Retribution Aegis | Retribution Shield

[OdinVanguard]

NAME: Retribution Aegis ELEMENT: Fire COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: 33% chance to redirect all damage from a physical source to a random enemy. Absorbs 2 per 5 damage.	NAME: Retribution Shield ELEMENT: Fire COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: 50% chance to redirect all damage from a physical source to a random enemy. Absorbs 3 per 5 damage.

ART: OdinVanguard (created using Hexagon, Bryce7, and GIMP) IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: "Today will be highly energetic" "Retribution rules the day today!" Similar in nature to dissipation shield (entropy), but instead of simply absorbing the damage, it reflects it at an enemy. This could be either an enemy creature or the opposing player. Unlike the dissipation shield, this shield does not trigger on every attack. The unupgraded version is very efficient in terms of cost and damage absorption per quantum, but it has a relatively low chance to trigger. The upgraded version is more expensive and less quanta efficient, but has a much higher chance to trigger. Both cases are much less efficient than dissipation shield. Balancing the proc chance and efficiency / cost probably needs work, this just seemed like a good starting point. Some feedback from more experienced PvPers would be helpful here. SERIES:

[Solaris]

I can see this being used in Firestall... if Firestall didn't have Sancts. Maybe sanctless firestall?

[OdinVanguard]

Well to get a little discussion rolling, one of the quirks of shields like the dissipation shield, and thus this shield as well, is that they will be stronger against small numbers of heavy hitters and much weaker against large numbers of light hitters.
This has to do with the granularity of the damage absorption cutoff.

For instance, when fighting a player using an unupgraded dissipation shield, creatures that deal 1 or 2 damage will actually drain more quanta per point of damage dealt because the dissipation shield absorbs at least 1 per attack regardless of whether that attack did 1 damage or 3 damage.

The situation here is actually amplified since the absorption threshold is at 5 damage. I.e. this shield absorbs 2 / 3 whether an attack deals 1 damage or a full 5. Moreover, there are many creatures which can withstand 1 or 2 points of damage in a turn but 5 points is an autokill for most creatures.
This gives a big bonus to decks which have creatures with high HP to ATK ratios since they will be able to batter down the shield with fewer losses.
So in a sense, this shield serves a roughly inverse role compared with Fire Shield.