Aether/Life-Life/Aether Series Challenge

[Ignion]

Interesting challenge. I like challenges, so I took a shot at it. You can see my card at http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,21352.0.html

For your convenience, here is the table too, but I will not be updating this one (I'll update the Pinocchio thread instead).

NAME: Pinocchio 2.0 ELEMENT: Aether COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|4 TEXT: Growing Nose: Every time is generated, Pinocchio 2.0 gains +1 ATTK.	NAME: Pinocchio X ELEMENT: Aether COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|6 TEXT: Growing Nose: Every time is generated, Pinocchio X gains +1 ATTK.

ART: Ignion IDEA: Ignion NOTES: Please note that Pinocchio 2.0/X gains +1 ATTK "every time," NOT FOR EVERY . So, even if pillars generate 4 , that counts as "one time" = only +1 ATTK gain. This is my answer to the aether/life - life/aether challenge posted by EmeraldTiger @ http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,21305.0.html SERIES:

[Glitch]

NAME: The giving tree ELEMENT: Life COST: 8 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|10 TEXT: As long as the giving tree is in play, your life total cannot change.  You may not play more than one copy of the giving tree.  Cards that effect permanents also effect the giving tree.  The giving tree cannot be immortal or protected.  Drains 3 per turn.

ART: ***Insert artist name*** IDEA: Gl1tch NOTES: The giving tree gave everything it could, and then just a bit more. SERIES: ***Insert series name and link to series page (if any)***

Sorry if the formatting is goofed, I copy+pasta'd off of someone else.

[OldTrees]

@Agroagro
So Aether is only about the movement of things from dimension to dimension and the control/cause of such movement?
You have demonstrated that this theme can go a long way. You have convinced me. Thank you for your instruction.

Hive Mind

A creature of 0|5(or more) with relatively high cost with ability called synapse : All insects you control gain +1|+1 until start of your next turn.

Would that do the synergy?

Why would Aether care about insects vs non insects?
Why would Aether cause a temporary mass buff?

@ Pinocchio
I am unsure what a wooden puppet has to do with Aether.
However the ability is an interesting one to say the least.
It seems to be an unbalanced Fiery like skill.

@ The giving Tree
That is one complex card. It falls just short of the Kael card classification.
How does a Tree protect your HP? Why is that associated with Aether?

[Glitch]

Alright, well, I'll simplify it.

As long as it is in play, your life total can't change.

It's literally phase shield in creature form, with the added bonus of also reflecting damage.  The only way to possibly beat your opponent is to deck them or kill the creature.  Which is why I made it easier to kill it by making it targetable by steal/deflag/pulvie/butterfly, and made it so it couldn't be quinted.  The general concept, "your life total can't change", needed a few combo specific rule changes in order to not be broken.

[OldTrees]

Alright, well, I'll simplify it.

As long as it is in play, your life total can't change.

It's literally phase shield in creature form, with the added bonus of also reflecting damage.  The only way to possibly beat your opponent is to deck them or kill the creature.  Which is why I made it easier to kill it by making it targetable by steal/deflag/pulvie/cats, and made it so it couldn't be quinted.  The general concept, "your life total can't change", needed a few combo specific rule changes in order to not be broken.

Good point. The weakness to PC is important to the balance. It needs the complexity for the sake of balance and thus is not akin to a Kael card.

However thematically how does a tree prevent your life total from changing?

[Glitch]

Alright, well, I'll simplify it.

As long as it is in play, your life total can't change.

It's literally phase shield in creature form, with the added bonus of also reflecting damage.  The only way to possibly beat your opponent is to deck them or kill the creature.  Which is why I made it easier to kill it by making it targetable by steal/deflag/pulvie/cats, and made it so it couldn't be quinted.  The general concept, "your life total can't change", needed a few combo specific rule changes in order to not be broken.

Good point. The weakness to PC is important to the balance. It needs the complexity for the sake of balance and thus is not akin to a Kael card.

However thematically how does a tree prevent your life total from changing?

It's literally a shield.  The giving tree gives everything it can to...

Alright, fair enough, the actual card name is weak.  But I still like the idea behind it.

[Rutarete]

NAME: Worship to the Ethereal ELEMENT: Life COST: 8 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Ethereal Power 5 : Destroy all non-life non-aether creatures. Consumes all Quanta and destroy this permanent.	NAME: Worship to the Ethereal ELEMENT: Aether COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Ethereal Power 5 : Destroy all enemy non-life non-aether creatures. Consumes all Quanta and destroy this permanent.

