Life-Giving Cypress | Life-Giving Cypress (was Stream/Tree of Life)

[ddevans96]

hm...Creating Cypress?

Also I like the concept, and the quanta ability reminds me of Timer's old series....I should ask to take that over....

[ZephyrPhantom]

Cypress of Life, perhaps?

Also I like the concept, and the quanta ability reminds me of Timer's old series....I should ask to take that over....

You might want to see this : http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,26964.0.html

[artimies7]

So, Cypress in the name is a given, it seems.

hm...Creating Cypress?

Also I like the concept, and the quanta ability reminds me of Timer's old series....I should ask to take that over....

Creation Cypress. Permanents =/= Verbs, IMHO. They're permanent, not dynamic.

[Smurrf]

Not sure why the name would need to be shortened.  Would Primordial Cypress roll off the tongue better?

[artimies7]

Not sure why the name would need to be shortened.  Would Primordial Cypress roll off the tongue better?

Check the thematics. Primordial sounds really cool, but less generative. Like, primordial things are animals that attack, not trees that randomly somehow spawn tadpoles.

[Smurrf]

From dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/primordial):
1. constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
2. Embryology. first formed.
3. pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning: primordial matter.

I was actually thinking of the term 'primordial ooze' when I first though of substituting the name.  You may be thinking of primal instead.

That said, I'm still not sure that anything that it could change to would necessarily be better, and Primordial doesn't really fit either...but I'm definitely open for suggestion.

[artimies7]

Ah yes, I was thinking of Primal. Oops.
This tree is spawning tadpoles, not creating life from ooze. What name goes the best with spawning tadpoles?

I'm still going with Creation.

[Smurrf]

Creation doesn't work with the word Cypress (or even Mandrake.)  _________ of Creation perhaps? I'd go with Pillar of Creation, but I think Terry Goodkind might have some words to say about that...and a pillar seems to me to fit into the 'Other' category too well.

It doesn't have to be a tree, either...just something that relates to both  and  .

[Manipul8r]

How about Genesis Tree?  You could go a little more abstract, wouldn't hurt anything.

[Smurrf]

Ancestral Tree? Ancestral Marsh?

[Qwandri]

Holy crap, am I missing something, or is this card incredibly overpowered? after a couple turns, it's a self contained frog generator, giving you a bunch of frogs for two.

[Manipul8r]

Holy crap, am I missing something, or is this card incredibly overpowered? after a couple turns, it's a self contained frog generator, giving you a bunch of frogs for two.

Dunno, let's see.  Assuming you use all the abilities you can every turn, cumulative damage is...

Turn	Frog	Tree
1	3	0
2	6	1
3	9	5
4	12	12
5	15	22