Best Weapon Idea Contest Entry - Mind Spike

[Glitch]

Upgrade has same name but it's ability costs one less.  Both abilities cost darkness quantums.

This is designed for synergy with devourers, so I was thinking of making the card cost earth quantums, but I left it as dark.  Multiple hits per turn might be overpowered, but I can't change it at this point as my mother navigated away from the window I was using to look up Adam Lambert.  I'll fix it if that would really balance it better.

Flying weapon is a 4|4 for both.

Balancing options:
Changing card element to Earth
Making ability one use per turn
Making ability cost more than one dark quantum.
Increase cost
Decrease damage

[icybraker]

Great idea, but overpowered. You can more or less wipe out decks completely with this and devourers.

Make ability limit once per turn.

[Glitch]

I hesitate to do that as that really underpowers it as a weapon.

Perhaps make the ability cost two or three?

[icybraker]

I understand that what I mentioned basically renders the weapon useless.

However, limiting it to 2 or 3 simply makes it...strange. Let's settle with your decision: It costs 2 for every quanta drained.

[Glitch]

I'll go fix it then.

Okay done.  Say, is the photoshopping I did too terribly obvious?

[ftbhrygvn]

The cost is still low. Mono dark can build quanta quickly enough to fully deny the opponent. Make it 3 and destroy 1 random for each 10 you own. 1 turn 1 cast of course

Okay done.  Say, is the photoshopping I did too terribly obvious?

At least better than I do

[Glitch]

Ah, but those were two things I dislike about elements and wanted to avoid.  The so many for so many system, which I dislike, and the only 1 use per turn, which I wanted to go against in the card idea.

Would three for one be more balanced?

[assassim]

Deadly against mono- decks, useless against rainbow, yes it would be more balanced with a 3 ability cost

[TheMadEvil]

actually could be better against rainbow than mono, depending on what quanta gets destroyed. I love the image, btw

[Glitch]

Thanks.  I might swap entries, as surgeon's knife is doing really well and this isn't going to win.  I'll leave the thread though.

[bigbadbanana]

hmmm... sounds more like an entropy weapon than darkness, don't you think? 

[ftbhrygvn]

3 multi-cast would be fine.

This is not very effective against rainbows 'cuz rainbows use QP(/QT, same below). You need 9 each turn to nullify the quanta produced by 1 QP. And rainbow typically have >10QP, so you need 90 /turn to counter it, which is impossible.