Icicle Barrier | Icicle Fortress

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Icicle Barrier ELEMENT: Water COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield : Summon 5 ice shields that absorb damage from a single source.  Grows 2 ice shields per turn. Copies stack.	NAME: Icicle Fortress ELEMENT: Water COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield : Summon 5 ice shields that absorb damage from a single source.  Grows 3 ice shields per turn. Copies stack.

ART: shadow303 IDEA: Zblader, inspired by bobcamel NOTES: A simple shield that synergizes with Flooding and encourages players to use multiple copies. This shield's stacks acts similar to bonewall - it starts with 5 stacks, and each stack will absorb a single attack from a creature. If no stacks are left it is destroyed. If it is targeted by PC like Explosion only 1 stack is lost. If you play an Icicle Barrier while another one is in play, the current Icicle Barrier gains 5 stacks. The shield generation rate may be a bit low, seeing as there's no way to accelerate the shield growth. How many shields should this generate per turn? SERIES:

[Chapuz]

The generation is NOT low, considering Freeze and Ice bolt being 

[ZephyrPhantom]

The generation is NOT low, considering Freeze and Ice bolt being 

From that perspective yes, but if you don't have any repeatable Freeze control set up, you can't play this shield because it'll be removed very quickly.

It does work well with Mono control, but would you be able to play it before Squids/Flooding/etc... is set up?

[Chapuz]

Any kind of CC can make a great difference in the game with this shield. Making the opponent deal 2 hits instead of 3 or 1 instead of 2 makes a huge difference if this shield is up. I like it, a lot, but 3 per turn is too much imho. I would like it to produce 2 and 2 upped, starting the upped with 7 layers.

[Zaealix]

Hrm...See, the thing is, I WANT to say a higher amount of shields should be generated...But then again, mono- could fairly easily completely lockdown creature damage as is.
I think I will vote for higher, simply because that set-up pretty much locks down creatures as is, while the shield itself is not really useful for other deck types...
Hrm. Maybe it consumes  to generate more shields, as a way to balance making a larger amount of shields (maybe 4 a turn?), with running out of  results in the shield being unable to replenish itself.

[Absol]

Simply making copies not stack is nerf enough IMO.

[blarp]

Sorry Z way OP

Bonewall that rebuilds itself and you can stack? I mean this creates unbeatable decks way too easily.