Gnomish Banker | Gnomish Financier

[InterChaos]

NAME: Gnome Banker ELEMENT: COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK/HP: 0/5 ABILITY: Bank : Select a Card from your hand. In three turns, the Gnome Bank can play that card for 1 earth. ART BY: Art Needed IDEA BY: InterChaos	NAME: Gnome Financier ELEMENT: COST: 6 TYPE: Creature ATK/HP: 0/7 ABILITY: Bank : Select a Card from your hand. In two turns, the Gnome Financier can play that card for 1 earth. ART BY: Art Needed IDEA BY: InterChaos

NOTES: [/color][/b] A Card Idea I was playing around with. The Idea of this card is to allow players to use the Gnome Banker to get expensive cards for cheaper (at a delay) or even cards that they couldn't play because they didn't have the right quanta. It works by destroying a card from your hand, which then appears as a one use ability in 2/3 rounds (so you gain an ability that has the same effect as the card. The downside is threefold: 1)You must pay 7 earth before you can even start to see the card, 2)You must wait 2/3 turns, and 3) If the Bank is killed, lobotomized, rewound etc. before the time is up, you loose the card. This card opens up new strategies for earth decks, which can act as semi-rainbow decks (With a few cards like Miracle or the like thrown in to give them a slightly difficult to pull off kick), or load up more heavily on high cost cards like dragons.

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[binde22]

its not op but maybe a bit of nerfing a earth dragon deck just 6 gnomes 20 dragons 4 earth pillars and earth mark could fuel a dragon deck (this one sucks i know...) so maybe change the element so that it cant a be in a mono

[airframe]

Perhaps change the ability cost to time quanta?

[Arondight]

I like the ability, but it's pretty powerful even if you wait a mandatory few turns, because then you can cast anything, making Earth the new Rainbow Staple or something. Maybe change the cost to and make it halve the costs in less turns only?

[InterChaos]

Hmm. The problem with a mono earth deck is anything with sufficient creature control could shut it down to make it strictly worse than a rainbow deck, though to be fair, that's true of pretty much every non-aether mono-deck.

I have no fundamental problem problem with switching the element, though thematically I think earth makes the most sense (and is fundamentally a matter of cost).

I'm open to more changes/thoughts, but I think it would be a cool mechanic if it could be salvaged and made workable.

[Bloodshadow]

its not op but maybe a bit of nerfing a earth dragon deck just 6 gnomes 20 dragons 4 earth pillars and earth mark could fuel a dragon deck (this one sucks i know...) so maybe change the element so that it cant a be in a mono

You do know that you can have a maximum of 6 dragons in your deck, right?

[ManOfManySpoons]

There are 12 elements and 1 dragon in each.  Since the cost is paid in earth, you can pick your favorite dragons and actually have 20. 

[Bloodshadow]

Oh... *punches self in face*