ART: IDEA: Rutarete NOTES: The reason this is part life is because Life is what aether effects (2 of the 3 aether mechanics go here.) Life prays for immortality, and is Quinted. In this case, Life (people) pray to the Aether Elemental for help, and the prayer is answered. As for something that puts Aether's mechanics under the same roof, i think 'Ruler' of Change fits. Electricity changes the state of being (lobo removes). Immortality prevents further change. Card generation provides access to future change. Overall there's stopping and adding changes. None of the other elements control change to this degree. SERIES:

[Ignion]

I've re-worked Pinocchio 2.0.

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,21352.msg291795#msg291795

To OldTrees. This is not Pinocchio itself, so it's NOT a wooden puppet. Think of it this way, there was once a doll loved by its owner dearly. The owner took great care of him and loved him just like a real son. But, one day, the owner was killed by an elemental creature. The doll thought, "Only if I was a real boy, I could have protected him." The doll was burnt together with the owner's body. As the smoke ascended and reached aetherial domain, a miracle happened. The aetheric energy blended with the smoke began taking a shape of the doll. Pinocchio 2.0 was born. His wish still remains, "Only if I was a real boy...." He also joins the fight because he wants to find the creature that killed his owner.

[Pineapple]

Consider this a challenge.

surprised the meme hasn't been used as a reply yet..

cards override text

Crystal Flower (aether creature)
3
0|6
Age:
Gain -1/+1 per attack.
: Flower
Generate a Crystal Seed.

Crystal Tree (upped aether creature)
4
0|7
Age:
Gain -1|+1 per attack.
: Flower
Generate two Crystal Seeds.

Crystal Seed (unobtainable unupped other creature)
0 random
X|0
Falling Apple:
X = the attack of the parent Crystal Tree. Immaterial. Generates Crystal Tree upon death.

[Kartsa]

NAME: Hive Mind ELEMENT: :Life COST: 6 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0/6 TEXT: Synapse: Until start of next turn all insects you control gain +1|+1	NAME: Advanced Hive Mind ELEMENT: :Life COST: 7 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0|8 TEXT: Synapse: Until start of next turn all insects you control gain +2|+2. If Advanced Hive Mind dies, all insects you control gets -3|-3 until end of turn.

ART: Nonthing yet IDEA: Kartsa NOTES: As people surveyed the insects such as ant colonies and bee hives, they wondered how they were so organized, and suspected there were some sort of hive mind behind it all. Of course we now know better the function behind it all, but the legend of the "Hive Mind" have lived on and how it communicated and controlled the members of it's hive by some incorporeal means, telepathy or psychic perhaps. SERIES:

The telepathy part is of Aether isn't it? And most usually the Creature behind the Hive Mind is some lumbering hulk, needing others to defend itself, so it could suit to either Earth or Life, Life beign the stronger candinate IMO.

Also, as there are incestoids in nearly every element, it would be rather strong of a buffer to rainbow decks based on insect rushes.

@ patchx94

Why would one want to summon a creature that heals enemy

[Pineapple]

@Kartsa: irrelevant, cuz crystal flower/tree doesn't heal the enemy

also:
":Life" should be a lowercase "L"
"...legend of the Hive mind have lived on..." should be "has"
"...and how it communicated...the members..." should be "communicated to...the members"
upped text cannot possibly fit on a card
"...would be a rather strong buffer to decks based on insect rushes." "insect" is currently not an existing passive, there are very little "insect rushes" because there are few high atk/low cost insects other than (off the top of my head) a wings "rush", and a card that costs 6/7 and THEN takes a turn to just give +1/+2 attack to all creatures shouldn't be in a rush. The only time i would see it being useful is in a fractal-recluse deck, but recluse already has eclipse.

[Ekki]

To quote myself...

NAME: Phase Druid COST: 5? TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3/3? TEXT: Heal you for X. X=N° of immortal creatures in the field

So, we have 3 scorps, but only one druid? (and one stave) Well, now let's add one more to the list  I don't know what drawbacks could have the cost or the atk/hp of it, but I guess the idea is what matters.
The cost of the skill doesn't matter, it can be an automatic skill. It's still an  / synergiser because  is the element of immortals and  is the element of creature spamming.

It's my rough idea of an  / synergizer, and sounds great for an  / supah stall