Goblin | Goblin Marauder

[mystiq_vale]

NAME: Goblin ELEMENT: Earth COST: 1 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|1 TEXT: :Call Ally Put a Goblin/Goblin Marauder from your deck into play.	NAME: Goblin Marauder ELEMENT: Earth COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4|2 TEXT: :Call Ally Put a Goblin/Goblin Marauder from your deck into play.

ART: http://joeji.deviantart.com/art/my-GOBLIN-90627929 IDEA: mystiq_vale NOTES: The Call Ally ability can only take cards from your deck into play, not from your hand. This ability will prioritize the upgraded card when selecting the card to put into play. So let's say you have 3 upgraded Goblins and 2 unupgraded still left in your deck and you use the Call Ally Ability, a Goblin Marauder will be put into play. The next turn if you draw a Goblin, any use of the ability will not put that Goblin from your hand into play. But you can of course put the other goblins left in your deck into play. SERIES: None

[OldTrees]

The upgrade might be a bit much

Unupped
Cost: 1 , 5 , -22 damage[due to delay]
Benefit: 6 2|1s

Upped
Cost: 2 , 5 , -44 damage[due to delay]
Benefit: 6 4|2s

Turn	1	2	3	4	5	6
Unupped Damage	2	4	8	12	12	12
Upped Damage	4	8	16	24	24	24
Total Unupped Damage	2	6	14	26	38	50
Total Upped Damage	4	12	28	52	76	100

The upgraded card is twice as good for only a +1 cost total for the entire set of 6.

Also a 6 turn kill for 2 , 5 and 3 cards [including the 2 towers] is a bit too efficient
A Lava Golem takes 8 turns,  5 and 3 cards [If you assume a Photon and Imolation]

Turn	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Lava Golem	7	9	11	13	15	17	19	19
Upped Damage	4	8	16	24	24	24
Lava Golem	7	9	20	33	48	65	84	103
Total Upped Damage	4	12	28	52	76	100

[AnonymousRevival]

It might be better if it is from the hand.

[Krahhl]

Make it call from your deck to your hand, rather than directly into play, so you still have to pay the ?

[mystiq_vale]

Thanks for the comments.

First, this card isn't hard to kill whatsoever, and is on par with cards like Elite Antlion in terms of their attack. It has incredible speed but lacks defense, which can be exploited by many cards.

I might consider lowering its attack to compensate for the card advantage, or just let it dump to your hand instead which may make it more reasonable.

[OldTrees]

Yes 6 Goblin Marauders are comparable with 1 Elite Antlion and 5 Giant Frogs, however there is also the card advantage issue. I would reduce the attack by 1 to 3|2 to take the card advantage into account.

Goblin should be compared with Antlion and Horned Frog comparable to what though?
Unfortunately
1 for a 2|1 is worth 1 more quanta then 2 for 2|3. So the initial Goblin needs to cost at least 2 .
Fortunatey
1 for 2|1 is comparable to 2 for 3|3.
I would change Goblin to 2|2 for 2 or 1 .

End result

Card	Antlion	Goblin	Horned Frog		Elite Antlion	Goblin Marauder	Giant Frog
Cost	2	2 or 1	2		2	2 or 1	2
Stats	2|3	2|2	3|3		4|4	3|2	5|3
Other	Burrow	5 Card Advantage			Burrow	5 Card Advantage

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[Krahhl]

^ Very nice. But giant frog has 3 hp, not 2. Not significant to fixing the goblins.

[OldTrees]

Oh. thanks for pointing out the typo. Fixed.

[vrt]

This card is currently copyrighted to its author, joeji. To use it, you would need written permission. You could, of course, also look for alternative art.

[AnonymousRevival]

Yeah, but it can be very hard tofind is the art is copyright or not.