 TEXT:    : Shadow Game Flip the coin.  The loser of the flip takes 13 damage.

ART: pharaoh avatar plus yugi hair IDEA: russianspy1234 NOTES: A long time ago, not quite during the time of Pharaohs, I played a game called Yugioh.  When I first started playing Elements, I decided to strive towards a Pharaoh deck.  When I earned the right to make my custom forum avatar, it seemed natural to combine the two things into the art that would represent me.  The ability itself does not quite represent my play style, however I am definitely a big fan of making custom cards with abilities based on chance because I feel that it can be a very useful tool for balancing cards.  Combining my avatar with my love of randomness seems like the way to go to make a card that would represent me in the world of Elements.  In most games I play, I prefer to find combos to make use of seemingly weak cards.  While this Dark Pharaoh seems a bit weak due to being so expensive for an effect that would likely hurt you more than your opponent, it would be a fun challenge to build a deck to mitigate that problem, especially if one were to ignore the obvious synergy with reflective shields.  Whenever I start playing a new game, I am always a little disappointed at how healing effects tend to be so vastly inferior to direct damage effects.  Elements is a little better about this than most games, but still not good enough I feel.  Healing cards truly shine in Arena more than they do when used by the player.  With this card doing such a vast amount of damage, healing becomes much more useful, whether you are using it on your side to mitigate it's effect on you, or just including healing in your deck when facing off against the Pharaoh. SERIES:

[OldTrees]

The ability to two edged. It does not deserve the +7 casting cost.

[Rutarete]

The thing is, the Shadow games weren't about chance..., but cool impression of yourself!

[russianspy1234]

The ability to two edged. It does not deserve the +7 casting cost.

Hmm true, I put in the Pharaoh stats and didn't change them.

The thing is, the Shadow games weren't about chance..., but cool impression of yourself!

Check out season 0, many of them were about chance, and skewing what seemed like a fair game to be in your favor.

[Rutarete]

The thing is, the Shadow games weren't about chance..., but cool impression of yourself!

Check out season 0, many of them were about chance, and skewing what seemed like a fair game to be in your favor.

Season 0? I remember there's a season 1, but not 0.

[russianspy1234]

The thing is, the Shadow games weren't about chance..., but cool impression of yourself!

Check out season 0, many of them were about chance, and skewing what seemed like a fair game to be in your favor.

Season 0? I remember there's a season 1, but not 0.

Season 0 is season 1 of the original Japanese anime, never got translated to English because it was far too violent.

[OldTrees]

Season 0 was great.
However none of the games were actually fair. The Pharaoh chose games that the opponent was at an actual disadvantage despite an apparent advantage. The skill should reflect this.

[Rutarete]

The thing is, the Shadow games weren't about chance..., but cool impression of yourself!

Check out season 0, many of them were about chance, and skewing what seemed like a fair game to be in your favor.

Season 0? I remember there's a season 1, but not 0.

Season 0 is season 1 of the original Japanese anime, never got translated to English because it was far too violent.

Perhaps I'll watch it later.

[russianspy1234]

Season 0 was great.
However none of the games were actually fair. The Pharaoh chose games that the opponent was at an actual disadvantage despite an apparent advantage. The skill should reflect this.

The Pharaoh had to do thinking and preparing to make the situation work in his advantage though.  Spanning all of the seasons though, it expands to "play game, loser of the game gets hurt" usually the game would be more complicated than a coin toss, but that would be hard to put into an EtG card.  Would be funny though, if the card made you open a separate program to play another game to see who takes the damage...  Really though, I just used it as a jumping off point.  in true thematics, I would have focused on the "banishment" aspect and just have it act as CC, but that would be harder to balance and make interesting.

[furballdn]

Not a fan of flip a coin and bonus to the lucky one concepts.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Yami-no game! The one who loses the coin toss must has his/her soul trapped into the realm of shadows... or at least he/she must be devoured by giant man-eating worms!!

[OldTrees]

New cost is balanced.