Shard | Shard of Dependability

[Sengiratolom]

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 Dependability ELEMENT: Other COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: N|3 ABILITY: Power = N and  is equal to poison on the opponent divided by 5. Successful attacks add 1 poison.

ART: Unknown IDEA: Sengiratolom NOTES: the attack of it is rounded down

[redium]

That would be a poison staple card if it came into the game.  I really like it.

[Kuroaitou]

CURATOR COMMENT
To get this card approved for the competition:
-Fix the spelling and other discrepancies between your upgraded card text and the Ability section in your table (you're missing the word 'is' in your card image; "opponent" and "successful" are misspelled)

What does the variable N equal to? What is its value?

[Bloodshadow]

FINALLY, someone with enough creativity to think outside the box and make a creature shard. I thought my Shard of Morality (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,11255.0.html) was the only creature shard in the competition.

Although... I don't really see how this relates to the virtue of dependability...

[Sengiratolom]

Thanks for the replies, i fixed the spelling and declared the value of N.

to Bloodshadow, the shards power is dependant on the opponents poison stack, hence dependability, if the contest wasn't virtue restricted i would have called it "Shard of Toxin"

[Kuroaitou]

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

Thanks for the replies, i fixed the spelling and declared the value of N.

to Bloodshadow, the shards power is dependant on the opponents poison stack, hence dependability, if the contest wasn't virtue restricted i would have called it "Shard of Toxin"

The bold part actually makes it LESS dependable, because technically speaking, you're relying on a special mechanic that can be countered by a very specific spell. In most cases, yes, Poison is pretty reliable at taking your opponent down, but otherwise, if the opponent has Purify on them, then this shard is actually NOT a very dependable creature to rely on (most likely because you might be healing them with enough purifying counters on them).

I still think it's a good idea that works with the new poison additions in 1.25, but aside from relying on scorpions, the new Pufferfish, Arsenic/Deadly Poison, I don't think it's a very dependable shard outside any deck that uses poison. Oh well.