Windforce Shield | Windforce Barrier

[jippy99]

NAME: Windforce Shield ELEMENT: Air COST: 4  TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce physical damage by 1.   Attacking creatures have a 40% chance to loss airborne if the have it.	NAME: Windforce Barrier ELEMENT: Air COST: 5  TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce physical damage by 2.   Attacking creatures have a 60% chance to loss airborne if the have it.

ART: Zblader (originally from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1240774) IDEA: Zblader/jippy99 (originally from Zblader, tweaked by jippy99) NOTES: Meant to be used as a shield before Wings. SERIES: Rare Shield Series (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23267.0.html)

[johannhowitzer]

Meant to be used as a shield before Wings.

There's a problem right there.  This card relies on another card for ANY benefit at all, and said other card also has to take up the same slot!  That makes this card far too weak.  It needs something extra, or it needs to be changed completely.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Meant to be used as a shield before Wings.

There's a problem right there.  This card relies on another card for ANY benefit at all, and said other card also has to take up the same slot!  That makes this card far too weak.  It needs something extra, or it needs to be changed completely.

In that case, how about :

"Lifewind - Attacking creatures have a 40% chance to heal player for 5 HP"?
Think of it as the air generated by the dashing creatures being absorbed by the player.
Or
"Attacking creatures have a 40% chance to cause one of your creatures to Dive"?
The air generated by the dashing creatures is used by your own to increase their speed.

[johannhowitzer]

Decent ideas, but they're kind of raw:

1. "Lifewind" - does the creature heal instead of attack or in addition to attack?
2. "Dive" - has two random elements and thus doesn't really belong to Air, I think.  Although you could pack the Dive version with a bunch of Dragons to be sure to get a Dragon to dive.  Also, would multiple incoming attacks always Dive a creature that hasn't already been Dive'd?  Or would it be possible to double-Dive a creature?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Decent ideas, but they're kind of raw:

1. "Lifewind" - does the creature heal instead of attack or in addition to attack?
2. "Dive" - has two random elements and thus doesn't really belong to Air, I think.  Although you could pack the Dive version with a bunch of Dragons to be sure to get a Dragon to dive.  Also, would multiple incoming attacks always Dive a creature that hasn't already been Dive'd?  Or would it be possible to double-Dive a creature?

1. In addition.
2. Double diving does not occur. Also how does Dive relate to another element?

[johannhowitzer]

By "two random elements" I meant "two random components."  You get the 40% for the effect to work, and then it hits a random friendly creature.  The random part is what doesn't seem very Air-like.

[jippy99]

Got an idea.  This could sorta be like a dive shield where airborne creatures (both your's and your opponent's) have an X percent chance to dive for 1 attack.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Got an idea.  This could sorta be like a dive shield where airborne creatures (both your's and your opponent's) have an X percent chance to dive for 1 attack.

That sounds more fit for a field card like Flooding or Eclipse IMHO.

Got an idea.  This could sorta be like a dive shield where airborne creatures (both your's and your opponent's) have an X percent chance to dive for 1 attack.

Actually, now I have an idea.

"Drift - If you take 5 | 3 or more hits all your airborne creatures gain +3 | +0 for one turn."

[grindpower]

This should cost less than steel shield.