Last Gate | Last Gate

[EmeraldTiger]

NAME: Last Gate ELEMENT: Moreric COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: When a creature dies generate a Trace.	NAME: Last Gate ELEMENT: Moreric COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: When a creature dies generate a Pure Trace.

ART: EmeraldTiger IDEA: EmeraldTiger NOTES: originally came from http://elementscommunity.org/forum/card-ideas-and-art/essence-a-pseudo-element/ thought i make in the proper form. skeletons also leave traces. SERIES: Moreric - Aether/Death Hybrid Series

NAME: Trace ELEMENT: Moreric COST: 1 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0 | 1 TEXT: 0 Sacrifice: Target creature gains +0|+1	NAME: Pure Trace ELEMENT: Moreric COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0 | 2 TEXT: 0 Sacrifice: Target creature gains +0|+2

ART: EmeraldTiger IDEA: EmeraldTiger NOTES: Traces do not generates other traces with Last Gate. Traces do not generate skeletons upon death/sacrifice. SERIES: Moreric - Aether/Death Hybrid Series

[Keolino]

Is there any other way this would/could be used (if it would be a "real" element) other than otyughs+bonewalls?

[timetock]

some sort of HP buff? HP buffs are kinda.... UP.

[Keolino]

some sort of HP buff? HP buffs are kinda.... UP.

Aside from the earth nymph and gravity shard, with its synergies with catapult and gravity pull, as well as CC/PC at the same time. (and Basilisk Blood isn't bad either (especially with voodoo...)

But the main thing of this card isn't "HP Buff", but "Death" since this card adds to the deaths of the battlefield, adding to the number of your bone wall, as well as mutation fodder. that said, I feel like it is way to similar with boneyard/graveyard right now and not really worth another card.

[timetock]

wait I just realized it stacks with itself. Bone wall + this + something that triggers death effect + SoP. Aiee.

[EmeraldTiger]

As I reveal the other cards connected with this, it will make more sense.

[dragonsdemesne]

I don't know if it's ever been asked or answered anywhere else, but would a hybrid element creature like this be affected by eclipse or holy light?  If I'm understanding right, traces are both death and aether (despite having 'other' costs) and those two cards are relevant in conjunction with death creatures.

[OdinVanguard]

I don't know if it's ever been asked or answered anywhere else, but would a hybrid element creature like this be affected by eclipse or holy light?  If I'm understanding right, traces are both death and aether (despite having 'other' costs) and those two cards are relevant in conjunction with death creatures.

I would think that it should probably deal damage, since it thematically it would burn the death element portion... of course you could argue that it would heal the aether portion instead... or even that the effects would cancel and nothing would happen.

[OdinVanguard]

some sort of HP buff? HP buffs are kinda.... UP.

Aside from the earth nymph and gravity shard, with its synergies with catapult and gravity pull, as well as CC/PC at the same time. (and Basilisk Blood isn't bad either (especially with voodoo...)

But the main thing of this card isn't "HP Buff", but "Death" since this card adds to the deaths of the battlefield, adding to the number of your bone wall, as well as mutation fodder. that said, I feel like it is way to similar with boneyard/graveyard right now and not really worth another card.

It also synergies very nicely in a sparktal.
Half the sparks power this, then the traces are used next turn to preserve the remaining sparks... then the following turn you rinse and repeat.
Also, if you throw in an eclipse, the traces themselves become a potent rush force... And it can be pulled off in a duo since the could be used to power the gate (hybrids can be played using either of their component quanta).

It also synergies very well with otyughs. Again, consider an "Otyugh's Sparktal-Gate" deck.

In almost all ways, I think this card outshines graveyard / boneyard.