Shard | Shard of Potential

[Kuroaitou]

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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 Potential ELEMENT: Other COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: ABILITY: Generates a random free creature depending on the quanta you have each turn. Lasts 3 turns.

ART: Zanzarino - in-game art from Elements modified in color and saturation. IDEA: Kuroaitou NOTES: This card is an entry for the Shard Madness! Card Design Competition (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,11099.72.html). Potential means that something of value or a being has the capability of doing something great and wonderful, as well as nothing at all. Concepts such as 'wasted' potential helped me design this shard. By "Generates a random free creature", the creature will be automatically played onto the field at no cost, meaning that when the creature appears, quanta won't be used. By "depending on the quanta you have", Shard of Potential will generate a creature dependent on what type of quanta you have (element-wise) as well as the amount of that quanta type. Example: If you had 5 quanta and 2 quanta for a turn with a Shard of Potential out, you'd have a chance of generating one of the following: Ash Eater | Brimstone Eater (1  ) Fire Spirit | Fire Spectre (2 or 3  ) Lava Golem | Lava Destroyer (5  ) Minor Phoenix (2 ) Note that the non-upgraded version, Phoenix, requires 7  quanta, and thus cannot be generated Dragonfly | Damselfly (1  ) Photon | Ray of Light (REQUIRES NO QUANTA) Spark | Ball of Lightning (REQUIRES NO QUANTA) Multiple shards = multiple creatures depending on your quanta levels. Playing them early may guarantee that you'll have a field of weaker creatures, but playing them later may generate stronger or more useful creatures. And yes - you have a chance of generating a very useless creature (Spark, BoL, RoL, or a Photon) when playing these cards. ^^; Note that the chance of generating any of the creatures in the above example has an equal chance of occurring. If you had infinite Air quanta, you could have an equal chance of generating a Dragonfly or a Air Nymph. SERIES: N/A

[killsdazombies]

honestly, OP for the cost. i would suggest a cost increase to like 6 or 7.... free creature generation is only in graveyard/boneyards, they cost 3/5 death, and only produce skeletons, while this could produce a skeleton or a dragon.

[Kuroaitou]

honestly, OP for the cost. i would suggest a cost increase to like 6 or 7.... free creature generation is only in graveyard/boneyards, they cost 3/5 death, and only produce skeletons, while this could produce a skeleton or a dragon.

I'd figure. I knew that the cost was going to be an issue. I'll raise it up when I have time.

The fun thing is, not only could it produce a skeleton or a dragon, but it will either always generate a Photon/RoL (semi-useless), or a Spark/BoL (also semi-useless), which skews up the odds of you getting something that will really benefit (a strong dragon, a mutating Druid, a Nymph, etc.).

[$$$man]

6 of these in a speedbow=OMGWTFBBQ
 
Yah, but a nost increase should balance this nicely.

[ddevans96]

Isn't Lava Destroyer only 5 cost? Last I saw it was....

[Kuroaitou]

Isn't Lava Destroyer only 5 cost? Last I saw it was....

Right... kind of messed that one up. ^^;;;

Edited.

[Kael Hate]

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

[Kael Hate]

This is incredibly strong. Somewhat Randomly Overpowered

I would suggest the price is right for the card advantage, but the creature presence is too much. How about it randomly chooses creatures, but charges you the creatures cost +1. This way you can't manilpulate out 3 free Ray of Light and if you want to get a decent creature, you will have a better chance when you have no or  , otherwise you are always going to get your chance ruined by a spark.

I changed my view because when setup, the random power can be far above the curve. Imagine you had 20 then dropped these, you could get 3 Ruby Dragons from each shard, you might also get 3 spark. But generally you're well ahead.

[bored_ninja777]

maybe it can go away like sundial after its been used? 1 turn 3 monster deal instead of 3 turns.

[Kuroaitou]

This is incredibly strong. Somewhat Randomly Overpowered

I would suggest the price is right for the card advantage, but the creature presence is too much. How about it randomly chooses creatures, but charges you the creatures cost +1. This way you can't manilpulate out 3 free Ray of Light and if you want to get a decent creature, you will have a better chance when you have no or  , otherwise you are always going to get your chance ruined by a spark.

I changed my view because when setup, the random power can be far above the curve. Imagine you had 20 then dropped these, you could get 3 Ruby Dragons from each shard, you might also get 3 spark. But generally you're well ahead.

The bold part intrigues me. You mean that, after playing this card...

Example:
-I have 6 Earth Quanta left after playing Shard of Potential. Upon 'creature' generation, I lose 4  quanta from generating a random elite Graboid on the field (originally it costs 3 quanta, but the +1 cost adds to it), and then Shard of Potential loses 1 tick of a counter off it's turn count?

maybe it can go away like sundial after its been used? 1 turn 3 monster deal instead of 3 turns.

No, because that would make it easy for 'creature spam' should you have a decent amount of quanta generation - or in other words, supernova spam (NOT GOOD). You'd overflow the board with your creatures which may or may not be overpowered/expensive/durable, which is why I have it so that it generates a creature each turn over a duration of time. This way, you can counter it via permanent destruction or single-target crowd control (one creature at a time = easy to hit with an Otyugh or other spells).

[Kael Hate]

Example:
-I have 6 Earth Quanta left after playing Shard of Potential. Upon 'creature' generation, I lose 4  quanta from generating a random elite Graboid on the field (originally it costs 3 quanta, but the +1 cost adds to it), and then Shard of Potential loses 1 tick of a counter off it's turn count?

That would be perfect.
And as the cost of each creature is increased by 1 the cost to deploy can come down, maybe to 3. So the cost for advantange is still 6:3 (restricted).

[Bloodshadow]

I'd give this card an upkeep, just because it generates creatures.

@Kael: LOL, so a Curator have to ask the other Curator to approve his card?