Shard l Shard of Empathy

[Ryli]

Comments and improvements please

NAME: Shard ELEMENT: Other COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: ABILITY: It looks like a crystal shard. It seems to be useless, but it might be upgradable.	NAME: Shard of Empathy ELEMENT: Other COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: ABILITY: All damage and poison inflicted to the target creature are redirected to your health.

ART: Zanzarino IDEA: Morningstar NOTES: The target creature can't be damaged or poisoned. Instead you take the damage/poison yourself. This effect is meant to ignore reflecting shields, so if your creature with this card takes a Fire Bolt then you take the damage despite having a Jade Shield. The ability is passive, so it can't be Lobotomised. This card can't be played on a creature with Gravity Pull, and Gravity Pull can't be cast on a creature with this. The target creature can still be frozen, delayed etc and have it's damage reduced. It also has the drawback of multiple creatures having this and the opponent plays fire sheild, Thorn Shield etc. It is intended for this card NOT to work on opponents creatures. SERIES: Shard Madness competition

[Kuroaitou]

CURATOR COMMENT
To get this card approved for the competition:
-Fix the non-upped card art image (it's incredibly blurry - don't stretch an image to 'fit' a resolution, but use the direct image link instead when substituting it for the image code)
-Fix the discrepancies between the card text and the Ability description in your table (add a period for your upgraded card table description)

[Ryli]

I broke it some more.

Would it be acceptable for me to stop being stubborn and ask you how to do it?
Otherwise the next time you see it this may not resemble anything readable

[masterada]

shouldnt it be "All damage and poison inflicted to the target creature are redirected to its owner's health."
the way u made it its a bit too week i think (just compare it with a quint)

also u used the wrong link for the image:
Comments and improvements please

NAME: Shard ELEMENT: Other COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: ABILITY: It looks like a crystal shard. It seems to be useless, but it might be upgradable	NAME: Shard of Empathy ELEMENT: Other COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: ABILITY: All damage and poison inflicted to the target creature are redirected to your health.

ART: Zanzarino (correct me if I'm wrong) IDEA: Morningstar NOTES: The target creature can't be damaged or poisoned. Instead you take the damage/poison yourself. This effect is meant to ignore reflecting shields, so if your creature with this card takes a firebolt then you take the damage despite having a jade shield. The target creature can still be frozen, delayed etc and have it's damage reduced. It also has the drawback of multiple creatures having this and the opponent plays fire sheild, thorn shield etc. It is intended for this card NOT to work on opponents creatures. SERIES: Shard Madness competition

[Ryli]

the way u made it its a bit too week i think (just compare it with a quint)

I think that depends on how you use it.
Imagine putting this in a mono gravity. Use this on a gravity nymph so it can use black hole without dying. It means you don't have to splash aether into monos and duos to make an important creature impossible to kill.
And quint doesn't stop the creature from death (fire and thorn shields) which means this card could still be useful.

[masterada]

i just thought that 5 is a bit too much for mono, and there r not many duos out there w/o aether + ur creature can still be harmed in many ways (?grav force?/freeze/delay/rewind/mutate/paradox/lobo/liquid shadow(for lobo)/devour) - if grav force redirects the dmg to u, its even worse as its like all enemy creatures having momentum

thats why i think its a bit UP

[Mastermind79]

How does this card work with Gravity Pull? It seems like it would go in an infinite loop...if the damage can only be redirected once, like Spell + Reflect Shield, which does it hit, you or the creature?

[Ryli]

ur creature can still be harmed in many ways (?grav force?/freeze/delay/rewind/mutate/paradox/lobo/liquid shadow(for lobo)/devour)

How does this card work with Gravity Pull? It seems like it would go in an infinite loop...if the damage can only be redirected once, like Spell + Reflect Shield, which does it hit, you or the creature?

I didn't even consider gravity pull.
Well i have a few ideas for this.

1. you take the damage
2. creature takes the damage
3. gravity pull can't be cast on the creature
4. gravity pull negates shard of empathy

Personally I think it should be 3.

For lobotomise. the ability could be passive, so lobotomise does not affect it.

But I want it to be clear that it should have some downsides compared to quint, otherwise quint becomes pointless in most situations.

[Kuroaitou]

CURATOR COMMENT
This Card is Crucible Approved for the Shard Madness! Competition.
Edits of this card after this post may Void Approval.

(But yes, always use the 'Direct Image Link' to your picture whenever you link the picture from an image uploading website.)

I find it funny how one person would be willing to take poison damage (Infect/Thorn Carapace/Plague/etc.) to ensure that their creature stays safe (Empahthy), but that's irrelevant. How would this work on 'death' triggers, such as Devour, Paradox, or the Freeze+Shockwave Combo?