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

[Smurrf]

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.

Countered by the fact that it is Solid, and it doesn't spawn Frogs, it spawns Tadpoles which turn into a Frog one turn later.  There's plenty of opportunity to Deflag, Steal, Pulvy, etc. the tree itself, and as for creatures, well, it definitely fits Life's rush theme.

[OldTrees]

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.

Countered by the fact that it is Solid, and it doesn't spawn Frogs, it spawns Tadpoles which turn into a Frog one turn later.  There's plenty of opportunity to Deflag, Steal, Pulvy, etc. the tree itself, and as for creatures, well, it definitely fits Life's rush theme.

It is OP. A Solid double pillar would be worth a casting cost of 2 minimum. (probably worth more)

[Manipul8r]

Two pillars in one is a base cost of 0 + a 1 card advantage, which doesn't seem all that OP in itself.  Perhaps the ability to create a tadpole should cost 2 rather than and/or the ability for a tadpole to upgrade to a frog should cost 2 ?

[OldTrees]

2x (0 quanta +1 card) = 1 quanta + 1 card
+1 quanta (2 quanta + 1 card) for the quanta fixation separate from the mark.
+X quanta for the activated ability

[Essence]

Agreed with the OP comment. The continuous Frog production warrants a shift upward in cost somewhere, either a small shift in the chain of activation costs or a large shift in the initial casting cost.  See: FFQ, Pharaoh, Graveyard.

The initial cost needs to jump to around 6-7 or one (possibly both) activation costs need to be raised by 1 point so that this card doesn't entirely pay for itself.

[Smurrf]

So, perhaps change card cost to 3 , with initial activation raised to 2 ?