Loaded Dice | Loaded Dice

[darkrobe]

NAME: Loaded Dice ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: For one turn, all random chance effects fall in your favor.	NAME: Loaded Dice ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: For one turn, all random chance effects fall in your favor.

ART: Joy Shrader http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=13454&picture=double-six-dice IDEA: Darkrobe NOTES: Anti randomness. Loaded dice often have a weight in them that makes it more likely for certain numbers to come up. Your fog shield not blocking enough? play loaded dice to turn it into a dimensional shield for 1 turn. Permafrost not freezing enough? Play loaded dice to freeze all the opponents creatures when they attack next turn. Opponent's dusk mantle annoying the crap out of you? play loaded dice to get one basically shield free turn to attack through their mess. Not sure how it should effect other random effects (for example, mutation or pandemonium). Ideas and comments are welcome. SERIES:

[Rutarete]

Does Skull Shield turn all enemy creatures into skeletons? Sounds fun, but potentially OP

[EmeraldTiger]

did someone do an idea like this before?

[darkrobe]

I tried to find a similar idea. Dice has been done. but they have generally caused random effects. rather than removing randomness.

Yah, The OP ness is very possible. thats why I thought a one turn spell was the best way to implement. Even now it might be too cheap. But yes to your question about skull shield. 1 turn you can turn all attacking opponent creatures into skeletons.


Edit:
Previous Ideas I found
Stacked Deck | Loaded dice (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,31064.msg421503#msg421503)
Loaded Dice | Loaded Dice (Lucky! series) (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20980.msg285940#msg285940)
Chaos Dice | Weighted Dice (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,8726.0.html)

[Hyroen]

My main problem with this card is that "beneficial" can certainly be subjective. For example, what if the enemy creatures freezing turns out to be beneficial for the enemy?

Would you like a mutant with steal as a skill? Maybe devour? Maybe growth. Loaded Dice would have to be very straight forward, and as is, you're going to have difficulties.

[darkrobe]

My main problem with this card is that "beneficial" can certainly be subjective. For example, what if the enemy creatures freezing turns out to be beneficial for the enemy?

Would you like a mutant with steal as a skill? Maybe devour? Maybe growth. Loaded Dice would have to be very straight forward, and as is, you're going to have difficulties.

Noted. Shield effects are the easiest to sort through.

Things like devourer quatna drain or mutation cause trouble because different outcomes are beneficial in different situations.

Any idea what are all the chance based effects in the game? it might need to be decided on a case by case basis. Something like improved mutation might give random skills but maybe the creatures might come out at max stats possible on your side of the field and lowest stats possible on the enemies side of the field for the one turn of Loaded Dice.