This is interesting.
I like the permanent version. I can just imagine a Dark/Water stall that uses some of these for damage and minor CC while taking some of the best stalling cards from both. Permafrost Shield, Ice Lances, Siphon Lives, Vampire Dagger... I'd be able to use two of my favorite elements together for once.
The creature would be fun to see what you could do with it, but I find the spell version to be fairly useless. Ice Bolt is better at both CC and direct damage.
Thanks! Yeah, I forgot Ice Bolt can freeze things. Does it freeze creatures as well as permanents?
Card suggestions that require 3 types of quanta to use efficiently are not wise.
Compare the synergies a duo card has compared to a trio: The duo card has 11x or greater versatility in deck building and play. Since the goal of card suggestions are to add more variation into the game, a duo card is a preferable vehicle compared to a trio card.
What you said is true, but I don't think it requires 3 types of quanta to be efficient. In this card's case, it is quite viable in two different duos as well as the trio, which I think makes it extremely versatile. It can be used as CC in an Air/Water deck or player damage in a deck with Water/Dark. It also still does a bit of damage to the creature/player without the quanta build-up and can be useful earlier in the game to pick off say, a Ray of Light, even if you have no Air quanta. This particularly applies to the permanent, which is my personal favorite of the 3.
It could additionally be tweaked so the upgraded card costs more but does more base damage to the creature and player, so that it's more useful in duos.
Compare to Drain Life(spell) or a Vampire Dagger(non spell) and to Shockwave(spell) or Owl's Eye(non spell).
This card will not be viable in two different duos and if it were made to be viable it might make the named cards have problems.
As it stands it requires 3 types of quanta to achieve maximum in duel versatility which is its only advantage.
That's a good point, I guess Drain Life does make this card inefficient in
. Vampire Dagger takes the weapon slot so this can still be playable alongside it. I think this could actually buff Shockwave and Owl's Eye, since this card's damage combined with those two can take down some high HP creatures.
Do you have any suggestions that would make this card useful in duos but not ruin any other cards? Would it be most feasible to do that as a creature, spell, or permanent?